Our on-line learning websites...

THE KEY IS THAT THESE ARE LEARNING PLATFORMS SO ALL DATA AND  COMMENTS ENTERED MUST BE USED TO ENHANCE AND SUPPORT OUR LEARNING!  

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Welcome!  We are very excited about the opportunity for you to experience the Google Cloud, Sophia, Socrative, Edmodo, and more!  We also have a link to Class Dojo, our on-line behaviour system!
EDMODO IS A SECURE SOCIAL LEARNING PLATFORM (YOU NEED A CODE TO ACCESS) THAT WILL ALLOW US TO COMMUNICATE AND COLLABORATE ON KEY IDEAS, DOCUMENTS, HOMEWORK AND MORE!  

THIS IS ALSO A  LEARNING PLATFORM SO ALL DATA AND COMMENTS ENTERED MUST BE USED TO ENHANCE AND SUPPORT OUR LEARNING!

ALL REMARKS ON THIS SITE ARE VISIBLE TO THE GROUP YOU ARE LINKED WITH.  

PARENTS MAY ALSO CONNECT AS PART OF OUR HOME-SCHOOL CONNECTION.  

PLEASE E-MAIL MRS. TOMASSI  FOR MORE INFORMATION. 
SUMMER - CAMP Google.  This is a free interactive summer camp hosted by Google, National Geographic and more!

Click for: Brevard's On-line Text Books 
Information
​Now on Launch Pad

E Book Series
 Literacy  & Languages!        Science & STEM Social Studies & Learning Styles   Technology  and More Fun and challenges!  International & Fitness  Google

Learn a new Language!BCC Languages

PicLits - Inspired Picture Writing - you've hear about it...so let's look!

Online Storytime by Barnesand Noble

Book Flixs - by Scholastic.  Books comes alive on-line!

Extra reading 3-8gr

Quick Writing at Small Talk Writing.com 

 Learn a new language for FREE!
BBC Language

 Brevard County Library - Check out a book & soon e-books! Great resource for just about anything!
They're here!  Downloadable E-books and audio books for FREE! You just need your Brevard Library card!

 Discovery Central - Super Science Fair Ideas and Resources!

Math Mastery - A learning site to support 2nd thu 6th grade math

NASA eClips - Innovative Real World Learning

NASA Videos 

Dissect a frog..YUCK! Are you up for it?

NRDC - National Resources Defense Council's Kid Site

IRIS - seismic monitoring live!

Great explanation and activity to help children understand the difference between a science experiment and investigation. by Dade County 

What is food science?

Food Engineering Video		  
Learning Style Resources by Union Mine HS in CA


Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides.

http://prezi.com/

Voki: Create speaking avatars and use them as an effective learning tool

http://www.voki.com/


Toondoo: World's fastest way to create a cartoon.

http://www.toondoo.com/

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

http://www.wordle.net/

Tikatok

A fun world where kids create and share their own books.

http://www.tikatok.com/

Photopeach

Fresh slideshows to go!

http://photopeach.com/

 

Big Huge Labs

Do things with your photos

http://bighugelabs.com/

  ICT Magic - A wiki website for teachers that highlights some amazing e-learning resources.

World Book for Brevard

NASA's Space your FACE!- dance with me on the Moon or Mars!

Highlights - Puzzlemania

Highlights Kids Learning Site

Google A day - are you up for the search!

Kahn Academy - Learn almost anything for free!

Make your own photos, photo puzzles, free clip art and more.  This is a wiki site.

University of South Florida's Educator ICT site- ICT site for educators		  A 7th & 8th Grade Science class in Rio DeJanerio


Adventure to Fitness from Mr. Siegal.  GET MOVING!

Get Moving Ideas by Flintstone Vitamins

Health Teacher


  What is Google Docs?

My Google course


Google Forms to collect survey data and more!
Vocabulary Pinball - higher level vocabulary words but seems like fun.

Word Central: Games with Synonyms and more!

More synonyms

EduPlace EWord Game!

Scholastic Synonym Toast		  Brevard Zoo- you belong in the ZOO!

E-Zoo!  Create an ocean scene or animal farm.  Great for K!
Lego Digital Designer - really! You can design your own!

Oxford University's Natural History Museum - Fossils, Animals and more!

BBC Schools Science Clips		  

 



  
Discovery Education - Clip Art - for us to use!

The largest collection of royalty free clipart.

