Teacher Resources
Open Education Resources
What are Open Education Resources? "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge” (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation).
OER Platform Symbaloo created by Joyce Valenza
Databases
Professional Development Collection
WPS Tech Dept. Documents - includes several Google guides.
Google Classroom Expeditions Help Center
Google Drive Help Center - links to help for Docs, Sheets, Slides, Photos and other apps.
Getting Started With Team Drives
Other Links
NewsELA - nonfiction literacy and current events
Slidescarnival - free templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint presentations.
Socrative - student assessment tool
Plickers - student assessment tool
Kahoot - create and play learning games.
Canva - create designs for brochures, infographics, flyers, photo collages, posters, resumes, etc.
Readwritethink - classroom and professional development resources
JeopardyLabs - create Jeopardy templates or use templates created by others.
Jeopardy Template - Google template
CollegeBoard Professional Resources
How Stuff Works - An award-winning source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand answers and explanations of how the world actually works.
Teaching History- Resources and materials for teaching history.
Docs Teach - Resources and lesson plans for teaching and learning with primary documents from the National Archives. You can also create your own document collection with access to the Digital Vaults.
Library of Congress Teacher Resources
Easel.ly -Create and share visual ideas - Reporting, Timeline, Resume and Process templates to choose from.
Piktochart - Infographic maker