K-12
Online drawing easel. Students can draw anything and everything and then share it! Free, no registration.
Con: No limit to what students can draw.
This is a great alternative to creating, printing and grading your own quizzes. With this site, you can build a quiz online for free and the ite will do the grading for you. This is a must have. One difficulty with this is that if you have students who are SWDs, with test mods that call for tests read aloud or questions clarification. A great addition would be to have the ability to add a coach, such as in cast book builder for SWDs.
K-12
Online poster creator. User can make personal themed posters, using various fonts, images, videos and links.
Classroom Connections:
*Teachers- create a poster of vocabulary words in science social studies, literacy or math-- include images, fonts, words, videos to reinfoce concepts
* Students- create posters to demonstrate what they learned about concepts in any content area- by including text, images, font
* Students- Create posters of research done on various topics- or books reports
3-12
Teachers and students can create an online poster to represent themselves or a project. Teachers can create poster for their class to keep students informed.
Con: there are limits for the Free version.
Grade level- 7-12
CC- Students can create a glogster for a Roman Emperor as to why they would be the best candidate to be Mr. Rome
Overview- A great site to post ideas, important information, and great organizational tool designed with images and color.
Cons- Need some time to get used too.
This is a tool to be used by students or by teachers to create an online poster. One con to this site is that students will first have to be familiarized with copyright law before reusing information. If the poster is intended to communicate research information, there is no built-in way of creating a bibliography.
Check out "Today's Top Glogs" for fresh ideas.
K-12
This is an online interactive tool for students. This is great for students to be able to observe labs that might be too sophisticated or hazardous to complete in class. It's also great for students to practice newly-acquired Math skills. One con is that teachers sometimes "play dead" because of how well the program grabs student's attention. Too much of this would not be a good thing, because they would be lacking that human contact.
Grade K-3
Provides educational movies, homework help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids.
This site offes great visual aides and activiites to go along with many different topics across all subject areas.
Teachers can use this site to introduce concepts to students as well as reinforce ans assess students understanding of concepts.
Purpose of the Website: Internet searches can be difficult for young students. This search engine helps students use searching strategies to help them find specific information on topics they are looking for. Websites yielded in search are elementary appropriate.
Grade Level: K-12
Classroom Connection: This website is a great introduction to searching for children. It helps students understand how to combine search terms to search for information they are looking for.
Grades K-12
A resource for teachers and students to receive practice and resources for reading and language arts instrucion.
A great tool for teachers to use to assess students reading and language art skills.
Purpose of the Website: This website has a rubric available for teachers or other professionals to assess various podcasts and determine if they are appropriate for your classroom. There are a variety of questions listed that you can use to determine usefulness. The PDF is also able to be edited on the computer for convenience.
Grade Level: K-12, Professional
Classroom Connection: This rubric can be used by teachers, students, or other professional to identify how useful and appropriate a particular podcast is for use in the classroom.
Negatives of this Website: The only downside to this website is that you are not able to edit the files. Most of the rubrics are perfect but might need a change or two depending on the particular assignment you are working on. It is great that you can fill in the form online, but you cannot edit any of the questions.
K-6
Farmville is not a traditional classroom activity, but there are characteristics from many content areas. Agriculture, Math, ELA, Literacy, economics, social studies, etc... Students can become one another's neighbors and help to build a community in which they care for one another's farms. A downfall to this application is that it is blocked by my district and I would suspect it would be blocked by many. If you choose to request permission from you tech department, please note that this is a web 2.0 tool.
K-6
This is online book-building tool intended to give a voice to the creative ideas of our young children. The graphics are bright and vivid. This will help to address literacy (including digital and visual literacy). These books can be shared with friends and family if you choose to give students that option. Check out the "how to" video on the home page. Enjoy!
3- 12
Online Presentation Software | PowerPoint Online | Web Presentation for student needs, all web-based, instead of having to save to a computer or flashdrive.
Con: May need to adjust coming from PPT, not as many features.
Grade level- 7-12
CC- Students can create a presentation as to how they would approach teaching a unit on the Ming Dynasty.
Overview- This web-basd form of powepoint has more bells and whistles that takes presenting information to a new level.
Cons- Needs some time to get used too.
Save your space on your flash drive or perhaps share the time that it would have taken to create an awesome presentation. By using Slide Rocket, you can save your presentation to your account and access your presentation anywhere that has an internet connection. This could be used by teachers for instruction and can also be used by students to display their original work. You won't have to hear "I have it saved on my computer at home". K-12
This resource takes wordle and goes a step further. All grade levels are able to benefit from this word cluster in a picture format. Might use it in English during a poetry unit.
3-12
A play on Wordle but with 'style'. Students and teachers can create a wordle with different shapes.
Cons: You can choose your shape, but must adjust and play to make it good.
K-12
Make phone calls, video chat, can be used for classroom activities and personal use.
Con: Must register and download program, and new district permission.
K-12 Secure online class forum for teachers and students to extend learning outside of the traditional classroom.
Con: Probably need your district's permission.
3-12
A virtual sticky note wall for teachers and students. Teachers can post updates for a class or just allow students to use it for collaboration.
Cons: must monitor student activity.
6-12
Teachers and students are able to use an online chat room for various reasons, in and outside of school.
Cons: District approval, monitor student activity.
6-12
Teachers are able to give a poll or pose a question to students and allow them to use their cell phones to answer. Students will use text messaging to answer.
Cons: its costs money and you cannot determine whose reponse is who.
