Technology+Resources

Technology Resources

United Streaming videos for all content and standards (membership needed) www.discoveryeducation.com

Compass Online includes individualized learning paths for students (membership needed) www.compassonline.com

Fast Food Fun (Health/Math lesson utilizing technology) (no membership needed) []

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is full of resources for interactive boards or student computer center time. (no membership needed) []

A site that contain fun videos with quizzes for all subject areas (membership needed) [|www.brainpop.com]

A site that contains fun videos with quizzes for math and science (no membership needed) [|www.studyjams.com]

Links to various ways to upgrade your classroom http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

__**Wikis**__ The technology resource I want to include is using wikis for the classrooms. The websites "wikispaces," [], "wikidot," [|http://www.wikidot.com] , and "wikimatrix," [|http://www.wikimatrix.org].

Using this wiki really showed me the potential for a wiki in my own classroom or using a wiki to collaborate with other students in classes in my school, county, state, country, and even world. The internet is common to all students. Wikis have great value as they are used in the professional workplace for collaboration puposes. A wiki would be great for group projects, and it would provide a space to keep up with notes from a unit of study. It could be used across the curriculum and used at home or school. For students without the internet, wiki pages could be printed at school and carried home to contribute or study. It would be a great tool to prepare students for their futures where technology will be prevalent (Jacobs, 2010).

Teachers and families are able to load spelling and vocabulary lists. Free and paid versions are available, free is adequate. Games and testing that allow students to be independent. We use this as a station during our reading block. [|www.spellingcity.com] Our second grade Storytown site is [|www.spellingcity.com/neverdahl].
 * SpellingCity**

Math Magician is a very basic tool for practicing math drills in primarily primary grades. There are twenty problems in one minute with a goal of 80% accuracy. Certificates are able to be printed and students really like it. We use this for students who score below 80% on our weekly drill assessments. It is also used during our intervention time with a teacher monitoring and noting current strategies and suggesting new ones to gain automaticity. It is helpful to see what they know instead of some students who still struggle with writing mechanics. [|www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html]
 * Math Magician**

Poetry Engine is a simple introduction to poetry. It models four different interactive poetry styles. []
 * Scholastic Poetry Engine**

This is an online timeline maker. When teaching the parts of dates and especially the year, to students, it was helpful to put what they know and the origin of some technology into the timeline to give context. E.g. 1999, 2000, when they were born, cellphones, etc. []
 * Timeline-Read Write Think**