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PIZZAZ! Creative Writing and Storytelling Ideas
PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages.
Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English
Here’s the best selection of FREE online educational videos and lessons from all over the Internet.
Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos
a promising new service offering more than 500 videos designed to help students learn SAT and ACT vocabulary words.
Applications for Education
Word Ahead could be a great resource for Language Arts teachers. The Word Ahead widget is a great item to embed into your class website or blog. By embedding the Word Ahead widget into your blog, students can get a quick vocabulary review every time they visit your blog.
The Oldies Come to Animoto's Music Library
Applications for Education
Here is an idea for using Animoto in an English/ Literature course. To get students excited about studying and or writing poetry have them select a poem, record an audio track of the poem being read, then use that audio track as part of an Animoto poetry video. Alternatively, you may try simply having students select music and images that they feel captures the tone and message of a poem.
Another way to use Animoto is to have students collect images of the community they live in and put them into an Animoto show. Students should selec
Teaching a lesson using diigo - part 2 « Andywhiteway’s Blog
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Students were to look at three different websites, each containing a different poem by W.H. Auden. On each site they would be required to highlight and explain a different piece of information from the poem. They would then be required to synthesise the three seperate explanations they had given about the poems into a conclusion on the overall message contained in Auden’s poetry, which they would post on the forum on our diigo group’s homepage.
Free Technology for Teachers: Grammar Bytes - Develop and Test Grammar Knowledge
Applications for Education
The design and content of Grammar Bytes makes it a good resource for students and teachers. If I was responsible for teaching grammar I would use Grammar Bytes by having the students do the interactive activities independently.
Educators using technology to improve writing - Roanoke.com
a new report outlined the need to change how writing is taught in schools.
The report, titled "Writing Between the Lines -- and Everywhere Else," released Wednesday, is the third installment from the National Council for Teachers of English that looks at
Character Scrapbook Grades 2-6
Create a Character Scrapbook to analyze characters in a book that the class is reading or for books that students are reading individually. This colorful site asks for the "Book Title" and the "Character's Name." Then the fun begins! You can design a face
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