NWMS & NWHS ELA Online Resouces

Kahoot! is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy. Kahoot! is an easy-to-use blended learning platform which works on any device, making the classroom interactive, encouraging both educators and learners to ask great questions.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

Teaching and Learning with The New York Times. The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt lessons across subject areas and levels or contribute their own ideas. Students can respond to Opinion questions, take News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try Test Yourself questions, enter contests, do crosswords, learn about what happened on this day in history, answer 6 Q's About the News, speculate on "What's Going On in This Picture?" or read Poetry Pairings.

A Curriculet is a digital layer of questions, quizzes and rich media, placed on top of any text. As students read a text, questions, quizzes and annotations (i.e. material that would normally be placed in worksheets) pop out of the text, so students are instructed and assessed as they read… at just the right moment." Teacher-created questions and quizzes are tied to Common Core standards and all editable. You can access the ready-to-teach curriculum by visiting their store. You can also build your own Curriculets from scratch using any of the texts in the Store or build using your own text. Additionally, you can extract content from a URL or upload content from a file and they'll upload it to your Library. Finally, you can view rich reports on student progress and Common Core mastery, assign readings from books that don't contain questions, share Curriculets with other teachers, and use theirs.

Make great videos, easily. Turn ordinary photos and video clips into stunning, HD videos with Animoto's online video maker. There is a free version that allows 30 second video clips.

ThingLink is the leading platform for creating interactive images and videos for web, social, advertising, and educational channels. Be creative! Make your images come alive with video, text, images, shops, music and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. This could be used as a presentation tool for an informative or research piece. Students synthesize their research and understanding of the concept with a presentation. Very easy to use!

Weavly is an easy and fun tool for creating stunning video mashups online. Teachers could use this to compile video clips. There is an education section that offers excellent video project ideas for students

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. This search engine will provide images that students can use for presentations that are licensed under Creative Commons.

Students upload a picture and make the picture "speak". A login is required (email, username, password). Students record their voices using a mic on their device. This could be used in response to literature, as an attention grabber at the beginning of a lesson (imagine Shakespeare talking to students), or a fun way to convey information.

FlipQuiz™​ was created to provide educators with a quick way to create your own gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom.

Sketch notes can be used to help learners process and present information. They are used along with or in lieu of traditional notes.

Nonfiction writing: The Science Behind the News

NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities to drive college and career readiness, improve test scores and improve graduation rates.

Common Core-aligned lessons. This can be an extension of your Edmodo Snapshots (it recommends specific lessons for students after they have submitted a Snapshot. A lot of great resources!

Sway is an intelligent app that helps you easily create an interactive web-based canvas of your ideas. Pull your content from a variety of sources with minimal effort and use the built-in layout engine to craft a cohesive look and feel that looks great on any screen.

Kidblog | Safe and simple blogs for your students. No email address required (class code). Allows for threaded discussions. Teacher can monitor all blogs and posts.

Tell your stories with photos, videos and rich text on Google Earth. Must have a Google account. This is a great way to show movement within the setting of a novel.

Drag On Tape is great for editing YouTube videos.

Nonfiction article site. You are able to search a term to find articles related to your topic.