Teacher Resources
Mrs. Eley's Nov. 2009 Workshop Webpage (FlipCams, Imovies, Book Trailer Movies)
Readers / Writers Workshop
- Mt. Laurel Readers / Writers Workshop Book List (by Mrs. Eley)
- Plinky Daily Writing Prompts
Book Leveling Sites
- Scholastic Book Wizard and Scholastic Teacher Book Clubs Site
- BookSource
- Nancy Giasante Leveled Book Lists
Readers Theatre Sites
- LM_NET Librarians' Listserv
- Timeless teacher stuff scripts
- Scholastic Readers Theater
- Readers theater resources and rubric
- Teacherweb Readers theater
- California Young Readers Medal Readers Theatre
- PBS Kids ZOOM Readers Theater
- Readers Theater from Grandview Library
Copyright-Friendly Images, Sounds, and Stuff
If you're not sure that what you are doing to a file is copyright-friendly, consult this Fair Use Guide. You should
cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise
notified! - Wikimedia commons
allows searchers to
search for media to use to modify or for commercial purposes
- Flickr Commons Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their pictures under a Creative Commons license. A Flickr Advanced Search also allows you to search for these images easily
- Discovery School Clip Art
- Creative Commons
- Spell with Flickr
- List of More Portals (by Joyce Valenza)
- Freeplay Music - Find music for use in videos, etc.
Lesson Plans
- Thinkfinity (contains ReadWriteThink)
- BCEMTC - Burlington County Educational Media Tech. Center
- Promethean Planet - Great ActivBoard Lessons
- Scholastic Teacher Resources (Browse student online activities here)
- FreeReading.Net - Reading Instruction Activity Ideas
- Lesson Resources from Joyce Valenza, PA librarian
Mrs. Eley's Favorite Web 2.0 Tools
- Voicethread - online presentations!
- Animoto - creates free 30-second music videos with any images you upload (Examples) (Example)
- Streaming Video Resources
- Blabberize - make an image of a character have a "talking mouth" (Example)
- Glogster - neat way to make kid-friendly websites (Example) (School Library Example)
- Google Sites - easy way to make a website (Example)
- Google Reader - Read all your favorite blogs at one time
- Google Calendar - Create a calendar online and share it with others!
- Google Docs - Create any document (spreadsheet, Word-type doc) and share and collaborate
- Google Forms - Create an online survey for anyone to take
- Random name/number picker
- KickYouTube - YouTube blocked at
school? Go home, find the video you want, and type the word
"kick" in front of the Youtube URL to download it as a file for use in
the classroom. (Watch from minute 40 to 42 in this video to learn how to do it.)
Other Neat Web 2.0 Tools to Explore and Try
Global Connections
- Kiva.org - make a small donation to a third world business, it will be repayed
- Donorschoose.org - Teachers request classroom items, and you can fulfill their wish!
