RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

I think this is an amazing application on your iPhone, iPad or computer. This is more so an application for great ideas, websites, lesson plans and activities for the children in your classrooms. Just another way technology has created so many opportunities for us to learn!

Yes Pinterest is great! Cute, engaging activities and it super starts our creative minds! Always a plus!

I love pinterst! This is an awesome site and has something for everyone! Tons of ideas, crafts, etc to use in the classroom! I could spend hours on this site!

This was an interesting article. I believe that we reap what we sow like the article said, but we need help from the public to provide opportunities (such as laptops for all) for students. Teachers can't do it all on our own.

This Scholastic search engine provides a list of books that we have in our classrooms now to the new Common Core Standards. You have the option to choose from your state, your grade level and book title. A great way to build classroom libraries by taking out the guess work of Common Core

I love this! We have been working on word families for awhile now- and I wish I would have had this when we were working on the -at family. This is so fun for the children- much more entertaining than listening to me try to explain -at words!

Just what it says. Not clear when this article was written, but each of the blogs is described in a paragraph and a link provided to it.

I didn't mean to repost this one. I really liked some of the blogs that I looked at.

This is a neat site where you can create an account and students can work with other students to create a book, print it out and share it or email it.

Very cool digital sorytelling site that lets you make your own 3D book.

Tag Literacy Center sounds great for small groups or independent work for young elementary school children.

This teacher blog has links to technology sites. I have used the "Sweet Search" that was featured and had quick usable results!

Here is a great site for everything you need or want for SMART Notebook! Find great resources that are already made for you here!

Free interactive reading games, perfect for using with your interactive whiteboard or on a computer. Words that rhyme, full stops, capital letters, high frequency words and much more... Nine part online guided reading story, comes with literacy worksheets and discussion sheets. You can use it in the classroom on your smartboard or computers.

Guided Reading and Reading Games and software with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. Ideal for using at school or home on interactive whiteboards or computers.

Creative way to teach reading and writing especially to the emergent, early/beginning readers. Through reading and writing poetry your children will be able to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination about silly to serious topics. We read and write lots of different poetry in first grade. Here you'll find poems for each month of the year.

This seems to be a nice blog site for younger children.

This link provides reasoning behind blogs for elementary students and how to get them set up. Great suggestions on what websites to use to set up classroom blogs that are safe and ad-free.

I found this site to be helpful. It explains what blogging is, how it is used in classrooms, and how to get started. It also talks about safety.

This site is a bit dated (2005) but it does address some of the questions that I have read about on the threaded discussion. It provides suggestions for how to protect children online and how to successfully implement a blog in the classroom from different aged students.

Bookshare is an online library of digital books for people with print disabilities. Members can download books, textbooks, and newspapers in a compressed, encrypted file, then read the material using adaptive technology. Through an award from the federal Education Department, Bookshare offers free memberships to U.S. schools and qualifying U.S. students!

Here is a great sight to play interactive phonics games.

This website allows you to Skype an author! Look up authors who are available for Skyping