Teachers Utilizing the Internet

There are numerous internet sites available which walk you through the steps of building your own classroom page, homework page, lesson plans, calendars, etc. Once you have created your page, send the URL along with your name and school to Avis@AmericaTakingAction.com and we will get it linked up to your school's homepage.

LearningGate
LearningGate is an online community for teachers, students and parents which provides free web-based tools (gradebook, calendar, etc.) to facilitate communication.

Interactive Test
Create your own multiple choice tests and on-line exams Free!

iTeach
Create your own web page in less than 10 minutes! At iTeach.com you can create a professional web page with articles, interactive surveys, clipart, calendars, and more! Your web pages are also printable, so you can send home information in printed form as well as posting it on the Internet.

ehomeroom
eHomeRoom.com allows for multiple school and student schedules to be integrated in an Internet-based calendar of school events, class assignments, and extracurricular activities that is automatically updated as the school and teachers input information or changes. Parents are able to access their child's schedule and add their family appointments and personal activities, in a secured comprehensive calendar that is available 24 hours a day.

eFridge.com
A free calendar software.

Perlcal
This is a web only calendar. It requires a web server on a supported platform (NT and UNIX). You use your web browser to access and update the calendar. A prerequiste is a PERL interpreter. The product is FREE to educational institutions (schools or libraries; for institutional purposes, on institutional servers; status must be verifyable).

Localendar
Sign up for your free calendar today! You can add public events that will show up when someone does a search in your area. You can also keep track of your private or group schedule.

Your Own Calendar tm
A première web service that puts a fully customizable calendar on your website for the world to view!

HTML Calendar Maker Pro
HTML Calendar Maker Pro was designed with ease of use in mind. The program allows events to be typed in quickly and it can turn them into a customized monthly calendar within seconds. Since it's shareware, you'll have a chance to make a few calendars in order to try it out.

YourHomework.com
free services for teachers to post homework assignments for their students. Easily integrate assignments, teacher email, class web page, and homework help to harness the power of the web for your class.

eboard.com
Your own "Virtual Corkboard" where you can post messages, photos and links online in seconds.

epals - free student e-mail
Looking for a student e-mail program? epals is specifically designed for teacher and classroom use. It even has a "kit" you download that contains parental permission slips. The student e-mail is monitored and you can establish connections with classroom from all over the world.

gaggle - safe e-mail for students
Hundreds of classrooms now use the Gaggle Network to provide safe, teacher-controlled e-mail accounts for students.

Gradeworks.com
Gradeworks.com is a FREE!, web-based tool for teachers that promotes communication between parents, teachers and students by giving the families easy access to grades, assignments, schedules and class activities in a secure environment that’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Quia
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, Tools for creating online quizzes, Quiz administration and reporting tools, and Free teacher home pages.

Building A School Webpage

MyClass
MyClass is a free service for teachers to setup their own interactive class web sites.

Class Builder
A complete, free toolkit that can be used off-line, as well as on-line. Features include: gradebook, exam creation, reports, prevention of cheating, lesson planner, crosswords & word searches, and more!!

TeacherWeb
TeacherWeb, your free personal website that's as easy to use as the bulletin board in your classroom.

TrackStar
Enter a collection of Web site addresses and TrackStar will organize them into an interactive, online presentation. Add your own annotations and questions, and you've got a lesson plan ready to go. Or browse the rapidly-growing list of Web lessons already created by other educators. TrackStar can also be used by students to build projects, report on Internet research, or conduct a virtual tour.

Cool@Class
Cool@Class is a fun, quick tool for creating a cool web site for your class or school. Designed especially with you in mind, Cool@Class guides you through all the stages of building a home site. Even if you have no previous technical experience, your final product will look like it was done by web professionals!

Blackboard
Blackboard.com is a FREE service that enables instructors to add an online component to their classes, or even host an entire course on the Web. Without knowing any HTML, you can quickly create your own CourseSiteTM - a Web site that brings your learning materials, class discussions, and even tests online.

LessonPro
LessonPro gives educators a way to create online lessons with a user-friendly, fill-in-the-blank template.

ThinkWave
ThinkWave.com is a simple, secure, free service where students and parents
can see their grades, classwork and lessons online.

Filamentality
Filamentality helps you spin pieces of the Web into your own web-based learning activities.

High Wired
an online tool that lets you assign, manage and showcase student projects on the Web.

Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2)
Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2), a sophisticated communication tool that brings powerful World-Wide-Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. ICA is free of charge with no advertising.

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