Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has a tremendous number of movies, books, software, music, and more for free. Public domain materials are helpful when you are adding engaging information to your courses, or just for broadening your own interests. Go ahead and get your free Internet Library card and start building your own resources. Internet Library

MOOC Movement

The Internet has made tremendous strides in communication over the last decade, some of my favorites are the online courses available for FREE. What started with a few Universities that offered select courses, quickly spread into many Universities and Colleges preparing online courses for people to take if they wanted to. Now the offerings are vast, and the ability to earn validated certificates or specializations in fields are increasing. If you have never considered entering into the world of MOOC's (Massive Open Online Courses), here's a place that keeps a pretty extensive list. http://www.mooc-list.com/

Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge

There's some great freeware in this link. If you prefer to use the sources that are open to public transformation for education and instruction, you will be interested in bookmarking this link for yourself.

Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge

Storyboard Depot : Instructional Design and eLearning: Tips, Advice and Reviews

Some nice storyboards templates can be found here!

Storyboard Depot : Instructional Design and eLearning: Tips, Advice and Reviews

Teampedia

Team Building Activities and Ice Breakers

Comfortable surroundings in an educational setting are important for a connection to be made and learning to take place. One of the ways in which that becomes possible is with Ice Breakers.

Teampedia has a nice selection of ideas for you to choose from.

Main Page - Teampedia

Leadership styles - Leadership Training from MindTools.com

MindTools has a plethora of good information for educators, this particular link is for Leadership Styles.

 Leadership styles - Leadership Training from MindTools.com

Texas Education Agency Lighthouse Initiative -- Classroom Strategies

There are some innovative ideas or strategies on this site related to various types of lesson structures.

 Texas Education Agency Lighthouse Initiative -- Classroom Strategies

Developing A Blended Learning Strategy: Instructional Media & Pedagogical Considerations

Check out this SlideShare Presentation prepared by Dr. Holden:

Developing A Blended Learning Strategy: Instructional Media & Pedagogical Considerations

View more presentations from jtholden.

Wink - Tutorial and Presentation Creator

This is a freeware application which allows you to create tutorials and presentations which can be helpful for instructional aids in an instruction environment.

  Wink - [Homepage]

Holocaust Heroes: WebQuest

WebQuests are a journey for information on the Internet.

Here is an example by Cathy Stacks of Highlands Elementary. It was designed for a 6th grade class.

Holocaust Heroes: Introduction

Pidgin, the universal chat client

Get it all together with this handy, free universal chat client software. It's licensed under GNU and easy to use. If you use more than one type of messenger client, you might appreciate having an easy way to pull them all together in one program.

Pidgin, the universal chat client

For Teachers (Library of Congress)

For Teachers (Library of Congress)

This site could quickly become a teacher's best friend! There are links to puzzles, map making software, and other inspirational activities. In addition to the supplemental items available, there are links to historical timelines, to teaching news, and primary sources. Take a look, you'll be keeping this one!

Lesson planning, lesson plan formats and lesson plan ideas

This site offers a wonderful array of helpful tools and articles for educators including lesson plan ideas.

Lesson planning, lesson plan formats and lesson plan ideas