Resources

= Resources: These are fun and interesting extras that I wanted to include **Fun Additions:** =

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Wordle [|www.wordle.net] This is a fun website that allows you to make word collages. You type in words and then submit it and it turns into a collage and you can change the collage until you are satisfied with it. ======

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Voice Threads [|www.voicethreads.com] This website allows you to comment and discuss on videos that have been uploaded. Students are able to share their opinion without being scrutinized. Teachers and students are able to make their own voice threads and then share them with other students or teachers and collaborate or comment on the voice thread. **Free membership** ======

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Tumble Books [|www.tumblebooks.com] This is a great website for the younger grades. This is an animated website that reads books to the students. It is very fun and colorful, and the books are very enjoyable. **Must be a member, best for schools**  ======

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 Storyline Online [|www.storylineonline.net] I love this website because I love James Earl Jones, but aside from that it is a great website. James Earl Jones reads the chosen books to the students. ======

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Starfall [|www.starfall.com]This is a great interactive resource for children. It helps with reading, from ABC's games to plays and comics to read. This is a wonderful website for teachers to use in their classroom to help get kids interested in reading.======

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Animoto [|www.animoto.com] For someone that has a lot of pictures, or if the students have a lot of pictures they want to share with the class this is the way to go because all you have to do is upload your photos (you can upload them off the computer, a thumb drive, facebook or flickr) and then pick the music to go with it, and wait for your slideshow to load, it is very animated and fun to watch. **Free membership & also the speed of the slideshow goes with the music, so if you pick something fast and upbeat the pictures will filter quicker than with a slower song.**======

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Free Rice [|www.freerice.com] This website is a good learning tool (for a slightly older group) for vocabulary and it also helps others. It's a vocabulary game and for every answer you get right the organization donates 10 grains of rice through the UN World Hunger Program to help end hunger. You can play for however long you want, and you can move through the levels to go from easy to hard words. It's great if you can project it and let the class play all at once.======

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Twiddla [|www.twiddla.com] This is a "meeting" website, but it is a lot of fun. You can set up a meeting and have all of your students, or groups of students go to it at once, and they can chat online, draw, write, etc. in this "sandbox". You can write on pictures, graphs and anything else that you want to download and have your students work on. It is a lot of fun, and even though the students are not at the same computer they are able to see what the others are drawing and writing.======

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Professor Garfield [|www.professorgarfield.com]If your students like cartoons then they will love this website. This is a great interactive website with Garfield & friends with reading games, art games, math games, etc. and a fun comic lab where the students can make their own comics and print them out.======

**Wikis and Blogs:**
Bill Ferriter's Blog Page [] This is a blog by Bill Ferriter who came and talked to our class about wikis and blogs. He updates his blog as much as possible and he talks about education and technology and how they go hand in hand. This is a great website for teachers to learn a little bit more about the great things that you can do in your classroom that involve technology.

Staying Current Wiki [|http://staycurrent.pbwiki.com] This wiki is mainly for staying current with the Blue Diamond Assessments for literacy. Teachers are able to pull up this wiki during class and ask their students questions from the Blue Diamond Assessments to check for mastery in a certain area. This is wonderful for teachers to act like "pop quizzes" before actually giving out the Blue Diamonds.

Digitally Speaking Wiki [|http://digitallyspeaking.pbwiki.com] This blog is wonderful for learning more about the digital environment that we are living in. It discusses voice threads, wikis, blogs, and podcasting. It's a great way to better understand these different pieces of technology and also see what others think about them.

WetPaint [|www.wetpaint.com] This is a website where you can start your own wiki for free.

PbWiki [|www.pbwiki.com] This is another free website to start your own wiki **Popular with most people**

Wiki Spaces www.wikispaces.com Another free wiki website **Very Popular with people**

Blogger [|www.blogger.com] This website is where you can set up your own blog to share with other people. It is free and easy to set up

NC Standard Course of Study [] Our North Carolina Standard Course of Study website
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