Thursday, November 17, 2011

Must See - EdTechTeacher

The folks at EdTechTeacher have done a wonderful job or organizing technology tools for teaching and learning. All of the resources are actually charted so that you can easily see which tools to use for specific needs. Just take a look. From the authors:
"In order to help educators integrate technology effectively, we have compiled a list of technology tools focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD (Collect-Relate-Create-Donate) framework. Unlike other lists that promote “cool tools,” yet leave teachers wondering about purposeful educational integration, our list is driven by specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and community-mindedness. We hope you will find our list useful."

Kerpoof!

Kerpoof is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company, and is for grades K-8. Kerpoof encourages creativity by offering these types of activities: make artwork; make an animated story; tell a story; make a drawing. Lesson plans are provided on Master Artists, Math & Science, Language Arts, and social Studies, with more lessons added monthly, all linked to the National Nets Standards. Students can show their creativity on this fun website. It allows students to create pictures, stories and even movies. There is a wide variety of choices for scenes, characters, props, etc. Under Classroom Ideas you will find Story Starters, Genre Writing, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies, Biology, and Math. On the site there is an entire forum dedicated to ideas of how to use Kerpoof in the classroom. Users may select seven different languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese).

Set up your own FREE Teacher Account. After you register, you’ll gain access to a range of easy-to-use administrative tools. You’ll be able to register all your students, manage their accounts according to class, and control access to collaborative features. Once you get your student accounts set up, users will have access to the Group Message Board, Kerpoof Chat/Buddy Draw.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Online Publishing Tools for Students

Book Report Sandwich Station is a fun and easy book report tool to help students break a book report into seven components, AND the final reports can be printed.


Writing with Writers offers online writing activities from several different children's authors. Students complete the activities, then submit their own writing for publication on the Scholastic website.

ReadWriteThink offers dozens of tools!