 |
Here are some great teaching resources for 21st century teachers and students. Additional teacher/student web sites are located on Zachry's Library Page under Databases. There's also a new Student Links web page with lots of great resources for students. Note: some web sites may require a username and password. Please see
the
Library
circulation
desk for
them. Power
On Texas: Join the Digital Revolution |
|
|
 |
Audio, Music and Video Resources |
 |
Blogs & Wikis |
 |
Copyright / Fair Use / Plagiarism |
 |
Copyright Free Pictures / Photography |
 |
iPod Touch Resources |
 |
Lesson Plans |
 |
Presentation Tools |
 |
Student News Sites |
 |
Search Engines |
 |
Teacher Tools |
Audio, Music
& Video Resources |
|
 |
BrainPop* *Zachry MS paid subscription for staff and students |
 |
CommonCraft -
Videos in Plain English This site offers short videos that are straight and to the point for teaching technology concepts. Additional topics include going green, money and finances, and society issues. |
 |
Discovery
Education Streaming Video KLRN is a digital video-on-demand service offering over 3,000 full=length titles and 30,000 video clips in all K-12 subject areas. KLRN and Discovery Streaming are excited to offer this service to enhance classroom lessons and to impact student learning. A student login and password are available from the library circulation desk. |
 |
Created by NBC News, iCue is a new way to learn. iCue has hundreds of videos that include historic and current events. Users may view videos, collaborate with others, do research, play games based on events, take quizzes and compete with other users. The user is in control of what and how to learn! |
 |
Brush up on history with the History Channel web site. You'll find text articles, related video and audio clips, photos and TV listings related to historical topics. Click here for a list of videos by topic. |
 |
As part of the Discovery Company, there are lots of videos on hundreds of subjects. See how things work and how different products are made. This is a fascinating site! |
 |
This is a great resource for students having trouble learning math, science, history, etc. With more than 2600 videos and 180 self-paced assessments, the Khan Academy can help students learn at home or at school. This site offers videos that are FREE and easy to understand, no matter what you're trying to learn. |
 |
As part of PBS, NOVA is the highest rated science series on TV. There are many great videos to use with your students and there is even a section on Nova education. |
 |
Get the best of National Geographic with videos on topics around the world. Make sure to check out the tabs at the top, including Video Home, Nat Geo TV, Nat Geo Wild, Animals, Kids (NG Kids Videos), News and More! |
 |
NISD Digital Library Northside ISD offers numerous audio books, eBooks, Music and Video collections for checkout. Students and staff members may checkout books with either their student ID or staff ID number. A free application, Overdrive Media Console needs to be downloaded for Audio books, Music and Video. Overdrive Media Console is available only for home download. For help, click here. |
 |
360 degree tours from around the world, including acrhitecture, the 7 Wonders of the World, The Moon, Mount Everest, The Grand Canyon and much more. You control which direction you look in, as well as zooming in and out. Fantastic!! |
 |
Through an agreement with Northside ISD, Royalty Free Music provides some of their most popular full length music for academic purposes only. Included is music for backgrounds, PowerPoint, documentary, meditation and hypnosis, classical, sports, children's, hip-hop, sound effects, acoustic, piano, specialty and jazz. Username and Password are available in S:/Templates folder. Enter the Username and Password in the Music Promo area half way down on the right of their web page. |
 |
A free and safe site for students and educators to post educational videos. Student products can only be posted by a registered teacher. All videos are screened to meet SchoolTube's strict standards. |
 |
How can Skype be used in education? See how to open up your classroom to outside resources, talk to experts, connect with classrooms around the world and create experiences that wouldn't normally be available to your students. It's all free and available for you to use! Talk to your C.I.T. about how you can make it happen. |
 |
Do you know how to use music for presentations and still stay within the copyright and Fair Use Policy? Soundzabound is the solution! Soundzabound gives Zachry Middle School students, faculty and staff full rights to use their music as per our subscription. Soundzabound has educationally safe content and includes a variety of music and sound effects. Soundzabound is now online and can be accessed at school or at home! Username and Password are available in S:/Templates folder. |
 |
An online community for sharing instructional videos. You may search for videos with the built-in search engine. |
 |
TED-Ed has a different approach to viewing videos on the Internet. It's called "flipping the classroom. Teachers can turn any video from YouTube into a lesson. They can even add quiz questions and other supplemental materials. Flipping the classroom puts the video before the lesson, so students have an idea about the lesson before it is presented. Here's a short video on how it works. Ready, set, flip!! |
