Using Web 2.0 Tools in Elementary Classrooms
Time Line Maker
by Elfreda Benally
This time line maker is a tool your students can use to make vertical or horizontal time lines. The only drawback to using it, is that it has a limit of up to 9 events. It would be a good tool for younger students learning how to make time lines. It is also part of the website teachnology which has numerous links to a variety of resources.
Instant Poetry Forms
by Elfreda Benally
Instant Poetry Forms is a fun tool your students can use very easily with a click of the mouse. There is a long list of fill-in-the-blank kinds of poems/templates that students can easily fill in and print out. There is also a link to lesson plan ideas you can use with each of these poems. Check it out!
by Pam Lang
Kidzui is set up to make surfing the Internet fun and easy for kids aged 3-12. The content is reviewed by teachers and parents so your kids can surf independently through the over 500,000 websites, pictures and videos just for kids.
By: Cheryl Myers
This is a great site for studens to go and watch educational videos to help review content being taught in class.
By: Cheryl Myers
I took the podcasting workshop offered to us by Dr. Christie and we learned about this website. It is a place that hosts podcast for free and it opperates like a blog. It's really neat. Check it out.
by Lydia Horstman
Pikikids is a site that allows you to make you own comic strip by importing images and inserting text. Students can use this to tell stories by using their own photos.
by Patti McFeely
Provides an interactive place for K-6 students to practice math, science, social studies, language arts, the arts, and critical thinking. It offers a link for online quizzes created by members. Kids can even create a social network page on MyKnowThat.
Despite the fact that the site is free, you will be prompted to register when clicking on an activity. But, you can opt to register later and bypass the registration. I tried out the Geometry Workshop where I could answer challenges or draw my own activities. I found the activities to be engaging and of more educational value than some of the game sites out there.
For $199 per year, teachers can get a premium subscription for their students that includes no ads, content videos, a private weblog, homework helpers, and progress reports.
By Cheryl Myers
KidPad is a collaborative story authoring tool for children. One goal of KidPad is to enable children to create non-linear stories to express their thoughts visually, in a more natural way than linear storytelling allows. KidPad supports collaboration between children because it can be used with multiple mice on the same computer. Certain tools in KidPad encourage collaboration because they enable two children to perform a task that they would be unable to perform alone.
By Cheryl Myers
This is a great place to watch student made podcast of their learning. Can be used in many content areas.
Exploratorim
http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/index.html
Ann-Marie Jackson
Wow!!!! What an exciting site! I could play on this for hours. There's webcasts from real scientist at such places as the artic. It has a whole page of hands-on activities which are how to projects. Each one are child friendly for even a 2nd grade to understand. It also has activities and experiments that goes along for each one. So much more!!!! I am going to use this site next year for my Friday science lessons.
Flashcard Exchange
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
Ann-Maire Jackson
Great site for elementary teachers who feel like they are forever making and remaking all types of flashcards to help their students learn their sight words, spelling word with definitions, picture to words, addition/subtration facts etc. With this sight a teacher could create the flashcards that their need or print ones that already have been created.
by Shannon Walker
A Fun Educational Website
for Teachers and Kids
This site is amazing! It has games for all content areas, including language games and games for creative arts.
by Shannon Walker
The above link will take you to some fun, exciting, interactive educational games across the curriculum. Students learn best when they are motivated and interested in learning. What better way to teach them then by what they already know and love...video games. Check it out and enjoy!
by Adam Hunt
Panoramio is the site that allows you to post photos directly to GoogleEarth. There are many possible applications, but my thought for elementary students was to use this as a way to follow up on field trips. While on the field trips, make sure several students have cameras and take pictures of the things they see. Later, these can be uploaded to a Panoramio account. Once all the photos are uploaded, students can go back, select photos of the things they thought were most interesting an have them create a virtual field trip that focuses on what they learned. Since you can add comments to the photo, students can explain why they picked each photo and what it was they learned. Even better, students could write questions into the comments on their photos and leave them for others to answer. On GoogleEarth they can save their trip into a single folder and students could then go back and watch other's virtual trips, answering questions as they go. This could make a for a great review or a source for a research project.
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by Patti McFeely
A free, interactive gaming site, Woogi World is designed to teach children ages 5-12 about Internet safety as well as how to balance their online and offline worlds. In this virtual world, a child creates an avatar and participates in adventures intended to teach them about Internet privacy and what to do if they land on a “bad” site. The site encourages the participants to get involved in community service by rewarding them in the virtual world for what they volunteer to do in the real world. Participants can also chat in a safe environment but only after they have completed the “chatting mission” which teaches the proper rules of safe chatting. Chatting is moderated and restricted to an approved dictionary of words.
Schools can introduce the site to their students through an assembly (materials provided by Woogi World). But, parents/guardians are the ones who sign up the students. In fact, parent participation is encouraged; they can also participate in the chats with their child on the website.
