GENERAL LINKS OF INTEREST:

Warrennet Staff Mail

Professional Development

STI Online

Teacher Homework and Communications on Live Journal:

Create your online Journal here: https://www.livejournal.com/create.bml

Log in to maintain your Journal here: http://www.livejournal.com/

Digital Book Index:

Digital Book Index - Largest Search Engine For Digital eBooks. The Digital Book Index provides access to more than 73,000 titles records. It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight— in most major disciplines—Literature, History, Science and the History of Science, Social Science, Medicine, the Arts, Religion, and various Area Studies (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Women's Studies), etc. An extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines, Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on Writing & Style Guides that would be hard to surpass anywhere. Library subscribers to NetLibrary will find most of those eBooks indexed as well. More than 25,000 titles from public archives—all indexed here—are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Thousands more contemporary titles, ranging from the Nancy Drew mysteries to Star Trek, Ernest Hemingway or John Le Carré, are available from many leading publishers.

The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web:

The Busy Educator's Newsletter is a once a month mailing of favourite educational sites, ideas, news releases of interest to "Busy Educators", reviews of books and e-books, FREE STUFF and more!

Smithsonian Education:

Smithsonian Education Ready for School: At Smithsonian Education, you'll find great teaching materials, links to hundreds of web-based resources, and online access to everything the world's largest museum system offers. The website is a collective effort by staff of the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies.

WebQuests:

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.

Assessment, Assessment Rubrics and Evaluation Guidelines :

For assessment tips and tools, and for help in developing, adapting, or adopting assessments that detail what you expect students to learn and evaluate what they have mastered for any given lesson, visit the techLEARNING Web sites.

NJDOE/NJPEP: NJ Standards Resource:

New Jersey's Professional Education Port's major goal is to support teachers and the entire educational community in the understanding and implementation of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and their related statewide assessments at 4th, 8th and 11th grades.

Multiple Intelligences Website:
For information about the relationship between Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and Technology, consult this portion of the WCTS web site.