Internet Public Library 2

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a new system, built upon current copyright law, that allows you to legally use "some rights reserved" music, movies, images, and other content - all for free. Creative Commons offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use, without a lawyer, to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician would use a Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs online, make copies for friends, or even use them in videos or other compositions.

Schooltraq

Schooltraq is an online academic planner that enables students to track and organize assignments and classwork effortlessly in a clean and minimalist web app.

Who Am I? A History Mystery

Who Am I? A History Mystery is a history game that starts out with 6 question marks and after clicking on one you try to solve the puzzle by reading clues and picking items and placing them in the evidence folder that help you solve the mystery of who the person is.

Study Guides and Strategies

Study Guides and Strategies is full of numerous guides to help in a different subjects and skills. For example: writing, vocabulary, thinking, evaluation, reading, research, and math.

Exploring the World of Music

Gain an understanding of the basic elements of music with this series, an introduction to music with a global perspective. Exploring the World of Music shows how elements such as melody, rhythm, and texture create an infinite variety of sounds and serve as expressions of culture. Through rare archival footage and contemporary performances, the series presents themes such as music and the environment, music as cultural memory, and how technology changes music. The featured artists perform music from around the world, including American Jazz, gospel, and rock, and traditional music from Bosnia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, Japan, and West Africa. This series is also valuable for teachers seeking to review subject matter.

Students Give E-Learning A Grade Of Incomplete

I feel that the reason for students not learning from a computer based teaching is because most students that were assessed were not given technology based instruction before middle school (this is an assumption). Humans are a creature of habit. For example, if someone learned to multiply by 9s using their fingers then they are going to refer to it later. Again this is from common knowledge of my observations, but most students have learned how to solve basic problems that majority of everything is going to be based off of by age 12, so when technology is added, it adds an unlearned variable, and students will refer back to what they originally know so they do not have to learn something new.

Article 

Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog.

Classroom Blog

This is Mr Squires blog that won secong runner up. He has videos of interviews with teachers and students from other areas of the United States that discuss the differences that they have in climate, etc.

Resource Sharing Blog

This site has art lesson plan ideas, listings of online art-related resources, student work, as well as ramblings about being an art teacher in China.

Teacher Blog

This is a blog from an English teacher. He has listed numerous blogs that help students, with research and other things, in his classroom.

Graphic Organizer Resources from Teachers First

Whether you call them concept maps, mind maps, KWLs, or graphic organizers, these visual diagrams show relationships between concepts and provide a powerful tool for learning and connecting new ideas. Creating graphic organizers also helps today's visual learners build reading comprehension. this collection of reviewed resources includes tools for creating graphic organizers and many suggestions for ways to use them in teaching almost any subject or grade. Be sure to read the "In the Classroom" suggestions for examples of ways to use graphic organizers as part of a lesson or unit. 


Graphic Organizer Resources from Teachers First

Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps

This site has a list of education applications for the iPad that they use to let the students experience the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Bloom's Taxonomy and iPad Apps