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 Course Link Library Follow the links below and see what other teachers have done in designing their webpages. Get ideas. See what you like. See what you don't like. Explore content, design and navigation tips. There is also a collection of on-line tools that allow you to easily add enhancements to your website from an online grade book to game generators. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Looking at Teacher Page Content | |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Great Web Content! | |
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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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| 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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| Dance Mat Typing Dance Mat Typing is an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years. You will need headphones or speakers to enjoy the song and dance in each game. The games use the Flash plug-in - if your computer doesn't have Flash, you can find information on how to download it here, or you can play the alternative interactive versions available at each stage. Worksheets are available for each stage that can be printed out and used offline with a typewriter or computer. |
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| Must Have Content Look over the list of Must Have Website Content. Do you agree? |
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| Images: Editing and Information | |
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| Web Color Chart Provides the hex codes and rgb numbers for the 256 web colors. |
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| RoundPic RoundPic is an online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners for avatars and images. Very easy! |
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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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| 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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| Create a Horiztonal Menu Add this navigation device...complete with a roll over effect when the mouse hovers over a menu option.. to your pages the easy way....using a code generator from www.websitestyle.com. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| OnLine Teacher Tools | |
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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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| Video Basics Explained! Do terms like codec, analog and aspect ratio scare you? Visit this site http://www.doicamera.com/digital_video.htm Not the prettiest site I have ever seen, but the author lays out his info in a straight forward easy to understand manner. Well worth your time. |
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