Freerice.com

http://freerice.com/

FreeRice has two goals:

• Provide education to everyone for free.
• Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
  

For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

Podcast.com

http://www.Podcast.com

At Podcast.com we're making it easy for you to find audio and video podcasts from all over the world and to organize and share those podcasts through this site or through any mobile device.

Everything from homemade video/radio shows to big-budget productions, from targeted advertisements for products you’re interested in to cartoons, comedy, commercial or non-commercial — you name it. The great part about podcasts, as you’ll see as you browse our site, is that there is something for everyone.

WORDLE

CLU mission statement in WORDLE form.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2856229/CLU_Mission_Statement

March of the Librarians

Didn't you wonder where your librarians disappeared to last January? Ten thousand of them were in Seattle for an American Library Association convention, and I was there to capture the bizarre congregation on video.

Best Places to Get Free Books

http://www.friedbeef.com/best-places-to-get-free-books-the-ultimate-guide/

This site lists 45 different sites and places where you can go online to get free ebooks or free sites for research material.

Technology in Teaching

One teaching situation where technology makes a huge improvement in teaching is keeping myself organized. By using technology, the teacher can stay much more organized by being able to keep track of grades, lessons, reports, appointments, and notes. This can be accomplished by using Outlook as a way to keep all your contacts/appointments/e-mails in the same place. The teacher can create folders for separate files based off of notes, reports, lesson plans, and grades and update all of this much easier than using a gradebook or lesson plan book. It is also much neater and readable if you have a sub who is not accustomed to your style of writing. In my opinion, technology makes all of these "teacher tasks" so much easier to manage.