CESA 8 (Cooperative Educational Service Agency) - This site will provide access to reference links and access to information on programs offered by CESA 8 as well materials available for checkout. Go to the RMC for reference links. www.cesa8.k12.wi.us

http://www.triton.k12.wi.us/ - Three River Instructional Telecommunications Operational Network - see the Virtual Field Trip Link

Thinkfinity - This site is the former MarcoPolo site. Sponsored by Verizon, this site has a wealth of K-12 discipline specific, standards based educational resources that are reviewed by the nations leading organizations and is endorsed by NEA. Allows search by grade level, keyword, activity type and content partner. Search lesson plans, inter-actives, primary sources, worksheets, reference materials, media and assessment tools. Also offers content for students and parents too. http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx  

Education World - This site offers absolutely everything a teacher could want or use as to lesson plans and links to educational sites. Many of the interactive and educational sites have been reviewed by this site.  http://www.educationworld.com

Members of the Education World Teacher Team offer their best advice to new teachers -- and to veteran teachers too!  -http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev142.shtml

Dr. LeBeau's Homepage - A Resource for Teachers, Students and Curious Adults - This site has so many links to web sites and internactives for all curriculums as well as virtual field trip links, technology links and addresses issues such as the "one computer classroom" and "too few computers." This site is an absolute must see! Highly recommended! http://www.suelebeau.com/    

Doug Johnson’ Home Page – Johnson is Director of Media & Technology for Mankato Schools and is well respected speaker in the field of technology.  The link from his homepage to “Presentations/Workshops – Handouts will provide excellent handouts on various topics in the field of technology and instructional practices. http://www.doug-johnson.com/

Stuff for Classroom teachers - A great site with interactives for ALL levels - absolute must see...you name it, and it's there. Lots of Interactive whiteboard / SMARTBOARD activities!                                             http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/stuff.html

Teach-nology.com, a web portal for educators -Teach-nology.com offers teachers FREE access to lesson plans, printable worksheets, over 150,000 reviewed web sites, rubric makers, crossword puzzle-maker, word scrambler, educational games, teaching / technology tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests, and teacher resources for creating just about anything a teacher could need. - http://www.teach-nology.com/

Top 20 Education - a web site that provides access to resources and search engine functions in much the same way that Ask Jeeves operates. It offers Top 20 reviewed sites for many categories, allows for searching of educational resources by grade level and topic, access to Map Quest, Search Engines, City, State and Nation Guides, as well as encyclopedias and other education sites. http://www.top20Education.com

Discovery School's Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators – This site has access to lesson plans, puzzle-maker, Science Fair ideas, Brain Boosters – worksheets and classroom ideas, links to curricular areas by topic, critical evaluation sites and much more. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.html

Media Literacy from Education World - http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev142.shtml

Discovery School – This is the web site for the cable television program – it offers lots of fun ideas for science teachers, social studies teachers and many more. http://school.discovery.com/schoolhome.html

Rubistar - A free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

IDEAS Portal Web Site: an easily searchable database of educational resources for Wisconsin teachers that is available for free. Each resource has been evaluated by Wisconsin teachers, cataloged for quick and efficient searching, and aligned to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. Sponsored by the Teach Wisconsin Coalition. http://www.IDEAS.wisconsin.edu
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Freebies.html – nice free clipart site

Lonely Planet – a site that provides up to date information on countries around the world – current information on travel costs, attractions, unit of money, government, travel issues like terrorism alerts or health concerns…very down to earth but definitely a Middle Level or High School level resource. – www.lonelyplanet.com

Map Quest – Type in the start destination and end destination and get driving instructions and a map. www.mapquest.com

Maps On Us – This site does exactly what Map Quest does, and when I tried this one after trying Map Quest, I got different results in hours for my trip although the roads chosen were exactly the same…what a terrific comparison and contrast exercise involving math, and map skills! www.mapsonus.com

The Surf Report: online educational projects for students - http://www.ecb.org/education/index.htm

Universal Currency Converter - XE.com, the world's favorite currency site - www.xe.com/ucc/

Video Shots Page from Media College - the best web site to show examples and explanations of video shots http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

AddAll Book Search Comparison website - http://www.addall.com/