LINKS
ONLINE INTERACTIVES
MULTIPLE CONTENT AREA INTERACTIVES
- Toy Theater (toytheater.com)
- Uptoten (uptoten.com)
LANGUAGE ARTS INTERACTIVES
- Starfall (starfall.com)
- Mrs. P.’s Magic Library (mrsp.com) AND (youtube.com/user/MrsPStorytime)
- Phil Shapiro Websequiturs (www.his.com/~pshapiro/websequiturs)
ELEMENTARY READING SITES — AUDIO BOOKS
- Storyline Online (storylineonline.net)
- Kindersite (kindersite.org/Directory/DirectoryFrame.htm)
- We Do Listen Foundation (wedolisten.org)
- Scholastic Listen and Read Books (teacher.scholastic.com/commclub)
- Childtopia (childtopia.com)
- Martha Speaks True Stories (pbskids.org/martha/stories/truestories)
- Professor Garfield (professorgarfield.org/pgf_home.html)
- Story Time For Me (freekidsbooks.org)
- Kidsspace: Toronto Public Library (tiny.cc/k7xgwy)
K-12 READING MATERIALS
- ReadWorks (readworks.org)
- Storyshares (storyshares.org/books)
- Smithsonian’s TTribune (tweentribune.com/faqs)
- DogoNews (dogonews.com)
- Science News for Students (sciencenewsforstudents.org)
- Teaching Kids News (teachingkidsnews.com)
- TumbleBookLibrary (tumblebooks.com/library)
MATH INTERACTIVES
- Johnnie’s Math Page (jmathpage.com)
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) (nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html)
- Mathlanding (mathlanding.org/content/about-mathlanding)
- Interactivate (tiny.cc/ygygwy)
- NCTM Illuminations (illuminations.nctm.org)
- Glencoe Virtual Manipulatives (tiny.cc/diygwy)
SCIENCE INTERACTIVES
- MySciLife (myscilife.org/welcome)
- NASA’s Space Place (spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu)
- The Learning Science site (learningscience.org)
- Planet Arcade Games (games.noaa.gov)
- Edheads (edheads.org)
SOCIAL STUDIES INTERACTIVES
- Digital History (www.digitalhistory.uh.edu)
- Mission US: A Revolutionary Way to Learn History (mission-us.org)
CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING INTERACTIVES
- Zoopz (zoopz.com)
TeachersFirst (teachersfirst.com)
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
- Adobe Spark (https://spark.adobe.com/edu/)
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu)
- Adobe Spark in the Classroom (spark.adobe.com/edu)
- Storytelling ideas for Spark Ben Forta (tiny.cc/6yygwy)
- Adobe Teacher Manual in pdf form (tiny.cc/wzygwy)
- Chatterpix Kids (http://ipadapps4school.com/2014/01/06/chatterpix-create-talking-pictures-on-your-ipad/)
- Shadow Puppet Edu (get-puppet.co/#classroomStoriesShort)
- StoryKit (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8)
- Steller (steller.co)
WEBSITE DESIGN
- Weebly for Education (education.weebly.com)
- IM Creator (imcreator.com)
- Google Sites (edu.google.com/products/productivity-tools)
PROVIDER SPECIFIC TOOLS
- Voki (voki.com)
- Blabberize (blabberize.com)
- ChatterPix (tiny.cc/c7ygwy)
- VoiceThread (voicethread.com) AND (voicethread.com/about/library)
- Glogster Edu (edu.glogster.com)
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE: Jean Reidy
- Skype in the Classroom (education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom)
- Skype an Author Network (skypeanauthor.wikifoundry.com)
- Kate Messner (tiny.cc/xfzgwy)
- Jean Reidy (jeanreidy.com)
VIDEO CONFERENCING
- Nepris (nepris.com)
- Skype in the Classroom (education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom)
- Skype an Author Network (skypeanauthor.wikifoundry.com)
- Zoom (zoom.us)
- FaceTime (imore.com/facetime)
- Google Hangouts (tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin)
- Google Hangouts in Education (tiny.cc/qmzgwy)
- Mystery Hangout (tiny.cc/xmzgwy)
COLLABORATION RESOURCES
- The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education or CIESE (k12science.org/materials/k12)
- Journey North (learner.org/jnorth)
- Global Schoolnet (globalschoolnet.org)
- Projects by Jen (projectsbyjen.com)
- Global Virtual Classroom (virtualclassroom.org)
- World Vuze (worldvuze.com)
DIGITAL VIDEO
VIDEO INSTRUCTION
- Kids’Vid (kidsvid.4teachers.org)
- Science Kids website (sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans/technology/moviemaking.html)
- Movie-Making in the Classroom (tiny.cc/8vzgwy)
- Movie Workshop for Elementary Students (uwsslec.libguides.com/filmmaking)
STORYBOARDING
- Incompetech (incompetech.com/graphpaper/storyboard)
- Storyboard Generator (generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard/byo-intro)
VIDEO FILE CONVERSION
- Online Video Converter (onlinevideoconverter.com)
- Apowersoft Free Online Video Converter (apowersoft.com/free-online-video-converter)
- Format Factory (format-factory.en.softonic.com)
- Freeware: Any Video Converter (any-video-converter.com/products-freeware)
STUDENT-MADE VIDEO IDEAS
- Mark Geary’s Book Trailers—Movies for Literacy site (homepages.dsu.edu/mgeary/booktrailers)
- Schooltube (schooltube.com)
- Next Vista for Learning (nextvista.org)
- MySimpleShow (mysimpleshow.com/educational)
PROGRAMMING
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (nlvm.usu.edu)
- Hour of Code page (code.org/learn)
- Programming Basics (programmingbasics.org)
- The Code Monster from Crunchzilla (crunchzilla.com/code-monster)
- Pluralsights’ Free Courses for Kids (pluralsight.com/kids)
- Light-Bots (armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot)
- Scratch (scratch.mit.edu)
- Hopscotch (gethopscotch.com)
- Daisy the Dinosaur (daisythedinosaur.com)
- Cargo-Bot (twolivesleft.com/CargoBot)