Teacher Resources
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How to use the FirstClass client at home
Online Book Search
Online Dictionary Search
Web Search Sites
Online libraries
More Web Tools for Educators
How to use the FirstClass client at home
FirstClass access - This is the Franklin Public Schools' page for setting up FirstClass access on your home computer. FirstClass is a messaging and communications software that will enable you to send and receive your Franklin Public School emails and make file transfers to/from the schools.
Online Book Search
Google Book Search - Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.
Wikibooks - A collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.
Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. Currently it has over 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA Book listings.
Online Dictionary Search
Wikipedia - A free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, with changes showing up immediately. It has about 715,000 articles with 224 million words with more material being constantly edited and added.
Dictionary.com - Searches several dictionaries including Webster's to provide results.
All Free Dictionaries - Provides links to over 1000 free dictionaries online in more than 60 languages.
Wiktionary - A collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Word Central - This is a fun website for kids where they can look up words in the dictionary and also submit new words to be added to the dictionary.
Web Search Sites
- google : The biggest, fastest, and most comprehensive search engine.
- Yahoo! : An excellent search service and the largest image database.
- Gahoo!Yoogle : Splits a browser screen in two and shows both Google and Yahoo search results.
- Ask Jeeves : The original search engine that answers your natural language questions.
- jux2 : A meta search engine that overlaps Google, Yahoo, and AskJeeves results.
- Lexxe : An ask-a-question site that gives you answers to your natural language questions.
- Dogpile : A very popular meta search engine that blends results from many search engines onto one page.
- MSN Search : One of the fastest search engines. It also answers natural language questions.
- Scirus : A science search engine especially aimed toward academics.
- Librarians' Internet Index : Features high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians.
- Search Engines and Directories for Children and Education : This is a list of websites dedicated to resources for children and education. Includes
Online libraries
The Library of Congress - It is the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.
lib-web-cats - A directory of libraries worldwide, the majority of the current listings being in North America.
Questia - An academic-level online library with 60,000 full-text books, 1,000,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles , and an entire reference set with a dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus. (subscription needed)
More Web Tools for Educators
Discovery School - Provides teachers with powerful tools that include lesson plans, a puzzlemaker, worksheet generator, quiz maker, science facts, curriculum center, and Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth).
4Teachers - This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. .
Internet4Classrooms - Provides a large collection of links for teacher resources and online practice modules.
Teacher's Pet - Download free software for teachers that enables you to make stimulating classroom exercises in minutes.
Education World - The Educator's Best Friend is a resource that includes a search engine for educational Web sites only, original content including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, articles written by education experts, site reviews, and daily features and columns.
Teacher's Pet - Download free software for teachers that enables you to make stimulating classroom exercises in minutes.
Teacher Tools - by Teachers for Teachers - Click on 'Curriculum Sites' to get links to some of the best teacher websites including
and many more.
Scholastic.com - Register as an educator at Scholastic.com to subscribe to their newsletter which contains stimulating grade level activities that support cross-curricular learning. Registration also gives you access to a wealth of online activities, lesson plans, and teacher tools.
The StudyStack - Flashcards have evolved.. Check this out. Use 'virtual cards' to review information you need. You can even export it to your cellphone or PDA!
