Teacher+Resources

= **Welcome faculty and staff! ** = Below I have provided just a few of my favorite sources I like to utilize while I create my student lesson plans for the week. Many of these links also tend to correlate with what the students will be working on during the class period, so please feel free to browse around and accustom yourself to some very beneficial and helpful resources! Many of the ones I have provided below are not only useful for educators, but for the students as well...so please, review and share!

1) // Create online tests & quizzes easily // . (2005). Retrieved from http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/create-a-quiz.php ProProfs is very beneficial for teachers because it not only allows you to create quizzes, but you can search for quizzes already made by other individuals and have the stats and reports from the quizzes taken by each student emailed to you.

2) // Welcome instructor // . (2002). Retrieved from https://criterion.ets.org/ Criterion is a wonderful website that allows students to write their essays in a submission box. They can also simply upload the file of their essay. Either way, Criterion will grade the student's paper and it saves instructors plenty of time that we can spend on grading other assignments or creating lesson plans.

3) Friedman, J., Hwang, R., Trinidad, T., & Kindler, B. (2009). // How we help // . Retrieved from https://www.schoology.com/home.php Schoology is an interactive website where students can participate in discussion posts, take tests or quizzes online, and even share class notes all by the touch of a button. There is an iPhone app that even includes a text message notification alert system when something has been updated or changed on this social media site.

4) // Free your files // . (2007, August). Retrieved from @http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/skydrive/download Skydriveis a wonderful application offered for both students and teachers that allows either group to upload files from anything like PowerPoint presentations to class notes, PDF files to pictures and videos. Individuals can access it from almost any device, so now there are no excuses for "I forgot my textbook at school", so cross that one off the list!

5) Warlick, D. (2000, October 29). // Son of citation machine // . Retrieved from http://citationmachine.net/index2.php Son of citation machine is a website where students can properly source (MLA, APA, Turabian, or Chicago) any type of print or non-print resource for any paper they may be writing. It was created by David Warlick in 2000 to better facilitate the Works Cited process.

6) // Turnitin // . (2009). Retrieved from @http://turnitin.com/ Turnitin is an all-time favorite website of mine. I created a class through the website and titled it "Ms. Mulrooney's 10th Grade English Class". My students know the exact procedures every time an essay is due. They have created their own account on the website, joined my class and selected it, then upload their papers. Turnitin allows me to see exactly what they have plagiarized without properly sourcing.

7) Sendori, A. (2013). Retrieved from @http://thesaurus.com/ Thesaurus is always just a nice tool to have under your belt. If you are ever in a pinch or something is stuck on the tip of your tongue, well here you go! Type in any word and multiple synonyms will come up, all organized by the word's various definitions, so be sure to be looking under the right definition!

8) // Featured lessons // . (2002). Retrieved from http://www.instructorweb.com/ Instructor Web is great for all English teachers trying to prepare their students for any standardized test . This website states anything and everything from objectives to lesson plans, materials to worksheets, and notes.