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Bad Examples!
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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. -
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.
New!
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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)
Kindergarten to Grade 5
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Pearson SuccessNet
This is a great website that the students are now using in the classrooms. Students will be getting their own usernames and passwords to use this site to play games, check their student books at home and take tests. Parents can go on with the student username/password to check how their child is doing on the tests and they could also see the student pages from school. -
A Plus Math
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Visit our game room and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture...Test your math skills with our Flashcards! Try out the Math Word Find puzzle. Create and print your own set of flashcards online using the Flashcard Creator! See the Worksheets section, where you can print worksheets to practice off line. Try the Homework Helper to check your homework solutions. -
Investigations 2 Home Page
This website shows all aspects of the new Investigations 2 program that is being done in our school. There is teacher, parent and student information on this site that is useful to all.
Looking at Teacher Page Content
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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. -
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. -
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.
Databases
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EdVideo Online
Features over 50,000 multimedia components free to all NY State K-12 educators, and their students. -
NetTrekker
Educational search engine to over 180,000 online resources. Username and passwords are available in the library, so just ask! -
Atomic Learning
Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications that students and educators use everyday. username and password are in the library. -
World Book
World Book encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary and more. Great homework resource and more. Ask the librarian for the Log-In ID and password. -
NOVEL - EBSCO databases for Hougton Academy
Large assortment of databases made available by the New York Library. Info available at Houghton's library.
Kindergarten to Grade 5
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Pearson SuccessNet
This is a great website that the students are now using in the classrooms. Students will be getting their own usernames and passwords to use this site to play games, check their student books at home and take tests. Parents can go on with the student username/password to check how their child is doing on the tests and they could also see the student pages from school. -
A Plus Math
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Visit our game room and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture...Test your math skills with our Flashcards! Try out the Math Word Find puzzle. Create and print your own set of flashcards online using the Flashcard Creator! See the Worksheets section, where you can print worksheets to practice off line. Try the Homework Helper to check your homework solutions. -
Investigations 2 Home Page
This website shows all aspects of the new Investigations 2 program that is being done in our school. There is teacher, parent and student information on this site that is useful to all.
Grades 6 - 8
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CMP Website
This website is for grades 6 - 8. This is information about the program for these grades. Plug these codes in for additional practice. - Grade 6 web code: amk 0099 - Grade 7 web code: ank 0099 - Grade 8 web code: apk 0099 -
CMP Glossary
CMP Glossary: If you click the letters to the left (ex. A - D), it'll give you all of the definitions that are used in CMP.
Great Web Content!
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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 -
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.
Good Sites for Students
Grades 6 - 8
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CMP Glossary
CMP Glossary: If you click the letters to the left (ex. A - D), it'll give you all of the definitions that are used in CMP.
Images: Editing and Information
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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! -
RoundPic
RoundPic is an online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners for avatars and images. Very easy! -
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. -
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.
NYS Assessments Grades 3 - 8
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Old NYS Assessments
This website give you all of the past NYS Assessments from previous years (not just math!).
Web Development Resources
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
Good Sites for Teachers
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NOVEL - Gale databases for Hougton Academy
Large assortment of databases made available by the New York Library. -
Classroom 2.0
Great blog for people interested in using Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom. -
ThinkBright's EdVideo
Over 50,000 multimedia components for teachers and students. Wealth of learning resources for downloading.
NYS Assessments Grades 3 - 8
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Old NYS Assessments
This website give you all of the past NYS Assessments from previous years (not just math!).
All Grades
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Math Dictionary
This is a math online dictionary that gives many examples and also provides practice with some of the words. -
List on Online Math Activities
This is a list of online math activities that will be useful to students in all grades. -
Kid Info
This website has a lot of online activities for students to use. It has brainteasers, problem solving, activities, geometry, dictionary, math games, math help, math links, math magazine, money and investing, and pattern/symmetry/tessellations. -
Cool Math
This website includes math activities/games, extra help, dictionary, reference tools, and puzzles. -
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This website gives an interactive view of math. There are many activities on this website that students can work on to better their math skills.
Neat and Fun!
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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. -
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. -
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.
Good Sites for Librarians
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Library Thing
Keep track of what you are reading or what you have in your own library. Also a great way to see what others are reading.
All Grades
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This website gives an interactive view of math. There are many activities on this website that students can work on to better their math skills. -
Discovery School Homework Help
Brain boosters, puzzle makers, clip art gallery (FREE), Science Fair Central, Study Starters, Homework Helpers, etc. -
Math Dictionary
This is a math online dictionary that gives many examples and also provides practice with some of the words. -
List on Online Math Activities
This is a list of online math activities that will be useful to students in all grades. -
Kid Info
This website has a lot of online activities for students to use. It has brainteasers, problem solving, activities, geometry, dictionary, math games, math help, math links, math magazine, money and investing, and pattern/symmetry/tessellations.
Parents
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U.S. Department of Education Parent Website
This website provides parents with many strategies and researched ideas on how to help their child(ren). -
Math Support for Parents
This is a resource for parents using NSF (National Science Foundation) math programs - learn more about programs - click on Investigations K-5 and see video clips from classrooms, research reports, and hear from students.
Parents
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U.S. Department of Education Parent Website
This website provides parents with many strategies and researched ideas on how to help their child(ren). -
Math Support for Parents
This is a resource for parents using NSF (National Science Foundation) math programs - learn more about programs - click on Investigations K-5 and see video clips from classrooms, research reports, and hear from students.
OnLine Teacher Tools
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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. -
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.
Video
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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.