The Word Nerd: Great Resources for Teachers!

The Adoration of Jenna Fox.

I've been slowly gathering a list of websites and resources to check out and/or use in my classroom and I thought, why not share the information? There is so much wonderful stuff out there and if it weren't for others sharing, I would be in the dark about it all.

To start, I'll introduce Animoto.com, a site which VERY easily creates videos. I made a trailer for the book The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson as an experiment and to show my students what they can do (Click on the link above).

Here is a list I've generated of other possible sites for personal and/or educational purposes (and if you have some to add, please let me know about them!):

List of Useful Websites:

http://www.scoop.it/ - make a page of blogs, tweets, articles, etc. on one subject

http://edmodo.com/ - social networking site for classrooms; it's like Facebook for school. I use this in my classroom right now and the students really enjoy it. I post videos, pictures, discussion questions, polls, etc. for them and they get to respond. They seem to really enjoy it!

http://crocodoc.com/ - annotate, highlight, make comments on ANY document. Just upload it.

http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ - highlight text from articles posted online and print or save.

http://youblisher.com/ – upload pdf files to create an online flip book

http://animoto.com/ - create videos or book trailers

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ - convert Word docs to PDF files

http://www.kellygallagher.org/resources/articles.html - Kelly Gallagher – articles to discuss in class (articles of the week)

Reading Rockets – invaluable info for teachers on books, authors, classroom strategies, etc.

http://www.readingrockets.org

Punctuation:

http://thinkfinity.org/tec-punctuation-lessons - quick lessons in punctuation

About Authors/Books:

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/anderson/