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==Search the Internet, for web-based software that you could use in your classroom. It should be specific to your content area. You will be required to demonstrate the software and provide a one-page lesson summary explaining how you would use the software in a lesson.==

===This website, run by C-SPAN, proves to be a valuable resource for English teachers. The website, "American Writers: A Journey Through History" is a permanent archive for educators and the general public about the writers featured in the C-SPAN series. It groups American Literature into 8 different time periods, includes several authors that are often taught in schools in each time period, and provides a host of extremely valuable biographical, contextual, and critical sources including text, videos, and links to external websites. It could prove highly valuable for the English teacher that uses its content and resources as a fun and engaging way to introduce works and authors to students and can eliminate the boredom of the slide show lectures of yesteryear.===

[|Underground Railroad]

===I found this website which enables students to relive history, almost literally! With the game, students are able to live life as a slave who escapes from their "owners" using the Underground Railroad.===

===I found this website that I can use in my elementary classrooms. ABC-YA is an interactive website that is both educational and fun for elementary students. This website is free and is wonderful for children through grade 5. The games provided focus on math and language arts and help for students to learn computer skills as well. All of the activities were either created or approved by certified school teachers. It is a wonderful idea for your class as something you can assign for free time or extra credit.===

===This is a cool website I found the use in a middle school English classroom. It was created by the Merriam-Webster's dictionary. The main feature that I liked about this site was the Daily Wordbuzz, which gives the students the a word of the day and quizzes them on it to reinforce the word. It also has games and a Build Your Own Dictionary feature to help students learn and study vocabulary. There are also dictionary, thesaurus, and rhyming tools to help the students with their writing. Here is my paper on how I would use it in the classroom: ===

===For my website search I found a particularly interesting website named vocabula.com. The website is almost a blog that has an author who posts different columns that he feels have to do with language and grammar. But, the most interesting part of the website is the links the website creator has amassed. The link page named under the other business tab and named language links is impressive. The creator has hundreds of websites that have to do with language and grammar. He has also found a multitude of websites that host free web-based games that have to do with grammar, language, spelling, anything you can imagine about language arts. I would use this website in my lessons by throughout the year having the children write a anywhere from 10 to 12 reviews on one of the posts made by the author. They would have to agree, disagree, or indifferent, but they would have to support their position in a one half paged summary of their position and why. Another way I would use the website is to have the kids split up into groups of 4 to 6 children in a group in each class. These groups would then become a bracket for a tournament between all the children I teach regardless of class. Each week I would then announce which game I will be using that week. All the students would then have a week to complete this game and get the high score. The winner of the tournament would get a prize whether it be a few free points on a test or maybe some homework passes, or possibly a little candy treat. ===

[|ABC Mouse]
===The website that I found is called ABC Mouse. It is a good educational tool for Preschool and Kindergarten teachers. On the website you can create lessons for individual students or the entire class that is enrolled. The lessons can be composed of many different activities. There is material in math, reading, science, and music. Within the subjects there are games, videos, worksheets, and online books for the students to read. Also, you can print out handouts and coloring pages. This is a very beneficial tool to use because students can access the site in the classroom on a computer or at home. Also, as the teacher I could use it on a Smartboard to teach the class as a whole. Teachers can register to receive a free subscription to the program, but parents can also acquire the program for a monthly subscription. I think this is a very useful tool to use with young children in the classroom because it is very understandable for them and all the actions are voice activated. ===

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===Since I am not certain whether or not I would like to be a science major or math major, I have found a website that feeds the minds of both groups and then some. The site i have found is great for all ages K-12. Quiz Hub is free, it asks for a username and password but, does not seem to need one. This site allows one to explore many areas of education with games, practice tests, and review questions. Quiz Hub also allows one to explore other websites that are generalised to his or her area of specialty. One could use this in the classroom while trying to prepare his or her students for the upcoming test or quiz, or maybe just to get ready for the next upcoming lesson.===

