RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

Tips and tricks for using e-Readers in the classroom.

Here's a fascinating tool for collaboration. Definitely worth a look-see.

We will check this out together this semester, but feel free to explore on your own anytime.

I found this website the other day. Had to share! I love the way she tracks her students reading levels!

This tool allows students to create their own comic strips! Students can upload pictures, search pictures, pick how many panels, layout, colors, and more!

A free resource that uses interactive video and games-based learning to teach students vocabulary. This website has a glossary that you can search to show your students a video of what a particular word means.

Cookie offers a wide variety of online educational games and activities for kids, which stimulate their senses and add to their knowledge, and at the same time, make learning a fun activity.

This site has games that work with words.

Welcome to Sesame Street! Play games and watch videos to engage children with fun educational activities. I let my kindergarten students use this website in the computer lab sometimes and they love it.

Dance with Dash, write stories with Dot and watch Adventures with Hooper. Earn tickets for prizes and do fun literacy activities on PBS KIDS Island. Find videos and games for older kids on PBS KIDS GO. My kids love the characters on this site.

Lexia Reading is a technology-based system of differentiated practice, embedded assessment, and targeted reading instruction. It's designed to advance foundational reading skills for students in prekindergarten through grade 4 and accelerate reading development forat-risk students in grades 4-12.

This could be a great resource for 5th grade teachers!

Students select a book and the book is read the the students by a famous actor.

This is a neat site that had some good resources for younger aged kids including games and activities but my favorite was the book center where there were books that are read to the students. Love those!

This app is great for mid/upper elementary students- especially boys! Students can create their own comics, begin with a story starter, or even author a ready-made comic illustration!

I do not have a document camera in my own classroom- but have just become aware that I am able to borrow one from the media center at my school as needed! I have never used one in a classroom- so was curious to see what I could do with it- check out these great ideas for uses of a document camera with your students!

This is a free way to motivate kids to read. Kids can find a book, take quizzes on the book and earn prizes.Theres a teachers lounge too with lots of good resources.

Quick and easy 30-sec audio recording online that can then be used as tag on photo, voice on Tweet, video narration, email addition. Interesting to consider how it might be used as individual and then series of messages to create talking texts for various purposes.

Creating attractive diagrams, such as wire frames, mind maps, network charts, and site maps, are very easy for anyone as you can simply pick and "drag and drop" elements from a large library of stencils. Cacoo covers all the basic drawing functionalities.

BigUniverse.com is an online tool that has both fiction and non fiction texts and picture books for pre-k to 8th grade. Students can also write their own stories and take quizzes on books they have read!