EdNET's Best for 2011: Teachers Select

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Teachers nominated their favorite free online resources for the EdNET’s Best Teachers Select Award.

EdNET is a community of education business leaders dedicated to providing teachers with the best learning materials and services. This year they created a Teachers Select category for the annual EdNET awards. The results showcase the teacher nominated free online resources that they use and love.

Nominations Included:

  • education blogs
  • free software programs
  • teacher websites
  • free iPad, iPhone and iPod apps

Read what teachers think.

Find out which blogs, websites and other free resources are recommended by other teachers at the EdNET's Best Awards.

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2 Kudos
sandralippman

Favorite Free Online Resource - News and Real Life Learning

Status: Teacher Select Nomination
by Occasional Visitor on 04-07-2011 07:47 AM

The Learning Network - NYT

 

My experience with this site dates to its inception, when Alison Zimbalist constructed a group of pilot affiliates in schools nationally and worldwide. Katherine Schulten's direction and writing keeps The Learning Network a state-of-the-art point of engagement for everyone with a stake in educational outcomes, where learners are the key audience, as they should be. 

 

The Times is keeping its long-standing commitment to educators and students by making this blog and its linked articles accessible to educators and students without a subscription. It is a treasure chest of ways for students to learn and express their own opinions, and for educators  to become engaged in best practices that consistently raise-the-bar as well. 

 

Self described, "An online current and special events news site for grades 3-12; updated weekdays during the school year."
learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ 

Lesson Plans
Current Events
Student Crossword
NEWS QUIZ
Word of the Day
On This Day
6 Q's About the News
Teaching Topics
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