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
Great for a class/ group collaboration in and outside of the classroom and great for personal use!
Con: District permission, public to everyone, anyone can add or delete information.
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.
Purpose of the Website: The purpose of this website is to create an internet-based resource for collecting materials that are used during teaching. Teachers can create an share units and save online resources, as well as computer files. This is an environmental way for teachers to save and update their units from year to year.
Grade Level: Professional
Classroom Connection: This resources is a wonderful way for grade level teachers and departments to collaborate on units that are taught throughout the year, as well as keep teachers organized. One example for how it can be used is for teachers to save various math games that relate to each unit of study in math. It will make it easy for teachers to find the resources they are looking for quickly and easily.
Negatives of this Website: I have had a lot of trouble trying to upload files from my computer to each unit. I wanted to save worksheets and tests that I use with each unit in the various subjects, however, I have not been successful yet. So I am currently saving websites I use for each unit.
K-12 Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there.
Students and teachers can take notes on anything and everything. It's FREE!
Con: You must register for the site to be able to use it.
Grades 3-5, or any other student who would like extra practice with multiplication
Classrooom Connection: This site gives games to practice multiplication facts using items such a template for bingo or a deck of cards. The necessary supplies are listed at the bottom of the game.
Grades K-12
Classroom Connections: This marked page goes beyond the traditonal strategy for making flash cards. It provides an acronym for creating the cards and various items to add to them to aid the student in remembering what information they put on the cards.
Elementary Grades 4-5
Classroom Connections: This is a screen cast of how to divide two digits by one digit. The site allows you to create screencasts of various topics to explain or talk about a topic.
Cons: It easily picked up the background noise while creating a screencast.
Grades 3-8
Classroom Connection: New York State Perfomrance Indicators for math. This direct site allows teachers to follow what is expected before and after the state exam in the content area of math.
Special Education & General Education Teachers
Classroom Connection: It is a subscription to various topics within special education. Provides support and guidance on varying topics within special education. An example is checklists of symptons of various disorders. Any sort of help can be found within the site.
Cons: It is a paid subscription
K-12
Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games for all ages. Teachers and students can use already pre-made or create their own.
Con: Must review before using pre-made, just to be cautious.
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
K-12
With budgets becoming a henderience on field trips, efieldtrips allows teachers to take their class to places they never thought they would see.
Con: Not all places are available.
3-12
Teachers and students can collarborate over a public live document. You can invite others to be apart of this experience and its all FREE, no limits.
Cons: No limits, must monitor students.
3-12
Teachers and students can create or search voicethreads. Images, videos, documents can be uploaded and students can collarborate and/or add comments to voicethreads.
Cons: must register and limited access for Free version.