A virtual classroom that combines multiple platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc...) using a teacher and student-friendly interface. It looks promising for the ELA classroom, although my concern would be the openness of the site, although it does look like privacy settings are available. Possibly best used with older high school students?
I'm never really sure what the value of being able to read quickly is and whether this effects the amount of information you actually retain when you read, but I do know that getting EFL and ESL students to read in chunks and getting them to read as much as possible can be very beneficial to their language development.
Students often expect their teacher to correct their written errors, but Students can also learn a lot from looking for and correcting errors in written work.
This activity gives you the chance to test your correction skills and find errors in short texts using a site called BookOven and a tool called SpellChecker
Links to 12 sites where you and students can obtain free images to use on webpages and in Powerpoint presentations. Be sure to review the sites for possibly inappropriate images though!
What I learned, most of all, was that if you're teaching and not learning then you're not teaching, and if you don't enjoy yourself in the classroom, you might as well be driving a taxi.
We create a single wiki, "A Critical Supplement to Major History Textbooks," and create a page on it for each textbook we're using, in whatever class.
In our classrooms, we assign student teams to tackle each section of the textbook by identifying any perceived biases, coverage emphases and de-emphases, omissions, errors of fact, and so forth, in that section, and publish their findings on that textbook's page on the wiki.
Below is Instructify's list of the five best bibliography and citation applications out there. Pass these on to your students and spare them the agony of building bibliographies the hard way.
specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space.
While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
National Recitation Project for how to set up and run your own poetry out loud project in class or for the competition. Different than a slam: students choose existing poems by recognized poets and perform it through oral recitation. Go to the site and ch
A remarkable site that posts up each Sunday. Beware that you not send students to this site as an assignment: Often very adult content that will cost you your job by day's end! I do, however, often print up single postings to transparency or as single ima
Wow, this is a PRACTICAL guide to info literacy, from step by step on how to read a website, to how students report the info. FULL of information I can use in my classroom without having to reinvent the wheel myself!