Professional+Development+Toolkit

**Personal Professional Development Resource Toolkit**

Material Generator These resources can be used to create materials that can be used in the classroom. This includes tests, quizzes, surveys, worksheets and puzzles.  []  · This website helps with creating polls, surveys, scored quizzes and personality quizzes. The only thing with this website is when you create a quiz, it only allows you to enter to possible answers for each question. [] · This website helps in creating your own rubrics. You can select the grade level it will be used for, the subject and the type of rubric it will be (ex: used for an exam or project) [] · This website allows you to create your own puzzles including word search, criss-cross, math squares, number blocks, etc. You can use your own words to make the puzzles. This could be a good review for word study/spelling words. [] · This website makes it very easy to create a survey. Once you create the survey you can email the link to other people to complete your survey and it helps you analyze the data that is collected. The survey creator allows you to ask all different kinds of questions and choose what kind of answers you are looking for. Data Collection and Analysis Tools These websites can be used to help create/use an electronic gradebook, keep student information using SIS and preparing lessons that manage students responses using students response systems. [] · This website provides you with step by step instructions on how to make an Electronic Gradebook using Excel. The gradebook that is created can be used for elementary, middle, or high school. I have not created a gradebook however it seems like the directions are very easy to follow and tells you all of the formulas that you need to know to make the gradebook work for you. [] · This is a free website that allows you to create an electronic gradebook. You can enter the class information, student, the grading scale that you would like to use (you can even customize your own), and then the assignment and the grade that is received. Seems very easy to use and is free! [] · This free SIS has different capabilities that allow you to enter grades, make student schedules, keep track of attendance and manage any other data relating to students. However all the programs do need to be downloaded. [] · This website has lessons that can be used for elementary, middle or high school. It tells you the name of the lesson, the type of lesson, targets grade and subject matter. Many of the lessons can be uploaded right through powerpoint.
 * Quibblo: Create Polls, Surveys, Quizzes, and Personality Quizzes**
 * Rubric Studio**
 * Welcome To Discovery Education’s Puzzlemaker!**
 * Survey Monkey**
 * Create an Electronic Gradebook**
 * Engrade- The Classroom Community**
 * Student Information Systems (SIS)**
 * Clicker Lessons**

Graphic Tools These resources can be used to create graphs and draw or edit pictures. **Create a PicLit** [] · This website allows students to click on picture and then select words that describe the picture. The pictures can be from the selection on the website or your own pictures can be used. This could be a good activity when teaching word choice. [] · This website can be used to edit pictures. It is free unless you upgrade to premium which gives you more editing options. [] · This is a really fun website. You can make pictures talk. You need a microphone in order for this to work. It would be a really fun way for students to demonstrate what they learned by making a picture talk! [] · This is an easy to use website that allows you to create a bar, line, area, pie or XY graph. You can add your own data, change how the graph looks and add labels on the graph. This could be used in multiple grade levels when collecting and graphing data.
 * Picnik- Photo Editing Made Fun**
 * Got a Picture? Blabberize it!**
 * Create A Graph**

Planning and Organizing Tools These websites can help in creating concept maps, lesson plans and provide scheduling and time management tools. **TeachersFirst: The Web Resource for by Teachers, for Teachers** [] · Very useful!! Provides lessons as well as other web resources that can be used in the classroom. A way to find everything that you need in one spot! I really like the Weekly Brain Twisters that are provided for elementary and middle school. [] · Very useful for teachers, parents and students! This website has resources for book reports, homework help, maps and parent resources. Teachers can search for lesson plans and interactive activities by subject and grade level. I really like the section “Free Teacher Resources” that has different up to date activities for various months, like financial literacy month, and math month. [] · Thinkport has resources for the classroom, your career and technology. The information on the website relates to the Maryland State Curriculum which helps when connecting the information in the classroom. [] · This website provides many different templates for graphic organizers that teachers can use in the classroom. The organizers include: character maps, clustering, concept maps, spider maps, timelines, venn diagrams, etc. The website also provides a description of each organizer so it is easier for the teacher to decide which organizer would be most beneficial for the given assignment. **Toodledo: Scheduler** [] · I think this website could be really useful! I have not used it yet but looking through it, I learned that it allows you to create your to-do list. There is a scheduler on the website that allows you to enter the work you need to do and it analyzes when it is due and helps you figure out what tasks you should work on the amount of time you have. This could be very helpful to organize the busy schedule of a teacher. [] · This is a very helpful website if you want to create a review game such as Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune or Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I have used it for Jeopardy social studies review and it was very helpful and my students had a lot of fun playing. [] · This website provides multiple resources for teachers. I have used this website before to find educational videos that can be used in the classroom. It also has links to lesson plans and other classroom resources. http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ · Many different links to different resources. It consists of multiple Web 2.0 links that include presentation tools, writing tools, mapping tools, quiz and poll tools, creativity tools, etc.
 * Thinkfinitity: Free Resources, lesson plans and interactive activities**
 * Thinkport**
 * Think Technology: Graphic Organizers**
 * PowerPoint Games**
 * Discovery Education**
 * Cool Tools for Schools**

