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Language Arts Standards and Technology is an excellent series of suggestions from the San Diego School District on how to make the technology connection between Language Arts standards and technology. It covers both reading and writing standards.
ETTC Writing Prompts provides lesson plans, news photos to be used as writing prompts and links to the actual news stories that provided the pictures.
Using AlphaSmarts is a collection of integration ideas, activities, and lessons that address core content and technology literacy standards.
The Media Awareness Center in Canada offers these interactive downloadable online modules that take students through a CyberTour of twelve mock Web sites to test their savvy surfing skills.
- Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three Little CyberPigs (for ages 7-9)
In this first adventure, the CyberPigs learn about online marketing, and about protecting their privacy as they surf the Internet.
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs (for ages 9-11)
In their second adventure, the CyberPigs explore the world of chat rooms and learn to distinguish between fact and fiction, and to detect bias and harmful stereotyping in online content.
- Jo Cool or Joe Fool (for grades 6 - 8)
This interactive online game takes students through a series of mock sites that test their savvy surfing skills. The game ends with an online quiz, that gives students an even more in-depth level of information.
Quality Information Checklist is a simple eight point checklist to help elementary school children evaluate the quality of web site content.
The Amazing Picture Machine
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory provides a searchable index to graphical resources on the Internet. It provides information on citing images and detailed copyright information. This is a very useful site for anyone making websites. Good for writing prompts
Young Writers Workshop
Young Writers Workshop encourages creativity by providing printable story starters for children in preschool and primary grades.
Learningpage.com has printable stories and activity sheets. Of more interest to me is the Clipart section that can be used in stories.
Prompted Writing Program from Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc.
3DWriter and 3DWriting - This is software I created specifically to help students do hypertext narrative writing. If other Star-W mentors are interested in using it with their Star-W classroom, feel free to contact me and I will donate the software for use in those classes. 3DWriting Examples - Choose your own path adventure, Memoirs, Poems/Songs, Free Surfing Becomes Real Learning
Guide to Grammar and Writing -Maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College and for the general online public. A Cathy Schrock pick.
CanTeach is a Canadian web site that houses elementary school resources. One of the pages contains a text file of hundreds of writing prompts which I have I turned into interactive web pages that allow the students to click on a category for a writing prompt and the system will generate at random prompt from the list.
Giggle Poetry is a fun poetry site. There's always a poetry question on that state test!
Making Connections is a from to be used with the Literacy Collaborative
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