101 Websites to Energize Your Classroom

SORLA 2018

Presenter: Rick Bell :: on Twitter @rbell

Segment 1

     21st Century Skills

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills                                                                                    
• Gifted/Talented Resource  

   Communication

• Epals  safe student email accounts
• Skype - video teleconferencing for free 
• Kidblog- $$$ safe way for students to blog about their experiences 
• Meet- NEW** Google provides an easy way to teleconference

   Creativity and Project-based Learning                                                                      

• Audacity  - create a podcast or record readers
• Popplet- 21st-Century Graphic Organizer      
• Mindomo - online mind mapping tool    
• WeVideo- video production (Voice)                                             
• Voice Thread - add audio to images and videos online                                                        
• Voice Thread TIP Sheet
• Animoto - create a video with photos  

   Collaboration 

• PBworks - create a wiki 
• Google Sites - create a website Sample
• Google Drive - collaboration and storage site 
• Let's try it  Google Forms                                  

              WebQuests

• Quest Garden  - $ the mother site of webquests      

          Rubrics 

• Rubistar - rubric generator                                                                                              

Segment 2 Critical Thinking

Teacher Facilitation

• Prezi - puts power point to shame
• Pete's Power Point Station - premade ppt library, "work smarter, not harder"

         Computer Programming

• Scratch - program created by MIT/students create animation 

          Teacher Resources                               

• Puzzlemaker - make crossword and math puzzles easily 
• Thinkport - virtual field trip ideas  
• Villainy Mission               

               Math Sites 

• NCTM Illuminations - $ higher order thinking site for K12   
• Wild Math - fact practice                                           
• A Maths Dictionary For Kids - contains just about every math term you can think of
• Maths Charts
• Mathwire - printable games for higher order thinking
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - easy to use manipulatives 
• Interactivate - upper elementary to high school 
• IXL Math - $ state standard based practice site
• Common Core - Common Core math standards work sheet resource 
• Prodigy - learning through a video game

          Reading Sites

• Starfall - might be best free primary reading site
• Tumblebooks - $ great ebook resource 
• Read.Write.Think - part of Thinkfinity, supported by NCTE                                        
• Learning a-z - $ tons of printables 
• Reading Rockets - check out the Video Interviews of authors
• Vidcasts
• Newlsela - non-fiction reading site, can select the lexile
• ReadTheory - reading practice site

            Test Prep 

• That Quiz - student or teacher created quizzes
• Math Slice - comprehensive 3-5 math tests and a lot more
• Houghton Mifflin Kids' Place - math prep
• Pearson Reading Tests - online test prep
• Quia  (30-day trial)
• Quizlet -upper grades will love this one  Let's try  Quizlet Live
• Prepdog -grade specific leveled tests

          Science Sites

• NOVA Interactives - science interactives sorted by area of interest
• How Stuff Works - videos and articles about science
• BreakoutEDU - fun interactive way for students to engage in learning process, be a detective

          Spelling Site

• Spelling City - best spelling practice site I have ever seen                                              

          General Sites                                                

• JumpStart- resource for Pre-K
• Sheppard Software - student favorite
• PBS Kids - all the great characters to help kids learn

Segment 3

          Video resources (Blended Learning/Flipped Classroom)

• Khan Academy -tutorial lessons with practice questions 
• BrainPOP - $ Videos, activities and quizzes for just about everything                     
• CNN 10 - used almost every day with students                                     
• Vimeo - online video sharing 
• You Tube 
• ViewPure - access Youtube videos without the ads and comments 
• Online-Convert - pull videos from youtube
• LearnZillion - tutorial lessons

          Make your lessons truly interactive 

• Crickweb - lower grades 
• Poll Everywhere - poll students with laptops or cell phones                                   
• Survey Monkey - online survey tool  
• Nearpod - Interactive presentations

           Review Games

• Super Teacher Tools        
• Kahoot - preview/review concepts with competition     
• Quizizz - individualized formative assessment                                            

     Twitter - 21st Century Professional Development

     Cool and useful tools/Sites

           Integrating music    

• iHeartRadio - free music stream  

          Spice up some old tools                                                                  

• Read the Words - 30 second limit free, text to speech converter

• Keybr - keyboarding site upper grades
• DanceMat Typing - keyboarding site lower grade 

            Communicate with students

• Remind 101 -mass texting to students and parents

            Save things to "The Cloud" 

• Google Drive
• Dropbox 

            Google 

• Earth                                                               
• Maps  
• Translate     Translate page into: Arabic Chinese Dutch French German Japanese Portuguese Russian Spanish

          Apps for classroom

• Scan.me - QR code creator
• educreations - $$$ creating tutorials "flipped lessons"  
• Seesaw - Student driven digital portfolios

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