RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

DimensionU is a video gamebased learning resource for K-12 students. In DimensionU, students can access 3D multiplayer educational video games that help them hone their math and literacy skills, connect with friends, and compete and collaborate while learning.

"The teacher can maintain blogs, wikis, assignments, correspondence, and instructional tools-all from one [secure] space they have developed in My Big Campus." How great does this sound! My Big Campus offers a safe, monitored environment for students to blog, hold discussions, and collaborate on group projects online.

The Florida Center for Reading Research was established in January, 2002. It is jointly administered at Florida State University by the Learning Systems Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences. It has a lot of literacy resources.

At this website you can find all sorts of literacy activities for each holiday. Just click on the holiday and begin exploring! For St. Patrick's day you will find a list of picture books that are great for St. Patty's day... http://www.theholidayzone.com/stpat/books.html. There's also some neat discussion question ideas available as well. enjoy.

xtimeline is a free website that lets you create timelines and explore timelines about history, biography and more. This could be a great resource to use for social studies projects.

I like this idea! We make timelines very often in social studies, and this would be a great resource for students to plan their writing on an informational topic for social studies. Thanks for this useful link!

Take a look at this video and the powerful 21st century learning taking place!

Multimedia composition tool. Tell a story using pictures, video, audio, and text. All are constructed in a timeline, or capzle.

So cute! Another neat site where celebs read popular books to the kids! I love these sites and so do my students!

TripAdvisor™ TripWow allows you to take your photos and upload them into their program for an excellent slideshow for free! The music, background, and animation is very easy to use and makes excellent videos! Similar to Animoto, but easier to use in my opinion.

This site has short animated videos on several different topics. I like to use it to introduce topics to my kindergarten students. The main character Annie asks useful questions and then answers them. You need a subscription to access everything, but some of them are free.

Here's a really useful app for writing for folks who use Braille.

We'll spend some time with assistive technology as a topic in this course. This is a very cool app.

Mooresville, NC tech in classroom story in NY Times.

Anybody know any teachers who teach here? Or who lost their jobs here to hire a computer? Interesting read.

This is a cool site I found where you can use any picture and add words to it! Play around with it and see what all you can create! This could be used in so many ways! Enjoy!

I have said it before.. I think I'm addicted to teacher blogs. Now there's a site for me!!! This blog has a little of everything. Check out the St. Patrick's Day & Dr. Seuss Day ideas.

Really neat site and right up my ally! Lots of good ideas!

Time and date stamp automatically your diary/journal entries. Android and iPhone apps or computer entry. Contacts, to-do lists, journaling, calendar. Use of tags. Invite collaboration, notifications.

Here's a whole new world of (collaborative) journaling that might get some of your kids (re-)interested in writing. Or be a useful tool for you.

You can either download for free or pay for materials here- but this is a huge collection of resources other teachers have created. I find things for any unit of study I am doing!

Separate primary and secondary sections for your children or students. If user signs in work can be saved in process.

Evernote is used to organize information. It is a free site that can be downloaded and used anywhere. You can save things you like, find, make, see, and hear. There are ways in can be used with students in the classroom and students could even use it at home.

Yet another great resource for teachers and students to use in the classroom. This site was mainly created when video streaming began to be blocked in schools.