English+Resources

[] Wordles, Wordles, Wordles: Pre-Reading for //Hamlet// Using Key Words. This is a site that describes a lesson where Wordle is used for a pre-reading for Hamlet. One of the wordles is shown below.

[] Tips on how to use Wordle in the Classroom.

[] This site contains short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, story summaries, quotes, and linked vocabulary words and definitions for educational reading. It also includes a short biography, a timeline of Poe's life, and links to other Poe sites.

[] JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint.

[] Easily add photo effects, speech bubbles, text, and frames to your images. One of the best effects turns your photo into a cartoon drawing.

[] MuseumBox is a website that lets you build an argument or describe an event by placing items into a virtual box.

[] Mixbook was originally created for users to create digital scrapbooks using personal photos from weddings, vacations, parties, etc. While it is great for all of those purposes, Mixbook also has some great applications for education. If you're looking for a way for all of your students to demonstrate what they've learned, Mixbook is the perfect tool for you! One of its greatest features (other than the great layout and beautiful finished product) is that Mixbook allows multiple users to collaborate on one book.

[]Shmoop provides lively Learning Guides and Teaching Resources lovingly written by educators and doctorate students at top universities (primarily Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley)

[] is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

[] (The links on these pages are provided as a courtesy of Stevie Kline Intermediate Unit 1. Stevie nor IU1 makes no endorsement, express or implied, of any links to or from this site, nor is she or IU1 responsible for the content or activities of any linked sites. Please make sure to preview any site and follow your own school district's acceptable use policy when using or taking students to any site.)

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 * Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary** — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

http://digitalbooktalk.com/ Book trailers for K - 12

http://villagesquare.iu1.wikispaces.net/Language+Arts+Content+Collaboration+Day+November+3%2C+2010 Intermediate Unit 1's Language Arts wikispace.



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 * 60second Recap®** aims to break the cycle of canonical irrelevance. We want to help teens (yes, teens of all ages!) engage with literature. We want to help them see it not as some chore to be endured, but as -- dare we say it? -- the gift of a lifetime. How? Through the language of our time -- the language of video. Video that's focused, engaging, informative ... and short enough to hold just about anyone’s attention.

[] DOC Cop is a plagiarism, cryptomnesia and collusion detection tool that creates reports displaying the correlation and matches between documents or a document and the Web.

http://jtenglish.wikispaces.com/ This is a wikispace created by a 10th grade English teacher. Full of resources, projects, and ideas.

http://trudyamiller.wikispaces.com/ Another english teacher created wikispace with lots of ideas.