Welcome to this blog! This blog is for any teacher to share what technology they use in the classroom. Hopefully teachers can learn new types of technology and can create ways to implement the new technology into their classroom.
ne way that I use different technology in my language arts class is through the site, Pixton Comic Strip Creator. http://www.pixton.com-- This is an interactive comic strip maker. My students love creating characters and stories using this site. You can sign up for a 30 day trial. I use it for students to write the sequential story line for their independent novels verus a typical book report!
This past year I used iMovie a lot with my students and they loved it! Of course you can only use that if you have Mac computers available. I also use Wordle a lot with my students. We use it to write about ourselves, when they read biographies, character traits, as a book report. My students also enjoy Trueflix. This is a scholastic run site that has interactive nonfiction books. It has all of Scholastics books from their series A True Book. The students can read the books themselves or have it read to them. There is usually a video clip and game that also go along with the book.
My students like to use Spelling City to help practice their spelling words. Spelling City is a free site, where teachers can upload their spelling lists, then their students can have access to games and quizzes to help them with their spelling words. The teacher and all students would need logins and passwords, this is the only bummer. Last year I co-taught, that teacher allowed the students to go on Cool Math Games, this was an interesting math game site. Most games I thought were beneficial, however there were some that I did not think were too helpful. It was really fun to watch the students play the ones that involved angles. The students loved this website. I also used some scholastic resources from time to time and was pleased with what they had to offer too. From time to time we would research the authors of different books we were reading, I was surprised to find out that many had very nice, established sites.
A tip I would give to teachers. If you are only using a website one or two times, and do not want to save it as a favorite on all of your computers, I would recommend putting an exact link in a Word document, and your instructions for the webpage that you want your students to remember. Then save that document into a folder that the computer lab has access to, it helps keep students' frustrations down, because then they should not get messed up on trying to type a long website or exact webpage location, all they will need to do is right click and select "open hyperlink".
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ne way that I use different technology in my language arts class is through the site, Pixton Comic Strip Creator. http://www.pixton.com-- This is an interactive comic strip maker. My students love creating characters and stories using this site. You can sign up for a 30 day trial. I use it for students to write the sequential story line for their independent novels verus a typical book report!
This past year I used iMovie a lot with my students and they loved it! Of course you can only use that if you have Mac computers available. I also use Wordle a lot with my students. We use it to write about ourselves, when they read biographies, character traits, as a book report. My students also enjoy Trueflix. This is a scholastic run site that has interactive nonfiction books. It has all of Scholastics books from their series A True Book. The students can read the books themselves or have it read to them. There is usually a video clip and game that also go along with the book.
My students like to use Spelling City to help practice their spelling words. Spelling City is a free site, where teachers can upload their spelling lists, then their students can have access to games and quizzes to help them with their spelling words. The teacher and all students would need logins and passwords, this is the only bummer.
Last year I co-taught, that teacher allowed the students to go on Cool Math Games, this was an interesting math game site. Most games I thought were beneficial, however there were some that I did not think were too helpful. It was really fun to watch the students play the ones that involved angles. The students loved this website.
I also used some scholastic resources from time to time and was pleased with what they had to offer too.
From time to time we would research the authors of different books we were reading, I was surprised to find out that many had very nice, established sites.
A tip I would give to teachers. If you are only using a website one or two times, and do not want to save it as a favorite on all of your computers, I would recommend putting an exact link in a Word document, and your instructions for the webpage that you want your students to remember. Then save that document into a folder that the computer lab has access to, it helps keep students' frustrations down, because then they should not get messed up on trying to type a long website or exact webpage location, all they will need to do is right click and select "open hyperlink".
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