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FANTABULOUS!!! Content Trailers #elemchat #spedchat #4thchat #5thchat #1stchat #scichat  #sscghat Hook your students with these! Amazing collection of “Content Trailers” for a variety of grades and subjects. Specials will love these too! Content Trailers are “ short, 2- to 3-minute, media-rich experiences from which a point of inquiry can begin.  Providing students with the images and sounds that can be attached to the textual information that they will be exploring can provide a profound shift in the way learning is engaged. Content Trailers can be one tool to help the process of inquiry begin.” Think of them as short (spectacular) videos to introduce a subject. I watched a few and was extremely impressed. The quality of the trailers was superb. Music was varied and Images were top notch. Fantastic tools to hook students into lessons. Trailers are organized by Grade (K-12), as well as the subjects listed below.   I checked out the one for U.S. Presidents and was shocked to see a content trailer for every single president. So of course I added it to  U.S. Presidents for Kids So I moved on to the poetry section and added that one to  Kool Kids Write Poetry. Places Around the World is now included in  Countries for Kids. I don’t mean to gush but “Content Trailers” are AWESOME!  I have never seen a collection like this. Created by WBR Technology Dept. 
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FANTABULOUS!!! Content Trailers

#elemchat #spedchat #4thchat #5thchat #1stchat #scichat  #sscghat

Hook your students with these! Amazing collection of “Content Trailers” for a variety of grades and subjects. Specials will love these too!

Content Trailers are “ short, 2- to 3-minute, media-rich experiences from which a point of inquiry can begin.  Providing students with the images and sounds that can be attached to the textual information that they will be exploring can provide a profound shift in the way learning is engaged. Content Trailers can be one tool to help the process of inquiry begin.”

Think of them as short (spectacular) videos to introduce a subject.

I watched a few and was extremely impressed. The quality of the trailers was superb. Music was varied and Images were top notch. Fantastic tools to hook students into lessons.

Trailers are organized by Grade (K-12), as well as the subjects listed below.

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I checked out the one for U.S. Presidents and was shocked to see a content trailer for every single president.

So of course I added it to image U.S. Presidents for Kids

So I moved on to the poetry section and added that one to image Kool Kids Write Poetry.

Places Around the World is now included in image Countries for Kids.

I don’t mean to gush but “Content Trailers” are AWESOME!  I have never seen a collection like this. Created by WBR Technology Dept. 

Excellent! 3D Postcard Generator #edtech #artchat #writing #literacy #languagearts  Via the newest member of my PLN @Teachersilvert Create your own 3D postcard. No sign-up or registration. Add your own text, and  images (or use theirs). Customize with colors, fonts, frame and more. Final product may be downloaded or sent via email. Educational Application: Students can create postcards using their own artwork for holidays or anytime. This is a neat tool that could work for many projects. I could see student created poems as messages. Nice final results. Included in… Write On! for Kids Kool Kids Write Poetry Art: Paint/Draw/Create Online
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Excellent! 3D Postcard Generator

#edtech #artchat #writing #literacy #languagearts 

Via the newest member of my PLN @Teachersilvert

Create your own 3D postcard. No sign-up or registration.

Add your own text, and  images (or use theirs). Customize with colors, fonts, frame and more.

Final product may be downloaded or sent via email.

Educational Application: Students can create postcards using their own artwork for holidays or anytime. This is a neat tool that could work for many projects. I could see student created poems as messages. Nice final results.

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Can I have a word? is another fantastic site for poetry, giving teachers new ideas and resources to inspire students to write. Incorporating newly commissioned poems from top poets and adding in exciting visual stimuli make this site a winner. Added to Kool Kids Write Poetry LiveBinder. You may also like… Shel Silverstein Poetry Interactives Just for Kids (lots of printables)
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Can I have a word? is another fantastic site for poetry, giving teachers new ideas and resources to inspire students to write. Incorporating newly commissioned poems from top poets and adding in exciting visual stimuli make this site a winner.

Added to Kool Kids Write Poetry LiveBinder.

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Shel Silverstein

Poetry Interactives Just for Kids (lots of printables)

Great Source iwrite - Free writing resources for teachers, students and parents. (gr. 5-12) #literacy #writing For Educators — Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments  For Students — Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments For Parents — Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner Includes step-by-step tutorials, graphic organizers, templates as well as links to sites where student work can be published. Nice resource! Included in   Write On! for Kids You may also like… Words for Better Writing 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing Readers’/Writers’ Workshops, Centers and Resources
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Great Source iwrite - Free writing resources for teachers, students and parents. (gr. 5-12)

#literacy #writing

For Educators — Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments 
For Students — Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments
For Parents — Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner

Includes step-by-step tutorials, graphic organizers, templates as well as links to sites where student work can be published.
Nice resource!