Research and Reference Tools These resources can be useful for a teacher or for students. They include online encyclopedias, mapping tools and dictionaries. **National Geographic** [] · Very informational for students. Students could use this for social studies/science if they are researching a certain topic. Can also be beneficial for teachers with the sections for educators that includes lesson plans and activities [] · Students can use this website to define words instead of using a dictionary. There is also a thesaurus and a Spanish-English translation.
 * Dictionary and Thesaurus**

[] · Google maps is a fun way for students to explore the world around them. Then can look at planet Earth or narrow the search down to their house. It is an interactive way to learn about geography and mapping.
 * Google Maps**

[] · This website allows you to explore different countries. You can click on whichever country you are researching and it provides you with a map of that country and information about the country including size, population and the time zone.
 * World Atlas including Geography Facts, Maps, Flags**

Tools To Support Specific Content Areas These resources can help with different content area to enhance curriculum that is done in the classroom. **Language Arts/Math: ** **Game Classroom** [] · Has math and language arts games for K-6th grade. The games cover multiple content areas for each grade level. This would be a good website for students to go on at home or at school, there are no pop-ups and everything on the page relates to review games of different content areas.

 **Calculation Nation- Challenge Others. Challenge Yourself** [] · This website has different math games that students can play. When looking through the website I saw that you had challenge yourself and challenge others. I am not sure if you can specify who you go against, but this could be a fun activity for students to play against each other to review different math concepts. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Calculator.com** [] · This online calculator can do simple calculations as well as graphing, percents and fractions. This website also allows you to figure out temperature and convert feet to inches and other unit conversions. [] · Ambleweb Function Machine is a website that allows you to complete single step or two step operations for different function machines. A teacher could use this in a lesson or students could use this website to review function machines. It has a wide range of difficulty so it could be used in multiple grade levels.
 * Math:**
 * Function Machines**

[] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">· This is a fun website that allows students to create their own books. You can write the story, add pictures and change colors and font. This could be used in language arts at school. Tikatok then allows you to change the book into a book or PDF and can be ordered as a book if you want. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] · Creating a wordle is a good way to review word study words or vocabulary words. It is a fun way to display words. I have used it before to introduce myself for my online class. [] · This websites allows you to create your own newspaper article. You can name the newspaper, set the date and decide the headline of the story. This can be a very fun activity for creative writing. [] · ToonDoo is an easy way for students to create their own comic strip. You choose the layout of the comic and then you can click and drag different pictures into the comic. Then you drag in a speech bubble and type in what the characters are saying. Very easy to use! [] · Students can create their own books. This site also has templates to build your own treasure map. This website could be used in language arts if students are writing a book or it can be used in social studies when studying maps. You can also build your own calendar. [] · This website provides a really easy way to create a story map. It is an interactive activity for students where they pick the title of their map and decide if they are going to make a character map, conflict map, resolution map and setting map. [] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> · An easy way for students to create their own comic. They can add the characters and what they are saying. The really nice thing about this website is that you can write in different languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin.
 * Language Arts:**
 * Tikatok- Imagine a Story, Create a Book**
 * Wordle**
 * The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator**
 * ToonDoo- The Cartoon Strip Creator**
 * StoryJumper: Publish Your Own Children’s Book**
 * Story Map- ReadWriteThink**
 * Make Beliefs Comix!**

Build the Food Chain!** [] · This website is a good tool to support science curriculum. It has different games, activities and homework help for content area such as wildlife, climate and energy. The website has material for teachers and students
 * Science: