Fave Go-To-Sites

Blogging Challenge Day 26

What are your three favorite go-to sites for help/tips/resources in your teaching?

Jamie:  My favorite go-to site  is definitely a blog written by Richard Byrne called Free Technology for Teachers.  The purpose of the blog is to share free resources for teachers to use in their classrooms.  At times, Mr. Byrne hosts guest bloggers and conducts webinars.  If you are looking for inspiration on how to use tech in your classroom, this is the blog for you.  It is excellent! My second favorite place to visit on the web is ReadWriteThink .  It is site sponsored by both the IRA (International Reading Associations) and NCTE (The National Council of Teachers of English).  It is full of free resources for language arts teachers including lesson plans. I love that you can search by grade level and/or a topic.  Third, I am absolutely addicted to Pinterest.  I have found numerous education blogs to follow through Pinterest as well as finding images of things I can recreate in my own classroom.  Before school started this year, I found fun activities to use to get to know my students, helpful ideas for creating an interactive notebook, and classroom design--think setting up a reading corner.   Love Pinterest!
Meg:  I also think Free Technology for Teachers is a wonderful resource; thank you, Richard Byrne!  For math resources, the NCTM (National Council of Math) Illuminations site provides a plethora of lesson ideas which can be searched by grade level and math strand.  The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a fabulous web resource to use to help visual learners understand math concepts.  In fact, I just used their factor tree manipulative with my students yesterday!  Finally, can I say Twitter again?  I know we just wrote about it the other day, but seriously the ideas, resources, and posts shared on Twitter are the catalyst for some wonderful changes I have made to my teaching.