===I found this website that I can use in my elementary classrooms. ABC-YA is an interactive website that is both educational and fun for elementary students. This website is free and is wonderful for children through grade 5. The games provided focus on math and language arts and help for students to learn computer skills as well. All of the activities were either created or approved by certified school teachers. It is a wonderful idea for your class as something you can assign for free time or extra credit.===

===This is the website that I found that can used in the classroom. It's purpose serves to help teachers organize the subjects, quizzes and assignments of the class. This website is free, and once you are signed up for a membership, you can work with other teachers to create lessons that are similar or related to that of other subjects. This website also allows teachers to put up lesson plans and calenders for students to see how exactly an assignment should be done, and what the teachers are looking for. Having a membership also enables you to utilize other members' worksheets, videoes and activities that they have created in the same subject areas. This website is an easy way to incorporate many teaching approaches into a classroom, throughout many subjects.===

Marjorie Whispell's Website Search
Busy Teachers Cafe This website is teachers grade k-6 and it has a bunch of helpful things to make life easier as a teacher. It has a lot of themes for lessons and ideas to go about them. Also it has teaching strategies for general lessons. There are worksheets for many subjects along with many other resources!!

===This is a RSS (Really Simple Syndication). It is free to create an account - all that is needed is a valid email address. You only need to create a user name and password and then you are ready to go. This website allows you to customize a page in a way that lets you see the things that you want to see. You simply need to create a tab and then search for websites that interest you and add them to your created tabs. By adding these websites to your tabs, bloglines creates a web feed from your selected websites that gives summaries and headlines from each site. This could be utilized in a Social Studies class to give students easier access to current events. The teacher would simply have to make tabs for various news websites. The account can be made under the teacher's user name, and the class can then be given the password so that they can access the account from any computer. For current event assignments, students can go to the website and browse the headlines and summaries from these various sites and pick a story that they want to do their current event assignment on. This can also be used as a way to quickly look at important current events at the beginning of class, perhaps.===

===This website is geared more for math teachers specfically but it is also a useful for elementary teachers because it has basic math concepts incorporated as well. It is a free website that includes many different "math calculators", "math flashcards", "math games", "math homework", "math lessons", "math terms", "math worksheets", and "math tools" that are readily available for teachers and students. It's free and very easy to use. It would also be something that parents could use if the student needed help with homework and the parent forgot how to do the math themselves. There is a section where you can put in your problem and it will generate a step by step instruction of what to do to solve the problem. This website covers everything from basic concepts such as counting all the way to geometry.===

===This website is directed toward math teachers. The software itself is downloadable for a small fee. The software can be downloaded personally or through an entire campus or school. This is good for high schools, because rather than having the software on just one or two computers, it can be reached anywhere on the campus by any employee at anytime. The software is designed for pre-algebra classes all the way up to geometry classes. For each section of math, there are also sub topics for the content of math being taught. Up to 125 sub topics are given for each of the content areas. The software allows teachers to save time when putting together worksheets and tests. This can work easily for assignments and tests for many different math classes. Instead of searching through all the textbooks and notes, you can just go on the software and find many different varieties of questions. The software is able to generate questions on the fly rather than retrieving the questions from a question bank. In case you are worried about cheating, there is an almost unlimited supply of different questions, so when handing out a test, not every student gets the same one. The website itself also offers free worksheets that are premade and come with an answer key. The software does not require Internet, so it can be used even when the Internet in the school may be down. The best part of the software is that it can be used for almost any type of learner, from remedial to advanced.===

===This is a website that is very resourceful for the teaching of history. It covers all phases of history, in addition it is useful for a student to use also. I have used it to do research for papers, it is also a great tool to use to study. One thing that i really enjoy about the site is how easy it is to get around the site, it has easy access to get to anything you may need. === === This is a website that is directed for history teachers, it is a site that I have found to be very useful while being in college. What I find to be the best part of the sight is the left hand column; it has basically any type of history one would want. It is filled with numerous different options for one to search for. So currently I am taking HST356-World War I, so I will use that as my example as if I were teaching that class. I look under the tab of Modern History, and then click on World War I; from there it will list a number of different websites that will give information on the topic. Not only will it give information on it and research, but will give a section for lesson plans, teacher guides, and activities. There are maps, videos, lesson plans, and timelines all for a teacher to use to their advantage. Most of the links that the site uses are free which is always a plus. The link that I like the most is the one to the Library of Congress. This is a great sight to use for looking up research; it gives you the option to only look up primary sources, to ask a librarian about a certain book and to look up newspaper articles. This is a great sight for someone that is writing a paper. Once again this link will give information on just about all history, but it is mostly an American History site. The last link that I looked at is the one of games. It has a number of different trivia games to help students study on certain times in history, it covers all of the same topics that are in the left hand column when you go to the site. Overall this is a very resourceful site for a teacher to use, I have used it to look up certain things in my studies, and I will definitely be using it in the future. ===

