Those of you that were able to attend our 4th Summer Tech Academy, I hope that it was a valuable experience and that you were able to take numerous resources back to use in your classroom instruction! I am sharing the presentations to my workshops.
Please let me know if there is any way I can help with any of the technologies and/or strategies shared in my presentations.
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GameUp - From the creators of BrainPop and BrainPop Jr., a nice site for animated educational games in Math, Science, Reading, etc. It appears that the games are free and that you do not need a subcription.
Graphite™ is a free service from nonprofit Common Sense Media designed to help preK-12 educators discover, use, and share the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula for their students by providing unbiased, rigorous ratings and practical insights from our active community of teachers. Create your free account to have the ability to rate, curate, and create. Members rate by sharing reviews called Field Notes. Field Notes are reviews of tools written by teachers and include explanations of how teachers have used them with students. Members curate by collecting and organizing content on Graphite, such as reviews, Field Notes, blog posts, and App Flows onto Boards. And members can create tech-rich lesson plans called App Flows which provide a framework for seamlessly integrating technology into the curriculum. Reading Rewards is a reading incentive program with a little something for all kids. Designed to encourage reluctant readers by rewarding time spent reading in various ways, Reading Rewards also has tools for eager readers who want to share their reading experiences in a fun, safe, online community. In the classroom make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and use it as a center, or post the address on your teacher website so students and parents can access the program at home, too. Set reading goals for individual students or the class. Features that will appeal to teachers: Do you use reading logs in the classroom? Try Reading Rewards as a way of moving away from all that paper, and getting your students sharing book reviews and recommendations! 1. Use paperless reading logs! Kids track their reading online, and you can view their entries anytime. Parental sign-off optional. 2. Set individual reading targets (and rewards, if desired) for your students, or group targets and rewards. It’s fun for the class to watch their numbers grow, and there is very little you need to do to set it up! 3. Print off detailed reading logs using a variety of different templates. Kids log their reading regularly, and you choose which entries to pull out into customized reports. 4. Set up and share annotated reading lists. 5. Share and discuss any of your reading topics in a mini blog. 6. Compete in weekly mini-games! The more they read, the better their chances of winning. A great reading incentive! Wonderville an education technology platform that empowers kindergarten through fifth grade teachers to harness the power of the Internet to enrich their lesson plans and effectively addresses national Common Core Standards requirements in language arts. Wonderville virtually connects parents, teachers and students in an informative and visually innovative manner while reinforcing educational material that is essential to state and national curriculum needs. Wonderville has harnessed the collective input of over 1,000 teachers to create their "Smart Galleries" and is bolstered by the powerful impact of over 10,000 videos, images, quizzes and rewards. On Wonderville teachers can create online classrooms that seamlessly integrate interactive whiteboards, mobile devices and PCs. Learning Core has also firmly expressed that Wonderville and their future products are and always will be 100% free for teachers. BiblioNasium is a free, protected social network for children ages 6-12 designed to engage, encourage and excite young people about reading. Packed with tools – and the power of peer and parental support – BiblioNasium functions as your Literacy partner, helping you quickly and easily build and drive an effective, challenging independent reading program. BiblioNasium has partnered with the company responsible for providing The Lexile Framework for Reading. Helps & Examples: Mrs Senne's Class Van Meter Library Voice Teachers & Technology Reading Bear, a project of WatchKnowLearn.org, is the first free program online to teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English, all using innovative rich media. We spent an enormous amount of time developing 50 presentations, covering even more phonics principles and illustrating over 1,200 vocabulary items. There is nothing else like it, free or otherwise. How does it work? In each presentation—playable either as a video or as an interactive slide show—we introduce one or a few related “phonics rules.” Presentations are available in seven different versions. In the fullest version, we sound out a word slowly and quickly, then blend it slowly, and finally (after an optional prompt) blend it quickly. As sounds are pronounced, the corresponding letters are highlighted. Then we display a picture illustrating the word, show a sentence (with the individual sounds again highlighted, karaoke style), and finally show a video illustrating the sentence. Presentations give this treatment to around 25 words, though some have more and some have less. The result is a thorough yet painless introduction to phonics principles, while at the same time teaching vocabulary. There are many other features, which we encourage you to explore by clicking on our Getting Started page. Readability is a free web (Add-on) and mobile app with a simple purpose: to deliver a great reading experience. It turns virtually any web page into a clean, comfortable reading view. You can also sync articles for reading later as you surf around the web. Readability works on your web browser, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone, giving you the flexibility to read anytime, anywhere. Textivate ticks all the boxes. It allows you to automatically generate a range of interactive browser-based activities based on any text of up to 500 words. Simply type or paste a text into the box and click 'textivate now' button to see the available exercises (gapfills / sentence arrange / paragraph arrange / punctuation / splitting words). Great for exam classes or any other reading-based lessons. Batalugu is a fabulous site for creating and finding online children's books. Design your 'bestseller' by uploading images and using the bank of media to drag and drop your story to perfection. Clear interface with easy navigation and instructions. Students can add pictures, drawings and text and create their own books. Then share with a link. Site removed as of 02/01/14 ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. StoryJumper is a website that allows kids to build their own books. You can easily create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your story, and you can use the StoryJumper clipart gallery, too. When you‘re done, you can order your own professionally published hardback book |
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