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Lots of sites for online reading K-3

A recent study showed that of our 53 million K-12 students, 51 million of them (or 93%) play video games.1 Wouldn't it be better if a higher percentage of these games were educational? Well, parents and educators looking for the best free educational games online need look no further than the ten great sites on this list. Each site has an educational foundation that makes learning fun for students of all ages, and every teacher will tell you that children learn best when they are having fun. So, check out the websites on this list to provide an enjoyable online learning experience for your children.

Pixton for Schools: Comics in the Classroom The leading and the original online comic software for education Inspire and motivate your students to learn by giving them a whole new way to express ideas, tell stories, and collaborate creatively in a private online environment.

This reminds me of Mixbook! Better templates. Making a book at Bookemon is fun and easy. Upload your graphic or photo files to our online Bookbuilder where you can add clipart, backgrounds, and text content. Once you are satisfied with your book, you will be able to order your beautiful bookstore quality book. You can also publish and share your book with friends and family online.

Mixbook was started with the idea that friends should be able to create books together. Though Mixbook software makes book creation easy and fun, it also allows groups of people to build books together. Now friends finally have a way to share their memories online!

A few weeks ago, a Social Media Cheat Sheet was doing the round. A nice visualization of the pro's & cons of each social media channel, but with a business/marketing focus. I thought I should do one for social media use in education. However for most of the teachers I work with, our Moodle (EIT Online) is still their primary online teaching environment. So instead I set out to create this poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up

Online resources from the Center for Language Education and Research. Includes Quiz Break, a jeopardy-like program, an Audio Dropbox tool, a virtual dropbox for audio recordings to use on any web page, Scribbles, a program that can capture handwriting using a pen-based hardware tablet or computer mouse, and more.

Story books online

DOGONews is an online news and web resource for elementary school children, aged 5-10 and a publishing platform for aspiring reporters ages 9-15. "DOGO" (not DoGo), means young or small in Swahili. The website consists of three sections: News, Sites and Earth.

Create flash cards and quizzes to complete online.

StoryJumper is an online tool that makes creative writing fun for kids. Using our interactive workbook and lesson plans, teachers spark students' interest in developing and writing complete stories.

xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century.

"The Wiki Way: Creating and Facilitating an Online Learning Environment using Wikis"

The VOCABULARY LEARNING FUN Website got a total redo. It is now the most remarkable collection of free vocabulary games. It's designed to fill the gaps in available free online resources.

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net.

"Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development. " Great videos for all subjects and grade levels. Very quick registry/log in and you can make your own folder online to save videos for each year.

In February, 1997, Susan Brooks and Bill Byles began a collaborative effort to extend assistance to fellow teachers. In November of 2000 that project expanded to a web presence known as Internet 4 Classrooms ("i4c"), a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. The portal is used by teachers, parents and students of all ages on six of the seven continents (there are not many classrooms in Antarctica) and is available to anyone with an Internet connection. We do not charge a subscription fee. To find out more about Susan and Bill, please go to our short bios.