By: Cheryl Myers
I went to this site and it was very nice that there is a place that will help students understand the importance of internet safety. I wish I would have found this myself but never the less I will use this in my classroom.
by Adam Hunt
Kitzu is your shortcut for multi-media content. What you do is find your content area, browse through the different offerings of free, royalty-free, "kits," download the one that best meets your needs, and voila', you've got the images/videos you need for your presentation. This works especially well for elementary students as it takes away the need to search for appropriate images and instead provides them in a packaged format. This way they can focus on their content and editing and get on with the project.
CogCon
by C. Colcord
Game Goo is an interesting web site with a number of fun and exciting games for students K-5th grade.
The concetration of these games in focused on improving language arts skills for students. This is especially useful for students who are English language learners.
Esperanza Rising Story Builder
by C. Colcord
Scholastic has a number of excellent reading and writing programs.
There are interactive books and stories that students can use and any of them are linked to current novels
that you may have in your classroom. For example, there is a Harry Potter activity center in which students can take part in
a wizard challenge, learn more about Hogsmead, or even visit a pronunciation guide. The pronunciation guide helps students
learn charaters names, as well as spells, places in the story, monsters, and many, many other items within the story.
It is a great site.
Word Safari
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/Safari/safari.htm
By C. Colcord
Word Safari is a neat little website that gives students the chance to practice spelling their vocabulary words as they play a video game.
I usually have the word safari set up as a center in my classroom and make it available to students who have been good all week and earned some fun time.
It is a very useful resource because teachers can use it as a learning tool for spelling and word recognition, but students consider it a video game and really enjoy playing.
Teachers or students can enter their own words or use the words that come with the game. There are also three levels depending on the skills of the student.
I usually start out my students on the easy level and see how they do from there.
After the students have mastered spelling 7 words they can re-enter more words to practice.
http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon
by Shannon Walker
ToonDoo is a fun comic strip creator that through simple drag and drop, allows the user to create a variety of different looking comic pages. The site also offers a variety of pre-made backgrounds, characters, and props and, if they don't have the character you necessarily need or want, you can upload images or create your own characters. Students no longer have to fear that their lack of artistic talent will get in the way of them demonstrating the knowledge and understanding they possess on a topic.
This site can be used in all areas of Elementary Education. I would use it as an assessment tool to review a science or social studies topic. In science, you could use this site to assess students on the scientific method. Each student would use toondoo.com to create a comic strip on the steps of the scientific method. For a fun, creative way to get students involved, check out ToonDoo.com. Or go here to see just a short sample of what one looks like (you may need to scroll down a little)!
KSolo
http://www.ksolo.com/actions/searchSongByGenre.do?cRow=0&genreid=60&abc=M
Ann-Marie Jackson
This is a fun site! I must of spent an hour just singing songs! This site would be great for any grade K-3rd grade to work on sentence fluency. It would also help K-8th grade ELL students with thier english. KSolo is a site that you may not be able to use in the classroom (because of certain song and its language), but it would be a great site for parents to use with their children at home. It could be a daily homework for K-3rd to build upon sentence fluency, because its about the speed you should be reading at. This type homework would be more like playing than actually working, so your students will be begging their parents to this. It's very similar to a new video game called Sing Star that everyone enjoys playing.
By: Cheryl Myers
This site is good for those families with little ones that are trying to get a head start on academics before entering into Kindergarten. This is a very easy site to navigate through and gives time for those students that are ELL!
http://bubbl.us/edit.php
By: Cheryl Myers
Digital Pencil
by Elfreda Benally (for a primary classroom – 3rd grade)
This site has many web-based organizers you can use in and out of the classroom. Many of these organizers support classroom instruction and can be used with a whole class to learn about a specific topic. One in particular that caught my eye was the biomes site. In the classroom the teacher can use this site to link to maps, videos, and webs as a whole group lesson and to model writing in a variety of ways, i.e. note-taking. After initial instruction in the classroom on a biome, the teacher can extend the learning by having students link to a short activity at home. Low-level readers can follow along with accompanying audio to read more about their topic and add new facts learned or study at their leisure supplemental maps and videos and answer questions to share with their peers the next day. Any of the organizers can be used for any topic or grade level.
Digital Pencil
by Shannon Walker
After seeing this site from Elreda, I decided to explore it and WOW! Amazing! I loved the way they brought in web-based organizers for learning. How many times are students complaining about writing...too many! With digital pencil, it allows the student to actually enjoy writing because everything is on the computer. One part I found very useful was the Digital Journal.
This journal allows students and teachers to work on and review student writing from any computer which has access to the internet. Students will also have the opportunity to incorporate podcasts, video, and images into their published writing.
Student journal
Teacher's editing
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