 |
Your C.I.T. has signed up for a free account that will allow you to add YouTube and other video movies free of advertising and unwanted content. Students can logon using a teacher created password to view only the videos you have allowed them to view. Since students don't have access to YouTube at school, this is a great way for them to still view relevant videos, approved by you, the teacher! Talk to your C.I.T. about having your name added to the list of approved teachers so you can use this service. |
|
Created by the co-founder of Wikipedia, this is
a great one-stop resource that provides free videos for teachers,
students and parents. Like a 24-7 tutor, this site provides additional
resources for any topic students learn in school that are reliable
and relevant. You can filter by age and / or topic. |
 |
This site showcases the use of YouTube in the classroom. Recommended tabs include "Why YouTube?" and "Classroom Videos" to help you figure out how to use YouTube in your classroom. Why use YouTube for Schools? Check out this short video! |
 |
YouTube EDU is a sub-section of YouTube that is strictly devoted to high-quality educational content. Included are videos from Khan Academy, UCBerkeley, MIT, Spacelab, BBC Worldwide, TED, National Geographic and many more! Search by category or type keywords into the search box. |
| back to top | |
Blogs and Wikis |
|
|
CommonCraft -
Blogs & Wikis in Plain English What is the difference between a Blog and a Wiki? These short videos will help you determine what they are and which one may work best for you. |
 |
edmodo This web site is similiar to Facebook, but it's for educators, students and parents. It's a secure site where social media allows teachers to clloborate, share content and educational applications, access homework, have class discussions and even receive notifications. Best of all, it's free!! |
 |
eduGlogster Create stunning online multimedia posters. They're easy to create and use. They can include text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, attachments and links. |
 |
LearningSpace Want to create a Blog? NISD has provided LearningSpace as a safe place to create and manage a blog for you to use with staff and/or students. A manual and video support are provided to help users on this site. |
| back to top | |
Copyright
and Fair Use |
|
 |
Copyright Laws / Fair Use Policy for Students and Educators Technology has made it easy to copy text, pictures, audio, music and video. What is right and wrong when it comes to copyright and intellectual property? Teaching students what is ethically right helps them make good choices now and in the future. Do you know the Fair Use Policy for education? Check out this site, especially the videos! More info. on our site: Copyright / Fair Use / Citing Sources |
 |
Landmark's
Citation Machine |
 |
Each year, Zachry MS purchases a license to show select DVDs / VHS tapes throughout our campus. Not all videos may be shown. Here you will find a list of studios / producers that we can show to our students and remain in copyright compliance. You'll also find FAQs for many questions you may have. |
|
Through an agreement with Northside ISD, Royalty Free Music provides some of their most popular full length music for academic purposes only. Included is music for backgrounds, PowerPoint, documentary, meditation and hypnosis, classical, sports, children's, hip-hop, sound effects, acoustic, piano, specialty and jazz. Username and Password are available in S:/Templates folder. Enter the Username and Password in the Music Promo area half way down on the right of their web page. |
|
Do you know how to use music for presentations and still stay within the copyright and Fair Use Policy? Soundzabound is the solution! Soundzabound gives Zachry Middle School students, faculty and staff full rights to use their music as per our subscription. Soundzabound has educationally safe content and includes a variety of music and sound effects. Soundzabound is now online and can be accessed at school or at home! Username and Password are available in S:/Templates folder. |
| back to top | |
 |
Free Digital Photos - Lots of royalty free photos for use, broken down into categories. |
 |
MorgueFile - You'll find thousands of low, medium and high resolution pictures by photographers that can be freely used. |
 |
Pics4Learning - Check out thousands of pictures taken by students, teachers and amateur photographers for use in projects. |
 |
Wikimedia Commons - As part of Wikipedia, over 12 million images, sounds and videos are available for free use. Users can search by topic, location, type, author, etc. |
 |
Would you like to learn how to take better pictures? Kodak has numerous tips and tricks for you, including the top 10 tips, photographing animals and people,nature, holidays and events, and much more. There's something for everyone from beginners to advanced photographers. |
| back to top | |
iPod Touch Resources |
|
 |
Links are provided to video resources, free apps and NISD's Lessons Collaboratory. These are lessons created by NISD teachers. |
 |
Thousands of Apps are available for the iPod Touch. Currently, NISD only allows free apps for download. |
| back to top | |
Lesson
Plans
|
|
 |
