tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73155871439560165552024-03-14T03:16:15.441-07:00Educational TechnologyWe are living in a world in which technology affects everyday facets of life. Technology resources are therefore necessary to effectively enhance classroom instruction and enable students to be effective users of technology. Enjoy the various educational technology resources, news, tips, and more that will empower you to navigate into technology with ease!mnriverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02424995951774103977noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315587143956016555.post-18514386700847064662023-11-17T04:23:00.000-08:002023-11-17T04:23:22.252-08:00Reading Rockets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSfnebhxtbgC2hKRWFo3bDYyxGdr7Nj4WDMKFsdzDLkoiwLU3IvyOjs-YAn6DbbbBn6f3ZwhqDNz0t4GgYFPVaoASW50N0pnyL4mD-98jMOoWad1T88Cbig_88Rge_VRDT29A_-Ka4S9H4_T-ohTAoC09tdWFa6pNZRcUGUvnmdxV9b1CHFrl-PFA7VKi/s1315/reading.rockets.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="1315" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSfnebhxtbgC2hKRWFo3bDYyxGdr7Nj4WDMKFsdzDLkoiwLU3IvyOjs-YAn6DbbbBn6f3ZwhqDNz0t4GgYFPVaoASW50N0pnyL4mD-98jMOoWad1T88Cbig_88Rge_VRDT29A_-Ka4S9H4_T-ohTAoC09tdWFa6pNZRcUGUvnmdxV9b1CHFrl-PFA7VKi/s320/reading.rockets.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Reading Rockets is possibly the most comprehensive reading strategies website available. It offers a multitude of research, strategies, and multimedia learning tools. It includes resources for parents, such as booklists, tips on creating a home library, tips on finding books at the right reading level for your child, and tips for reading with your child. Most importantly, it includes booklists, watch and learn videos, author study toolkits, and author interviews.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 32px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"> A Book and a Hug - <a href="http://www.abookandahug.com/" style="color: purple;">www.abookandahug.com</a> allows students to find books that they enjoy and love using technology. Every book is an adventure that can take you anywhere. Barb Langridge, founder of the website, states, “The magic happens when the characteristics of the reader match the characteristics of the story.” The site uses a feature called the Reader Personality Types where a reader takes a brief assessment to find out the type of the reader that they are. After answering ten basic questions, the reader can then search the website to find books based on their reader personality type. The four reader personality types include: Team Player, Jokester, Champion or Investigator. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 32px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"> Being able to choose a book that you enjoy is not the only advantage of this website. There are also resources such as lesson plans that can be utilized in many ways. The lesson plans include everything from the introduction/anticipatory set all the way to lesson activities and games. There are also sections that are tied into different curricula and content areas such as character-building, mathematics, science, and language arts. The website is completely free and resourceful for all readers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 32px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i>*Contribution by S. Paet</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315587143956016555.post-55554958690593924202021-06-09T04:25:00.000-07:002021-06-09T04:25:11.874-07:00Rewordify<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: beige; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcelCsWUqnppA7r5q2aVGm60PbtmBqNwNHMPuKlS_nkr44e85SRMXIk5_mLgro_Wdf_BafPUM2lPLPNCbju9pKrjHXZoY_iftUmGpt0ozajZ8ITyXJoVAzrst7WGELmNZmpFaB8wNPUE/s560/Rewordify.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcelCsWUqnppA7r5q2aVGm60PbtmBqNwNHMPuKlS_nkr44e85SRMXIk5_mLgro_Wdf_BafPUM2lPLPNCbju9pKrjHXZoY_iftUmGpt0ozajZ8ITyXJoVAzrst7WGELmNZmpFaB8wNPUE/s320/Rewordify.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: beige; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">The goal of Rewordify.com is to build on the learners reading comprehension and vocabulary development by making the language easier to understand. It also allows the ability to reword sentences or paragraphs in simplified forms. This app is an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skills. Benefits of this app include saving time when reading hard texts, improves comprehension and self-confidence, improves vocabulary and word retention, reduces frustration, and improves comprehension just to name a few.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> This site has received several positive comments from various educators which include “pretty remarkable”, “one of the most innovative websites”, “this is amazing”, “a fantastic web app”, “excellent tool to enhance comprehension”, “makes your life easier,” etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>PBS Kids (</span><a href="https://pbskids.org/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">https://pbskids.org/</span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;">) is a simple, safe online
experience for preschoolers who are learning basic skills, and who already know
many of the characters featured on the website such as Sesame Street and Curious
George.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They will enjoy playing games
with their favorite character for free.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>PBS Kids is designed for children 4 and up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The site features games, videos and other
activities that center on popular PBS live- action and animated show
characters.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>On PBS Kids face page, there
is a rotating wheel with all the different characters to choose from.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When you select a character it will take you
directly to their page to play educational and fun games.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This
educational site provides basic lessons involving favorite PBS TV characters in
an easy-to-use format with voice over instructions.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There is so much to do on this site including
watching TV, playing games and activities that can be printed out to do offline.
Some of the activities included on the site are letters, numbers and shapes for
primary and for the older students they have skilled subjects such as language
and reading, following directions, letters, word recognition, reading and
vocabulary.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>What is
also cool about this website is they have a free app that allows adults to
monitor their child’s activity online.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The app will periodically send parents an update with the sites
corresponding app, reporting all their child’s activity online</span></div>
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PBSKids seems to be an appropriate site for children and students with many fun
activities, games and TV shows to keep children entertained.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I would recommend this more to parents than
to teachers, and I would also recommend to the parents the monitoring app to
make sure children are no going into forbidden sites or getting too much
computer time.</span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><i>-Contributed by C. Lorenzo</i></span></div>
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literacy in 1:1 classrooms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Featured URLs: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/digitizingliteracy">https://bit.ly/digitizingliteracy</a><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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