Tennessee Educational Technology Conference (TETC) 2009 Highlights
Reference & Resource
Awesome Stories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.
Google Documents Now you can simultaneously share a group of docs with your students, or other teachers by sharing an entire folder with them.
Google Earth A FREE and fantastic tool for the classroom! Enhance your instruction by visiting other countries, museums, the oceans and even the solar system! Take your students out of their homes to anywhere in the world! Take virtual field trips and record the track! Explore the ocean and watch animals tracked by scientists. You can even leave Earth and explore Mars! Use Google Earth and bring the world and more into your classroom.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
Librivox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Museum of Science and Industry
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Teaching strategies and tips for secondary educators
Smoop makes learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.
Tennessee Electronic Library(TEL)
Tennessee Electronic Learning Center - the Tennessee Department of Education’s latest educational advancement for students, parents, and teachers. Resources include content information, scientifically based research, and educational links. The ELC was designed for anyone...anytime...anyplace
Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents and after-school programs.
The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.
Wolfram Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
World Wide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.