Websites+and+software+to+remember

Websites, Blogs and Software to remember and/or explore my Pinterest boards - a great resource for saving links and sharing ideas!

my LibraryThing catalog - I've only entered about half (maybe) of my classroom library!

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 @http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf - 2013 Horizon Report for k-12 schools

[|http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/06/8-overlooked-useful-youtube-tools.html#.Uo0cNcSsiM5] - using Youtube tools

 [] - Assessments and rubrics of many kinds

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 [] - Genre activities

 [|www.ocmboces.org/tfiles/folder2117/apps for kids.docx‎] - opens a word doc

[] - handout for kids - all about digital storytelling

more on digital storytelling! - [] __** IWB-friendly web tools for words **__
 * **Tool name ** || **What it does ** || **TeachersFirst review and more ideas for using it ** ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Big Huge Thesaurus] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">interactive thesaurus to use for vocabulary activities, including word connotations, etc. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Big Huge Labs [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Diagrammr] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">create fast, simple concept maps from sentences -- no membership required || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Diagrammr [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Literature Project] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">texts of many classic literary works to use on the IWB or copy/paste into IWB software || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Literature Project [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Readability] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">a downloadable plug-in for your web browser to generate plain text versions of web pages. Removes ads, images, and extraneous items. Great for learning support students who have trouble tracking text amid distractions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Readability [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Science News for Kids] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">a great place to find text passages for reading comprehension, science, or current events || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Science News for Kids [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Triptico Word Magnets and more] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">make and SAVE your own interactive word magnets and other tools to work with on IWB (read TF's [|review] on how to install. Requires a DOWNLOAD and install to use this free tool, so you need to prepare in advance!) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Triptico [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Visuwords] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">see a graphical display of related words based on the term you enter. *NOTE: Displays adult vocabulary, if entered! || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Visuwords [|review] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Vocab grabber] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">plucks vocabulary from a passage you paste in, providing an on-screen view of context clues. Students could pre-analyze a passage from other web pages to help with learning terminology || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vocab grabber [|review] ||