Moodle Resources

 Moodle in 15 Minutes is a course management system. It offers tools and support, course-related activities—document upload and sharing, discussion boards, blogs, gradebook, assignment upload, calendar, etc. Moodle, by default, provides primary organization by topic or by week. Links to all course assignments, documents, etc. are then created automatically. Moodle is arranged as one long page broken into sections (by topic or by week).
Would you like to become more proficient at using Moodle or would you like to begin using Moodle? Check out this 15-minute video tutorial series, taking you through every step from the syllabus to the gradebook to advanced assignment uploads. This will give you a quick view of each component. There is also a written summary of steps below each video.
Moodle: Getting Started for Teachers - This is a very detailed tutorial with links to other great  Moodle resources. 
Moodle Tutorials - Experience high resolution tutorials for every facet of Moodle. 
Turning Students into Teachers with Moodle - Key differences in how teachers and students use Moodle
Take a look at The Moodleman Blog for numerous tips and ideas using Moodle.



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Reading Logs.com

Thanks to DeeDee Finison for recommending this site!
What is Reading Logs?
" ReadingLogs.com (for 5-12 year olds) is a modern learning environment supported by learning tools like a listen and spell practice system, built in access to a dictionary, and  an electronic reading log.
This is a place where teachers can go to upload reading, spelling and vocabulary homework and where students can go to complete assignments. Assignments can be printed or submitted online.
ReadingLogs.com encourages reading and makes learning more enjoyable. The Listen & Spell practice system speaks the words in a spelling list, so that students can listen, spell the words, and check their spelling. Students can also print spelling lists and other study material. Vocabulary words can be printed on ordinary paper and pasted onto 3x5 index cards or printed directly onto card stock.
Our objective is to encourage reading and to make spelling and vocabulary homework more enjoyable."
Students may also access the words list on iPod / iPhone / iPad and practice their spelling and vocabulary skills on the go. This means more learning opportunities and thus more learning!

Must See - EdTechTeacher

The folks at EdTechTeacher have done a wonderful job or organizing technology tools for teaching and learning. All of the resources are actually charted so that you can easily see which tools to use for specific needs. Just take a look. From the authors:
"In order to help educators integrate technology effectively, we have compiled a list of technology tools focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD (Collect-Relate-Create-Donate) framework. Unlike other lists that promote “cool tools,” yet leave teachers wondering about purposeful educational integration, our list is driven by specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and community-mindedness. We hope you will find our list useful."

Kerpoof!

Kerpoof is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company, and is for grades K-8. Kerpoof encourages creativity by offering these types of activities: make artwork; make an animated story; tell a story; make a drawing. Lesson plans are provided on Master Artists, Math & Science, Language Arts, and social Studies, with more lessons added monthly, all linked to the National Nets Standards. Students can show their creativity on this fun website. It allows students to create pictures, stories and even movies. There is a wide variety of choices for scenes, characters, props, etc. Under Classroom Ideas you will find Story Starters, Genre Writing, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies, Biology, and Math. On the site there is an entire forum dedicated to ideas of how to use Kerpoof in the classroom. Users may select seven different languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese).

Set up your own FREE Teacher Account. After you register, you’ll gain access to a range of easy-to-use administrative tools. You’ll be able to register all your students, manage their accounts according to class, and control access to collaborative features. Once you get your student accounts set up, users will have access to the Group Message Board, Kerpoof Chat/Buddy Draw.

Online Publishing Tools for Students

Book Report Sandwich Station is a fun and easy book report tool to help students break a book report into seven components, AND the final reports can be printed.


Writing with Writers offers online writing activities from several different children's authors. Students complete the activities, then submit their own writing for publication on the Scholastic website.

ReadWriteThink offers dozens of tools!

Copyright FREE Photos from The Library of Congress

The Library of congress has released over 714 pages of copyright free photos for your use in the classroom. You may download from Flickr.

FREE Tutorials to Compensate for the Loss of Atomic Learning

Here are some good choices to replace the tutorials from Atomic Learning:
Participants in Teacher Challenge are stepped through weekly tasks that increase their skills while collaborating with others in the global community. This is a FREE 30-day professional development challenge hosted by Edublogs, and is open to anyone who wants to increase their skills. Participants may complete any or all of the tasks as they like in any order. There is no pressure and participants may join or leave any challenge at any time.

Each 30 days new challenges will be offered. Examples include: 30 days to kick start your Blogging; 30 days to get your students blogging; 30 days to a whole new PLN; 30 days to use the best of the Web's free resources; 30 days to ensuring privacy and student safety on the Web; 30 days to increased parental involvement.

GCF LearnFree.org

This site offers an extensive collection of tutorials on all Office products, OpenOffice, Google, Apple, Internet Basics, Mobile Apps, Windows, Everyday Life, Banking,  Social Media, and many more.

TechTutorials - FREE Computer Reference

You will find thousands of free tutorials, discussion forums, and other technical reference materials.

