Language Arts

TECH TOOLS

Collaborative Writing

Google Docs
Kid Blogs: safe and free blogging for K-12 students
ePals: safe email accounts for students, global classroom projects

Digital Story Telling

Blabberize: Make your photos talk!
Annimoto: Use your photos to create a professional looking slideshow with music
Go Animate: Create a talking cartoon
Tikatok: Create story books, publish online and order a printed & bound copy
VoiceThread: free online application that allows users to upload media (photos, scanned work, videos, presentations etc) and collaborate via published comments.
    Examples: Art History, Writing letters, 5 Step Writing Process, Social Justice (Hate)

COMICS

•     ToonDoo:  free accounts with email address, paid educator accounts available          Example: Personification
  
•     Bitstrips: free account with email address, free private trial account for teachers
•     Bubblr: add text to the images provided to create online comics
  
•     Comic Life: Mac only, free download
  
•     Pixton: free public accounts and free trial for private teacher accounts
  

Formative Assessment Tools

Poll Everywhere: Create real-time polls for the web & mobile devices

•    Click here for the Getting to Know You poll

Today's Meet:   A live back-channel for notes, questions, & comments

• Click here for the Language Arts channel

Graphic Organizers

Inspiration: 30 day free trial
Popplet: Map thoughts & images

Podcasts & Audio

AudioBoo: record up to 3 minutes of audio for free

Research Tools

BOOKMARKS
Diigo: Save all of your online resources in one place!
Symbaloo: Bookmarks with visuals
        Example: English Homework Help

CITATIONS

• Citation Machine:  ISBN look up; MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago
• Zotero:  MLA, APA, Chicago, notes
• EasyBib: fast but has advertisements

Word Play

Wordle: Create word clouds from text you type or copy and paste
    How to use Wordle in class
    View vocabulary examples from To Kill a Mocking Bird

Image Chef: Word clouds in a shape
Spelling City: Type or paste a list of words for games, tests, etc.
Verse Perfect: Free download for PCs, suggests rhymes as you write
Visual Thesaurus: Word mapping

PLANNING RESOURCES

K-6 Learning Activity Types: PDF with learning activities organized by content and technology

NTeQ Lesson Plan Template: Download a template for planning technology enhanced lessons.

Diigo Help: Need assistance with the features of this social bookmarking tool, use this link for help.

YouTube Blocked? Use the SaveYouTube website to download instructional YouTube videos at home and save them for classroom use.


My Diigo bookmarks for Language Arts

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