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=__Resources__= = = 1. [|www.softschools.com] is a student resource as well as a teacher resource. You can find free games for a large variety of subjects spanning from kindergarden through eight grade. Teachers can also find worksheets and quizes available for free. 2. [|www.rubrics4teachers.com] is a resource for teachers that has a huge variety of rubrics that teachers can use and modify for their own classroom use. Rubrics for all subject areas and grade levels are available. 3. [|www.lessonplans4teachers.com] is a very useful free website that has both templates and lesson plans for all subject areas and grade levels. A teacher can choose their subject of interest, which in my case is english, and they can then narrow their search even more by choosing a specific area inside the subject, such as grammar, vocabulary or journalism. 4. At [] teachers can find educational news, blogs, forums, videos and articles relating to all types of educational issues. Topics cover all areas of education and range from very specific to grade level and age to general issues about education. 5. [|www.tolearnenglish.com] is another website that can be a useful resource to both techers and students alike. This is a website stictly for english learners and teachers that offers lesson plans, chat rooms, forums, worksheets and exercises, audio and video files and games for students. 6. [] is a website that is geared toward students learning english as a foreign language, but I believe this can be very useful for any student at the elementary level of english learning. This site offers videos about all aspects of english grammar such as, prepositions, direct objects, and adverbs ect. Underneath of the videos are blogs where students can respond to the videos and discuss different questions that they may have. 7. [|www.sparknotes.com] is a student centered website that offers book summaries, blogs, and quizes that address many subjects such as theme, literary techniques and forshadowing along with others. This site can be a useful refresher for books that were read for class but a teacher must be careful to make sure students do not take advantage of this site. 8. [] is a website that offers students help on their homework from the high school to college level. Graduate students from all over the country offer free help on this site and this could be very useful should I decide to teach high school. 9. [] is a webite that Purdue University offers on general aspects of writing. Although it is offered by Purdue, I believe this site can be useful for students of any level. Especially in the areas of research, citations and the general writing process. 10. [] is a free online dictionary available for english students of all levels. It also contains word games for students to expand their vocabulary knowledge and spelling. __**Web 2.0 Tools**__

My favorite Web 2.0 tool that I was introduced to this year was [|www.wikispaces.com]. I think this can be very useful in the classroom and that it helps students to learn good organizational skills, sharpen writing and improve their skills on the computer. The best aspect of this tools is that through keeping a portfolio of the things that were completed throughout the year students can stay refreshed, they will not learn and forget the information after an assessment. If they do it is right there in front of them.

Another Web 2.0 tool that I found very interesting was the Photo Story application. I would definitely use this digital storytelling tool in my classroom. It sparks student interest, motivates students to learn, and it can be very fun. As an English teacher, being able to tell a story in a definitive order is a very important aspect of writing and I think that making my students create a digital story such as the ones we made in class could help them become much better at this aspect of writing.

[|www.Woopid.com] is a great Web 2.0 tool that I discovered that hosts videos pertaining to many questions and problems that anyone may have regarding their PC or Mac. In an age that is beginning to revolve around technology students will be reauired to use computers on a daily basis on a huge variety of different applications and this site can be very useful when they are working alone and may face a computing probnlem.