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Primary Access: Great site featuring student friendly tools for digital storytelling. (FREE!) #edtech #digitalstorytelling Included in “Write On! Kids” LiveBinder.  Students will love using the tools from Primary Access to create their stories. *You do need to make a quick account but everything is free. From the site: PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools. They have three tools for students to use… MovieMaker:  enables you to combine text, audio and images into compelling personal narratives and digital stories, with a simple movie-making process. Steps like scripting, recording and saving are entirely Web-based—no software to install—and the movies are easy to retrieve and share. StoryBoard: enables you to create comic strips and slideshows by combining images, thought bubbles, props and actors. All steps are entirely Web-based—no software to install—and the comics are easy to publish and share. Rebus: makes it easy to create a Rebus using primary source documents. A Rebus (Latin for ’by things”) is a written story that uses pictures as parts of the text. PrimaryAccess Rebus encourages students to explore primary sources by creating crops of those sources and using them to tell a story. Screenshot *Make sure you also check out the Tools for Teachers where you can set up activities for your students and manage your classes and projects. You may also like… Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide YouTube Create - Easy Digital Make Your Own Movie Online (free)
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Primary Access: Great site featuring student friendly tools for digital storytelling. (FREE!)

#edtech #digitalstorytelling

Included in “Write On! Kids” LiveBinder.  Students will love using the tools from Primary Access to create their stories.

*You do need to make a quick account but everything is free.

From the site: PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

They have three tools for students to use…

  • MovieMaker:  enables you to combine text, audio and images into compelling personal narratives and digital stories, with a simple movie-making process. Steps like scripting, recording and saving are entirely Web-based—no software to install—and the movies are easy to retrieve and share.
  • StoryBoard: enables you to create comic strips and slideshows by combining images, thought bubbles, props and actors. All steps are entirely Web-based—no software to install—and the comics are easy to publish and share.
  • Rebus: makes it easy to create a Rebus using primary source documents. A Rebus (Latin for ’by things”) is a written story that uses pictures as parts of the text. PrimaryAccess Rebus encourages students to explore primary sources by creating crops of those sources and using them to tell a story.

Screenshot

*Make sure you also check out the Tools for Teachers where you can set up activities for your students and manage your classes and projects.

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Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide

YouTube Create - Easy Digital

Make Your Own Movie Online (free)

Boom Writer  takes a 21st Century approach to teaching writing. #edtech #literacy  New addition to Write On! 4 Kids Livebinder This looks like a great creative writing tool. You can register your class for free and create your own class/school competitions. Students write chapters based on a story starter you provide and the class votes on which one to add to the book. I love that the authors of the chapters are anonymous during the voting process. Free and ($39) premium accounts are available. From BoomWriter: “BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!” The teacher selects or produces his or her own story start, and the students let their imagination and writing skills take over. One chapter at a time, the students write, read, and then vote on the submissions they like the most. The winning chapter is then added to the story and the process continues. The teacher determines the total number of chapters to be completed, and when the competition is over a new book is ready to be published. Completed books can be purchase if you wish. You may also like… TalkTyper Do2Learn One Word
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Boom Writer  takes a 21st Century approach to teaching writing.

#edtech #literacy

 New addition to Write On! 4 Kids Livebinder

This looks like a great creative writing tool. You can register your class for free and create your own class/school competitions. Students write chapters based on a story starter you provide and the class votes on which one to add to the book. I love that the authors of the chapters are anonymous during the voting process.

Free and ($39) premium accounts are available.

From BoomWriter: “BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!”

  1. The teacher selects or produces his or her own story start, and the students let their imagination and writing skills take over.
  2. One chapter at a time, the students write, read, and then vote on the submissions they like the most. The winning chapter is then added to the story and the process continues.
  3. The teacher determines the total number of chapters to be completed, and when the competition is over a new book is ready to be published.
Completed books can be purchase if you wish.
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Do NOT miss this one! Make Beliefs Printables are a teacher’s dream. #literacy #sschat Writing/thinking prompts that are engaging, current, topical, and just plain awesome! And you know what? They are FREE! From Bill Zimmerman the creator: “The printables encourage writing and thinking in a quick and fun way. A student’s efforts to complete the printable can then become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories on the same subject.” These would be great for substitutes too! So I’m adding them to  Super Sites for Subs. Of course you can also find them in my Classroom Printables and Cool Comic Creators binders. Screenshots below You may also like… Writing (Pinterest links) The PocketMod 15 Famous and Successful People Who were Bullied in School
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Do NOT miss this one! Make Beliefs Printables are a teacher’s dream.

