These websites help readers learn how to use Windows Movie Maker. Videos,step-by-step instructions, tips and tricks, and tutorials are included

Forms and Letters
Designed specifically for teacher use, you can download a wide variety of useful forms and letter templates to use in your classroom, from reading strategies bookmarks, and including project planning guides, meeting ledgers, behavior forms, lesson plan books, homework assignments, and more.


Quia is pronounced key-uh and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services, including: A directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in over 40 subject areas  Templates for creating eight different types of online games, including flash cards, matching games, concentration (memory) games, word search puzzles, hangman games, and challenge boards   A fee to create online quizzes but you can search and use the created material.


 CoolText.com is a totally free online service, which provides real-time generation of graphics customized exactly the way you want them.  You can create titles, buttons, and bullets to use on a web page or in your documents.

ThinkWave is a fee online grade book program.  It allows you to post grades, lessons, etc. instantly to the web.  It is password protected for security.

TAPPED IN is a growing community of over 6000 K-16 teachers, staff, and researchers engaged in professional development programs and informal collaborative activities with colleagues. Members hold real-time discussions and classes, browse Websites together, explore professional development options, add interact via mailing lists and discussion boards all in a single venue.

Puzzlemaker allows you to make a variety of word puzzles that you can print and use in your classroom.

 Save pages into your personal directory



Scoring Guides and Assessments
These sites are a great resource for scoring guides and assessments for classroom teachers

School/teacher fee website builder where teachers can post: homework assignments, announcements, school calendar, and Internet links.


The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

Web Evaluation Tools


This site discusses how to teach evaluation techniques.
Examine Susan E. Beck's helpful Web evaluation-criteria instruction.

A free online space for teachers intergrating technology into the curriculum

Downloads Smartboard templates



Teacher Tools

June 15, 2009
Bloom's Taxonomy

An outline of Bloom's Taxonomy that provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.

This chart will help you understand the ins and outs of Bloom's Taxonomy.

A revised version of Benjamin Bloom's work with the addition of the Psychomotor Domain as developed by Anita Harrow (1972). Questions and examples are also included to make the Taxonomy more useful for beginning teachers as a tool to facilitate appropriate questioning.

The history of Bloom, and the process behind his Taxonomy that highlights the kinds of behavior that lead to learning.


This web site has tips and suggestions on how to properly use and maintain computers. Find out how to diagnose and troubleshoot various computer problems. Learn how to do end-of-year cleaning of hardware and software. Learn how to perform error check, disk scan, and defrag of hard drives. There is also an eThemes resource on computer basic