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World's Worst Website
Spend a few minutes at the World's Worst Website. Identify 10 major design flaws guaranteed to drive visitors away from a website. |
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WebPagesThatSuck
One of the best way to learn a craft thoroughly is to learn not only its central tenets but also its pitfalls.
If you don't know which web design techniques are bad, you can't fix them. WebPagesThatSuck will show you where you're going wrong. Study the sites voted the worst of 2007. |
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Teacher Power Award Winning Sites
Teachers from around the world have submitted their TeacherSites to be evaluated by their peers and the winners have been recognized in the first-annual SchoolWorld Teacher Power Awards! Click on the link to visit the top three sites. |
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Archive: Teacher Sites
Browse All Of The Innovative TeacherSites That Were Entered Into the Teacher Power Award competition !The TeacherSites are organized alphabetically by last name. Simply click on TeacherSites By Name to get started viewing all the websites entered into the evaluation! |
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SchoolTube
SchoolTube is the only educator-moderated video sharing site where every video is screened by a classroom teacher before it goes live. The site hots 35,000 videos on just about any topic you can imagine--from arts to weather--organized into more than 100 categories. (An NEA Back To School pick) |
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Wikipedia for Schools
Worried about the reliability of Wikipedia--the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Try Wikipedia for Schools. The site is updated each academic year by volunteers from the English Wikipedia and SOS Children, a British children's charity. Topics are selected from an array of academic catelgories and then "tidied up" for student use. |
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Tech Toys for Teaching
There’s a whole wide world of Web tools for teaching. Here are a few of the NEA's picks! Very good stuff! |
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Mr. McTigue's Homepage - Go Centaurs!
This is a great example of a teacher's home at the high school level. |
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Teacher Pages Award Winner
SchoolWorld is proud to announce that Gregory Louie, a TeacherSites™ user, was awarded the Best Teacher Website Award for 2009 by the North Carolina Technology in Education Society (NCTIES). Each year, NCTIES awards a cash prize of $250 for an innovative, content-rich website that effectively uses the Internet as an instructional resource. This year’s winner, Gregory Louie, teaches bio-technology to sixth, seventh, and eighth-graders at the Gravelly Hills Middle School in Efland, North Carolina. Gravelly Hills is part of the Orange County School District. His site was produced by using the same Content Management System employed by our Teacher Pages in Buffalo. |
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Classroom websites: Renovating the Classroom
Pam Lowe offers three real-life scenarios demonstrating the value of a classroom Web site to the community, students and teachers. Read on for some really good ideas. |
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Cannons Elementary School Teacher Websites
Cannons Elementary School is located in Spartanburg,South Carolina. Teachers in Grades 1 through 5 have posted teacher pages. |
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High School Teacher Pages
The site offers a collection of mostly high school level teacher pages in a variety of subjects: math, science, PE and Social Studies |
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Examples Teacher Website
This website offers more examples of teacher pages as well as examples of what is good and what is bad. The authors give you real life reasons why webpages are worth the effort. |
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Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class Website
Mrs. Renz is Redmond Oregon. Her district supports Teacher Pages. |
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Teacher Web Pages (High School)
These are the teacher pages from Cape Elizabeth High School. |
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First and Second Grade Class Websites
This list shows a variety of first and second grade classroom websites. Some have lots of snappy graphics and numerous pages and some are simple presentations. |
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Teacher Pages Created by Florence Gleason
This site belongs to Florence Gleason who teaches Special Education at School 80 in Buffalo, New York. Her site is packed with information about the Harcourt reading program, Social Studies and math along with special features like the Mastery Club. Take a look. |
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Mr. Jim Healy's HistoryHead
Mr. Healy had an existing site which he folded into the new BPS Teacher Pages. Check out his exam center and his research page. |
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Really Good Things to Link to
The Top 101 is a relatively managable, annotated list of web resources for use in teaching and learning. It was updated in November 2007. |
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Education Podcast Network
The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century. |
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Strorynory
Welcome to Storynory where Prince Bertie the Frog brings you an audio story every week. Each one is read specially for him by his friend Natasha. But Bertie likes to share - so you can hear them too, ABSOLUTELY FREE |
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Teacher Resources from Owen County Schools
Check out the collection of online teacher resources complied by the Owen County Schools in Kentucky. Everything from image collections to graphic organizers,as well as a library of activities around the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade Harcourt reading curriculum are posted all in one place. |
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Online Harcourt Reading Activities for Second Grade
This is a great collection of online activities supporting the second grade Harcourt reading curriculum produced by the Owen County Schools in Kentucky. There are vocabulary lists, quizzes, audio stories as well as activities supporting key concept mastery. |
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Must Have Content
Look over the list of Must Have Website Content. Do you agree? |
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Image Editing OnLine
This free site (http://www.drpic.com/) offers such basic image editing options online as sizing, cropping, blurs and borders. It is easy to use and fairly reliable. The site has just been rebuilt! |
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What is a Pixel?
