Resources

Web 2.0 Google Site - Google Site with a TON of resources for classroom resources.

ReadWriteThink As a new English Teacher, this is a resource that I use often. It offers great lesson plan suggestions.

Thinkfinity This website continues to offer tons of great resources for using technology in the classroom!

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**Glogster ** **A great way to take traditional classroom poster projects & give them a 21st century twist** 

 Skype **This web tool is an easy solution for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus.**  Storybird **This is a fun and easy to use tool for creating short, visual stories. Students can select artwork, drag and organize photos, and add their own text.** 

 Wordle **Teachers and students of all ages can generate word clouds that show prominent words in any body of text. Just enter text you have gathered from students, or even a URL, to see a summary of what the text is about. Wordle even allows you to change the appearance of your word cloud by the shape, font, color, organization, and more.** 

 Bib.me **This online bibliography tool accesses Amazon, Yahoo!, and other news databases to pull citation information. Citation has never been easier!** 

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"> ** **Kideos** & **SchoolWaxTV** Kideos and School Wax TV are 2 perfect video site alternatives to using YouTube, which is often blocked at schools. These 2 sites are specifically designed with students, teachers and parents in mind. All videos have been screened and are organized by age and area, allowing teachers a quick and easy solution to find appropriate educational videos to use within classrooms.** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #3c78a7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> DoInk **This is a great site for teachers to share with students who not only enjoy art and animation, but also want to make their own. Students don’t have to be an artist to use DoInk; this online community allows users to create original works, share ideas and re-use the work of others, as well as post to other social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube.**