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=**Multitude of resources and tech tools to make your life easier**=

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== WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing.



==108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom -- really, no joke. . . 108!==
 * || A word cloud generator with many different designs to fit your interests. You can make word clouds from famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, and even personal letters. Words are individually sized in the selected shape of the word cloud in order to show which words most frequently occurred within the text. ||

Give your chat room a name, password if you wish, invite others and chat. The room is deleted 2 minutes after the last person leaves the 'room'.

Draw + write together It's simple! Nothing to install, no passwords to remember

Gives everyone the floor and lets even the quietest students express themselves. No accounts or passwords needed. You can also "meet" with students from other classes. Just invite them to the room.

Bookmark [|Pinball]on classroom computers so that students can use them as an inspiration station center. Any time your students need to bounce ideas around or think through their learning visually they can visit [|Pinball]and work through their ideas. [|Pinball] would also be helpful for structuring thinking prior to a research report, or science experiment. If you have access to a computer lab or 1-to-1 setting, allow your students time to think about their learning and connect new learning to knowledge frameworks they have already built. The possibilities with these tools are endless.

fur.ly has a unique method of shortening links. It allows you to input multiple links at once and shortens them into a single URL. When clicked, a fur.ly link will bring you to a web page that shows each link in sequence.

You are able to shorten & share up to 7 URLs at the same time. Fav7 also has some really commendable features such as letting people who come across your link see snapshots for each of the seven URLs that are featured, as well as running a check on all of them in order to know if they are really safe.

Click here for a fav 7 on the solar system

Random Number Generator
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Keep your students guessing. . . who will be called on next. [|Random Name Generator]

[|Online Stopwatch]

Another timer tool [|Countdown clock to manage time in your classroom]

Want a new way to keep your class quiet? Tell them not to bounce the balls. It's also a great way to demonstrate voice levels for partner work, student presentations, etc.

[|Noise Control]



ClassDojo is an easy way to engage your classroom by recognizing positive behaviors as they happen.
Teachers can create individual questions, quizzes, and polls. The creation of questions is stunningly easy to use and the steps are easy to explain to teachers. [|Teachers can register for a free account]. Once you have created a quiz, students login to a virtual room with a number assigned to each teacher. This process was so simple that it could easily be used in an elementary classroom. Once students have entered the classroom, they can participate in any of the activities sent from the teacher. The activities include multiple choice, short answer, and true/false questions. The questions can be answered anonymously or with student names so that progress can be measured. Socrative emails teachers reports that include graded assignments for everything except short answer questions.

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Draw A Stickman - draw a stick character and take it on an interactive adventure. Create as a writing activity. Students can complete the interactive adventure and write about it. [|Start Drawing Here]

**Flipbook**
Flipbook is a web tool that allows teachers and students to create a digitally animated flipbook and then share it with the world. it is easy to create and is lots of fun to work with. Besides the obvious art implication, Flipbooks might be a great creative way for Middle School students to animate a historical event, show the visual representation of how to do a math equation, show a scientific process or even retell a scene from a book. Fast, fun and Free!

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Thousands of well designed cross curricular activities. Free for teachers! Teachers need to create a log in and password. Won't work for students, as log in and permission are required. [|Study Ladder]

=Social Bookmarking in Plain English= [|View Pure] is a simple little tool that strips YouTube viewing of all of the distractions of related videos, comments, and promoted videos. To use [|View Pure] just copy the link of a video into the "purifier," click purify, and your video will be displayed on a blank white background.

=Flocabulary= "This song covers the five main elements of a story: setting, plot, characters, conflict and theme. Whether you’re studying a short story, a novel, an epic poem, a play or a film, if you don’t find these five elements, you’re not looking hard enough. With a catchy chorus that’s hard to forget, this “five elements of a short story” rap will get you or your students hooked."

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Punctuation Rap - The Electric Company

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=Share your sound= [|Croak.it] allows you to record 30 second audio clips in three easy steps: push, speak, and share. A unique url is automatically created for your recording, making it easy to share with others - just paste the link into an email, webpage, or QR code creator (try [|www.qr.stuff.com]).

**Classroom Ideas for Croak.it**

 * Sharpen your students' listening skills: Create QR codes from the croak.it recording links for a QR Code scavenger hunt. Students will have to listen to the instructions to complete the tasks.
 * Assess students' reading abilities by having them record themselves reading aloud in the croak.it app. Students can then share the recording link with the teacher. Save the recording and then let students listen to it at the end of the year to hear how much they've improved! //(Tip: Collect and save student recordings using a Google Form)// A great idea for ELL!
 * Have students record themselves explaining how to do a math problem and then share with the teacher for a quick assessment or with other students for peer tutoring.
 * Students could record audio book reviews, use the link to create a QR code, and then attach the QR code to the book jacket for other students to scan and listen to when looking for books to read.

Use your voice -- push, speak, share! Create & upload an audio file to your wiki.
http://vocaroo.com/ The premiere voice recording service. An alternative to croak.it With this tool you can upload the sound file to your computer.

Blabberize allows you to add a talking image to your voice. Water Cycle
Computers210 whittier

It’s a website (or app) that allows you to upload a photo and then record yourself speaking about it. One idea: Students describing people that were important to them and so my students’ assignment was to upload a photo of such person and record themselves talking about them.

Another idea: Use a picture as a writing prompt.

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