For more links, please go to the TECH-CONNECTED TEACHER
Create
a private chat room for you & your students at Anexa.com!
bigchalk.com
uses the Internet to put everyone closer to the information
they need. bigchalk.com
opens a world of information to teachers, students, and parents
— enhancing learning, helping with homework, and offering
limitless paths of exploration.
Discovery
School: Puzzlemaker allows you to create and print
out puzzles & games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or
classroom assignments. If you are doing a CrissCross puzzle, the
following settings will produce a puzzle that will fit on a single
sheet: width 25, height 30, cell-size 25.
Discovery
School: Quiz Center is a powerful tool you can use to
create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Without any Web
development background whatsoever, you'll be able to make online
quizzes that provide instant feedback to you and your
students.
eBoard
is a free service that allows you to create your very own
"virtual" corkboard where you can post assignments, messages and
photos online in seconds. eBoard is perfect for anyone who would
like to put information online but doesn't have the need for a
website.
eGroups
is another service that provides free tools to help you post class
information on-line! Services for teachers include integrated
email list hosting, shared calendars with automatic email
reminders, customizable database for contact lists, homework
assignments, and more!
E.L.Easton:
The Internet for Language Teachers Find links to
information on the following topics:
Internet
Vocabulary
Using
the Internet to Teach 
How
to Evaluate SitesStart
a Mail ListMake
Your Own Web SiteWhere
to find Free Web Space
Tips
on Web Site DesignLanguage
FontsMake
Quizzes On-Line
Filamentality
is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you
through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good
Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities
appropriate for learners. So it helps you combine the Filaments of
the Web with a learner's mentality. Support is built in through
Mentality Tips, so you'll be guided right along the way and end up
with a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you
don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot
stuff. (Click
here for an example.)
Here's
a handy tool: The
Glossmaker from the Swarthmore Language Department.
Cut-and-paste your text into the Glossmaker, mark the words you
want glossed and click! That's all there is to it! Students can
read the text on web, and simply click on a word to get a handy
definition. Click
here for other interactive exercises makers from
Swarthmore.
The
Half-Baked
Software team creates authoring programs that
enable you to make Web-based interactice teaching materials. It's
great stuff - and it's free! Click on the following links to see
sample exercises created with this software: matching,
simple
translation, mutiple
choice, fill-in-the-blank.
The same software team recently introduced Quandary
exercises, a type of interactive case study that
allows students to choose the next step in a situation. Quandary
requires a registration fee in order to use all features.
iKeepBookmarks.com
allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web. You can
access them at any time, from any computer... anywhere! Blink
is another site that keeps your bookmarks on the web.
Macromedia
Jigsaw Puzzlemaker - import a picture (scan a postcard,
etc.) and this on-line resource turns it into a jigsaw puzzle.
Macromedia Shockwave 8 Player required (free
download here) to play. If you want to save your jigsaws,
you need to download your own (free) Shockmachine. Then you can
also play off-line.
Add
customized, interactive polls to your web site. They're fast,
easy, and FREE! Get instant feed back from your site's
visitors:
Nicenet
has a variety of functions that are great for the foreign
language classroom. There is a conferencing system that is similar
to a message board. Teachers can post a topic for
discussion each week and students can post
reactions/opinions/suggestions. They can respond to each other's
postings and send each other e-mail messages within the Nicenet
system. Students can also post compositions for peer editing
through the "documents" function, share their favorite Internet
links on a given topic, and keep up on assignments/projects posted
by the teacher. This is a free service.
What
do you do when you have only one computer in your classroom? Check
out Pat
Pecoy's webliography for ways to integrate technology into
your classroom, even with limited resources.
Quia!
Create your own on-line learning activities or explore
thousands of activities in over 40 subject areas. Quia has added
lots of options recently: class page; matching, concentration,
flash cards, and/or word search games; hangman game; jumbled words
game; pop-ups game; challenge board game; quiz (basic type); quiz
(Java type). Click here to see samples
of various Quia! activities. Have fun!
FunBrain's
Quizlab allows teachers to (easily!) create their
own on-line quizzes. When a student takes a quiz, it is
automatically graded and the results are e-mailed to the teacher!
There are also lots of ready-made quizzes available in various
subject areas.
Schoolnotes.com
provides a website where teachers can post announcements and
class assignments -- free of charge. You don't have to know
html and you will be able to access your account at any
time from either school or home computers. You can also link to
your page from your school's web pages. Give your students the
address of your page and they and their parents can check on their
daily and long range assignments at any time. Students can also
e-mail you from the Schoolnotes
site, but your e-mail address does not show, and is not revealed
to the student. You can now post digital
flashcards for your students at the Schoolnotes site!
SURWEB
allows people to create multimedia presentations in minutes using
images, sounds & movies provided by SURWEB
or other digital sources. SURWEB
was established in 1995 in Utah by the Southeastern Education
Service Center (SESC) with a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant
from the U.S. Department of Education .
Pat
Pecoy's Teachers
Aides site consists of links to web sites that help take
the technical out of technology for busy teachers. Teachers can
wow their students and create marvelous online activities with
very little technical knowledge using the sites listed here. The
sites have been divided into three levels: beginning, intermediate
and advanced.
TeAch-nology
provides a selection of free
web tools for teachers. A sampling of available
tools
TrackStar
can be your starting point for online, interactive lessons.
Create your own Track or build upon any of the thousands of Tracks
created by other teachers across America for a quick and easy
lesson plan. TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps
instructors organize and annotate on-line resources (URLs) and
file them in the TrackStar database. The list of resources, acting
as a Table of Contents to the track, remains visible thoughout the
lesson, allowing the user/student to easily browse through the
lesson and stay on track! 
to see an example.
WebPracTest©
was designed by Gary A. Smith to help developers of instructional
materials create self-correcting exercises or tests for
distribution on the Internet. Written in Javascript, the program
processes HTML documents and displays the text and images
contained in them, but substitutes fill-in forms for words that
the developer has marked as items to be practiced or tested. The
program works only with version 4.0 or higher of Internet Explorer
or Netscape Navigator.
to see examples in German, French or Spanish.
WebQuest
is a resource designed for those who are using WebQuests to teach
with the web. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which
some or all of the information that learners interact with comes
from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with
videoconferencing. Includes excellent examples and materials
developed to communicate the WebQuest idea.
