4teachers

4Teachers [|Http://www.4Teachers.org]
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AUTHORITY** This website is a .org, because it is an organization that offers free online tools and resources for teachers to use in the classroom. The website is part of a ALTEC, [|www.altec.org], which is the Advanced Learning Technologies project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. This website utilizes the most advanced and innovative technologies available to improve teaching and learning. Although a specific author is not listed for 4Teachers.org, the contributing faculty and students of ALTEC come from a range of disciplines and programs, including the School of Education, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the School of Engineering, and the School of Fine Arts. The variety of contributors' experience and knowledge gives ALTEC a wide range of capabilities including advanced networking and telecommunication expertise, instructional design, data harvesting and warehousing, distance education experience, and programming.

4teachers.org is a site that helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics, and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use such as Think Tank which helps students design topics for reports and Note Star which help them with note taking and citations for projects. Teachers can access valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.This website is also available in Spanish. This website really doesn't address the National Content Standards for Music. This website is designed to be a resource for any educator.
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The creators of 4Teachers.org (ALTEC) are committed to the development of new technologies to empower learners of all types and ages, and will continue to redefine the learning experience through innovative resources. They provide support in the development of utilizing technology in the clasroom by interpreting the intent of the content authors with the latest in design, development, and delivery.
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A Google Link turned up a 820 of 130,000 hits, which many of them were schools, colleges/universities, and government offices. Some of of these sites were the Kappa Delta Phi educational honor society, Georgia's state content standards, [|www.georgiastandards.org]. and the IDEA website, http://www.ideapartnership.org/report.cfm?reportid=141, dealing with NCLB law. Most of the other sites were from repitable instituions.
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Overall, this website is a great resource for any educator becaue it offers many tools tips one could use in the classroom. The best part of this website is that all of the material is free. One point of caution is that people need to beware of some of the links and redirects on the website. Some of the links and redirects lead the viewer to sites that need subscriptions to access specific content.
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Rating *****1/2

REVIEWED BY** Adam Albright 4/6/07