Storyline Online – Virtual story readers in your classroom! Storyline Online is an absolutely wonderful literacy resource to get students excited about reading, writing, and the telling of stories. A program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, this site contains 24 animated stories on such books as A Bad Case of Strips and Romeow & [...]
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How To Do Research – A virtual tour Created by the Kentucky Virtual Library Work-group, this site is a virtual step-by-step map of how to conduct research using old and new resources laid out in a game board theme. The tour/game board is broken down in five sections: Plan Search for Information Take Notes Use [...]
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Copyright Q&A – Quoting, paraphrasing information, and citing sources This simple website asks some of the most common questions surrounding copyright law and citing sources. Once you enter the classroom, use your cursor to hover over a student to make them raise their hand and ask a question. Click on the student or question bubble [...]
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24/7 Science – The best projects and activities whenever you want! From the Lawrence Hall of Science, this website is chalk full of interactive games and activities covering a wide variety of science topics. The first collection of activities are designed to be hands-on with titles like Sticky Situations and How Old is Your Penny? [...]
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Google Translate Working with a student where there is a language barrier can be a very frustrating experience. Both parties are smart, knowledge, and communicative…but they just don’t understand one another. Enter Google Translate, which provides the simple tool of converting text from one language into that of another (there are currently 63 to choose [...]
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This week Hillary Brumer over at Techno Bytes reviews the App Verbally, a free App. that gives users the power of speech even when they have difficulty speaking themselves. Read the Review Get the App. iPad
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This week Hillary Brumer over at Techno Bytes reviews an interactive storybook App called The Monster at the End of This Book. This was so my favorite book when I was a kid; I think my parents had to actually buy the book twice because I wore out the first one. And come on, who [...]
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Guess the Worlde: A new puzzle everyday! (Gr. 3-12) Guess the Wordle provides daily wordle puzzles and asks users to figure out the word that links all the synonyms together. A wordle is a tag cloud, often generated from a piece of written text that depicts the vocabulary used in the text and the frequency [...]
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Road To Grammar – Quizzes, games, & lessons for English language learners (Gr. K-12) Road To Grammar is a great site full of useful tools for students to use for practice and to quiz each other on a variety of grammar rules. Teachers can use the quizzes for pre- or post-assessments on a variety of [...]
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