Teachers Planet

Online Community for teachers

Teachers planet is an online community for teachers of all levels and curriculum areas. It provides a platform to teachers to submit, share and discuss teaching resources, lesson ideas and education in general.

Latest Activity

suzzane donald started a discussion called FREE Law Dissertations Topics Related To Criminal, Family, Employment, Commercial etc… Jun 17

suzzane donald joined Teachers Planet. Leave a Comment for suzzane donald. Jun 17

Andy McCone joined Teachers Planet. Leave a Comment for Andy McCone. Jun 17

mike left a comment for Ronald Fischman Jun 11

Ronald Fischman left a comment for mike Jun 11

mike left a comment for Ronald Fischman Jun 11

mike replied to the discussion Professional Networking for Teachers Jun 11

Ronald Fischman replied to the discussion Professional Networking for Teachers Jun 11

Ronald Fischman joined Teachers Planet. Leave a Comment for Ronald Fischman. Jun 11

terry thompson joined Teachers Planet. Leave a Comment for terry thompson. Jun 9

shyam joined Teachers Planet. Leave a Comment for shyam. Jun 4

Aaron Compton joined Teachers Planet. Leave a Comment for Aaron Compton. Jun 4

Groups

UK Teachers (3 members)
Online EFL in China (2 members)

Disruptive/Emerging Technologies in Teaching & Learning (5 members)
Useful Teaching Resources (11 members)

Physics Resources (4 members)
Geography Resources (2 members)

View All

Videos

Interactive whiteboards with Genee Vision visualiser Added by Mitesh
authorSTREAM free power point presentation platform Added by Mark Cruthers
WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom Added by Mark Cruthers
Rich,the skipper of Great American III,with EFLers in China Added by Yaodong
Justina on TV Added by Yaodong

View Videos

Members

View All

Forum

FREE Law Dissertations Topics Related To Criminal, Family, Employment, Commercial etc…

* Are you in a bit of a quandary over the proposed topic of your law dissertations? * Have you been mulling over a few ideas for the past 3 weeks or so but can’t really get any closer to making a ... Continue

Tagged: writing, law, dissertation

Started by suzzane donald Jun 17

Professional Networking for Teachers
2 Replies

I am a technology teacher currently working for a professional networking website created specifically for teachers. On the site you can share resources, communicate with industry peers, and you ca... Continue

Started by mike. Last reply by mike Jun 11.

Learning in a Virtual Classroom

Learning in Virtual Classroom by Nellie Deutsch Get your own Virtual Classroom Continue

Started by Mark Cruthers May 19

How does this thing work
1 Reply

well I am new here and don't know much about how this works any help would be great if you can't leave a coment on here you can go to my website and leave one at http://teachersrus.info and go to t... Continue

Started by Danny. Last reply by Danny May 1.

Integrating Technology into the Classroom

Integrating Technology into the Classroom Using Moodle and Wikis by Nellie Deutsch Get your own Virtual Classroom Continue

Started by Mark Cruthers Apr 11

Teacher Opinions Needed -- Teaching Strategies

Hello Teachers, I am a doctoral student in educational psychology at a university in Philadelphia, PA. I’m currently conducting research on how teachers use repetition in their classrooms as a tea... Continue

Tagged: strategies, teaching, repetition

Started by Marissa Truong Jan 24

mental maths activities

I need some really interesting mental starter math activities for my my class......grade 2. please send me some.....thanks , regards fahmina

Tagged: mental, maths, activities

Started by fahmina arshad Jan 24

I can handle 25 to 35 students but I cant handle my own Son
1 Reply

My 13 years old son spoil his studies by himself, He is not spending his time in studies and his performance in class is really going towards zero. He is in grade 7 and his mid term result is only ... Continue

Tagged: teen, kid's, problem

Started by fahmina arshad. Last reply by Tom Wing Apr 5.

History Global Project - seeking help

Hello, A 9th graders class from Israel is about to study about the 2 world wars. The class and the teacher are interested in collaborating over homework with students from all over the world, in ... Continue

Tagged: education, homework, assignments, history, collaboration

Started by Or-Tal Kiriati Nov. 16, 2008

Receive your free ebook on "Taking Charge in the Classroom"

"Taking Charge in the Classroom" is my latest ebook containing tips and resource for new teachers on classroom management and lesson planning. As a new teacher, I needed to know that I could take ... Continue