#literacy #sschat

Writing/thinking prompts that are engaging, current, topical, and just plain awesome! And you know what? They are FREE!


From Bill Zimmerman the creator: “The printables encourage writing and thinking in a quick and fun way. A student’s efforts to complete the printable can then become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories on the same subject.”

These would be great for substitutes too! So I’m adding them to  Super Sites for Subs. Of course you can also find them in my Classroom Printables and Cool Comic Creators binders.

Screenshots below

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Writing (Pinterest links)

The PocketMod

15 Famous and Successful People Who were Bullied in School

Free Writing Prompts Hundreds of totally free writing prompts for elementary school through college Writing Prompts “offers 48 sets of writing prompts that you can download, customize, and print for free. Choose from exercises in creative writing, suggestions for “how to” essays, persuasive writing topics, holiday-related ideas, and dozens of other thoughts—inspiration for writers of all ages.” I love that they are customizable in word and google docs. You may also like… The Toasted Cheese An Entire Blog Of Writing Prompts The Book Pig Write On! 4 Kids Word Games Super Spellers
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Free Writing Prompts

Hundreds of totally free writing prompts for elementary school through college

Writing Prompts “offers 48 sets of writing prompts that you can download, customize, and print for free. Choose from exercises in creative writing, suggestions for “how to” essays, persuasive writing topics, holiday-related ideas, and dozens of other thoughts—inspiration for writers of all ages.”

I love that they are customizable in word and google docs.

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The Toasted Cheese

An Entire Blog Of Writing Prompts

The Book Pig

Write On! 4 Kids

Word Games

Super Spellers

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Create Your Own Robot - Online Resources #scichat #edtech #spedchat #robots #writing Students can… Write a story, poem, rap about their robot. Use their robot in a comic.  Create a poster and label the robot. Students could also pair up and write a story/conversation together about their robot characters. Design Your Own Robot Teacher’s guide included Konstructorz Super! Must register to save, not necessary to create robot. Also includes monsters, soft toys and vehicles. Nick Jr. Build a Robot (for young students) Walkinator Design a walking robot. (older students) Virtual Robotics Lab (older students) Phineas and Ferb Robotinator Robots and Us Lots of neat information in this interactive site Robot Obstacle Course A great “brain game” that is quite fun. Robot Creator From the Children’s Museum…Very easy to use.
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Create Your Own Robot - Online Resources

#scichat #edtech #spedchat #robots #writing

Students can…

  • Write a story, poem, rap about their robot.
  • Use their robot in a comic. 
  • Create a poster and label the robot.
  • Students could also pair up and write a story/conversation together about their robot characters.

Design Your Own Robot Teacher’s guide included

Konstructorz Super! Must register to save, not necessary to create robot. Also includes monsters, soft toys and vehicles.

Nick Jr. Build a Robot (for young students)

Walkinator Design a walking robot. (older students)

Virtual Robotics Lab (older students)

Phineas and Ferb Robotinator

Robots and Us Lots of neat information in this interactive site

Robot Obstacle Course A great “brain game” that is quite fun.

Robot Creator From the Children’s Museum…Very easy to use.

Aven’s Corner Comix is a fantastic, free, easy to use, comic creator. #edchat #elemchat #spedchat  Lots of choices (background, animals, people, shapes, text, speech bubbles, objects) for kids to create comics. Kids can also draw on their comic. Panels can be added and duplicated.  Comics can be printed and saved online. Included in   Cool Comic Creators
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Aven’s Corner Comix is a fantastic, free, easy to use, comic creator.

#edchat #elemchat #spedchat 

Lots of choices (background, animals, people, shapes, text, speech bubbles, objects) for kids to create comics. Kids can also draw on their comic. Panels can be added and duplicated.  Comics can be printed and saved online.

Included in   Cool Comic Creators

inklewriter-Superb interactive story writer for older students! Newest addition to “Write On! 4 Kids” binder. #edtech #writing #literacy Via Mrs. D’s Classroom Thanks! Currently in beta. Registration required to save stories. Quick and easy with email verification. Totally worth it! “inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.” Great for writing “Choose Your Own Additions” Screenshots of interface and finished results. Included in Write On! for Kids
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inklewriter-Superb interactive story writer for older students! Newest addition to “Write On! 4 Kids” binder.

#edtech #writing #literacy Via Mrs. D’s Classroom Thanks!

Currently in beta. Registration required to save stories. Quick and easy with email verification. Totally worth it!

“inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.”

Great for writing “Choose Your Own Additions”

Screenshots of interface and finished results.

Included in Write On! for Kids