Technology+Resources

Thinkfinity Thinkfinity is a website that is sponsored by Verizon. It offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources. As a teacher, you can join for free and share resources and ideas in the online community. There are tools to organize the resources you find, network with other teachers, and plan and advice with other teachers. There is professional development training available for educators. It shows teachers how to use the website to its full effectiveness. There are online and face-to-face training options available. Parents and students can also use the site. There are resources for practice, play, and projects and reports.

Elmo

An Elmo projector is a document camera. It allows you to display documents and other objects. Unlike an overhead, you do not have to have transparencies. You can place any object under the camera, and it displays it through a projector. Also, an Elmo allows you to zoom in and out.

Cybrary Man

Cybraryman.com is an internet catalog for educators, students, administrators and parents with over 20,000 links. Technology integration into the classroom is featured on the Educators page. (MakiKathleen)

Discovery Education United Streaming is a media resource that is also known as Discovery Education. It offers a variety of teaching resources to expand on content being discussed in the classroom. This tool allows teachers to show educational videos on all subjects, as well as provides additional resources to expand on. Thematic units are available as well as questions that go along with the videos to assess the students before, during, and after the videos. Online trainings are available to become familiar with this resource. It provides parents and students access to different resources such as motivation stations, homework help, learning games, and more. As an educator, you can access several of the resources for free. In order to access the united video streaming portion, your media specialist can provide you with a pass code that will then allow you to register for a personal username and password.

Edhelper Edhelper is an internet resource for educators that provides resources for all subjects. Although there is a cost, it is reasonable for the materials you gain access to. Edhelper allows individual teachers to buy a subscription or offers school licenses for a minimum order of five teachers. For the individual teachers buying a membership, they can choose if they want a basic subscription to access materials K-8 or if they want access to materials K-12 for an everything subsciption. This site provides unit ideas, extention activities, worksheets, and other printables to utilize in the classroom.