Teacher Resources

Write Reflections™: Do you Want your Students to Learn to Write for a Change?

Why do students experience the slightest bit of difficulty when they write?

Transforming Sandman-Style PowerPoint™ Projects into Terrific Teaching Tools

Student presentations are a stock item often attached to student projects.

Open Source Resource Switchboard

Classroom Toolkit is participating in the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). This is in the EduBloggerCon and Open Source sections.

Using Online Technologies to Create "Sparks" in Learning

Technology has become more reliable and ubiquitous. So have teacher laptops and classroom LCD projectors for their personal use.

Education Week: Sign Up - Keep Posted - Especially through the Summer!

Education Week offers a free newsletter service that can keep you informed about news that impacts the teaching profession. Take advantage of this offer.

Pacer Kids against Bullying

Bullying is a problem anytime that it rears its nasty bulk and stinking frame.

PBS Teacherline

PBS Teacherline® is an expensive alternative for professional development if a teacher has to pay for the courses out of their own pocket.

Flash Card Technology: A Low-Tech How-To

Drill has been discouraged for the past decade, and flash cards have lost some of their savory flavor.

But, flash cards can serve an important function in all sorts of learning that requires the memory of multiple words, phrases, formulas, functions, directions, steps, patterns, etc.

Technology Skills every Teacher Needs

In the old days, before computers and the Internet, skills in basic office duplication were enough for most teachers.

Free Camtasia™ Studio: Create your Own Desktop Videos

Desktop video is one area where existing Open Source software doesn't measure up to the commercial version. And, the "king" of commercial video creation software is Camtasia™ studio.