Ünlü futurist Marc Prensky ‘On the Horizon (Ufukta)’ adlı makalesinde 1980 sonrası doğan çocukları ‘dijital yerliler’ olarak adlandırmakta ve bu kuşağın teknolijiyle öğrenmeye daha yatkın olduğunu hatta bunu doğal olarak gerçekleştirdiklerini söylemektedir. Karşımızda hızlı düşünen, hızlı bilgiye ulaşan; teknolojiyi ve sosyal medyayı günlük hayatlarının bir parçası olarak kullanan bir kuşak var. Yeni kuşaktan hep şikayet ediyoruz, hiç okumuyorlar diye. Aslında onlar okuyorlar ama okuma formatları degişik; tabletlerin, cep telefonlarının, Ipodların, blogların ve sosyal medyanın olduğu bir hayatları var, onları kullanarak okuyorlarsa biz de onları kullanarak onlara istediklerimizi okutabiliriz.
Dünya nüfusunun %50’si 30 yaşın altında ve bu genç insanların iletişim araçları da, kendini ifade etme şekilleri de, bilgiye ulaşma yolları da bildigimiz yöntemlerden farklı. Ansiklopedilerin yerine wikipedia,youtube, google… Mektup ya da e-posta yerine twitter ve facebook gibi sosyal medya uygulamaları. Gazetelerden okunan makaleler yerine bloglardan okunan makaleler. Kitaplar yerine e-kitaplar. Kartonlar üstüne hazırlanmış projeler yerine interaktif online posterler. Dizüstü bilgisayarlar yerine tabletler. İşe başvururken verilen özgeçmişin yazılı olduğu evraklar yerine online özgeçmişler.Yakın zaman önce hayatımıza giren bu yenilikleri kullanmayı seçmek gibi bir lüksümüz yok, bunları kullanmak zorunluluk.
Biz öğretmenler bu yeni dijital dünyaya ayak uydururken, öğrencilerimize en iyi şekilde ulaşabilmek için kendimizi ve tüm sistemi bu yeniliklere göre güncellemeliyiz. Eğitim sistemimiz de bu yeni dijital dünyanın üstesinden gelebilecek, donanımlı bireyler yetiştirebilecek programlar içermelidir.

DERSLERDE KULLANILABİLECEK SOSYAL MEDYA ALANLARI VE BAZI İNTERAKTİF UYGULAMALAR
Twitter: Olabilecek en kısa ve anlamlı işbirliği platformu. Bir öğretmen olarak twitter benim için dünyanın her yerinden eğitimcilerle çok hızlı ve anında paylaşımda bulunabildiğim küresel bir öğretmenler odası. Aynı etkileşimi öğretmenlerle öğrencileri ya da farklı okulların aynı sınıf öğrencileri arasında etkili bir paylaşım aracı olarak kullanmak hiç de zor değil.
Facebook: Bir öğretmenin liderliğinde; ortak bir sınıf sayfası yaratıp, yapılan tüm çalışmaların paylaşabileceği, yorumların eklenebileceği bir alan. Öğrencilerinize sorun bakalım günde kaç saatlerini Facebook’ta geçiriyorlar. Niye bu kadar etkin kullandıkları bir alanı dersler için kullanmıyoruz ki?
Blog: Sınıf blogları üstünden çalışmak dijital yerliler için hem çok keyifli hem de motive edici bir uygulama. Üstelik internet bağlantısı olan her yerden öğrencilerinizin çalışmalarını takip edip, yorumlarda bulanabileceğiniz bir alan.
Glogster: Her konuda online poster hazırlanabilecek bir uygulama. Glog üstünden hazırladıgınız proje posterlerini twitter ya da facebook ta paylaşabilir, blogunuza da ekleyebilirsiniz.
Wiki: Sınıflar arası ya da okullar arası ortak projeler üstünde çalışmak için kullanabilecek bir tür web uygulaması.

Dijital hikaye sunumları, filmler ve karikatürler yaratabileceğiniz linkler ve daha bir dolu uygulama. Tüm bu uygulamaları ve bilgi kaynaklarını en hızlı şekilde paylaşabileceğimiz sosyal medyanın gücüyse tartışılmayacak kadar hızlı ve etkili. Biz ve öğrencilerimiz bu yeni dijital dünyanın neresindeyiz ve ne kadarını eğitim programlarımızın içine alabildik diye bir kez daha gözden geçirmeliyiz.
GÜNÜMÜZ ÖĞRENCİSİNİN BAKIŞ AÇISINI ANLATAN VİDEO



12 yaşında Iphone ve Ipad için uygulamalar yazan gencin dinlenmesi gereken etkileyici konuşması

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC & YOUTUBE PRESENTS
LIFE IN A DAY
I always love the concept of time capsule. There are many ways to make a time capsule but this one is just for the digital age. ‘Life In A Day’ is like a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
On this date, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their day to YouTube to take part in Life in a Day, Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald took 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries and created ‘Life in a Day’ which is a documentary film about a single day on earth. Just click on ‘Life In A Day’ to watch this awesome movie project for free on YouTube.

