Here are some sites that i thought would be useful to use.
1. www.edmodo.com
- Is a site that a teacher can set up, so that their students can look at assignments, ask questions to the teacher or other students, and look up grades. The teacher can even make quizes on it. I think the most appealing part about the edmodo site, is that they have an app which allows you and the students to check out any new updates. Best of all its free.
2. www.dipity.com
- This site is pretty cool. It allows you to make a time line of anything you want. I think it works especially well with social studies. Maybe a project where the students have to make their own timeline about a topic they learned throughout the year. I would use it to show my students the topics they will learn and maybe have challenge questions that they should try at the end of every unit.
3. www.spicynodes.org
- This site allows the user to create a web, which can be used for concept maps or presentations. I would use it to create a concept map so that my students can know what "verbs"are expected to be known within a unit and exactly where within the unit they apply. The students can use it for presentations because you are able to put video directly into it, pictures, text, and even links to other sites if you want to.
4. www.tagxedo.com
- This site reminds me a lot of wordle, but the thing that this site allows you to do that wordle doesnt is that you can have to words be shaped into different things. So for example, if a student was doing something on the quote "Don't tread on me", they could put their writings into the site, and the site will mix them up the way wordle does, but now you can have them mixed up so that it looks like a snake.
5. www.braineos.com
- Is a site that allows teachers to create homeworks or quizes so that the students can complete them. There are some that other teachers have made already too, that can be used for your class to if youd like. These homeworks and quizes give instant feedback to the students and the teachers. I believe that the students are also able to see their classmates scores to if the teacher wants them to be able to do that. Overall a very useful site for the teacher and students.
