Educational Topics

Research Help (research resources, news, study resources and tutorials)

Miscellaneous Topics

• Children’s Literature
• Classroom Management
• Education News
• Ed Tech Magazine
• EdTech Digest
• Higher Education – Hechinger Report – Even as policymakers push to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, university and college students and their families contend with ever-rising costs and debt, low success rates, and growing concern about equal access to a higher education. We cover the causes of these problems, and the innovations being tried to solve them.
• School Administration Including:
• Child Care and Early Learning – Includes info on:
  * Keystone STARS
  * Help with child care expenses
  * Search for a child care provider
  * Licensing and Inspection Reports
  OCDEL Child Care Providers
  * Pennsylvania’s State Plan for Child
  * Care Development Block Grant
  (CCDBG)
  * Child Care Fatality and Serious Injury
  Report
  * Disabilities or Developmental delays
  * For Parents
• PDE Academic Standards
• Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Resource Centers (ELRCs)

• ESL/ELL/L2
• Special Education
• Montessori

Educational Technology – Classroom Resources

• Edmodo “Make your classroom a community” – A free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools, with a safe and easy way to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices.
• 2 Minute Ed Talk – from I ♡ Ed Tech
• ALA’s Best Websites for Teaching & Learning
• Children’s Technology Review – Software reviews.
• 77 Games – Free Technology for Teachers
• US Dept. of Education Office of Ed Tech

• TeacherTube – An online community for sharing instructional videos
• Many Goes to the US Mint – Fun, educational episode of Many the Uncanny about how coins are made in Philadelphia. K-12
• Many’s Jamestown Extravaganza – ABC Kids video episode of “Manny the Uncanny,” in colonial Jamestown, VA

Kids learn quickly when it’s a song!

• Presidents Song – From Nickelodeon
• US Constitution Preamble Song -Kids sing the preamble
• Wakko’s 50 States with Capitols – Includes subtitles
• Wakko’s World Geography – Animaniacs Nations of the World

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Studying to Teach a Foreign Language?

• Teaching with Comprehensible Input: Q&A
• Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI) and TPRS® Discussion, Products and Training -Language Learning or Language Acquisition?
• International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching -Open access, peer reviewed journal articles available freely