Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Digital Literacy

Wordle, Avatars, Voki, Xtranormal, Edu Glogster, Animoto, Prezi, PhotoPeach, Wiggio, Edmodo

Intro to class
Please use Mozilla Firefox as your browser

Wordle
- word clouds http://www.wordle.net/

Avatar-
Face your Manga
Illustmaker
Voki
- Talking avatars
http://www.voki.com/
Xtranormal Movies

http://www.xtranormal.com/
Edu Glogster-- teachers receive 50 student accounts free
http://edu.glogster.com/
Introduction to Glogster
Animoto
- Create 30 second movies-- good for book or movie trailers http://www.animoto.com/
Animoto Introduction
Prezi
http://www.blogger.com/www.prezi.com
Student example
Photopeach
http://photopeach.com/
Interactive Classroom accounts

http://wiggio.com/
http://www.edmodo.com/#

Class follow up survey

Sunday, March 27, 2011

ELA Poetry Project

April is National Poetry Month! In celebration, you will be researching poets!

www.poetryfoundation.org

Gale Biography in Context To access at remotely type in syrsls for both username and password

Citation Machine Please submit a works cited page in MLA (Modern Language Association) format. You may also want to check the free plagiarism checkers listed in an early post.