30 multimedia on-line resources from 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning Blog		    
 










 		  


   
  

Other
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WEBPAGES

1.     Wikis

           http://www.wikispaces.com/

 

2.    Webpage Creation

http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips/lt48.htmm

 

3.    The Basics of Online Learning

http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/onlinelearningbasics.htm

 

STUDENT PUBLISHING

Students love to share their work with others. Most teachers post student work in their class or around the school or send work home for parents to post the work on the refrigerator. The Internet provides students a chance to share their work with a worldwide audience which can be a very powerful and motivating opportunity for students. However, we need to make sure to protect our children as they work in this arena. Be sure to have parental permission from parents before posting students' work and never reveal personal information about a student.

 

ARTICLES
Encourage Student Writing - Publish on the Web

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech042.shtml

http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=378


Gaining a New, Wider Audience: Publishing Student Work on the Internet

http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?

 

HREF=/electronic/karchmer/index.html

 

Information Age Inquiry

http://virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/waving.htm


Opportunities for Teenagers to Share Their Writing Online

http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/jaal/10-00_Column/index.html

 

http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/webwatch/writing/index.html

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-cool-websites-teenagers-stand/

 

STUDENT PUBLISHING SITES


River of Words - allows students to publish a poem in which letters spell another word.

http://www.riverofwords.org/

 

Story Book- allows students to publish, stories, poems, journals and play scripts.

http://www.novelist.ch/joomla/


Fern's Poetry Clubs - PBS provides a way for students to publish poems.

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/poetry/


Crunch - an online "zine" for students to publish feature articles, art and technology reviews, and creative writing.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch/

 

NIEHS Kids' Pages - The Environmental Art and Poetry Gallery - provides links to a variety of web pages for publishing student work.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/


Kidscribe - a bilingual site for student authors.

http://brightinvisiblegreen.com/kidscribe/


CyberFair - allows students in grades 3-5 to publish science fair projects.

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsncf/


Kids Who Read - a book club for students to nominate and discuss their favorite books.

http://www.kidsreads.com/


KidsCom - allows students to publish stories. Each week the site challenges students to write a story using the character, place and prop they provide.

http://www.kidscom.com/


Pet of the Day - students submit a picture of their pet and information.

http://petoftheday.com/


Young Writer - an international magazine featuring the best in English language creative writing from children aged 5 to 18 from around the world.

http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/


ZuZu - allows students to contribute artwork, mysterious stories, poetry, creative writing, and more

http://www.zuzu.org/write.html


MidLink Magazine - a digital magazine for students 8-18, they prefer classroom projects, sponsored by a teacher.

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/


KidsWWwrite - a place to publish stories for students 5-16.

http://www.kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite/


WorldWide Art Gallery - accepts art submissions from students of all ages.

http://www.theartgallery.com.au/kidsart.html


The Write Source - allows students in grades 1-12 to publish work. Grades 9-12 can publish paragraphs, essays, reports, research papers, book reviews, essay-test answers, and other types of nonfiction writing. Grades 6-8 can submit paragraphs, essays, reports, book reviews, autobiographical writings, letters, poems, plays, and stories. Grades 4-5 can publish paragraphs, journal writings, letters, book reviews, newspaper stories, tall tales, short stories, poems, and classroom reports. Grades 1-3 can submit all types of writing.

http://thewritesource.com/


Book Hooks - students can publish book reports online.

http://www.bookhooks.com/


Bullying.org - a site where students can submit pictures, stories, poems and more about bullying.

http://www.bullying.org/


WISE Web-based Inquiry Science Environment - a learning environment for students in grades 5-12 to examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies.

http://wise.berkeley.edu/


Online Science-athon - provides elementary and middle-grade students opportunities to gather and share data.

http://scithon.terc.edu/

 

Monu-MENTAL - students select a historical monument, building, park, or landmark and research its special heritage and share why was it built, the historical event it commemorates and how is it used today.

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/dec98/monu.menu.htm


TeenLit.com - a place for teens to share their writing.

http://www.teenlit.com/


Writing with Writers - a Scholastic site that has students work with writers, editors, and illustrators to develop a variety of writing types and then post them to the Internet.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm


My Hero - a site that lets student's post information about their heroes.

http://www.myhero.com/go/home.asp


Problem of the Week - math problems for grades 3-12 in various subject areas that you can submit answers to.

http://mathforum.org/pows/


Fractured Fairy Tales - a site that allows students explore fractured fairy tales with Jon Scieszka, author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and Squids Will Be Squids and write their own fractured fairy tale and publish it online.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/fractured_fairy.htm


Teacher's Tap: Contests, Fairs, and Publishing: Sharing On The Web - a site from Annette Lamb that provides sites where teachers can find places that students can publish projects on the web and participate in contests.

http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic113.htm


Giggle Poetry - a site that allows students to send, read, and rate poetry.

