Free Teaching Resources including Animations PDF Print E-mail

I have added several new links to this  list of interesting sites I found on the internet for using animations in teaching. This list will grow with your contributions. Send links to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it    or  submit link when you Sign-in.

Designing and Managing Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) - a very good tutorial with references.

http://web.uct.ac.za/projects/cbe/mcqman/mcqcont.html

Inspiring movies:
http://www.simpletruths.com/movies.asp
http://www.makeadifference.com/movies/index.htm
http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/i-made-diff.php
http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/keymakers.php
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/filmfestival/winners2006.asp

Educational resources including lesson plans, professional growth, learning/teaching strategies like CBL, TBL etc

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources - From Arts to Engineering, Science and Social Sciences - each subject takes you to a separate sub-portal. Great place to explore

http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/resources/tips.htm and http://ctl.stanford.edu/handouts/ tips for young teachers

http://schoolofeducators.com/
http://www.fredjones.com/
http://www.education-world.com/ - look for professioanal development section and classroom discipline
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/goodteachers/intro.html
http://eduscapes.com/tap/index.htm - Teacher Tap
http://depts.washington.edu/next/index.php Narratives supporting Excellent Teaching
http://www.teachertube.com/index.php Useful instructional videos for teachers
http://cte.umdnj.edu/ centre for teaching excellence
http://www.samford.edu/ctls/problem_based_learning.html
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/ECL/cwrtng.html
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/ECL/workshop/
http://www.queensu.ca/ctl/
http://www.geoffpetty.com/index.html
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/res.cgi/Teaching
http://www.thegateway.org/teaching-learning

Learning styles and teaching styles:
http://changingminds.org/explanations/learning/learning.htm - Learning theories

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/teaching/teaching.htm - About teaching

http://longleaf.net/learningstyle.html
http://longleaf.net/teachingstyle.html
http://www.nwlink.com/%7Edonclark/hrd/learning/styles.html
http://www.nwlink.com/%7Edonclark/hrd/learning/styles.html#jung
http://www.learnativity.com/learningstyles.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005704/index.php3?new_layout=green
Learner style survey : http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.html
Very good page: http://www.usd.edu/~ssanto/styles.html
http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Academia/KierseyLearningStyles.html
Relating style to performance:  http://elearning.algonquincollege.com/profres/learn/rapport.htm
http://ide.ed.psu.edu/IDDE/ARCS.htm
Animations:
Animations of engines (including material on how to make these animations)
http://www.keveney.com/Engines.html
Mechanics Animations ( Almost 50 varieties of engines and motors, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, motion etc)
http://www.educypedia.be/education/mechanicsjava.htm
Visual Calculus - (tutorials and graphical illustrations for teaching and learning calculus)
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/
Virtual Physics Laboratory - you have to register, but it is free -http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/
Biology Animations  -http://www.educypedia.be/education/biologyanimations.htm
Chemistry Experiments -
http://www.educypedia.be/education/chemistryexperiments.htm
Chemistry animations and interactive experiments -http://www.educypedia.be/education/chemistryjava.htm
Physics Animations -
http://www.educypedia.be/education/physicsjavalabo.htm
Space and Earth Animations -http://www.educypedia.be/education/spacejava.htm
Science animations:
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm
All subjects:
http://www.martindalecenter.com/ - very huge site, needs exploring.
Engineering and Chemistry
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/karpenm/animate.htm
3D electrical and electronic circuit animations and free MATLAB-based tools to create your animations.
http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/3Dcircuits/index.shtml
Animations for Physics (includes Electricity and Magnetism)
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm#physics
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/
• Beautiful flash animations- http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/ 
Basic Math and Science Gizmos, free trial:
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm
Animations for Data Structures and Algorithms
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dwa/Animations/index.html
http://www.cs.hope.edu/alganim/ccaa
History:  www.atlasofworldhistory.com