YouTube has added a Safety Mode that allows users to screen objectionable content. It gives teachers and parents a way to limit access to videos that might not be appropriate for children, in particular ones that have excess violence or inappropriate sexual content.  Hopefully this will make teachers more willing to use YouTube in the [...]

Scholastic has some great online writing games in their student social networking community called The Stacks.  Each of the 13 games relates to a book offered by Scholastic.  Students who like dogs will like the opportunity to write an adventure for one of the characters in A Dog’s Life.  Aspiring newspaper journalists might enjoy the [...]

Your students might enjoy this math arcade.  It is great for students in upper elementary grades who want to practice different math skills.  The graphics are good and the games move along quickly.

While I don’t have the experience of my mom and can only dream of one day owning a basement of my own filled to the brim with cool teaching supplies like her, I have some teaching experience and am currently in grad school for library science and really excited about teaching and learning.  A little [...]

Along with excellent products, Carson-Dellosa Publishing has Free Ideas for Teachers.  These are a little more tightly tied to Carson-Dellosa products than I usually like, but they’re good for quick bulletin board ideas and quick teaching ideas for bulletin boards.  This is only useful for early elementary grades.

I can’t believe BrainPOP.com has been around for 10 years and this is the first time I have found it.  BrainPOP creates short educational animated cartoons that are tied to state standards.  The graphics and style are really current, similar to popular cartoons on TV.  The range of material is extensive.  BrainPOP itself is geared [...]

Emotion recognition is difficult for children with autism and teachers use many strategies to help autistic students understand facial expressions.  The Transporters is a new DVD series that was originally developed at Cambridge University in England and was recently adapted to American English.  It uses animated vehicles with real human faces to show emotions in [...]

I can’t believe I just discovered TeacherTube.  It is a video sharing website based on YouTube, but started by a teacher for other teachers.  Teachers can share videos, documents, audio and photos.  It has a good search engine so you can focus in on your own subject.  The only downside is that there is a [...]

The website SoftSchools has numerous online games for math, language arts, science, social studies, Spanish and French.  There are games for students in Pre-K through Middle School.  I suggest testing the games before using them because some are more boring than others and the graphics differ greatly from one to the next.  Most of the [...]