Free books online

World library http://worldlibrary.net/

Free audio books  for children and adults some are try offer and others are simple downloads. Another free website for audio books. Most have both mac (itune) and PC(mp4) version to download. You can download or play audio book from online.  Here's another website to look at for both adult and children books. About.com has a good list of free audio book

Gutenberg.
~23,000 eBooks at http://www.gutenberg.org
100,000 eBooks at http://www.gutenberg.cc

Seventy-One Rhymes for students

Rhymes with ending you might use for teaching (ate, an, etc)

Zoobooks education information with games & activities.

MightyBook - read aloud books.

Storybooks to Read - easy books for young readers to read on-line. Great website the reads book to student and show the words.

Vocabulary.com -  type a word in  box a definition and pronounces the  world, along with games and puzzles that promote word power including thematic word puzzles.

For younger children stories through pod cast.  Short story.

Children Free books

Children’s Library http://www.archive.org/details/iacl

Poems

Find a poem or poet from http://www.poets.org/

Poetry Archives

Cinquain Poetry - what is it...examples given

Writing using technolgy

Helpful links for using technology in the classroom.

Teach students to break a story down

Analyze the elements of a story (characters, plot, genre) to teach students how to break a story down

Narrative writing

Deepening Student Literacy with Visual Assignments  (video)

Insight into the assignment is offered in the video above.

A free digital storytelling cookbook can be found on the web at www.storycenter.org or click here  (pdf).

Great ways to teach narrative story writing. Build respect and rapport among students in the class. Break students into groups  first by story types and then by the different types of technology they will use to tell their story.

Digital storytelling

Teach about story boarding first then going into the digital component.

How does digital storytelling deepen student literacy?

It takes a student's life experience (a moment in their lives, what they did or learned) and makes it better, transforms written text into digital form.

Active learning, oral communication blended with written.

Build a community, students share ownership of their work and contribute to the class.

It's fun and something they share with the entire class at the end of the semester or lesson.  The students take pride in their work.

Ideas for types of assessment:

Integration of the writing along with technology assessments such as the examples below:

use dialog effectively

quality of audio

quality images

precision of digital editing

originality and innovation

emotional resonance

* Showing not telling

Have students vote for the best digital story and why they thought it was the best.(Will effect the student who votes,  however, it will not effect the person they voted for) Email their vote to the teacher keeping it private.

Additional ideas:

Write the blog, and take 50 words out of their final writing before they do the digital story.

All about the thesis statement. 

Everything has to illustrate the point (thesis)

Keep it real! Use example from your life to help illustrate your point.

Why Blogs:

Share with students building a community within a class. 

Define old and new media from one persons point of view.  (funny) video.

Help students keep their thoughts safe.

Ask students about the distinction between personal and private information within the realm of blogging and social media networks.

Then break it down, for example:

Show an image of a heart and write what students say is part of their private life inside the heart or give examples.  Then list things outside the heart for blogs, social media (face book) to share. 

Bullying on the internet, what it is and how to help prevent it. 

Teach students to take ownership of their writing.

Respecting others, and their differences.  

Christian Bible online

For Christian an online Bible website that read books of the bible in different versions.  YouVersion

You do need to sign up for a free account.

Using Technology in the class discussion of teachers ideas and concerns.

Apps you could use in K-12 students.

YouTube video1, Video 2 same group of teachers talking about using Apps in their classroom. 

Empowering Student Learning with Social Networking and Technology Integration video of teacher talking.

Crazy face app. maybe of interest to some for fun.

Apps for adults:

10 Must Have Apps

Create a Google search YouTube Video. Wonderful tool and free to use with students.   Sample video of what this tool can do (safe for students to see)

More Google products  

Google map mashup how-to tools:

Make your own annotated mulitmedia Google map.

mashup information,  another  additional