Language Arts
A place to share Web 2.0 ideas for use in the Language Arts arena...
by Lydia Horstman
Gramlee is a site that allows you paste un-edited writing and send it to the writers of Gramlee. The writers take the un-edited work and review and edit spelling, grammar, brevity, and readability. The writers will edit any kind of work from blog entries to e-mail to research papers. This service is not free after the first 100 words. To submit a 500 word essay, you would need to purchase 500 words for approximately $10. They have a 24-hour turnaround time except on weekends, unless other arrangements are made. I can this this as a benefit for professionals. I am not sure of the education value since we want to teach our students how to edit their own papers. It might be a good tool to use in comparison with a student-edited paper.
by Pam Lang
tikatok is a website where children can write, illustrate and publish a book. They have templates set up where you can type in a subject and then get some story ideas to get you started with your story. You can scan your illustrations and uplode them or mail them to the company and they will do it for you.
by Pam Lang
Wizlite allows you to highlight text (like on real paper) on any page on the Internet and share it with everybody, even your friends.
by Shannon Walker
Need an easy way to create a bibliography, check this site out, it might be helpful!
By Pam Lang
http://www.writeboard.com/
Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes. You can use Writeboard to write for yourself or collaborate with others.
Kids Audio Stories
by ann-marie jackson
Yes!!! This sites costs to listen to the stories which some are read by well know actors. There are some that are FREE and some that are only about $2.00s or so. This would by a great site to help children work on reading skills such as read fluency by following along in their book while the actor or reader reads to them. I would use this as a learning center in improve reading fluency.
by Susan Meece
Both teachers and students can use this site to produce accurate APA and MLA citations. The website promotes intellectual property and promises that someday you will want to be cited also. It is quick, easy, and pain free for al high school and university students and professors who need to make sure that their citations are accurate.
by C. Colcord
Read Write Think is a great web site that has a lot of langage arts ideas for teachers. All of the ideas and lessons that are available (for free) are directly linked to the national language arts standards. In addition, there are a number of interactive reading and writing lessons that students will enjoy. Many of the online activities are especially useful for special education students and English language learners because they provide opportunities for students to learn through many different ways.
by Adam Hunt
This is not one I've really had the time to try on my own but does provide for a number of oppotunities. Basically, Skype is an on-line service that will host free (as long as both particpants have Skype) computer -to-computer calls/videochats. It does involve the downloading of software, so you'd need to check with your IT department for use on school computers-and make sure whoever you plan to chat with has Skype as well (so it's free to you). However, once you have the service, I see two really great Language Arts possibilites with the service. First, students could chat with other students across the school or across an ocean about a book. If you have a Smartboard, this could easily become a big conference call. Another possibility involves something they call a Skypecast, which is basically a live, on-line chat on a certain topic. Using this, you could invite a number of classes to share ideas on a book and discuss them together, creating a much larger version of a book chat. In terms of security on this you'd want to look into the possiblility of keeping this only to invited guests (but the one-to-one calls are kept private).
FanFiction
Ann-Marie Jackson
FanFiction.Net
What an amazing site!!!!! I must of been on it for at least an hour and I am looking forward to going back to play around. This site is basicly a forum site where you can post your stories, poems, and voice your opinion. I believe this would be a great site for middle and high school students for their English and writing class. A teacher can have the students post their final drafts of stories and the teacher can log onto the site to do the grading instead of messing around with a stack of papers. This way true writers can get opinion from other writer along with their teacher's opinion. A teacher can also have the students watch a movie in class and have the students post there feelings and opinion of the movie. The students can read each others opinions and others from the outside world that already have been posted.
Writing Fun by Jenny Easther
By Patti McFeely
Suitable for grades 1-6, this interactive writing website is great for introducing or reviewing different types of text writing. The graphic representations of the text organizers visually illustrate how the genre should be organized, the tips have mouse-overs that highlight individual features, and the grade-level samples with publishing ideas are worth checking out. The site provides an opportunity for students to write online using the same graphic organizer as a fill form. Alternatively, teachers can download reproducibles of the organizers.
The Newspaper Clipping Generator
by Patti McFeely
This fun writing site allows students to create a newspaper article for their "own" newspaper. See the little tongue-in-cheek clipping that I created. The clipping can then be saved as a jpeg for printing, used on a webpage or added to a blog. This would be great for a final newspaper writing assignment or as a creative way to make an announcement on a webpage.
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