NWMS & NWHS ELA Online Resouces

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

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Video about research

Welcome to the new daily puzzle from Google. There is no right way to solve it, but there's only one right answer. Find the answer with your creativity and clever search skills.

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

An infographic about effective searching.

Informative videos from language and culture experts about background and use of various important words. Presented by the University of Nottingham's School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

Learning videos for use in the classroom.

A video series that goes through the history of a word. It includes many ties to history and literature.

Not only does SafeShare.TV remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.

An article about QR codes and their use in the classroom.

Search over 260,000 free photos, illustrations, and vector graphics or share your own pictures as public domain on Pixabay. Be sure to use the images that do not have a watermark on them. These are Creative Commons licensed images that can be downloaded in a variety of sizes.

This interactive document provides an interface that allows students to type something (a story). After a few seconds, the document becomes interactive and begins adding sentences and changing words. The "author" changing the text is indicated. This is fun to use when writing a story or to use when students finish an assignment early. Students love to see how their writing changes and forget that they are WRITING!