Thursday, 21 April 2011

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Literactive--Primary Interactive--and more

Many educators incorporate some kind of technology to engage student learning. With web 2 it is impossible not to find something on the internet that cannot be used to help support a teacher lesson or to engage students with an interactive activity. I decided to search for 'interactive literacy games' and I came across many great sites. You just need the time to peruse all of them. I did look at some and I found the following to be worth a visit
Language Instructions:

htttp://www.roythezebra.com

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Resource for kids AND Interactive Games

Family Education Network
Info please is a reference site for kids. http://www.infoplease.com/

FE Kids http://www.fekids.com/kln/index.html

Friday, 8 April 2011

Virtual Museum

An interactive Canadian space: The Virtual Museum of Canada http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/index-eng.jsp

Thursday, 7 April 2011

BBC--Learning School

Student interactive site/ subject information and tutorials http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/

Interactive Phonics--Starfall K-Grade 1





The Following site teaches children to read with phonics. http://www.starfall.com/ This is the classic site. You also have an option to click on their new site.

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Shakespeare Videos

I was searching for a BBC video when I came across the BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales. Google video link has them all organized for you: Click on the picture for the link.

Videos

As I mentioned below about looking for the video The Raven, I found it on Dot Sub...any video any language website. This site is great. You can view, upload, transcribe and translate any video into any language. Read the tutorials to get a better understanding on how it works. http://dotsub.com/

The Raven--animated video

I was looking for a good quality video of the animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. I found The Simpson version on Dot Sub.
http://dotsub.com/view/58591756-7128-488c-bfe9-22463d46d907

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Virtual Poster

In February I introduced my students to a new way to create a poster. Some completed samples of the posters.


By: Daniela

By: Juliana

By: Lucas

By: Mark

By: MaryKate

By: Melissa

By: Tiffany

Friday, 1 April 2011

Text Randomizer

http://www.word-maker.com/ (Text will come out in two different forms) http://www.wordconstructor.com/ (Word Constructor; randomizes words) http://www.random.org/lists (randomizes a list of words) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/scrabble.htm (Scrabble Solver)

Glitter and Graphic Text

http://www.addglitter.com/word-maker.asp (Glitter word maker to add flash to your site) http://www.bigoo.ws/generator/wordgenerator.aspx (Graphic resource; create for your social networking pages) http://www.sparklee.com/ (Sparkling Glitter Text Graphics) http://cooltext.com/ (Logo creator)