portaportal

Global Networking Sites

Research Resources

Bookmarking Sites

Ynez's Student Websites
Links to learning activities for students
Ynez's Capstone Portal
Capstone and electronic books/literacy activities
Ynez's Games for Special Needs Students
Using games for students with special needs
Kim's Site
Interactive activities for students
Kim's Capstone Portal
Links to sites from Capstone learning
Pat's Capstone Portal
Links to sites for the Capstone class
Pat's Site for Students
Interactive games and ideas for kids
Irene's Teacher Portal
Teacher resources
Irene's Student Portal
Student Resources
Kristy's Bookmarks
Diigo Site
Tracye's Bookmarks
Portal site
Nadyne's Bookmarks
Delicious Site
William's Portal
Capstone Bookmarking Sites
Amber's Bookmarks
Classics and Latin Bookmarks
Karen's Portaportal
Capstone Resources

Digital Tools

Lesson Planning

PBS Teachers
Lessons and interactive ideas
Thinkfinity
Lessons and interactive ideas
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Lesson Plans and Thinking Skills
Links to various lessons and ideas
Electronic Portfolios
Teacher Tap - information on electronic portfolios

Rubrics

Fostering Student Creativity

Web 2.0 Tools Video
Video on enhancing creativity via Web 2.0 Tools
Ways to Not Kill Classroom Creativity
Ten Classroom Creativity Killers
7 Ways To Foster Creativity
Podcast
Creative Ideas
Numerous creative lesson plans
20 Ways to Foster Creativity in Your Students
List of ideas
Build Yourself Wild
Create a strange new animal
Kaleidoscope
Build your own kaleidoscope
Storybird
Create and collaborate to create a storybook
Abstract Art
Fun site to create interative art pictures
Interactive Weather Maker
Control the temperature and humidity to create different weather situations.
The Art Zone
Interactive Art
Museum Box
Creat a virtual shadow box
Kerpoof
Make movies, draw pictures, lessons plans
Do Ink
create animations
Sheppards Software
Various games for all content areas
Lego Comic Builder
Create comic strip using virtual Legos
Tagxedo
Word Clouds in shape forms
Wordle
Word Clouds
Animoto
Create video slideshows
Chess Kid
Learn to play Chess
Make Beliefs Comix
Easy to create comic strip
Skitch
Capture and doodle on pictures
Character Scrapbook
Students can create images of characters they visualize.
City Creator
Create layout of a city with buildings and roads and more!
Go Animate
Animated videos
Xtranormal
Movie Maker
Draw a Stick Man
Uses mouse as pen to draw parts of a story
Word Dynamo
Vocabulary practice which tells students how many words they know.
Free Rice
Vocabulary practice
Word Sift
Visualizing words within text
Toondoo
Create cartoons from templates

Graphic Organizers

Research Resources for Students

Yahoo! Kids
Search engine for kids through age 12
Ask Kids
Search by entering a question
Fact Monster
Homework helper plus online resources
Merriam-Webster's Word Central
Type in a word for definition, synonym or rhyming word
Virtual Tours
Various virtual tours
National Geographic Maps
Many different types of maps
UC Berkley
Steps to evaluating websites
Animals
Fact sheets on over 50 species
Visual Thesaurus
Subscription fee required
Visuwords
Online graphical dictionary

Acceptable Use

Equitable Access

Global Connections

Digital Divide

iPad Resources

Blogs and Discussion Boards