Language Arts ResourcesNing - the ability to create your own social network
Spelling City looks like an excellent way to have students practice spelling without dedicating a lot of class time to it. NoRedInk - Drill and Practice in Grammar and Writing EssayPunch - A tutorial on writing essays NCES Kids Zone - Create a Graph - and other useful tools OpenEd - open source educational site Internet4Classrooms - non-Math uses of spreadsheets Microsoft Templates - Timeline templates and other uses for spreadsheets NeoK12 - Videos on writing skills, public speaking skills, and grammar Teacher Tube - Subject matter videos - You can create a "classroom" Popplet - a graphic organizer app for use on the web and on iPad Essay Organizer - by ReadWriteThink. This tool looks useful if students finish and print in one sitting. I have had problems opening .rwt files in the past. Tricider - Crowdsource your writing assignments Timeline Creator - by ReadWriteThink - easy tool for creating a timeline that includes images BBC Unblocked - IF this resource works, it has great videos and workshops about Shakespeare's plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC. I tried the BBC resources all on one night and they said "This content doesn't seem to be working. Please try again later." I'm not sure if they were down for the evening, or if users outside the UK are blocked from accessing the material. That would be ironic, since the site is called BBC UNBLOCKED. Tech can Transform ELA class - This article discusses how technology can enhance an ELA classroom, and offers ideas for specific technologies to try. A Shakespeare Lit Circle - This is not specifically a technology resource, but is part of the Folger Shakespeare Library website. Buncee - easy multimedia presentations/flyers - I would probably use this in lieu of Glogster (which is expensive) or smore (which doesn't allow you to do as much) Calibrated Peer Review - a website for writing and peer review - lessens the amount of time an instructor spends to grade writing Word Central - Merriam Webster personal dictionary |
Administrative ResourcesAcceptable Use Policies
Dispelling myths about blocked sites (from the US Department of Education) Empowered Use over Acceptable Use Plagiarism Plagiarism Checker - copy and past a paragraph to check for plagiarism Plagiarism Tools - several tools to check for plagiarism Uses for any content area. Socrative - create assignments, tests, and quizzes Wikispaces - collaborative web page creation - specifically for the classroom 100 Uses for Social Media in the classroom ToonDoo - a website to create comics Graphix - a comic creator by Scholastic Ducksters - kid-friendly information on many topics like sports and social studies Four Skills to Teach Students in the First Five Days of School - This article discusses demonstrating to students HOW we, as teachers, learn and showing them HOW to learn before we focus on content. Answer Garden Haiku Deck Powtoon Pictochart Project Based Learning Padlet |
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