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Punctuation Campground
Harcourt site doesn't require keyboard to use punctuation. Recommended by James Hollis for use with the SB.
Stories - Interactive Sites for Smartboard Use - Grades K - 5 - Oak Street Elementary School - Plattsburgh City School District
Collection of web-based interactive stories that work well on the SB.
The Official Robert Munsch Website
Why not have Robert Munsch himself read books to your kids? Free downloadable mp3s at this site.
LibriVox
Volunteers at Librivox have produced human voice recordings of many of the classic literature titles in the public domain. These are available for free download.
Tikatok
Tikatok is a digital story telling tool. Children can create their own books and upload illustrations. They can select who can see their books online. Teacher Tools include a special dashboard and notifications about their students' activities on the site.
Comiqs | Create & Share your Comic Stories
This is a great free site for kids to create and share stories in comic form. I tried it and found it to be a very simple interface. You select a page layout and can add your own pictures or pictures from the web. You add your choice of talk balloons and double click to add the text. You can also add text for titles. There are some good examples of student work on the site, e.g. on the French Revolution.
Read & Create Children's Picture Books Online - BigUniverse.com
Big Universe(R) is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and CONNECT with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend. Parents, teachers, kids, authors, and others can share and learn while they enjoy this educational and entertaining website.
Digital Story Telling
This site has an introduction to digital story telling and associated resources. This is especially good for author projects, history reports, and adaptations of stories. It can be used by teachers from intermediate grades through college, depending on the topic, need, and abilities of the students. Be sure to explore the many links to see how other schools and students have used digital storytelling. Many examples and excellent resources.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
Learned about this from Kathy Rice. Great interactive activities mainly based on graphic organizers and games. Excellent quality educationally and good graphics; would work well on SMARTBoard. For example, the animal studies graphic organizer prompts the student to choose a subtopic such as "baby animals" and then answer three questions about that subtopic. Jan and Jim had also used and said that Character Cards was a favourite activity for their students. The only drawback was that content could be printed but not saved. I found it a bit frustrating that the searches could not be narrowed down further but otherwise a great site!
Myths and Legends from E2BN
On this site, you can view an animated myth or story and have it read to you or read the text only version. You can also create your own animated and narrated myths, legends and folktales. Create and submit your own or delve deeper to find out origins and context. Reviewed by Kelly Tenkley Jan 16, 2009 post to iLearn Technology.
Welcome to Great Source iwrite!
Very nice online resources for different types of writing. Student and teacher resources. The student can choose a type of writing such as "narrative" and then have receive help on the subtypes of narrative writing, graphic organizers for narrative writing, detailed templates for each part of the narrative, and examples of narrative writing. There is a tremendous amount of scaffolded help available here.
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
Type in a word and you get a list of words that rhyme. Would be great for writing poetry.
Quick & Dirty Tips :: Grammar Girl
This is a site that answers grammar questions by podcast. You can browse questions that have already been answered and play or download the podcast. There are some annoying gotomypc ads but otherwise this is a great site.
WikiLook :: Firefox Add-ons
This free Firefox add-on allows you to see the definition of any word displayed on the browser screen by hovering the mouse cursor over the word and pressing the spacebar. Definitions are provided by Wiktionary. For more info check out Paul Hamilton's r
PhotoSoup - Yahoo!
This is a very nice word-search game on the tags associated with Flikr photos. Just type in a word (you don't need a Flikr name unless you only want to restrict the use to only your own photos) and the puzzle is created instantly. The clues to the words are the pictures around the puzzle, and the words are generated from the picture tags. For more info see Paul Hamilton's review.
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
This subscription site allows you to look up a limited number of words per day for free. After you type in a word, related words are displayed in a concept-type web. You can then click on any of those words to display their related words.
Dictionary.com
Free online dictionary with derivations and audio pronunciation. The site also has a word of the day, daily puzzles, multilingual dictionary, and text translation. Site also has a Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, All reference, and web tab. "Cite this source" button on all the reference tools takes you to citations already done in different styles.
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