‘To be an effective 21st century teacher, a teacher must first possess the very same 21st century skills that their students are expected to have. And, in addition to those skills, they must be able to help all of their students obtain and develop 21st century skills.’ Mamzelle Adolphine

Students like authentic video activities because they provide a break from the usual textbook-based activities. Learning with authentic materials is more enjoyable for them. Using movies, cartoons or authentic videos are an effective way for teaching a language because
*they bring the real world to class and provide authentic language
*they provide a pronunciation and intonation model
*they promote contextualized learning
*you can catch kids’ attention easily if the kids have fun
*they trigger for active involvement
*they offer for multi-sensory experience
*they have opportunity to integrate all skills
*they are non-threatening environment
SOME ACTIVITIES THAT I USE WITH MY KIDS
MOVIE / CARTOONS PROJECTS
Jellycam is a site that kids can make stop-motion films with a webcam or a bunch of photos. Kids can choose famous characters and create their own animations using Anmish. Chogger is a tool that they can use comic builder to draw their own comics, caption photos, take webcam pictures and add speech balloons.They can create their own comic strips and also create their own story book based on a cartoon or movie that they’ve watched. Toondoo is a tool to create cartoons easily.They can use Goanimate to make their animations and slideshows.Dvolver is a tool to make digital movie online.
MOVIE / CARTOONS REVIEWS
They can create their own Movie Blog using Blogger to write their opinions about the films that they have seen.They can write about their opinion of it, the actors or director. They can also compare it to other films or cartoons that they have seen before.
YUDU is a useful site for creating online books and magazines that they can publish digital movie magazines.
MOVIE / CARTOONS POSTERS
They can create their own poster using Glogster that is my favourite one.You can give some questions that they can guide them:
Which characters did you like best?Why?
Which characters did you like least? Why?
What did you like best about it? Why?
What did you learn from the movie?
Did you like the music was used in the movie? Why or why not?
Did you like the ending of the movie? Why or why not?
How would you have ended the film?
If you want to see, some glog samples you can check out the link: One of my students’ glog about the poor kids and Art Exhibition at School.
MOVIE SONG PROJECT
They can create their movie song project using Doodle Video.You should also read a great post ‘Making a Doodle Video with your Class’ about making a doodle video by @ddeubel.
SILENT VIEWING
Kids watch a short scene with the sound off and they ask questions about the scene in pair: Where are they? What are they doing? Who are they? etc.
DUBBING ACTIVITY
Kids watch a short scene with the sound off and imagine what the characters are talking about and create their own dialogue in pairs and then they can act out the scene.
FORWARD VIEWING
If it’s a short movie clip or segment, play the video fast forward and kids try to guess what happens. After watching the whole video, they can compare it with their predictions.
SOUND ON – VISION OFF ACTIVITY
Give handouts including pictures of different scenes.Kids listen the vision off scenes and choose the right picture according to what they hear.
MEMORY GAME(Who remembered the most?)
Kids watch the scene and then they talk and write about what they have seen as pair work.Pairs can get together with another pair and compare lists.
CHARACTER INTERVIEWS
After watching a video, kids work in a group and ask questions to the character about his/her behaviour and feelings.
ACT IT OUT
They can act out the script of a scene.
WHO SAYS
Give some quotations to the kids in a pair. Then they try to remember who says.
WHITE LIES
A paragraph from a short scene are given to the kids but some of the facts are changed. They can find the statements that are not true.
IMAGINARY END
They can change the end of the film or they can write their own ending before watching the end of the film.
HERE ARE SOME USEFUL LINKS TO FIND FREE MOVIE SEGMENTS OR CARTOONS
You should visit Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals an inspiring blog that contains a series of movie segments and activities to assess or practice grammar points through fun, challenging exercises. Here you will find the movie segments, the lesson plans, printable worksheets with answer key for each activity, and the tips to develop your own grammar activities with the DVDs you have at home.
Movie Segments for Warm-ups and Follow-ups that is a blog contains a series of movie segments to be used to brainstorm, warm up, follow up, and activate schemata, preparing the students for the topic that will be discussed in class. Here you will find the segments, the lesson plans, and varied topics to foster conversation. You may use the activities for a full two-hour class or they can be used separately to brainstorm or warm up the topic, focusing on conversation, vocabulary and listening comprehension.
Teach English with Movies- ESL Video Worksheets is a site that you can find lots of free materials for teaching English with movies. WatchCartoonsTV is a website that you can watch and download cartoons. i-love-cartoons is a website that you can find famous cartoon characters printables and wallpapers. WatchMoviesOnline watch and download movies online for free full movies links.LearnEnglishFeelGood is a website that you can watch movie clips to practise English.
USEFUL TOOLS AND LINKS FOR TEACHING WITH MOVIES, CARTOONS OR AUTHENTIC VIDEOS
You can open the video with any video player such as Real Palyer, Media Player or GomPlayer.Real Player is a programme that you can download your favourite online videos from thousands of websites and transfer them to your mobile phone, iPod or other favourite device, quickly and easily.
Streaming videos are great resources that you can find loads of visual aids. YouTube is the most popular one to find loads of videos that offer authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people. VideoJug is also the world’s most comprehensive library of free factual video content online.Some of the schools or districts block YouTube that consists thousands of authentic videos, songs and stories. I believe that schools are missing the opportunity to extend resources when they block that kind of sites.If the access is blocked or you don’t want to watch the video with adds or comments, there are some links to convert all videos from any websites. Don’t worry, they’ll be ready to use in your classroom in a few minutes.
Savevid is a site that you can download, save and convert all online videos.
Cleaner YouTube allows you to display YouTube videos without any of the “related videos,” comments, or display advertising for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Zamzar is another site to convert files without the need to download software.
Safe Share TV is a nice tool that not only removes distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.
Download Tube is a tool that lets you download a video to your computer from a website.
Vusafe is a free website that allows teachers to create own video library. You can find, load and share video clips from YouTube and other sites. It’s easy, simple and secure way to show and share Internet-based videos without the inappropriate adds or comments in the classroom.
View Pure is a tool that you just copy&paste the url of the video and get your videos.
Tube Chop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
Snipsnip.It is a tool that you insert a youtube link to shorten and share your favourite part.
Here are some video links like YouTube or Videojug.Most of the sites are educational so you don’t need to convert them.
WatchKnow is a great site to find free educational videos for K-12.
NeoK12 is a site to watch educational videos and games for kids about English, Science, Maths and Social Studies.
TeacherTube is a site to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. You can upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons.
National Geographic Kids has fantastic videos for kids.
Sesamestreet is a site that you can play games and watch videos to engage children with fun educational activities.

”Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently – they’re not fond of rules…because the ones how are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do”.Steve Jobs 1955-2011

I’ve just finished reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and this post is just a small tribute to the one who gave us power to create.I’m a huge Apple fan and I’m also an admirer of Steve’s vision. People like Steve Jobs, inspire other people, not only to create things but also to change lives.
The most inspiring quotes from Steve Jobs:
*You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
*Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
*The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
*Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
*Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talk to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!
*Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Enrich lives.
*We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. WE were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do the market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
*It’s only by saying ‘NO’ that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
*That’s been one of my mantras; focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
*It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.
*Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
My Fav Steve Jobs’ Speech

When you click on Steve Jobs Tribute Artworks, you can find a huge collection of Artworks for Steve Jobs.
”Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”Steve Jobs

‘I never let the education interfere with my learning.’
Mark Twain
‘The Animal School’ is the most awesome story that I’ve read recently. The story reminds me how important to consider kids’ individuals strengths and learning differences when teachers present their lessons.

The Animal School by George H. Reavis
Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects.

The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum. They apprenticed their children to a badger and later joined the groundhogs and gophers to start a successful private school.
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You’re unique just like everybody else.Each kid is unique just like you.If you say some of the kids can’t learn, you should change the way you teach.Most of the kids are labeled with learning disable.The kids have gifts don’t receive much reinforcement for them in schools.Let’s watch the video below and see the labeled kids who show gifts in other intelligences.I’m sure that they’ll be the musicians, artists, naturalists, designers, architects, philosophers, dancers who will enrich the world that we live in.
Stop Phychiatric Labeling of Kids
You’re the conductor of your class as a teacher.You should motivate the kids for the topic and you should also consider eight different intelligences according to the theory of Multiple Intelligences and make sure that all intelligences are covered.Most of the schools focus on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences.These traditional methods that based on IQ testing are limited.Let’s think about all intelligent people do well at school.If not, Why? Instead of focusing on the traditional methods, teachers should focus on Howard Gardner’s eight different intelligences and present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, role play, art activities, cooperative learning, field trips, web 2.0 tools and much more.
The theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) was developed in 1983 by Howard Gardner.These intelligences are:
*Linguistic Intelligence
*Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
*Spatial Intelligence
*Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
*Musical Intelligence
*Interpersonal Intelligence
*Intrapersonal Intelligence
*Naturalist Intelligence
You don’t have to teach something in eight ways but you can create the most effective way to teach a topic.If you want to learn more about the theory of Multiple Intelligences, you can visit Howard Gardner’s official website. You can also find loads of information and links about MI when you click on The One and Only Surfaquarium – Multiple Intelligences.
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‘They appear to encourage teachers to be more interested in computer technologies and provide a bridge into the digital world, for both teachers and students.’ Schuck, S. and Kearney.

We have IWB in every class at my school.There are many advantages to use IWB in your class. We should use multimedia technology effectively if we want to get kids’ attention. Kids focus on lessons easily and IWB increases their motivation, pace of learning and participation. It has a positive effect on classroom management. Learning process is more easier and enjoyable for kids. You can find more resources related to the topic and present them in an effective way. It’s easy to create whole class collaboration.You can use web based resources, some software resources, video clips, images, flash games and digital charts.You can also save your written notes on the board and access them whenever you want. You can share your file with your colleagues easily.
