NECC Resources

The resources provided by Dr. Mullane from the NECC were, for the most part, interesting and useful. Some of the sites provided products that are geared toward enhancing instruction, both in the form of software and hardware. Then there are the sites that function to provide educators with "ready-made" materials. These sites have the potential to be very useful. Some of the content can be taken and used as is, and some can be used as a starting point, where a portion that is relevant can be extracted and built upon. For me, these are very helpful because I find the life of the teacher to be demanding and sometimes I like to scavenge wherever i can.
Two of my favorite sites were Thinkfinity.org and teacherTube.com. Thinkfinity.org is a well organized site full of resources from lesson plans, student activities, professional development, and even free online learnign course. The content spans K-12 subjects and has content for parents to reinforce their child's learning outside of school. TeacherTube.com, just liek it sounds, is like YouTube for teachers. It is strictly for videos that serve one of two purposes: (1) to provide instructional videos for educators on a vast number of topics. (2) to provide videos that educators can show to students as part of instruction.
there were also some sites that I found to be rather useless. Some of these related to hardware that were priced far out of my or my school's budget. One particular site I disliked was explorelearning.com. This perfoms somewhat of the same function as a Google search on education topics, except with ten times less effectiveness and efficiency.