Uncovering a Wealth of Free Resources

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Uncover a Wealth of Free Resources! By: Cathy Masse Bunkie Wilson 2008

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Enjoy this variety of websites, and find tools you can share with your class tomorrow.

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Uncover a Wealth of Free Resources!

By:Cathy Masse

Bunkie Wilson2008

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Portaportals

Great way to organize web sitesHelp kids access the sites they need to go Create as many as you need to share with

different groups.www.portaportal.comGuest Access-

FreeResources

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Portaportal Con’t.

• This is what the FreeResources portal looks like:

• Please notice that all the sites we are covering today are marked with a

– No need to try to jot down many long URL’s just copy and paste.

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Add Emoticons

• This is a new language kids are using – tap into their interests.

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Create A Variety of Puzzles

Word SearchesCriss CrossMazesNumber BlocksEtc.

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Create A Graph

Simple Easy to Use

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Create Your Own Cartoons

Create a free accountBuild your own cartoon

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Try This:

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Is This What You Came Up With?

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Transl8it!

• You can type in something

you want to say and

Translate it to kids lingo

• You can type one of their

messages in and decode

what they are saying.

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Blabberize

Allow students to bring people and figures to life.

Can you believe

they said that?

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DEL.ICIO.US

Great way to bookmark articlesGain access from any locationTag and organizeFree accounts

Atomic Learning Tutorials

Username staff@mchs

Password: blackbears

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Jim Moulton

Educational Consultant

Great PDF list for Educators

Resources for students

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Language Guides – Greece (NY)

Language Resource Guide – Writing Rubrics

Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking – Character Bookmark

Language Resource Guide (3-5)

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Adding to a Portaportal

If you have or decide to create your own Portal, you can easily add any of the links you find useful.

Click on the quick-link and add away (handy to have open as you are researching)

Quicklink !

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Cruise Around

• Enjoy the rest of the session exploring

• If you have some links you would like me to add, please send them to me at [email protected]