Some Cool Teacher Resources

1. The Lesson Plans Page currently contains over 3,000 lesson plans written by real teachers. You can also contribute your own lesson plans by clicking on this link. The site also contains a lesson plan guide that gives step by step instructions on how to write a lesson plan. There are many more things on the site, including open teacher discussion forums.

2. Hot Chalk is a free site that allows teachers to post assignments online and allows students to discuss assignments with each other and the teacher. This program reminds me of Moodle; however, unlike Moodle you do not need to download a program. The program is embedded in the website. From the site, here's more information about Hot Chalk:

At HotChalk, our mission is to improve the lives of teachers. Our community
software makes it possible for teachers to work together, making lesson
planning, assignment distribution, collection and grading easier than ever
before. HotChalk puts students in charge of their grades by giving them the
information they need to manage their academic responsibilities. HotChalk makes
communicating with parents easy, turning teachers, students, and parents into
high-performance teams to produce measurable academic results.

Be warned, though, Hot Chalk may expose your students to advertisements. Once again, quoted from the site:

The HotChalk Learning Environment is free for all schools everywhere and is
based on an advertising-supported business model. With the patent-pending
HotChalk Community Standards Engine, each school can control which ads students
see, and determine which ads are shown. Please note that HotChalk never displays
advertising during the school day to students. Also children under the age of 13
are never exposed to advertising.