1. Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved MERLOT Teacher Education Board: Cris Guenter, Dorothy Fuller, Ron Hughes, Diane Judd, Jane Moore, David Wicks

2. Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved Characteristics of good learning objects: –Applicability –Ease of Use –Multiple Uses –Good Pedagogy –Engaging

3. Our Favorites Each of us selected websites that we’ve recently reviewed and USED in our own classrooms You’ll find the list of sites at http://del.icio.us/janepmoore http://del.icio.us/janepmoore

4. Pageflakes for Teachers http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx Pageflakes is a site in which educators can create their own home pages as well as have them hosted for no charge.

5. Jing http://www.jingproject.com/ Jing is an always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.

6. Noodle Tools http://noodletools.com/login.php Noodle Tools Express is a free program that allows users to input bibliographic data and receive a correct citation in either APA or MLA style An inexpensive option allows for the creation of whole bibliographies

7. Enriching Social Studies Through Simulations http://lightbridge.sonoma.edu/lightbridge/lessons /publish/76/main/introduction.htmlhttp://lightbridge.sonoma.edu/lightbridge/lessons /publish/76/main/introduction.html This is part of the Lightbridge series and allows observation of social studies lessons, as well as including lesson plans and teacher commentary

8. Tapped In http://tappedin.org/tappedin/ Tapped In provides a free site for educators to have virtual offices and host text-based meetings

9. NASA Quilt http://quilt.jpl.nasa.gov/ This site, part of the CSU-NASA collaboration is an excellent way to match desired space and Earth science activities with content standards

10. Your favorites? What are some great sites that you have discovered this year for use in Teacher Education? We’ll add them to the Del.icio.us site