Internet Resources

For my INAD502 class I had to type a reflection on Internet Resources for teaching. Surprisingly, there are a lot of good ones out there! If you're an English teacher there's readwritethink.org. This website has highly detailed, intricate, and innovative lessons on just about anything. The only downfall I noticed is that they might be difficult to translate from the author of the lesson's classroom to your own. For instance, it seems that they were written for a specific group of students at a specific time...as should've happened. Anyway, prepare to read a lot and tailor the lesson to your own classroom with this website. You will get good ideas though! The other thing about this website is that it offers free use of interactive graphic organizers and stuff. I'm not sure how effective these are, but trying them couldn't hurt.

Another really cool one I found was ed.gov, the US Department of State website. The resources here are free and there are soooo many! It's really effective if you want ideas for which authors to teach or works to combine. It seems like it'd be a great tool to access for unit planning. PBS Teachers is another good one. It offers a wide array of topics to choose from, whereas other websites I visited lacked this.

It's just cool to know what resources are out there literally at our fingertips. It's overwhelming how many tools are there to guide us, instruct us, and supplement our lessons. As a future teacher, I hope I make use of all of these e-resources. It seems like a shame not to.