Started by Dorit Sasson Sep. 3, 2008

Blog Posts

Graphic Tablets

It is a input device which is predominantly used by graphic designers, architects and cartoonist. It also allows teachers and instructors to free up interactive whiteboards from personal use. It consists of a flat surface, on which a user can draw graphics using a special pen known as stylus. It is used, just like a paper is used with a pencil and therefore is preferred over a mouse which is quite difficult to control when it comes to drawing. But unlike a paper, whatever a user draws on the sur… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Interactive Whiteboard Accessories - Interactive Panels

An interactive panel is an electronic device through which computer applications can be remotely controlled. It is used just like an interactive whiteboard and its screen is scratch proof. Any household glass cleaner can be used to clean the panel screen. It is connected to a computer and a LCD projector. Through this panel, an instructor can address/face a whole class while controlling computer display onto the interactive whiteboard or other projection screen. Any commonly available projector… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 15th, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Interactive Whiteboards Lesson - Teaching Numbers

Stage Level: Primary Objective: To teach students numbers from 1 to 10 Preparation: Decide 10 activities which children can easily count like: jumping, clapping, stomping etc. Decide an area where you would like the children to perform some activity. Focus your visualizer or video camera on that particular area. Now turn it on for recording. Ask students 'do you want to play'. No doubt, they won't say no. Now randomly pick one student and ask him/her to come forward and jump ten times. Ask st… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:26pm — No Comments (Add)

Interactive Whiteboards Lesson - Teaching Addition

Stage Level: Primary Objective: To teach addition to students. Preparation: Find images of an 'apple', 'open basket' and a girl holding a basket from the internet. Reduce the size of the apple in such a way, that the basket can hold at least 20 apples. Copy and paste 20 images of apple on the basket in such a way, they look like that they are inside the basket. You must be familiar with graphic software like 'photo shop' to do these things. If you are not familiar, than ask some one (probably… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:33pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Interactive Whiteboards Lesson - Teaching Subtraction

Stage Level: Primary Objective: To teach subtraction to students. Preparation: Find animated images of different types of dinosaurs on the internet. Don't use real pictures as they can be scary for kids. Find at least 15 different images of the dinosaurs. Find a large image for 'ground' (probably of 800X600 pixels or more). You will use this image as background. Now re-size all the-dinosaurs to similar size but not of exactly the same size. Put dinosaurs' images on the 'ground' picture. Now yo… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:37pm — No Comments (Add)

Interactive Whiteboards Benefits

1) Interactive-whiteboard is suitable for learners of all ages and allows them to work collaboratively. 2) It looks and can work like a conventional-whiteboard. Thus it maintains the familiarity one has with the traditional-whiteboard. 3) It is a better option than a computer monitor when its comes to classroom presentation. While through a PC only limited number of students can be given presentation at a time, with IWB entire class can be covered very easily as it is much bigger in size. 4)… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:41pm — No Comments (Add)

Purchasing an Interactive Whiteboard

Interactive whiteboard (also known as digital-whiteboard or electronic-whiteboard) is a touch sensitive-whiteboard which works in conjunction with a projector and a computer. All digital-whiteboards come with a software through which whatever you draw or write on the board-surface can be stored. The projector-displays the contents of the computer screen on the whiteboard-surface. The computer mouse is remotely controlled by touching the whiteboard-surface either by finger or through a special pe… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:46pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Interactive Whiteboards Safety Guidelines

All the users of interactive whiteboard must be familiar with the safety guidelines that should be followed during its operation: 1) Neither teacher nor students should look directly into the projection beam which is used to display contents on a whiteboard. The high intensity beam can cause an eye injury. It is advisable to avoid entering into the beam. Even if a user has to enter, he should keep his back to the projector. Use laser pointer or a stick, if even keeping back to the projector is… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:49pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Classroom Design For Interactive Education

In a conventional classroom, students spend most of their time listening to a teacher. I should say hearing the teacher. This is because conventional classrooms lack interactivity and therefore the learning environment is not fully able to engage students in the learning process. The situation worsens when the teacher is not trained enough to produce a stimulating and inspiring learning experience for the students. Therefore classrooms should be designed in such a way that they not only inspire… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 14th, 2008 at 3:53pm — No Comments (Add)

Interactive Voting System

It is also known as interactive learning response system or audience response system and is used to promote group participation during classroom teaching, discussion, debate or brainstorming session. It uses RF (Radio Frequency) technology and is generally used with interactive whiteboards (of the same brand) to obtain instant real time audience feedback in response to questions asked or the teaching delivered. This system consists of a set of wireless handsets, one master handset, one RF (radio… Continue

Posted by Ankita on March 15th, 2008 at 2:30am — No Comments (Add)