EduTecher is a free website that was created by Adam Bellow to share educational resources for teachers to use in their classrooms. One of the really great things about this site is there are no adds! Your students can even explore the links and resources without an obscene, and inappropriate adds popping up in front of their face. On the homepage of Edutecher they have a section called “Recently Added Links”. Here you can find links that are new to their resources without having to search the site. Also on the homepage you can go strait to exploring the available webtools, share resources with your colleagues and friends, or contribute to the wide variety of tools yourself. There is a place toward the bottom of the homepage where you can subscribe to their newsletter, and always stay informed. At the top of the homepage there are several important tabs that I want to talk about in more detail: links, eduTecherTV, conferences, and blog.
The first tab is called Links. On the left side of this page there is a large list of topics that you can search by. Some include: art, ESL, foreign language, music, professional development, software, teacher tools, and technology. You can also search the normal subject areas like: math, language arts, and science. To narrow your search even further you can search by grade level. Once you choose the criteria in which you want to search, all of the links that match your criteria appear on the right. To go to the resource you can click on either the picture (logo) or title. Each resource also comes with a description that you can read before you actually go to the site. This is a definite time saver. This site has many, many links that have to do with all kinds of topics. There are resources for teachers and educational help for students.
The next tab is called eduTecherTV. On this page you can find short tutorial videos (webisodes) for all kinds of other sites and resources on the web. Some videos show you how to do something, while others give you an overview of what is on a site. This is a wonderful feature for teachers who are just learning to use technology in their classrooms.
The third tab that I want to talk about is the conferences tab. This is just a simple page that shows a running slideshow of EdTech conferences that have already past and ones to come. One this slideshow, you can click on links to short video summaries of the conferences.
Under the blog tab you can read about all kinds of eduTecher news. This includes eduTecher in the media, new educational apps that you can download, and much much more. There is pretty much everything that you would expect to find in a website blog.
After digging into the eduTecher website I have found that it is a useful tool for all educators. The way I see it, they have gathered a seemingly unlimited variety of links in one website. This site eliminates the frustration of searching all kinds of separate websites to find one specific resource.
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