It’s amazing to see how technology is developing so fast in the classroom. Let’s watch ‘Chalkboard to Interactive Whiteboards’ video to see the technological changes from chalkboard to Interactive White Board.
Streaming videos are great resources that you can find loads of visual aids.If you use IWB, it’ll be easy to present streaming videos in your class. Youtube is the most popular one to find loads of videos and VideoJug is the world’s most comprehensive library of free factual video content online.If the access is blocked or you don’t want to watch the video with adds or comments, there are some links to convert all videos from any websites. Don’t worry, they’ll be ready to use in your classroom in a few minutes.
Savevid is a site that you can download, save and convert all online videos.
A Cleaner YouTube allows you to display YouTube videos without any of the “related videos,” comments, or display advertising for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Zamzar is another site to convert files without the need to download software.
Safe Share TV is a nice tool that not only removes distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.
Download Tube is a tool that lets you download a video to your computer from a website.
Vusafe is a free website that allows teachers to create own video library. You can find, load and share video clips from YouTube and other sites. It’s easy, simple and secure way to show and share Internet-based videos without the inappropriate adds or comments in the classroom.
View Pure is a tool that you just copy and paste the url of the video and get your videos.
YouTube: Video Editor is a great tool to upload a video, then edit it by cropping and adding soundtrack.
Tube Chopallows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
Snipsnip.It is a tool that you insert a youtube link to shorten and share your favourite part.
Here are some video links like YouTube or Videojug.Most of the sites are educational so you don’t need to convert them.
WatchKnow is a great site to find free educational videos for K-12.
NeoK12 is a site to watch educational videos and games for kids about English, Science, Maths and Social Studies.
TeacherTube is a site to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. You can upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons.
National Geographic Kids has fantastic videos for kids.
Sesamestreet is a site that you can play games and watch videos to engage children with fun educational activities.
Nickjr is a site to play games, colour in printable, make stuff and watch videos with Dora the Explorer and friends.
Baby TV channel has free online games, videos and songs
for infants and toddlers.
Cbeebies is fun and learning for children aged 0-6.
Animated Stories and Songs:
LearnEnglish is a nice site to listen and watch stories.
Audio Flash Stories and Tales is a site to develop your kids’ listening and reading skills.
Pre-School Library is full of great activities for you to explore. Choose a theme to start the fun!
LearnEnglish Story is a site to create your own story.
Charlotte’s Web is a tool to make your own comic strip.
These are some online story links; Online Little Red Riding Hood, Online Clifford The Big Red Dog, Online Kids Library, Online The Three Billy Goats, Online Goldilocks and The Three Bears and Kids’ Stories.
Interactive Games:
Sheppard Software is a site that you can find many games and movies for preschool and kindergarten.
BGfl is a site that you can find wide range of white boards activities for primary and secondary.
Interactive Games is a site that you can find interactive games and activities for kids.
Wednesdays with Sam is a site to find great interactive games for snow and winter.
At the Park is a game that kids can choose a character and make a sentence about what the character is doing at the park.
Edhead is a site that you can find interactive science games for kids.
Practice-your-listening is a site that you can practice your listening skill.
TES iboard has a wide selection of activities that you can use for kindergarten, history, geography, literacy and science.
Gamequarium is a site that you can find games about human body.
Amazing Map is a great site to learn about the number of people being born, dying and CO2 emitted in that country when you put the mouse on the country.
Literacy Zone is a site that you can find interactive games and activities.
Game Goo is a nice site that includes interactive games for kids.
Sumdog is free maths games, designed to improve numeracy, cover 100 numeracy topics, at 10 different levels.
LearnEnglish Make is a nice site to find online activities that kids have fun when they’re creating.
Fridge Magnet Game:Click on the letter buttons to add new magnets and then drag them around to make words
LEGO Bricks and More is a fun game for kids.
Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Numbers to Twenty, Colours are the games that kids help to find solution by clicking and dragging the appropriate words.

