Omnivorous Surfer

CC Licensed photo by Clint Gardner

I'm always on the lookout for good listings of websites, and this one via Twitter was a real gem of a find! It brought to my attention another blog to follow: The Innovative Educator: Way out of the box!

The sites included on the 100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark post are categorized by Educational Video Collections
General Video Collections
Teacher Education (my personal favorite, Teacher Training Videos, is included here)
Lesson Planning
Science, Math and Technology
History, Arts and Social Science
Video Tools
Network and Program Videos
Free Movies and Clips (free is good!)
How- Tos
Government Organizations.

If this listing doesn't appeal to you, you ought to take a look at the blog anyway. There's some pretty great stuff there!

iLearn Technology is my new blog to watch. Yesterday's timely post was Thanksgiving: Plimouth Plantation Virtual Field Trip, complete with suggestions for integrating the "field trip" into your curriculum. Unfortunately, the  "event" is today...wish I'd seen the post yesterday. The blogger does also include some of his favorite Thanksgiving sites.

You might check out Scholastic's The First Thanksgiving, where there are lots of additional Thanksgiving resources for the classroom.

iLearn Technology was one of Richard Byrne's nominations for an Edublog award. I should tell you that his blog, Free Technology for Teachers, is one of my favorites.

Some schools provide amazingly rich collections of links to websites for teachers. I just found one such listing from Dillon District 2 from South Carolina. If there's a category that isn't included here, I don't know what it could be! There are links for lesson plans, templates, fonts, and so much more.

EduHound is the technology resource site provided by THE Journal.  It provides links to Site Sets (collectioins of topic-based online education resources) on everything from Aaron Burr to Zoos. It includes an exhaustive list of categories including Grants & Funding, Lesson Plans, Museums, Reference, Social Studies, Software, Substitute Teaching, WebQuests, Worksheets, and many more. Links are also included to additional EduHound Websites; examples are Awesome Clipart for Educators (it has fonts, too!), and Educator Templates. This is a top-notch resource!