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McDonough's Teaching Resources

This blog contains technical ideas used for teaching and administrating an educational classroom.

I have a few hundred sites saved in My Favorites. I am going through them to see which are worth revisiting. I look for practicality, simplicity, and usually free stuff.

If you have a suggestion, please let me know at rmcdonough@mvca-oh.com.

This is a work in progress. Come back often as I will be adding resources regularly as I get up to date.



Thursday, January 27, 2011

Teacher's Domain

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.  You will need to sign up to get unlimited access, but it is free.  The categories of videos include Math, Science, Language, Social Studies, and Art.  The site is associated with Zoom, CyberChase, Between the Lions, Nova and more.  I have used this site to show me how to an experiment, step by step, from a video.  It even indicates the Ohio Standards and a written explanation "Background Essay" for each video.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

EasyBib

http://www.easybib.com/  This is the easiest way to cite a reference.  Enter the website, the book, the newspaper, and more into the entry box, click the "Cite this" and reference is cited with the correct format.  It uses MLA | APA | Chicago/Turabian formats.  To cite a book all you need to do is input the name of the book and it searches for the books by that name and you choose which one.  Then it automatically cites it.  Thanks Lynda for this connection.  It works great!

Star Gazer

See "Star Gazer" Episodes Now
Before They Air On PBS!

These are excellent 1 minute clips of current events in the sky along with other explanations of our universe.  Many of these clips give you the day that you can observe the sky to see certain planets or constellations with details to help identify these events.  Scroll down to Download Current Video Episodes to view these video clips.