For starters, what do you all think about a link to CLRN (California Learning Resource Network, www.clrn.org)?
I'm also wondering if there are any subscription databases it might be useful to provide teachers access to via this CFF Communities site? Although the San Diego Public Library has a dizzying array anyone with a SD Public Library card can use, there are some especially useful to teachers which the Public Library doesn't have which, even without a teacher's students themselves having access, might still provide valuable teaching resources for the teacher.
One example is netTrekker, essentially a searchable set of selected links to free-Web sites. Each has been evaluated and annotated by an educator (typically teachers hired to work on this over summer vacation), and includes readability scores and indicators of types of content available on the site (e.g. language, pictures/illustrations, sound, video, primary source documents, etc.). In addition to keyword searching and topic browsing, you can drill down on the CA Content Standards and see which Web sites in netTrekker have been linked to a particular standard. Once a teacher has discovered a Web site via netTrekker, of course, he/she can bookmark that site and not only the teacher but also the students can use it since the site itself is on the free-Web.
Another possibility is unitedstreaming, since teachers can download and play the videos from it. A teacher can create an Assignment which includes links to videos he/she has selected; this creates a unique URL which students can use to access the Assignment--and watch the videos--even though they don't have accounts... they just have to know the URL, and when prompted enter their first and last name (not a login--this is just so the teacher can see who [supposedly] did the Assignment). Like netTrekker Web sites, unitedstreaming videos can be browsed by Content Standard as well.
These would be expensive, since someone would have to pay for access for teachers in the entire County. But they'd be powerful tools, and would free up funds at districts or sites that might be paying for these themselves at present. Also, it addresses equity: if you're lucky enough to be the student of a teacher in a district or at a school that can afford to subscribe to these, your possibilities for powerful learning through technology are significantly increased; if you're not, you lose. It's because we know how powerful subscription databases can be for teaching and learning that CSLA (Calif. School Libr. Assn.) has been working to get some funded at the State level for all CA students, but so far we've had no success (and with the current $16 billion shortfall aren't likely to anytime soon). netTrekker would be a lot less expensive than unitedstreaming.