Web Portals and Tools
Online Productive Destinations for Teachers
Featuring a listing of portals and tools to make the online life of teachers more efficient.  
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School Tools and Portals

School Notes - Easy-to-use no-cost tool from Copernicus allows you to communicate school information on the World Wide Web for access by parents and students. 

Scholastic  - Build a Class Home Page

Tripod - Build a classroom homepage with the Tripod tool or use the communication tool  to create a message board and chat room.

My Grade Book - Teachers work on grade books, add assignments, score homework. Students and parents can login to view detailed grading summaries and receive email notification.

ExploraSource -  Online tool to connect learning resources with NY State Standards and cross-referenced instructional resource materials.

Eduhound Hotlist - Create a hotlist for you class - a unique Web page of educational resources.

FreeWebSpace - A guide to where you can store files on the internet for free.

LinkDragon - Store and organize your bookmarks online

Curriculum Tools & Portals 

My School Online - from the Learning Network, this site provides an interactive tool for connecting school and home. Post class information online -  assignments, calendars, class policies, homework, word quizzes, student projects, and more.

Busy Teacher's Web Site - portal for K-12 resources to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities

Awesome Library - organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education

 InfoMine - Calif. university librarians' built a comprehensive showcase, virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, etc. 

Education Index - provides learners and educators with access to educational Web sites in a variety of subjects and lifestages.

StartSpot Network - find the best topical information on the Web.

Geniusfind -  a directory of thousands of search engines, databases, and archives organized into convenient categories and subcategories. These resources are specific to a certain topic and will greatly cut down on the time it takes you to find exactly what you're looking for. 

Pandia News - Search for daily news using the Pandia metasearch engine, and get headlines, summaries and links to articles from some of the best news sites on the Internet, including BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, The Washington Post, NewsHub and more.

FunBrain - Access thousands of quizzes designed by teachers world-wide. Create your own quizzes with Quiz Lab's easy-to-use authoring tool.  Allow students to take quizzes over the Internet in the classroom, in the library, or at home. Get quiz results automatically via e-mail. Quiz Lab grades them for you.

Internet Coach Puzzle Center - teachers and students can create a variety of puzzle types or solve ready made puzzles.

Certificate Creator  - customize the generation of certificates for school, business or personal use print out on your own printer

Game-O-Matic - create web-based activities for language learning and practice.

Personal Tools and Portals

Quick Browse - Combine your favorite sites into a single QuickBrowse Page. Quickbrowse Pages email-delivered daily.

My Yahoo - Collect your favorite parts of Yahoo! on your own page. Check your email, pick the news you want to see, and much, much more

Freebies - a web directory search engine for free online resources

Response-O-Matic - If you have a website, this tool helps you easily create and add a response form for you visitors.

Professional Development & Listserv Portals

TappedIn - is the online workplace of a community of education professionals. Educators can participate in online courses, take their own students online, experiment with new ways to teach or conduct research, or participate in community-wide events. 

Liszt - links to all types of listservs

updated 2/22/02
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