Web-based resources for Engish


 Ideas & Perspectives

 

 

 

Kids Today

 

 

Schools and Schooling: What's Now, What's Next?

 

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Tools for Collaboration 

 

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Tools for Building Community

 

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Tools for Teaching Literature & Writing

 

(Also, see Specific Tools, below.)

 

Writing

          sim­ple. you’ll see one word at the top of the fol­low­ing screen.

          you have sixty sec­onds to write about it.

          click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cur­sor in place.

          don’t think. just write.

 

 

 

Reading & Literature

Additional Curriculum Resources

 

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Tools for Teaching Media Literacy

Media Literacy

 

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Specific Tools for Thinking & Creating

 

General Resources

 

 

Specific Tools

This collection of web 2.0 tools began with a conversation with 8th grade students, about what school would look like if all of the rules we currently had were disbanded. They were no longer bound by walls, schedules, age restrictions or standardized tests. No technology was outlawed.... Here are the tools they think we ought to consider using.  

 

(Thanks to Drew Buddie and his wiki, Indispensible ICT Tools for Teachers, for the format & many of the resources listed below.) 

 

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Tools for Personal PD

 

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Tools for Downloading & Converting Videos

 

 

  • Click on the little icon for DownloadHelper at the upper left corner of every video.
  • Download the Firefox extension, called DownloadHelper. This enables you to download video from many other sites.

 

 

 


 

 NCTE Statements & Standards for Teaching with Digital Tools

 

 

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Web-based Resources for the English Classroom (Karen LaBonte) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0