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Storybird
http://storybird.com/
Storybird is a wonderful new web tool that allows you and your students to create great
looking digital storybooks that can be worked on in groups and shared with the world. It
is a very easy to use site with a ton of great images that you can use in creating your
story. You can choose a theme to search the images they offer or select a style that you
like best. Storybirds can be shared and even viewed on devices such as the iPhone. A
Great site for all ages, but especially for those in the younger grades
Click Create
Choose an artist or a theme, click on the thumbnail link, get inspired, and start writing
Once an image is selected, click the Start a Storybrid button.
Then follow the numbers of the steps on the page.
Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/ Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools
that help them accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts
to learning about language—all while having fun.
Click on “See all Student Interactives” and search
the 59 resources to locate different types of literacy
tech tools that enable you to assess their progress in
technology-rich ways.
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a program that allows the user to paste text into the website and create instant
"word clouds". It is an amazing tool that then takes the pasted text and removes the
articles of speech and analyzes the remaining words for frequency - making the ones that
appear most often the largest. You can randomize the content as many times as you like
and it really does an effective job of showing the theme of a document, essay, or poem. A
simple and really amazing tool.
Click Create and copy & paste the text from a website, a word
document or practice EOG selection.
When you click GO, the word cloud that results displays the
words used most often in the largest font. Change the layout and
colors and fonts if you want.
Other “Word Cloud” web 2.0 tools to try out:
ImageChef http://www.imagechef.com/
Tagxedo http://www.tagxedo.com/
Animoto http://animoto.com/
Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with
everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy!
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Click Get Started button
Choose a Style, but don’t select a PRO HD. It’s only for
premium accounts-not the free accounts.
Select “make the 30 second video for free”
Follow the bulleted list of directions on the left.
MovieMaker On every computer in the district
Use this program to
record students reading for an “audio only” file
create a movie by uploading images and having students add text titles
create a PowerPoint and save the pages as image files and upload into MovieMaker
upload video from the Flip Video Camera and edit the movie
Click on the
Start Button>All Programs list>
Windows MovieMaker
Click on Tools>Narrate Timeline
Click on Start Narration button
*Be sure you are speaking clearly into the laptop mic or that you
have a mic plugged in to the desktop computer you are using.
Record your message/read the text/read the book.
Click Stop Narration when finished. You will automatically be
prompted to save the file.
Once you click SAVE it automatically imports the audio file
into MovieMaker and you can listen to it by clicking on the
Play button in the preview pane.
Flip Video Cameras for Movies
*check these out from the media center
Make a movie for:
a public service announcement
record students performing steps in a process
students to explain “how to” solve a problem,
work a math problem, etc.
a movie contest for upcoming events
record a message to your students to play when
you have a substitute
capture students’ discussion while working
collaboratively to play back for the class
Click on
Wonders and
scroll down to
the Categories
to search for a
topic you’re
interested in.
Wonderopolis
www.wonderopolis.org/
Wonderopolis®. It’s a place where wonder and learning are nurtured
through the power of discovery, creativity and imagination. Wonderopolis is
brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) and
supported by our philanthropic partners listed below.
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Bembos’ Zoo
http://www.bemboszoo.com/
Bembo's Zoo is a very simple site that allows students to select a letter of the
alphabet and then watch an animal's name (starting with that letter) morph
into the animal itself. Simple, but very beautiful and effective.
Click in the orange “O” to see and
hear the animal animated alphabet.
How could students make their own
alphabet animal?
ABC Ya http://www.abcya.com/
ABC Ya is a free site with some nice flash activities for elementary students to use to
enrich their curriculum. All the educational computer games and activities were created
or approved by certified teachers! The activities incorporate content areas such as math
and reading while introducing basic computer skills.
Click on your
grade level
balloon and
search the
available
activities &
games that
reinforce your
curriculum.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
One of the best math sites on the web, it offers virtual manipulatives for students of all
ages and on a huge variety of mathematics exercises. This is a very helpful resource
for teachers who may not have physical manipulatives to share with the whole class.
Use the matrix and click
on your grade level/math
strand you want to find
interactive for.
Click here…