Websites

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
ESL Resource Center Purdue Online Writing Lab English Club The Center for Writing Studies-a great collection of websites for students and teachers Web English Teacher TESOL Annenberg Learner

WEB RESOURCES
Audacity free voice recording software for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms Aurora Public Library: E-Readers free online access to audio books using Storyline Online, Tumblebooks, StoryPlace, and International Children's Digital Library. Many of the books are available in English and Spanish as well as other languages. Colorado Thinkfinity Website interactive lesson activities for reading, writing, math, science, social studies Discovery Education-subscription video service that includes images, interactive simulations, and resources to support curriculum topics and from shows on the Discovery Channel. Glogster web based poster creation program that lets the user include, graphics, text, audio, video and web links Owl & Mouse Educational Software a collection of free software to build letter recognition, reading, writing, social studies skills Pics4Learning copyright free photos PicLits students select words to create captions for chosen pictures. Phet interactive science simulations. This is a K-12 project from CU Boulder Promethean Planet interactive learning flipchart resources that use ActivStudio 3 and ActivInspire Thinkfinity-a free website that includes lesson plans and interactive activities for all content areas from National Geographic, Smithsonian, Read, Write, Think, Marco Polo etc. [|Voki] create speaking avatars using text or recording voices Wordle a site that can be used for students to create word nets Xtranormal a free website students can use to create animated digital movies. "If you can type, you can create a movie"