Teacher Toolbox
A popular online vocab study site for students, you can now use Quizlet to engage your students in and out of the classroom, with interactive study material, learning activities and games.
The most watched TED Talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
A live satellite view of the earth, not a photo of earth, but a live view of it. You can rotate it or move to another part of the world to see if it’s day or night there, or check out the condition of polar ice caps. What better way to share perspective with your students than to check in with a LIVE view of the planet we’re living on.
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture is an inspirational example of dynamic teaching from a dying college professor in his last lecture.
The Fun Theory was an experiment in Sweden to see if people would change their habits in order to have more fun. It’s a great example of why teachers need to make learning fun for their students.
Teller of Penn & Teller on how "Teachers are seldom trained in the performance aspect of teaching, however, and given that every American classroom contains at least one bored, reluctant, or frustrated student, engagement through performance may just be the most important skill in a teacher’s bag of tricks." in The Atlantic.
