Here are some additional tools for technology in the classroom :
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Ed.VoiceThread is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices. |
This is a link to the Central Arizona Writing Project's VoiceThread used to communicate about great books for writing teachers in the summer of 2009. |
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This is the link for Poll Everywhere free access to K-12 teachers (you must sign up and create an account). | |
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For a modest investment, you can create a t-shirt that encourages dialogue! | |
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Email additional suggestions and annotations for useful technology sites to Laura Turchi
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Some reference articles that could be helpful
About Learning to LOVE cell phones in class (article from Edutopia)
About Edubloggers as creating a network-of-practice (a teacher's blog)
Wikipedia's Glossary of Blogging (an interesting way to show students the impact of Web 2.0 on language)
What are you doing in English Language Arts this week?
The NING connection
The NCTE NING connection
(This is a work in progress!)
