Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Teacher Survival Guide: Improving Teaching Efficiency and Student Engagement with 101 Free Online Resources

Given increasing class loads and decreasing instructional budget, with more and more free and inexpensive web application, teachers need a survival guide. Thus, we will look at some of the thousands of web sites and web 2.0 applications that are available for free. For an organizational guide, the book Classroom Teachers Survival Guide: Practical Strategies, Management Techniques, and Reproducibles for New and Experienced Teachers by Ronald L. Partin, 2002 will be used. Viewers are encouraged to suggested additional resources.

Creating a Supportive Learning Environment
1. First Day of School Checklist
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/backtoschool/classmanagement.htm
2. Creating an Inviting School Climate, Michigan Educational Library http://www.mel.org
3. Seeking Student Feedback.
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/feedback/gatherstufeed.htm

First Day Activities - Ice Breakers

Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/ Students can create and publish interactive online posters that allow them to add photos, video, text and audio. Teachers can create up to 200 student accounts that can only be monitored by the teacher.
Portrait Illustrator Maker http://illustmaker.abistation.com/index_en.shtml
Students can create life-like characters that can posted anywhere. The service is free and does not require membership.

DoppelME
http://www.doppelme.com/
Students can create cartoons of characters that can be posted almost anywhere. The program is free and does not require membership.

Humor in the Classroom.
http://web.plattsburgh.edu/offices/centers/cte/humorintheclassroom.php
A list of jokes to use when teaching.

Surveys

Survey Monkey http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Zoomerang http://www.zoomerang.com

Classroom Rules

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