MSOffice-Tutorial-Training.com

Here is what you can expect from this site…

• FREE Microsoft Office 2010, 2007 and 2003 video and text tutorials & training.
• How to create dazzling documents using Microsoft Word?
• Discover the secrets of creating dynamic spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel.
• Creating High-impact, Eye-Catching PowerPoint Presentation slide's is no longer a dream! I can show you how...
• Presentation – 'DOs and DON'Ts' when you are on the stage.
• Organizing and managing your digital communication tools and everyday tasks with Microsoft Outlook.
• Tips and tricks - Dozens of valuable, undocumented features of Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Almost all, about 600 keyboard shortcuts that can open your eyes so wide...to see the power of the computer keyboard

FREE Microsoft Office Tutorials from Microsoft

2003, 2007, 2010 Options

Migration Guides for Access, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Word

Home & Learn - FREE computer tutorials

Word 2000-2010 & Excel 2003-2010

FREE Office 2010 Video Tutorials

The Problem Site - Educational Games, Problems, & Puzzles

The Problem Site is an extraordinary conglomeration of math puzzles, word games, brainteasers, strategy games, web quizzes, and informational site. PreK-12

Readers' Theater Anyone?

Readers' Theater from ReadingRockets

Readers' Theater Resources from Literacy Connections

Readers' Theater Lesson Plans from ReadWriteThink

Readers' Theater Scripts and Plays

Aaron Shepard's Readers' Theater Page - Readers' Theater Tips from Aaron Shepard

The Power of Readers' Theater from Scholastic Instructor

Index of Readers' Theater Scripts for Dozens of Stories

Readers' Theater Resources from Tips for Teachers: Using Readers' theater Instructionally in the Classroom; Using Readers' Theater as Fluency Practice for Homework; Where Can I Find Scripts?; Extension Activities for Readers' Theater

Readers' Theater from TeacherVision

Readers' Theater Basics

What is Readers' Theater?

Readers' Theater from Web English Teaecher

Please email if you decide to do a Readers' Theater project and want me to video for your students' presentation.

PicLits - Inspired Picture Writing

PicLits is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you and it offers a fun way to learn new vocabulary and play with word forms and sentence structure. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Here are poems done with PicLits. Choose from a variety of photos. Then drag and drop nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositions, and punctuation to create your own description with a few words long or a whole paragraph. Change the tense of the verbs and the form of the nouns (plural, possessive, capital). You may also Freestyle (write your own caption using the words you know). You may email your PicLit to your teacher or friends. You can also save it in the Public Gallery and view other PicLits. Here are some ideas for using PicLits in the classroom. See how PicLits may be used for creativity.

Need money for your classroom?

Grant Opportunities from Digital Wish

Google Tools

Google Tools to Support Blooms Revised Taxonomy by Kathy Schrock

Reading and Language Tools

KidsKnowIt Network - Free - Educational Video Podcasts, Free Educational Movies, Animal Database, Games - Content areas include: astronomy, biology, dinosaur, geography, geology, history, math, memory, spelling, educational songs, more

"The KidsKnowIt Network is your student’s free portal into the many exciting facets that make up our Universe. From the human heart, to the moons of Jupiter you will find it all on the KidsKnowIt Network. Free Educational Websites. 
Our fun and educational games, activities, worksheets, free online classes, and much much more, make learning fun. At The KidsKnowIt Network we provide accurate, updated, and fun information for you and your student. Best of all, YOU NEVER PAY FOR ANYTHING!!"

ReadWriteThink - If you do not use it, you are missing a valuable resource at any grade level. You will find lesson plans, student interactives, and calendar activities. Resources have as their objectives: comprehension, critical thinking, grammar, inquiry/research, literary analysis, media literacy, multimodal literacy, phonological awareness, reading fluency, reading genres, spelling, text structure/story structure, vocabulary, writing genres, and the writing process. There is also an abundance of Parent/Afterschool Reesources. The partners are the International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and Verizon Thinkfinity. 

"Our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials."


Penzu Online Writing Journal - free online diary and personal journal; private and easy to use; makes writing online simple and intuitive


Sebran's ABC: FREE download; "Sebran's ABC's colorful pictures, pleasant music, and gentle games teach letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading." 

Shmoop - "Shmoop will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time." "Shmoop provides lively Learning Guides and Teaching Resources lovingly written by educators and doctorate students at top universities (primarily Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley). Our guides have a deep, fun approach that hits students in the intellectual and cultural gut. We provide multiple points of view and we hope to provoke, spark, and inspire students as they come up with original ideas. We dig deep into pop-culture, current events, and the Internet to bring these budding researchers face to face with the relevance of what they study. As a result, you’ll find at Shmoop some truly dynamic, lively, and entertaining guides that will help you make the classroom live and breathe." Be sure to check out List-o-Mania and Teacher Resources.


StoryJumper - This free program offers on-line storybooks for children to read, add to, modify or create from scratch. You can choose from a range of backgrounds, characters, props, text boxes and fonts. Students can create a whole book or collaborate by doing one or more pages each. 
 

Storybird - "Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback. Sign up today for a free Class account!"

Writing Workshop - "My name is David Stoner. This is my site  devoted to literacy. I post daily here if you wish to visit. I have many writing workshop mini lessons here. I am passionate about literacy and teaching. I teach a fourth grade class at E O Muncie Elementary School in Madison, Indiana. I also am Co Director at the Indiana University Southeast Writing Project in New Albany, Indiana. We are a local site of the National Writing Project."

TCAP, Gateway, and EOC Resources

Do you have additional TCAP, Gateway, and EOC Resources  that you could share? Add a comment below and I'll add them to the collection.