Top Websites for Teachers 

TNTESOL March 2010

Friday, March 5, 80 minutes

2:45 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.

• This site would be good for practicing parts of speech.
• Students names
• Sight words
• Spelling words
• Flash cards
• Wordle could be used to describe characters from a book.
• Students can make a collage about them using new words. If they are ESL students, they obviously can use new words they have learned. Or in an esl class, you could make one with a bunch of words but have like 10 new words they have learned recently.  You can then ask them to circle the words of the week you tell them, or you can say the word and they can point to it on their copy.
• You could use it to have the students list words: verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs. Use to list math facts: multiples, shapes, fact families, odd/even numbers.

• Long-winded friends.
• If a principal wants you to call him when you're going to be absent...:)
• When you're in a hurry.

• Work a word problem and then send it via email.
• Show a fraction's value

• Opinions (Favorite Drink)
• About a specific student (encouragement)

• Creative Writing
• Letters about parents
• Many, many, many more

• If there was an important event in the evening like Presidential address, spaceship updates, etc., students could call in and give their thoughts.
• On a field trip students could use their cell phones to take a picture of their favorite part and add it to drop.io to share.
• Drop.io can be used for science to describe the weather. Students can also take pictures of different shapes they see outside.
• Drop.io could be used on a field trip. If students have phones with them, they could call drop.io and describe different exhibits. Each student could be assigned a certain exhibit, or they could choose their favorite.
• Drop.io would be great for their scientific investigations that they do at home. They can also call in to record questions that they might have while working on homework.
• They could submit pictures of vocabulary words/concepts (parts of a house, animals). They could call and ask or answer questions as homework.

• Get your cell phones out!
• Multiple Choice
• Text Question
• Post the questions to a Weebly or Wiki
• Web Version is available
• Question one

• Have them write a short play.
• Creative writing using pictures to show actions and then having other students guess what the thought bubbles should say.
• Fun way to get students who do not like to read to enjoy reading.
• Later in the year student could create their own comics and practice writing skills and technology.
• Students can write a story or retell a story.
• I can create the comic with character saying the sight words we have learned in a sentence, and have students take a copy of the comic and highlight the words they know.
• Dreative writing; teach dialogue - center activity
• They could create a comix on sequence of events from a book or scientific process.
• They could make comics about science experiments gone wrong, but info has to be accurate.
• Use the comix as word problems for math.

• More for teacher use
• Set up reminders for yourself

• Free Website
• Examples

• Educational implications?
• Have the students put an advertisement for KFC and then the students write a description of their new meal
• Advertisements
• Write a review of a concert that you performed.

• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Nouns
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Fuzzynyms

• SAG
• Lesson Plans

• Text to voice movie making site!

• Unbelievable site that allows you to
• Create a URL with your class
• Assign Quizzes
• Create Quizzes
• Keep a gradebook
• The list goes on and on and on and on.

• Create an award for those hard to reach kids.