On the web, we calculate the size of our graphics in pixels. Just what is a pixel? Find out from the unlikely named website "auctionrepair.com". Using clear, real life examples, he manages to make us understand while "A pixel doesn't have a particular size,"it a reasonable measurement of size. |
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Free! Online Picture Editing Tools
Need to resize a picture for the web? Here are some web-based tools to resize your image online, just using a web browser. |
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Web Graphics: The Basics
This is a nice and short tour of the various graphic formats that can be used on the web, with examples showing the benefits of one over the other. |
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Image Resizing How-to
This site is for the adventurous who want to know everything about the subject of resizing graphics for the web..and make their images look good. |
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Want to Make Your Own Animated Gifs?
Download GIFfun from StoneWorks. This is a perfect must have for those of you who want to use animated gifs. It very easy to use and FREE. Simply put your slides in a folder. Drag the folder into the GIFfun window, set the timing and click the Make Gif button....and you are web ready! And you can't beat the price. |
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Web Graphics for Beginners
Follow the efforts of one webmaster as he attempts to make his cat, Rufo, an internet star. He realizes if Rufo was to be taken seriously as a cat celebrity, his Web presence had to look fun and professional, so he needed things like a logo, page banners, and graphic navigation, as well as photographs. Follow him from his first wobbly steps to his completed website. Cute and full of great explanations and tips |
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Free Stuff for Websites
Whether you're new to web design or just out looking for a little something extra to add to your current website, I'm sure you'll be surprised at all the free tools and resources available! Take your time browsing around and enjoy. |
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Free Site Search Engine
Advanced site search and navigation technology can be added to your website in minutes. You'll get high speed, high availability, hosted search technology from the company that pioneered the field. It may take a day or two for your site to be indexed. You will be notified when indexing is done. Go back to site. Harvest the html to place the search option on your pages. The downside of the site: it is supported by advertising. |
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Lisa Explains All (HTML for Kids)
Lissa Explains it All, the first and original HTML Help JUST for Kids. They've been online now for over 10 years!!!!! Lissa Explains it All is a colorful and fun approach to learning HTML for Kids and the young at heart. With this tutorial, kids and beginners learn step by step how to make their own Web page and publish it on the WWW. For the more advanced, .htaccess files, installing perl scripts and much more is covered. |
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How Do We Do That?
How Do We Do That does just what the name implies. The site shows you how to create some neat online effects and enhancements like putting a fish under moving water or creating a slider puzzle or floating snowflakes down your page. There are also scripts for quizzes and other types of puzzles. ....and it was written by an 8th grader...they say. |
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15 Awesome Tutorial Websites You Probably Don't Know About
The internet boasts of accommodating tutorials to absolutely anything. Here are 15 such super-useful sites which aim to provide you with all the tutorials you'd ever need. |
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Improving Learning Through Technology
Discusses best practices for improving learning through technology. The site suggests incorporating teacher web page into the class routine by making it a resource that students need in order to succeed in class, among other things. |
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draac.com
The site boasts it is "Building a Better Internet" and that may or may not be, but the site does offer a wealth of design tips, code generators and html tips and tricks. All is easy to use and makes the site a must stop. |
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Copyright Facts
I found it. I downloaded it. Can I use it leagally? This website walks you through the tangle of copyright law using down to earth, every day examples. |
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Learn what is good and bad in web design
Explore the reasons you should build and maintain a website and learn what good web design is. |
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Create PDFs On-line
Make your documents readable by everyone by postingthem in PDF format. PDF is a universal, safe and virus-free document format that can be opened by anybody with free Acrobat Reader. With PDF, you can be sure that the document thay your readers see is exactly what you have sent out. You can create them on-line with this free servcie.
A FREE service to convert documents to PDF. |
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Free School Related Graphics
Too good to be true....great stuff and free! Download backgrounds, buttons and graphics. Not everything on the site may be used. You may use only the graphics on the pages on Graphics by *snogirl. The site is definitely worth a look see. |
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Learn How to Build a Better Web Site
eFuse.com offers information, inspiration, and assistance written in plain English by professional writers and designers so it's easy to understand and use. eFuse.com is for everyone who wants to build a more attractive and effective web site. eFuse offers tips and advice on everything from graphics and layout to content and writing. |
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Web Content for Teens
What engages teenagers on the web? useit.com conducted a series of usability studies to determine how website designs can better cater to teenagers. Take a look at the results. |
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Translate Your Webpage
You can translate your webpage into Spanish, French, Russian...using Google Translate. Try it! |
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Create Cool Logos or Buttons (with rollovers!)
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. |
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Flash for Class
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own website! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Free!Some of the most popular templates are: Flashcard generator, random name picker, Venn Diagram, animated book, timer and more. Great for use with the Interactive Whiteboards. |
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My Favorite Website
This is my favorite website because they have 1 click shopping and I never have to leave my house in the snow and the cold. |
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Build Your Own Online Jeopardy Game
Wolfe Science has an open source Build Your Own Jeopardy program that works on Window and Mac platforms. This build your own jeopardy program is better than some of the others I've tried because you can embed video and audio files as a part of your questions.
The Build Your Own Jeopardy web page has sample games covering multiple subject areas beyond science. |
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Free Online Gradeboook
Almost too good to be true, Engrade is an online gradebook offered free to teachers. It automatically calculates averages weights assignments and allows for classroom customization. Engrade, based in San Diego, California, was founded in 2003 by a great team of successful internet entrepreneurs who wanted to use their talents to help the world. |
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Teacher Training Videos
These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology. |
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