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Great Resources for Busy Teachers
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Great Resources for Busy Teachers |
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Webtools for Teachers
We've put together a list of places to find free webtools for enhancing your classroom and / or educational website. We've tried many of these tools out ourselves and even use some of them on Teaching eVentures.
Website Graphics The following sites have teacher friendly, free website graphics including backgrounds, banners, and buttons.
This is one of our favorite graphics sites. The artist has lots of free clipart to jazz up your website.
Here is an adorable collection of graphics, backgrounds, and web sets.
This artist has designed lots of child friends background sets for websites. Browse through the different categories. You will find everything from teddy bears to school days.
Here is a nice collection of website sets designed with the teacher in mind.
You will find some fun web sets at this site.
This site has free country graphics. You can also register as a member, pay a one time fee of $20.00, and access all of this artists graphics. It's a steal of a deal!
Animated Graphics At the following sites you will find some fun animated graphics to add to your website and delight your visitors.
Add a little pizazz to your website with free animated banners and buttons.
This site allows you to make animated graphics that glitter! You can also make blinkies here.
Clip Art You can add the free clipart to your website and documents.
You will find lots of free Christmas clipart at this website.
Mini icons are great to use as bullet points and more on websites. Download free sets.
Counters Counters track how many visitors click on your site.
Site Meter is a comprehensive free website counter. Some counters tell you how many visitors click on your site, but Site Meter gives you the ability to track visitor location, pages entered and exited, how visitors locate your site, and much more! It's an awesome tool for webmasters.
This is a simple counter. You are not required to register, leave an email or password in order to use this free counter.
This is another option for a free counter. This site has lots of styles to choose from.
Website Tools We are digging into our toolbox and pulling out the tools we think you would find useful for enhancing your site.
Would you like to share your files with other teachers, but you would prefer to keep your documents safe from tampering? Avoid purchasing costly software to create pdf files, and use this free service. Simply upload your file. They will email the new pdf file to you within minutes. Save the file to your computer and then upload it to your website. It's that simple. We use it all the time!
This is a "must see" site. They offer oodles of free webtools, including free websites and web hosting services. You can get everything from a guest map to a forum at this site.
This site allows you to create forms and gather information for free.
This site allows you to add a free dictionary to your site, as well as other neat tools like "Word of the Day" and "This Day in History." You can see these tools in action on our Student Research page.
Take a survey by adding a free poll to your website. Gather the results and graph them as a classroom activity.
This site provides kid friendly games and tools you can add to your website for free.
Do you have content you want to share? Then try out viral marketing, and allow your visitors to tell a friend about your website. Select a style to match your site for free. Click on our Tell A Friend Generator and tell a friend about Effective Teaching Solutions! (Our Tell A Friend Generator is at the top right hand side of the page.)
Visit this site to get a free weather box for your website. Set the weather box up for your local forecast.
This site has a variety of tools for your website.
Have you noticed the little pictures popping up on browser bars and in favorites? They are called favicons, and you can make one for your website too.
This site allows you to create an internal search engine and a site map. Site maps are important as they support search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Perhaps you created a handout you would like to share. You can add this print button to the page to make printing a snap.
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