Directly from Apple, you will find lots of resources for the classroom, including lesson plan ideas, podcasting collections, challenged based learning and the National Education Technology Standards. |
 |
A free resource site for teachers to share, download and archive lessons to engage today's students. Here you will find thousands of peer-reviewed and topic based lessons shared by teachers around the world. |
 |
Differentiation - Graphic Inquiry From renowned Educational Technologist, Dr. Annette Lamb, here's an array of ideas how to differentiate instruction for students, using technology. There are literally hundreds of ideas and links for many curricula to get your creative juices flowing. Dare to explore! |
 |
Google Earth Lessons A
great resources for teachers with lots of how-to's, lesson plans
and more! Check them out. |
 |
Google offers a library of lesson plans sortable by subject, age level and much more. This database includes Google Apps for Education, Educator Resources, Classroom Videos, YouTube Curriculum, Professional Development, and Student Showcase. Lots of resources in one place! |
 |
Kathy Shrock's Guide to Everything! Kathy Shrock is a nationally known educational technologist. In this web site, she has showcased her work, and included great integration ideas and useful links for teachers. Whether you are a novice or immersed in technology integration, this site has something for you. |
 |
Learning.com Do you want to add Technology Integration to your teaching? Here's a great way to get started. Northside I.S.D. has a subscription with Learning.com to help master TEKS in most subject areas. Included are interactive lessons, journal assisnments, internet and video resources and tutorials. There are lessons in Spanish and Office 2010 tutorials. Student interactive lessons can even be graded onloine. See your C.I.T. to have your account set up. |
 |
Microsoft in K-12 Education Microsoft helps teachers use technology to motivate and engage students in your classroom. You'll find lesson plans, free tools, training and other info. for teachers. Links are provided for teaching guides to Microsoft Office and product how-tos. |
 |
ProQuest |
 |
sirs
Issues Researcher |
 |
Thinkfinity.org has 55,000 standards- based K-12
lesson plans, student materials and interactives for use by teachers,
students and parents. A user-friendly search engine makes it easy
to find relevant material for your curriculum. You can even search
for grade-specific topics! All lesson plans and interactives have
been screened by educational experts in their field and are ready
to use with handouts, links and more! |
 |
Used to inspire higher level thinking skills, WebQuests are inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. This is 21st century learning at its best! |
| back to top | |
Presentation Tools |
|
 |
Animoto Make professional looking presentations quickly to tell stories thru video, which can also turn still pics into moving masterpieces. Add music to your presentations for a professional look and feel. Presentations up to 30 seconds each are free. Paid subscriptions offer more options. |
 |
Free Presentations in PowerPoint Lots of free PowerPoint presentations available for teaching, as well as interactive games for students. |
 |
Awesome PowerPoint templates for you to use and they're free! Each category has more templates, once you click on the category or search for a specific type of theme. On Indezine's home page there are tutorials and free add-ons for PowerPoint. |
 |
Prezi Take a journey beyond PowerPoint slides to the world of Prezi. This program allows you to create slides, zoom in and out, keep focus on each idea and tie ideas together. It's fun, easy and powerful! And... it's free! |
 |
Voki This fun and free tool is a great way to use technology with your students. Users create cartoon characters, called "avatars", add voice and post them to a blog, web site or profile. They're easy to create. You'll even find lesson plans on how to use them with students! |
| back to top | |
Student
News Sites
|
|
 |
ChannelOne.com Teachers / users can search using specific keywords for news articles, online videos and quizzes. Teaching Tools provides online tools designed to help educators integrate Channel One News, current events and public-affairs programming into their classes. |
 |
CNN
- Student News Teachers will find daily transcripts, for each show, daily discussion questions, the Media Literacy Question of the Day, in-depth Learning Activities, downloadable Maps and additional support materials to help students understand the news. |
| back to top | |
Search Engines |
|
 |
Created by Google, this is a safe search engine, where all irrelevant links are filtered out. Not only is it a time saver for students, it gives educators peace of mind that searches are more focused. |
 |
NetTrekker is a trusted search engine for K-12 schools. As an all-in-one site, it saves valuable time, increases teacher productivity and effectiveness, and increases students' time on task. |
 |
Exclusively for 8th Graders and grade 6-8 teachers at Zachry Middle School, and high school students and teachers, Questia School offers over 67,000 books and 1.5 million newspaper and journal articles, available for full-text searching and reading. A great video tutorial is available on the web site.
