So many great resources - so little time!!

I hardly know where to start with all the great resources I have seen recently and now I am in not in a class to use them myself I need to be sure they are shared far and wide so they reach as many teachers and students as possible.

On Tuesday I was lucky enough to sit in on a workshop with Jill Hammond on literacy using e-Learning tools and she shared these great resources.

More information is also is available on Jill's page on the VLN click here

Thanks Tania for the invite - a very worthwhile 3 hours!

 http://juniorclasses.wikispaces.com/resources
Useful resources for the Junior room.
Developing awareness of keyboard layout while engaging in language games.
Daily news template to make an eReader PowerPoint and Keynote versions.
Presentations from Otepoti Think Conference.

Using a Recipe for writing
The recipe provides step by step guidance about what to write and how to make it impact on the reader.  It also provides an opportunity for the teacher to model at each step.  To add into the opportunity of working in this way, I use Etherpad as a collaborative writing space.  In this space children can see each others writing, which in itself provides a scaffold and support for struggling writers.

QuadBlogging

A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle. 

Storybird - Reading/Creating stories

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun.

Etherpad

Welcome to MoPad!

This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text.  This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!

Example

                                                                                                 


Natural Reader - reading out text

NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This software can read to you any text such as Microsoft Word files, webpages, PDF files, and E-mails. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into             audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player / iPod.