RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

This is a good app website but is geared toward Pre-K.

Online supported educational apps for your classroom. This was very helpful with moving my students toward the "online" world.

This link will take you to educational apps that are more on the "fun" side. My students love them!

Here are some more apps for the classroom iPhone/iPad.

A good resource for building your apps on your iPad for school.

Creative Writing Prompts collection of writing prompts and story starters for writers. Come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories with the help of these creative writing ideas.

Write a letter to your future self and read the public (but anonymous) letters from others

This is a great website for use with special needs children or all ages of children. It provides a user-friendly site in which there are not an over-running of ads. Also there are pictures and text! Great for looking up almost anything in guided reading, independent activities, and group activities!

Big Books and Online Stories

I added this to my on-line reading site!

MeeGenius is the world's largest virtual store for enhanced children's books. Available as a website and an application, MeeGenius works across all platforms offering the largest selection of children's stories. Some are free while others are paid.

Here are 50 free educational apps to use with your iPad, iPhone or iPod. These look like great resources to use in your classroom!

I have recently been trying to find more ways that I could use my iPhone in my classroom- while searching for educational apps- I found this! Here are 50 apps for your iPhone that are more for the educator- but just had to share!

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.

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!

"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.

This is a great list created by a teacher of different technologies she uses in her classroom and how she uses them. Sometimes we hear about these great technologies- but don't know exactly how to use them with our children.

This site gives before, during and after reading ideas. I like the "thinkmark" idea... I had never heard of it before. Sounds like a neat way to have students respond to reading.