Last week I blogged about a series of tools which could be used for character analysis and reading comprehension (My examples were based on the big bad wolf). Today’s post is…
Month: February 2013
Create your own trading cards: List of Apps and websites
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, Teacher Resources, and Writing
As an extension to great tools I have been blogging about all week. I have found another one. Trading Cards. These are great for reading…
Fake Twitter Posts: Useful for book and historical characters analysis
Posted in About Me, Character Development, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, Science, and Teacher Resources
http://www.classtools.net/twister/ – Another fantastic Tool from Classtools. Love this site! This is a fake Twitter feed. I had fun creating one from the Wolfmister as a…
Create FakeBook for book characters, historical figures etc
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, History, Literacy, Reading, Teacher Resources, and Writing
http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page – Another fantastic Tool from classtools. This is so much fun. You can create a Fake facebook page for characters. Below is a quick one…
Create your own quiz’s and turn them into Arcade Games
Posted in Classroom, Creating, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Science, Teacher Resources, and Writing
http://www.classtools.net/_mobileQuiz/index.php – This is GREAT !!!!!! This site allows you to create your own quiz and then it is published as a game. It is incredibly easy to…
Countdown Timers and Name Pickers for the interactive whiteboard!
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, Maths, Number, Speaking and Listening, Teacher Resources, and Writing
I was talking to one of my friends over the weekend who I shared a class with. We were chatting about school and she said…
Websites and Apps for Comic Creation
Posted in Classroom, History, Humanities/ Topics, iPads and Apps, Literacy, Literacy Apps, Reading, Reading apps, Writing, and Writing Apps
Creating a comic is a great engaging learning activity. It can be used in all subject areas from P-12. Reading ( retell, make a new ending, create…
100 square activities
Posted in Addition, Classroom, Counting, Division, iPads and Apps, Maths, Maths Apps, Multiplication, Number, Place Value, and Subtraction
I have listed some of my favourite sites for using the 100 square in your teaching. I have used these as warm up activities for maths on…
Create interesting titles for projects
Posted in Classroom, General, and Teacher Resources
http://cooltext.com/ Cool text allows you to create a FREE graphic’s/Logo’s and then download it as a pic. (You can also use the HTML code and embed it…
More Apps and Websites for spelling?
Posted in Classroom, iPads and Apps, Literacy, Literacy Apps, Spelling, Writing, and Writing Apps
This post is all about spelling. I have posted about sites you can use in education such as word clouds (…
Digital Citizenship: Free images you can use in the classroom
Posted in Classroom, General, and Web 2.0 tools
The internet is a huge web filled with massive amounts of information in all forms, videos, images and text. I believe very strongly that we need to…
Wild Fables App – Aesops Interactive Fables
Posted in iPads and Apps, Literacy, Literacy Apps, and Reading apps
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wild-fables/id418338859?mt=8 Wild fables is a FREE app (you are able to purchase additional fables for .99 cents). You get three stories which are interactive. The Crow…
Pic Collage App
Posted in Collage apps, General Classroom Apps, iPads and Apps, Literacy Apps, Reading apps, Speaking and Listening Apps, and Writing Apps
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pic-collage/id448639966?mt=8 Pic Collage is a FREE app and I must admit instead of cleaning my house this morning I have been playing with the app seeing just…