Websites that will help you use technology to enhance literacy in the classroom
Image taken from http://www.beloit.edu/~libhome/Infoliteracy.htm
A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch, professor at Kansas State University
1.Sign up for igoggle
Click on Add Stuff in the upper-right hand side.
Add Bookmarks. Click Add it now.
Next, add Google Docs.
Integrating Google Tools for Teachers
Subscribe to your favorite blogs using Google Reader.
2. Develop a PLN - Personal Learning Network
3. Use classroom nings:
Learn how to create your own Ning network by watching this video: http://education.ning.com/
Look under the link Highlighted Resources. Click on the Recorded session, building a Ning network from scratch.
4. Create a Class Wiki at PB Works
5. Use a blog to communicate with students at Edublog
6. Use Google Earth to create a literature trip. See examples at this website: http://www.googlelittrips.org/
Directions for a Google Earth Lit Trip for the Odyssey are on this wiki page: http://english9bryant.pbwiki.com/
Look in the folder in the right side bar.
7. Get a teacher account at Townsend Press for vocabulary, reading comprehension, and grammar quizzes: http://www.townsendpress.net/
Visual Learners
8. Using Many Eyes:
Another visual web tool to use with students: Glogster
9. Using ipods in the classroom:
Use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts and iTunes University
Some audiobooks are free on iTunes
10. Sign up for the official SAT question of the day here:
11. Copyright free images:
Creative Common Search for Images
13. How to learn all of this stuff? You can get a free trial at the websites below, and some of the videos are already free:
14. World Statistics:
15. Movie Maker or Digital Story Telling Ideas
16. Using You Tube in the classroom.
17. Something new that I have never used, but I will!
Seems to have the potential for great peer-editing: Revizr
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