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The Best Search Engines for Teachers and Students

The Best Search Engines for Teachers and Students
Do you know Lycos and Yahoo? (But do you really know them?) Have you heard of Google? Have you ever performed an on-line search that resulted in totally unexpected matches? However, the key to effective searching may be in finding a search engine or directory that "thinks" like you! Howard B. "Different engines 'think' differently," he said. Are you feeling lucky? There are many search engines and directories on the Internet, but the trick to good searching is finding the one that works best for you. When searching with Lycos, your motto should be "Less is more!" The popular search directory Yahoo! AltaVista is a search engine with some interesting features. Take a tour of the Web with WebCrawler! If you are limited by the inability of search engines to find sites that deal with concepts related to your queries, you have a reason to be excited about Excite. On the surface, Infoseek appears to be somewhat like other search engines with indexed lists and search fields.

101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools Online tools and resources have made it easier for teachers to instruct students, and for students to collaborate with those teachers and with other students and parents. These “Web 2.0” teaching tools aren’t magical, but they may seem to defy definition at times since they save time, help you to stay organized, and often take up little space on a computer. Some of these applications are Web-based, which means that they can be accessed from any computer. The following list is filled with tools that will make a teacher’s, or those enrolled in the best online education programs, life easier. Aggregators The following list includes free tools that you can use to stay on top of current events, including headlines and blogs. Aggie: Aggie is an open source news aggregator that’s also a desktop application. Bookmark Managers Classroom Tools You need tools to help assess class progress. Animoto: This web tool completely simplifies the creation and sharing of videos. Collaboration Course Management

My Oatmeal Kisses: Top Educational Websites for Kids Technology is pretty amazing! There are lots of wonderful ways to help our child practice the skills they are learning in school. Often times with some of these great educational sites our children don't even know that they are learning at the same time! It's also a great way to motivate kids to do their homework, have them do their reading and math first and for a reward they can play an educational game...tricky! A friend of mine asked me for some recommendations on some other educational websites, so you know me, I went crazy and found a bunch. I spent many hours digging through cyberspace to find and test out the following educational game sites. Just bookmark this page, and every time you want to use a new site you can come here to find it quickly. 1. This site has lots of great language arts games. 2. Hello! 3. Here's a wonderful site c/o one of my readers! 4. Well after I posted this list on Monday I found an phenomenal site on Wednesday! 5. Wo this is another great site. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Quiz maker for teachers A lot of teachers use our quiz generator to create online quizzes for their students. We've optimised our quiz software for teachers based on their feedback. Teachers can make quizzes, test homework and see how their students score all within one tool. As a teacher you're always looking for ways to improve your teaching. We can talk for a long time about how awesome our quiz software is for teachers, but we'll rather let one of our clients do the pitch. "We used Quizworks in our social studies classes at Carondelet High School last year for textbook reading review. Over 90% of the students took the quizzes more than once. Teachers reported that students came to class significantly better prepared for discussion and activities. Quizworks has proven to be a valuable tool for our social studies program." Mitch Ward, Carondelet High School So give it a try!

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The Awesome Library Search Results Search Results Terms: classroom management Matches: 27 Displayed: 20 Categories Teacher > Classroom Related > Classroom Management Specific Results Classroom Management (Teachers Helping Teachers) Classroom Management Resources (Education World)Provides 95 resources. 3-02 Classroom Management Tips (TeachNet) Includes room decor, classroom management, classroom public relations, and much more. Classroom Discipline (About.com - Kelly) New March Provides over three dozen papers related to improving classroom discipline. Back to Top

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