- PS 363 Lewis J. Bennett
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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)
Databases
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NOVEL - EBSCO databases for Hougton Academy
Large assortment of databases made available by the New York Library. Info available at Houghton's library. -
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.
Sites for Students during ESL Class
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Moving Into English
Moving Into English is the curriculum used for grades K-5. This website provides resources for parents, students, and teachers including language support games, grammar exercises and cross curricular activities.Comments (-1)
Looking at Teacher Page Content
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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. -
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. -
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
Sites for Students
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Spelling City
Need help with spelling and vocabulary words? You've come to the right spot! -
Free Rice
Free rice allows anyone to practice English vocabulary, chemistry, foreign language, art, and much more. What's even better is that the website donates rice to hungry people around the world, when you answer correctly. Get smarter and help tackle world hunger. -
Buffalo News for Youth
This is the site of the award-winning youth section of the Buffalo News, NeXt. NeXt features news about local kids, sports, music, books, movies, and more.
Great Web Content!
Good Sites for Students
Images: Editing and Information
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RoundPic
RoundPic is an online tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners for avatars and images. Very easy! -
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! -
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. -
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.
Good Sites for Teachers
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ThinkBright's EdVideo
Over 50,000 multimedia components for teachers and students. Wealth of learning resources for downloading. -
Classroom 2.0
Great blog for people interested in using Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom.
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
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.
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.
Neat and Fun!
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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.Comments (-1) -
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.Comments (-1) -
Translate Your Webpage
You can translate your webpage into Spanish, French, Russian...using Google Translate. Try it!Comments (-1) -
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.Comments (-1)