EDU560-Su2011

This is a free website, which has a huge list of free tales. It is easy to use and it is meant for students in grade 3rd and up. It is a great resource, which can be used in a language arts classroom. Students can identify parts of speech and refer back to the tale of choice. It is great.

This website is a great for student that are learning how to read. It has sections like ABCs- Let's get ready to read where student learn letters and sounds, and section like I'm Reading " where students can read easy books and practice their fluency.It is a great tool for differentiating activities.It is a free website.

This is a free resource, which teaches children to read with phonics. The website has 4 levels of reading: ABC's, Learn to read, It's fun to read, and I am reading. It could be used by teachers and parents to help the student acquire different level of skills in reading. Is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a free, colorful, interactive, and user friendly website, which can be used in art class or a language arts class. The students can explore different paintings and look for clues as to what the theme might be, what different objects represented might symbolize and what not. At the end, the students are to use their imagination and write a story based on the painting. It is a great tool and it gets the students to analyze and think critically about art.

A free resource by the National geographic Chanel, which allows kids to learn by playing various educational games such as "Go West with Lewis and Clark," "The Underground Railroad," or "Secrets of the Maya Glyphs." There are many different activities and Experiments that the students can explore. The website is very interactive and user friendly. Great to use in a geography class.

This is a free search engine design by librarians just for kids. This search engine produces only kids friendly results and it a great tool to use if the student is to be "protected" from inappropriate content sometimes returned by known search engines such as yahoo, google and what not. The website is free and user friendly. The student can also chose under what topic would the search be and narrow down the search. I love it!

This particular website addresses students' preferred learning styles (learning profiles) as well as a specific content area- that of history.

This is an interactive set of web pages which can be used by teachers to teach children about the Internet and how to navigate it. With the fast moving technology, such website will provide students with basic skills that they can apply for Internet searches, selecting information and knowing where to find information. The website is free and easy to navigate through.

I came across this website not too long ago and was surprised by the type of approach it uses to help ESL students learn English. Voxy uses current articles from world news, pop culture, as well as sports to help students learn. This would be a great tool that can be used in an ESL classroom. As the student reads an article, s(he) can click on highlighted words in the text and hear the words pronounced. By clicking the highlighted words, they also become automatically generated into a vocabulary list that the students could learn. The lists could very well be used for quizzes and games. The website is available in both English and Spanish. It is free and very easy to use. Check it out.

Word Steps is a resource for learning the vocabulary of choice in nine different languages. It is free to sign up and to use. This website can be used by an instructor in a language arts or foreign language class. The user can select the language to be learned and there are six different types of practice activities for each set of vocabulary words. Each set of vocabulary words is called a dictionary in Word Steps (interesting). One can use dictionaries (words) created by other Word Steps users or one can create his/her own dictionary (words). The website is easy to use and navigate through. The website could be use with or without creating an account.

This is a free visual, video dictionary. It features a selection of user-created as well as professionally-created videos explaining the meaning of a word. When the video plays there are images as well as text defining the word. Most of the words featured on this website are every-day words. The website is easy to use and it could be incorporated into a language art classroom.

The European Virtual Museum is a free website, which would be great in a social studies classroom where the teacher would have the chance to show students various artifacts of European history in 3D that they may or may never see otherwise. One important thing to point out is that users must have and be familiar with Quick Time technology to view and manipulate the size or them. position of the artifacts.

Free global learning community. This works for teachers who want to incorporate technology and projects with others all over the world. Students love talking to students from other places. Only downside is time for teacher to approve student accounts and students remembering their passwords.

I love this. It has appropriate video for teachers and schools to use for students at different levels. The free info is limited, but the subscription seems affordable. Students would love learning more like this and could have multiple viewings for reinforcement.

This is a demo website released by Google that is free to use and it gives a 360 degree view of the human body. Students can turn on layers to see bones, muscles, organs, and the nervous system. In addition, every time the student clicks on a body part, a label with the proper name of the body part appears. It is a great learning tool, but one problem that I found is that some web browsers such as Firefox do not seem to support the WebGL, which is a new standard for 3D on the web.

Free website with possibility to upgrade. Gives advice for how to work with photos and make a story. It's a little hard to navigate but I could see appeal for teachers and students.

This is a free space exploration simulation program. It must be downloaded from the website and it runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux Operating Systems. Celestia provides the students with a satellite imagery and the students can zoom in on the earth, moons, the stars, and other planets, and have a great time learning more about space. The program is very easy to use and navigate. This free program is available in various languages to cater better to a larger pool of students.

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Free. This is a great tool for teachers on best practices. It's easy to navigate and has a lot of information. It is updated frequently and has great content.

This resource is great for the students to practice their math skills and it is free. However, I must point out that although Math Open Reference is not as attractive to the eye, is user-friendly and the students would not be overwhelmed with information when they get to the page. The information on the website is separated by math concept and there are links for each. Furthermore, the website features animated and interactive drawings to demonstrate mathematical terms and concepts.

This is a free website that teachers can use in their math classroom. The website is for the students to practice mathematical concepts and it is very catchy, with great graphics, and it allows the students to create a free account and even name their character. As I said, this website is very user-friendly and it would attract a student with its colorful layout. Brain Nook is a virtual world which provides students with different scenarios that they have to resolve by answering mathematical and language arts questions. Great resource!