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Wordles, Wordles, Wordles!

Are you interesting in an activity that will help make adjectives, proper nouns or words fun? Check out Wordles! Wordle.net is a great tool to use with students in your classroom. Wordle is an internet site that generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them on paper, or print them to CutePDF Writer and make a PDF file of your creation. Begin creating a Wordle by clicking on CREATE at www.wordle.net

Thinkfinity

Are you looking for a free resource for teachers, students and parents?

Thinkfinity is the place!

www.thinkfinity.org

This site is amazing! Parents can find homework help, parent resources, and games for their kids. Teachers can look for free lesson plans, great videos and pictures and much more!

Would you like 50 Ways to Write a Story?

This is an awesome wiki that give 50 different ways to write a story using technology!

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

Into the Book

A great resource for you to use is Into the Book. Into the Book is an online reading comprehension resource for students and teachers K-4. It is based on eight research based strategies.

Into the Book Website

4Teachers.org

4Teachers.org is an website that provides you the use of various, free teacher tools. You will be able to create rubrics (Rubistar), design your classroom floor plan (Classroom Architect), create and search for interactive online lessons (TrackStar), customize parent letters in English & Spanish (Casa Notes), find checklists to support project based learning and evaluation (PBL), links to help integrate technology (Teacher Tacklebox), and create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online (Web Poster Wizard). Have fun!

Digital Storytelling with Smilebox

Smilebox is a great place to make scrapbooks, electronic cards, slideshows and many more. There are many of the templates that are free. You can also buy a montly or yearly subcription to get more templates and songs.

Boosterthon Smilebox

Getting Started with Wikis

This is a great site to visit to help you get started with using a Wiki in your classroom.

http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/

Ideas for integrating wikis into the classroom

http://wikimeeting.pbwiki.com/Wiki+Integration+Ideas+for+the+Classroom

Sample Elementary Wikis:

http://villagewiki.pbwiki.com/

http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/

http://jabernethy.wikispaces.com/

http://wikiwonderful.wikispaces.com/

http://gowest.wikispaces.com/

G Cast!

Are you wanting to make a podcast that is easy to use? Do you want to make a podcast with your class that is free and fun?

Check out G-Cast! It is an amazing resourse! You can sign up for free and make a podcast right from your phone. After making the podcast, place it on your blog for all to hear! The students in your class will LOVE hearing themselves and sharing what they have learned in their classroom!

http://www.gcast.com/

Want to Voki?

Are you wanting a way to help students get excited about learning? Create a voice avatar at www.voki.com I have a Voki on my home page...check it out!

Ways teachers can use a voki: Introducing a new unit of study, Announcements such as morning classroom announcements or an announcement to kick off a meeting, etc., Directions for student assignment or project that can be played over and over, Explanation of a skill, concept, vocabulary, etc., librarian can list books/resources that have been added to the library. These are only a few suggestions just to get you going! You can email your message to a friend or copy the html code and post it on your blog..

Student ideas for using a voki: Recite a poem (great activity to work on fluency), book summary, book review, student reporter can give point of view, historical description, explanation of math skills, concepts, and vocabulary, etc. etc.