|
| back to top | |
Teacher
Tools
|
|
 |
Would you like to learn some new tools for teaching and learning? Compiled by learning professionals, these tools are listed by rank, as well as whether they are free, commercial, for Windows or Mac. You'll know which ones are available online or must be loaded on a server. |
 |
This site provides information about the preservation of the world's species. Included are photos, videos and fact files with lots of biology topics. All resources may be used by students and teachers in lessons and presentations. |
 |
This web site organizes the Web with 35,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. |
 |
Create your own motivational, inspirational or humorous posters and print out for your classroom. Include digital pictures that you upload from your computer. Think of the possibilities! |
 |
Curriculum
21 Curriculum 21 launches teaching into the 21st century for 21st century learners. This site provides a wealth of resources and services for educators who are interested in Curriculum Mapping for their students. |
 |
Curriki Hi quality FREE curriculum materials created by a community of educational experts. This site was developed by Sun Microsystems to promote collaboration with educators. Create an account and enjoy the benefits! |
 |
Great classroom resources for teachers including New Teacher Survival Kit, Puzzlemaker, Kathy Shrock's Guide, Fun Tools, Science Fair Central and Contests and Grants. |
 |
A place where educators can gather and share ideas. This site includes lesson plans, professional development and technology integration links. |
 |
Created by the George Lucas Foundation, this site is dedicated to improving education by showcasing successful educators, schools and educational strategies. Be inspired! |
 |
eduTecher |
 |
edWeb This is a great social networking site for educators to share information with peers, including best practices, innovative ideas and provide professional development. It's a free site for educators. |
 |
Free
Federal Resources Here, you will find over 1500 federal free federal resources for teaching and learning from dozens of federal agencies. More are added on a regular basis. |
 |
This is a free resource for Science teachers that connects classrooms with great explorers and great events. Teachers will find digital and print media, inquiry-based labs, educational games and videos, standards alignment, lesson plans and student assessments. |
 |
Teachers can create games, quizzes, flashcards and more to help students study individually or in groups. The free version is more limited, but the paid versions offer more options. |
 |
This government site offers more than 10 million primary sources for teachers. |
 |
Do you want a fun way to reinforce Math TEKS with your students? Here's a user-friendly site for teachers and students that reinforces what you teach. Teachers set up challenges for students, who are given a login. Teachers view the data, which includes mastery, time on site, formative assessment and response to intervention. And... it's free!! Check out the video on the home page and the 10 Reasons why Mangahigh.com is irrestible for teachers. |
 |
Maps 101 has over 6000 maps in a variety of formats. You'll find current event information for countries around the globe, educational games and puzzles, and reference atlases. For teachers, there are hundreds of imbedded lesson plans. Whether you are planning a lesson or just looking for a place to visit, you'll find lots of great geographic information at Maps101.com! This is a paid subscription at Zachry / Comm Arts / Taft. Please see the librarian for username and password. |
 |
Promethean Planet After registering for free, teachers will find lots of free resources, including lesson plans, resource packs, web links and more! |
|
|
Need a puzzle? Then this is the site for you! Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crisscross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists. |
 |
Readworks |
 |
Have you ever wanted to make a quality rubric? Try Rubistar. It's free and it's easy! You'll even find rubric templates by curriculum or project type. |
 |
Scholastic |
 |
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything Renowned educator, Kathy Shrock shares her list of teacher resources. There's something for everyone! |
 |
Created by Google, this site provides lots of resources and lesson plans for educators. |
 |
TEA
- SBEC Technology Standards |
 |
Visual Dictionary Online
This visual dictionary from Miriam-Webster allows users to associate words with pictures. This is especially useful for visual learners. |
 |
This is a free site for K - 12 students, teachers and virtually anyone who would like to learn new vocabulary words. Each session has 3 levels x 12 words each = 36 new words. There are also lots of activities and puzzles. |
 |
Create word clouds with or for your students. Include topic words to summarize units or see how many times a word is used in a passage, magazine article or poem. Change the font, color or layout easily. It's lots of fun! |
 |
Help your students study with Quizlet. There are over 11 million flashcards for any subject and students can play educational games, memorize vocabulary or study online. |
 |
Virtual Learning Resource Center Selected by teachers and librarians and designed by Google, this site links to some of the best academic web sites that are current and relevant for today's students. |
| back to top | |
