Literacy

[|English Online] Old English Online resources [|Literacy Online] **Waichat** - Cluster collaborative literacy wiki Study Ladder - interactive literacy activities Tumble Books Children's Library Children's Storybooks Online Woodlands - Online books list MeeGenius Free books Storyline Online - videos of actors reading stories - includes The Rainbow Fish Wikis PodcastsBlogs [|Twitter] - read this twitter handbook to find out more Voicethread - this page has information relating to this valuable tool for having conversations around media [|Google Docs] is a great way for working collaboratively. Could be used within a class or between classes or schools. Sign up for Google Apps for even greater uses. Google Apps tutorial Have a look at some ideas for using shared documents [|here]. See some examples fromschools.
 * Simon Turnbull's Sabbatical Project Litworks **

Digital Storytelling <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #7d41b4; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Voicethread] - Easy to use and great for oral visual and written language - see this[|Haiku]example or this example based on the on the book [|When Donkeys Fly]. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Spelling and Alphabet. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">ICOT - Trialling Technology to Grow Writers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Into The Book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|ESOL Online] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|AsTTle 'What Next'] for writing site <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">The [|AsTTle 'What Next]' for reading site <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Exemplars <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Myths and Legends Creator <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Ministry Self Review Tools for Literacy - Rubric <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|ICT in English Blog] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">- has lots of ideas including a slide show on Wordle uses <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|ReadWriteThink] Link to student materials, games and tools. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|BBC Bitewise] - Literacy Activities <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Wicked Literacy] - Interactive activities on TKI <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[] See journeys from various stories on Google Earth <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|ICT Games site] - ICT Games has maths and literacy activities <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Anamalia If your students love the Graeme Base books check out this site. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Talking books and some fun free videos: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Slideshow] on uses of Voicethread <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Juniors can write short sentences with the [|Wizard Text Generator] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">A variety of animations available. Embed in your class wiki.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Podomatic - to upload and hear podcasts: [|http://www.podomatic.com/] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Language games <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Great fun poetry site [|http://www.gigglepoetry.com/] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Loads of poetry and poetry writing ideas [|http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips/lt43.htm] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Adrian Bruce's Resources for Language[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Writing interactive website[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Woodlands Literacy Zone – heaps of interactive activities <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Guided Reading and Reading Games [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Free Educational interactive resources in all curriculum areas. [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Writing - an interactive story that you can write and print off at the end. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Skrbl] - An easy-to-use online collaborative whiteboard <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Etherpad] - collaborative word document - up to 8 people editing at once <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Wordle] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Tagxedo - similar to Wordle but words are random sizes and you can choose the shape. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">43 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|befunky.com] - make your own uvatar using your photo <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Vokis] - make a talking avatar <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Youtube] and [|TeacherTube] There are lots of resources on these two sites. You can also upload your own videos. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Photos can be used in many ways to motivate writing. Check out sites such as
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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|http://www.piclits.com]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Glogster] - online poster-maker. You can add links, photos and even video to your poster
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Education Version of Glogster] which is preferable for student use

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">These sites are useful for storing and/or editing photos. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">Fotoflexer - online photo-editor <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Flickr] and [|Photobucket] - Sites where you can upload and share your photos online. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7d41b4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;">[|Panoramio] - a photo sharing tool. It allows you to upload your photos and then you can map their location on Google Earth. Your photos will then be visible to all Google Earth users. A great way to share field trips and the like with parents, colleagues etc

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