Hot Apps 4 Literacy will highlight free game-like apps for elementary and secondary. The focus of the show will be discussing how these apps can be utilized to create purposeful instruction utilizing multiple delivery methods and task cards. Join in the fun!
Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
I love all these FREE graphic organizers that students can use to organize and guide their thinking. You have to take a look at this one.
Love, love, love this site. I cannot say enough nice things about it. They have a load of lesson ideas and resources here. Of course I love the online student interactives. Students complete the interactives and then print them out. There are currently 56 of them to choose from. They offer things like bio cubes, Acrostic Poems, Story Maps, etc. Currently, students must complete the project in one sitting and print out their activity as you cannot save. I understand soon you will be able to save and return to the project to finish later. I can’t wait for that feature.
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun.
I like this site because the art is beautiful and it really inspires great stories. You can have a story or poem be pages long or even just one page. The site is very easy to use, even young children can use it, yet it is still appropriate for the older student as well. If you love your story you can print it out in a book (for a fee.)
There is a management part for teachers if you want to create classes. And what I really like is that students can have their own accounts and you can add or delete them from your class and it will not delete their accounts.
Students can collaborate on stories right in Storybird. You should definitely give this site a little time and check it out.
With Picnik you can exercise your creative muscles on your photos. Don’t stop there however. There are lots of content related things you can do with your pictures. You can add text and stickers as well as be creative with your photos.
Check it out!
Today’s Meet is a site that allows you to make a temporary chat room just for your specific needs. You name the room, you decide how long you will have the room open. The students type in their names and begin contributing to the discussion.
Today’s Meet allows you to tap into the “backchannel” of your classroom. What is the “backchannel?” This is what Today’s Meet says it is:
The backchannel is everything going on in the room that isn’t coming from the presenter.
The backchannel is where people ask each other questions, pass notes, get distracted, and give you the most immediate feedback you’ll ever get.
Instead of ignoring the backchannel, TodaysMeet helps you leverage its power.
Tapping into the backchannel lets you tailor and direct your presentation to the audience in front of you, and unifying the backchannel means the audience can share insights, questions and answers like never before.
AND you can even print the entire transcript of the conversation so you always have that to refer back to.
Build Your Wild Self is a site hosted by the New York Zoo and Aquarium. You can create a creature by selecting a tail, body, eyes, etc. When you are finished creating your wild self you can print out the image. The print out comes with a description of each feature and its purpose. Students could then draw a habitat, if you have them save without a background, that their creature could survive in. You could then have 2 student compare and contrast their creatures. As the teacher, you could give the students a habitat and the students have to create the creature that could survive in the given habitat. There are lots of things you could do with Your Wild Self!
You can also virtually visit several zoos. Fun stuff.
Go Wild!
Pixton is a new cartoon maker to me. I do like it. My friend Lisa Johnson and I just had a LOT of fun making this cartoon here. What I like most about this site is that all the characters’ postures and facial expressions can be changed. Other sites do this too but I liked the way this one did it. You are also able to insert, add and delete panels. I find that this site just has a lot of flexibility with the cartoon maker. All the sharing modalities are there too. For a fee. Even without the class accounts this is a very fun tool.
Blabberize is a site where you can make images talk. FUN. Take a look at Tina Triangle below.
Like Wordle, Tagxedo allows you to make wonderful word clouds, but with Tagxedo you are able to create the cloud in a shape. You can also save the image without having to take a screen shot which is really nice.
This sample was created by using Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech that I copied from American Rhetoric.
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