Springfield Township High School

The Springfield Township High School web page is a wonderful site to experience. It includes reading lists, online lessons, educational games, instructional videos and podcasts, and much more.

Knowville

Knowville is a great resource for all kinds of creative lessons. Educators contribute their ideas, and I encourage you to see what others are doing and share some of your own projects.

Financial Aid Sites

Here are some financial aids sites that I hope you will find useful:

Fastweb
FinAid
Federal Student Aid
California Student Aid Commission (for CA residents only)

College Search Sites

Here are a few sites to help you with college searches:

College Board
Princeton Review
Peterson's
CollegeNet

Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson will be visiting with middle school students December 3rd and will be discussing his book We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. Though there will not be an upper school assembly, any upper school student who is free during the scheduled events may attend. Follow the link to learn more about this author and artist.

Ying Chang Compestine

Ying Chang Compestine will be on campus September 10-11 discussing her novel Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party, which is about a family's struggle during the Cultural Revolution, with 5th-10th graders. Follow the link to her site to get more information about her.

teenreads

teenreads is a great site to read book reviews, author interviews, participate in contests and more. You may also submit reviews.

LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a great site for sharing your favorite books, writing reviews, participating in book discussions, and more.

Library Youth and Teen Services 2.0

Library Youth and Teen Services 2.0 is a ning for young adult librarians as well as anyone interested in youth and teen services. The focus is on learning about and using Web 2.0 and Web 3D technologies.

Homework Help Sites

Here are some great sites to get help on homework:
ALA Homework Helpers (This is actually an article that provides links to homework help sites.)
Homework High
Jiskha Homework Help

Generation Yes - Youth and Educators Succeeding

Generation Yes students train teachers how to implement technology into the curriculum.

Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube allows teachers to share instructional videos.

Adolescent Literacy

The Carnegie Corporation of New York site focuses on why adolescent literacy matters. The site provides information on professional programs for teachers as well as incentives such as grants.

Ideas for Teaching Reading

teAchnology and Literacy Matters provide tips, lesson plans and activities to enhance the teaching of reading.

More literacy experts...

The University of Maryland provides background and contact information for their reading and literacy experts who are happy to answer questions.

Anne E. Cunningham and Keith E. Stanovich

I recently read an article by Anne E. Cunningham and Keith E. Stanovic entitled "What Reading Does for the Mind" which appeared in the Spring/Summer 1998 Issue of American Educator/American Federation of Teachers which addresses the benefit of avid reading in terms of positive cognitive outcomes. I think it's an important study so I am including links to their pages.

Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen is a Professor Emeritus at USC and is and expert in linguistics/language acquistition. He has written extensively on literacy so I have included the link to his home page.

school-libraries.net

school-libraries.net is an invaluable site, originally created by Peter Milbury, that provides Web pages from librarians around the world. Though librarians are the intended audience, teachers will definitely benefit from the ideas presented.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is an excellent resource as it provides information on every school subject area imaginable as well as library-related resources, lesson plans and activities for students.

More Global Collaborative Sites

These sites were highlighted in Anita McAnear's article "Educators are Going Global" in the November 2007 issue of Learning & Leading with Technology and with the exception of the last two, which focus on global warming, the projects on the sites address a wide variety of subjects including international affairs and diplomacy, online expeditions, journalism, geography, etc.
Global Education Collaborative
Global Schoolnet
TakingITGlobal
iEARN
Global Nomads
Thinkquest
GLOBE
Global Challenge Award

ePals

ePals is a wonderful way to connect with e-mail buddies across the world to work collaboratively on projects such as coping with natural disasters, solving water problems, and global warming. Classes may also come up with projects of their own.

techlearning.com

techlearning.com has great ideas on how to use blogs, podcasts, collaborative writing tools, etc. in the classroom.

tech4teaching

tech4teaching is a great resource for teachers wanting to include more technology such as nings into the classroom.