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/


Kid's Book Shelf - a site that allows students to submit poetry, short stories, or book reviews.

http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/index.asp

 

Creative Writing Sites

 

Resources
Student Publishing Planning
Amphitheater HTML Guideline
Acceptable Use Form

 

Student writing contests

http://www.katyisd.org/students/Pages/Studentwriting.aspx

 

Elementary Language Arts

http://rozauer.tripod.com/elemla.htm

 

Online Opportunities for Young Writers

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/yngwrite.html

 

Glogster

Express your creativity and ideas

http://www.glogster.com/

 

ISSUU

http://issuu.com/

Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.

 

Writing Lesson Monthly

http://www.empoweringwriters.com/staticpage/node/0/writing-lesson-of-the-month

 

Voice Thread K-12

http://voicethread.com/products/k12/

All of the VoiceThread K-12 Products use Ed.VoiceThread, our secure and accountable environment found at ed.voicethread.com. It's a web-based communications network built specifically for K-12 Students and Educators. To learn more, watch the Ed.VoiceThread overview below. The following premium accounts have access to this network.

 

Blogs

Create a Google Blog

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=blogger&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.blogger.com/home&followup=http://www.blogger.com/home&ltmpl=start#s01

or

http://tinyurl.com/66yylcc

 

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Book Trailers-Create book trailers.

In short, a book trailer is a short video created by students to highlight the key points of a book. When creating their book trailers students should be trying to "sell" viewers on a book. To create their videos your students could use Animoto, Jaycut, and or photopeach (websites previously listed)

http://animoto.com/education

http://jaycut.com/

http://photopeach.com/

 Create animated or stop-motion videos about a book's plot.

To make an animated video try Memoov which is a free service that your students can use to create an animated video book review. Memoov allows users to create animated videos up to five minutes in length. Creating an animated video with Memoov can be as simple as selecting a setting image(s), selecting a character or characters, and adding dialogue.

If stop-motion videos are more your speed, Kevin Hodgson's Making Stopmotion Movies is a fantastic resource for directions and advice on making stop-motion movies

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/memoov-create-animated-movies-online/  (website is in transition)

Create literature maps.

Using Google Maps or Google Earth students can map out the travels of character in a story. Google Lit Trips has many examples of teachers and students using Google Earth in literature courses

http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html

 Create 3D augmented reality book reviews.

ZooBurst is an amazing service that allows you to create a short story complete with 3D augmented reality pop-ups. Students could useZooBurst to create short summaries of books that really jump off the screen. You do have to login as the teacher and there is a limit of 10 books in the free version. ZooBurst currently offers two types of accounts. "Basic" accounts are 100% free and let you to get started using ZooBurst right away. "Premium"" accounts offer a number of advanced features, including sound integration, ad-free browsing, unlimited books and a powerful "classroom management" tool that makes it easy to use ZooBurst with your students.

http://www.zooburst.com/

Mixbook

Mixbook was originally created for users to create digital scrapbooks using personal photos from weddings, vacations, parties, etc. While it is great for all of those purposes, Mixbook also has some great applications for education. If you're looking for a way for all of your students to demonstrate what they've learned, Mixbook is the perfect tool for you! One of its greatest features (other than the great layout and beautiful finished product) is that Mixbook allows multiple users to collaborate on one book.

http://clancytech.blogspot.com/search/label/Mixbook

 

 

CIESE (Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education): Click on Collaborative Projects
http://www.k12science.org/currichome.html

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

FlamingNet Bulletin Board
http://www.flamingnet.com/bb/index2.cfm

 

Crunch Online ‘Zine
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch/

 

Kid’s Book Shelf
http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/forkids.asp

 

FanFiction – Write in the “style” of an author (age 13+)
http://www.fanfiction.com

 

Writing Projects Online (Collaborative Projects)

Collaborative Projects on the Internet

http://www.gsh.org/GSH/pr/index.cfm

Think Like an Immigrant
Pretend you have to go to live in another country. Where would you go? What would you bring with you? Ages 5-13; initiated by a 6th grade class studying Ellis Island

Global SchoolNet Project Registry
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/programs/index.html
A site that coordinates a variety of collaborative projects; those above are examples

 

Email for Students

o ePals
http://www.epals.com
Moderated Student Email and collaborative projects

Keypals
http://www.teaching.com/keypals/

Connect with other classrooms around the world through this service

Blogging Tools/Online Journaling

o November Learning

§ Sign up for a free weblog here:
http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39

o Blogmeister

§ Sign up for a weblog here:
http://www.landmark-project.com/blogmeister/index.php?mode=logout
Use the form on the right hand side to request a blog of your own to use with students

§ Example of a student blog from JK and comments:
http://www.landmark-project.com/blogmeister/blog.php?blog_id=332&mode=comment&blogger_id=555

 

 

 

                                                                 




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