Livonia High School Library

Teacher Resources

Lesson Plans and Teacher Tools:
     Google Earth Lessons
    
Best of History
    
Blue Web'N
     
DiscoverySchool.com
    
Education World
    
Educators' Reference Desk Includes AskEric and GEM 
    
The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge / marcopolo
     Library of Congress  Includes American Memory and other great sources!
    
NY Times Learning - Lesson Plan Archive
    
PBS Teacher Source
     Professional Development for Busy Educators (pdtogo)
     Proquest Curriculum Support
     Rubistar (free rubric creation tool)
    
Scholastic
     Teachers Choices from the International Reading Assoc.
    
TeachersFirst.com
     The WebQuest Page
     WWW4Teachers

New York State:
     NYS Education Dept. Office of Teaching Initiatives
          (includes info on certification, jobs, fingerprinting,
          and more)
    
New York State Standards
     NYS Regents Exams

Professional Journals:
     Google Scholar  Journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly literature

     ProQuest Educational Periodicals  Subscription database of educational journal articles
          (see librarian for password)


Video:
     GV BOCES Media Library (incl. WebMax AV Catalog/ online ordering)
          Direct link to WebMax Login
    
EdVideo Online streaming video from WXXI
     The Futures Channel  Great short educational videos "Connecting Learning to the Real World"
    
TeacherTube YouTube for educators  Note: NO FILTER!

Web 2.0 Tools:
     Landmarks Class BlogMeister  Start a class blog
      Creative Commons  Share, remix, reuse -- legally
     Del.icio.us  Social bookmarking: store your favorites online, share with others       
      Google Co-op  Create a specialized search engine!  The power of Google, local control!

     LibraryThing  Keep track of your reading, share with other readers! (or not)
      Mind42.com  Free online visual organizer, allows collaboration
      PB Wiki  Free educational wiki tool
      ZOHO Wiki  Free wiki with WYSIWYG editor (What You See is What You Get)


     
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