You should follow interactive whiteboard trainer Danny Nicholson. If you need whiteboard training, you can join his whiteboard training courses or read his book ‘Interactive Whiteboard Training Courses and The Best of the Whiteboard Blog Volume1 ‘.
‘I know only one thing about the technology that awaits us in the future: We will find the ways to tell stories with it.’ Jason Ohler

“I never teach my students. I simply provide the situations in which they can learn.” Einstein
As an ESL teacher, I use Potato Pals At School Book to teach ‘My School and Me’ unit. Kids improve language and communication skills by telling stories related to their own daily lives using Potato Pals Books. Kids can read and sing the songs using memoricon easily. The story is repetitive and this makes them easy to understand and memorize. After they learn the story, they create At School Project using memoricon that is a little picture representing each story page and they present their projects using the memoricon. They also create ‘My School is Cool’ booklet to read the story to their friends and parents. You can download PDF form of ‘My School is Cool’ Booklet. After kids take some photos of the school (Teachers’ Room, Art Class, Music Class…), they paste the photos onto the pages of their own books to create ‘My School Book’. If you want to find more free printable mini booklets, you should click on Mrs.Jones-Free Printable Mini Books. If you want to create shape books, check out the link Shape-Book Patterns.
You can check out our At School Slide Show below.

At School on PhotoPeach
One of my favourite Potato Pals Books is Good Friends.Kids learn how to share and gain the idea of being a good friend when they read this book.After we read Good Friends, we create our ‘Good Friends Step Book’. You can watch the slideshow to learn about how to make a step book.

Potato Pals Book Set is a great way of picking up natural spoken language. The songs of the stories are also simple and catchy for kids. You can visit the Official Blog of Potato Pals or The Potato Diaries Blog to learn more about Potato Pals Book Sets.
Making books for kids is a great classroom and after-school activity. Many kids enjoy reading to pass time and enjoy making their own books.If you want to publish your own children’s book, you can use Story Jumper .I’m using ‘Making Big Books With Children: Resource Book and Reproducible Patterns‘ that was written by Joy Evans, is a good guide to learn how to make a big book such as; flap books, wheel books, tri-fold books, accordion books, shape books and pop-up books. I like making step books with kids but my favourite one is pop-up books or cards.All you have to do is the first simple box, then draw whatever you want and attach it to the front of this simple box and when you open the page it will look like the thing you stick is standing.You can find many nice examples of pop-up books when you visit the official web site of best-selling children’ book author and illustrator Robert Sabuda. When you visit his official site, it will give you some inspiration about making pop-up books. You can visit ‘Shop for Pop-up Book’ and ‘Pop-up Books for Kids’ to buy pop-up books.
Here’s a great video to learn more about how to make pop-up books.

‘Making Books‘ site by Susan Kapusinsky is the greatest resource that you can learn all about making books.You can also download some pdfs and watch videos.

Another great way to learning is educational games that allow kids to experience both playing and learning at the same time.All board games are fun for not only kids but also adults☺ They also encourage kids to communicate, share and develop their skills easily. I want to share our latest great discovery ‘Orchard Toys’ thanks to one of my inspiring colleagues, Demet Yavuz.When you click on Orchard Toys page, you can find all information about the wonderful educational games and you can also download instructions leaflet and get an idea about the games. Highly recommended for kindergarten.
Here are some links about educational games for kids:
Inhabitots has modern wooden puzzles and handmade wooden nature books for kids and babies. Lakeshore Learning has educational materials, arts and crafts, free activities and more.
Growing Tree Toys has also educational games for kids.Hazelnut Kids is a site that you can find natural toys for your kids. Sparklebox is a nice site that you can find free printable teaching resources; labels, charts, phonics, posters and signs.