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Free Resources for Teacher Links Please click below:-
Resources sites in England and others
1.http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk :Free teaching and learning resources online for Wales - NGfL Cymru
2.http://www.teach-nology.com : Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teaching Tips, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com
3.http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/free.html :
4.Teach-nology-includes lots of downloads and several online activities to reinforce skills. Has online Mad Lib, webquests and other practice "games".
5.Sheet Music-free music and teaching stuff for the music teacher-includes blank staff paper as well as music that can be played.
6.Book Search-great for librarians allows kids to look for books that will interest them. Gives information on the author and a synopsis.

School Clip Art-over 75 categories of clip art that is free for teachers to use!!! One of the most comprehensive clip art sites for teachers.

50 States-a great site with all the information a student needs to do a complete report on any of the 50 states. Each page contains links relevant to that state.

English Exercises- This German site has exercises to help with various aspects of grammar. Great review site for older students or practice for younger students.

Survey Key-allows you to create an online survey for your students

Educational Press-this site allows you to create TONS of new worksheets in a variety of formats and you can customize them to what you are teaching in your classroom.

NASA-neat stuff can be found here-including live video feed from the space station. Lots of support materials and other stuff can be found here. Your school can even "partner" with NASA to work on areas of poor student achievement.

Cyber Bee-Provides ways to integrate technology into the classroom in several subjects including math, science, social studies, and language arts. Includes curriculum ideas, Internet treasure hunts, research tools, and technology links.

Puzzlemaker- Make all kinds of puzzles, save them online and add clip art to them.

Teacher Created Materials-this site offers free weekly brain teasers and free sample pages of curriculum materials

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Usability in E-Learning
By Michael J. Miller
While a large number of organizations have adopted e-learning programs, far fewer have addressed the usability of their learning applications. More attention should be devoted to assuring the usability of e-learning applications if organizations are to fully benefit from their investments.
It's no surprise that a large percentage of organizations have actively developed and implemented online learning programs. The reasons are clear: e-learning programs can be highly versatile and they have the capability to provide on-demand training that transcends geographic and time boundaries. Program offerings are frequently diverse and address the needs of employees, customers, and suppliers. The versatility, convenience, and scope of offerings would seemingly suggest that all is well for these adopters of e-learning applications. However, training practitioners within many organizations are discovering that individuals are, for the most part, not embracing the new medium of instruction to the extent that it was initially hoped. In fact, online learning programs typically exhibit higher dropout rates when compared with traditional instructor-led courses.
To be sure, there are a large number of reasons for the lack of adoption: quality of courses, relevancy of content, comfort level with the technology, availability of technical support, ability to interact with peer learners, and so forth. Another major contributor--often left off this list--is poor usability, which is characteristic of many e-learning applications.
Definition of usability: Usability has been defined by some as the extent to which an application is learnable and allows users to accomplish specified goals efficiently, effectively, and with a high degree of satisfaction. An additional component that should be added to this definition is usefulness; that is, a highly usable application will not be embraced by users if it fails to contain content that is relevant and meaningful to them.