Spelling
===The web-based software that I would really like to use in my classroom is a website called Spelling City. It is focused on spelling and vocabulary. There are whole bunch of games and activities for students to use. They can enter words and it will test them by saying the word to them and the student has the option of hearing it in a sentence. I would make assignments for students to work on certain activities at home. This website has excellent teacher resources. They have lists already put together, each week I would focus on a different list. For example one week would be focused on compound words, and another week would be about contractions. I hope I would have a Smart Board in my classroom because I would have the class do the activities together or make competition for bonus points or some type of incentive. The website allows you to print out the activities. One worry I have about making Spelling City a take home assignment is if a student did not have a computer or internet, so the printable activities really help to make sure I will be able to use these resources with all of my students. If I had the premium membership each of my students would have their own account and I could track their progress. I am going to be working with younger children and I believe this would be an effective resource. If I were teaching the first grade I could choose the printable options, they have writing activities, which would be excellent when I begin teaching students how to write.===

===The web-based software that I would use in or for my class is TLS Books. There is an endless amount of free worksheets for grades K to 6, and you are able to search by grade level, subject, or type of worksheet. Also, the site contains a "Dragon's Daily Drill", which can be out up on a SmartBoard as the students come into class in the morning. Or, the drill can also be done at the end of class and handed in to a basket at the end of the day or beginning of a math lesson for credit. The worksheets include subjects such as math, alphabet, geography, spelling, science, or writing activities. Also, there is a subject called holidays, which would make doing normal worksheets more fun for elementary grades. I could definately use this website several different ways with my class.===

===Sheppard Software has several interactive learning programs for elementary level. It helps with colors, seasons, geography, math, science, and animals just to name a few. Kid's Corner is a page that explains certain topics such as animals, endangered species, and the food chain. It explains the geography of the world very nicely because it is separated into certain regions. There is a page all about Africa for example and it highlights the capital and all the countries. There is also a game too. I would definately use this site in the classroom because it explains nicely and it is not confusing. I think students would enjoy going on it and learn at the same time. Also, there are quizzes to let me know what needs more work and what students do not understand. This would make a lesson fun instead of a boring lecture.===

===This is a fantastic blog created by a first grade teacher. She has incorporated this blog into her classroom so much that even her students have their own profile where they can post things that interest them. She documents numerous things that she and her students do during the schoolday and then posts it on her website. I love the ideas she uses to engage her class. They get to interact with each other outside of the classroom and learn about safe internet useI would use many of her lessons and activities in my class and she's given many ideas that would be wonderful in any classroom.===

===The link above leads to Grammar Bytes, a website that makes grammar lessons fun and interesting for students. The site has a number of features useful for any English teacher. First, there is a page dedicated to grammatical terms, and each term listed has a link to its own individual page which defines the terms and provides example of what it is and/or how it is used. Grammar Bytes also provides a number of exercises for common grammatical errors, and these exercises are both interactive and printable. This provides versatility for instructors and students insomuch that an instructor could provide printable versions of the exercises to be done as classwork or homework as well as direct students to the interactive exercises on the website that test their knowledge in a fun way. The site also has a few presentations and videos on some grammatical topics, which could provide a visual illustration to those visual learners in your classroom. It also features a page for quick tips and rules that students may want to look up or for instructors to provide as a study aid. The site overall has a number of valuable resources that make grammar lessons fun and memorable for students of all types.===

===Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 is a type of math software that can be found on all the Wilkes University computers. This software can do all types of mathematical things and can be used at all different grade levels, even at a college level. Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 can graph functions, take derivatives, integrate, solve equations, manipulate formulas, make charts, save files, etc. These are only a few of the things that Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 can do. There is so much that can be done on Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 that it can be confusing. However, there is a window that will pop up or that can be pulled up that will help you navigate and learn Wolfram Mathematica 7.0. This window is titled “Welcome to Wolfram Mathematica 7.” Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 can do very basic math and very advanced math, which is why it can be used over a wide range of grade levels. I have used Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 in my calculus three class here at Wilkes University and there are many ways that this software can be used in high school math classes. I am minoring in Secondary Education with a major in Mathematics so I have figured out ways that this software can be used in high school math classes. For example, Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 can be used to help trigonometry students understand horizontal shifts, vertical shifts, variations in the amplitude, and variations in the period of the graphs of sine, cosine, and tangent functions. Students can repeatedly graph sine, cosine, and tangent functions on Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 and manipulate the different variables that affect the horizontal shifts, vertical shifts, variations in the amplitude, and variations in the period of each graph so they can understand the variables of the different trig functions and how they affect their graphs. This would be much faster and easier than having the students hand sketch each graph in their notebooks. This is just one of the many ways that Wolfram Mathematica 7.0 can be used in a high school math class. ===

===Writeboard is a great resource for writing assignments, whether for a single-student paper, or as a way for collaborative group work in a text document. Writeboard provides free sharable, web-based documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any previous version, and easily compare changes. Documents can be shared between students and teachers for collaborative editing. When you create an account, all you have to do to share the document is enter someone's email address, and they will receive an invitation with a link to view and edit the document. Every time an edit is saved, a new version is created and linked in the sidebar. This option also allows you to write without the fear of deleting something, overwriting a good idea, or losing a better version of the document. Writeboard also allows you to compare and contrast different versions of a document. Simply check two different versions of the document, then click the compare button. Anything that was deleted appears as a grey strikeout, while any new additions are highlighted in green. When collaborating with multiple people, you can see who changed or added something. This software is great for collaborative writing, for a source of self-reflection or self-evaluation in one's writing, as a source for documents to be included in writing portfolio's to track progress and improvement in writing, and as a resource for the teacher to consult or conference with students on their writing processes. It is also a good source for students to experiment with style, voice, and audience in their writing, and to see how immediate changes can affect the readership of the piece.===

Amanda Stout
===The website I found was Apples4theteacher.com. It is a perfect website for elementary teachers and students to use. This website has games such as vocabulary, math, and learning. This website is a good way for students to practice material in a fun way. This website also provides coloring worksheets for all holidays and educational proposes. It is a fun educational website for students and teachers.===

=== I believe that all students need to know about what is going on in their world. Children even as young as 1st grade know what is going on in the world to an extent. They might be watching the news with there parents and hear of things that are happening in the world and want to know why. Some things are just so complicated that not even me a sophomore in college can sometime understand why, let alone explain it to a young child. I believe that educating them on what is going on to the best of their and your understanding is a very good idea. This website is based off of the magazine //Time// with making a kid friendly edition with not as much in depth background or explanations that the regular //Time// magazine has to offer. This website is totally free and anyone can access almost everything on here. Compared to the magazine itself they are almost the same but the website contains only a few key articles. If you choose to subscribe to the magazine you get a free pass for the website with the pass you can access the quizzes worksheets and more that would be great for a teacher to use. For people choosing not to subscribe to the magazine it also has many other free tools such, as a great homework help section. It can help you make flash cards to study from and different writing tools such as grammar and how to write a type of paper. This website has so many great parts to it I know I will make it a major part of my teaching lessons. ===

Sarah Jones' Website Search
===[|Spanish Penpals]===

===Looking through websites I found this Spanish penpal website something I would like to use in my own classroom. The website has many features that any english class or language class can use to activitely communicate with individuals around the world. It is alos very user friendly. I also see it as a beneficial tool to help students perfect their sentence construction, spelling, and grammar. The website has many different language areas to which a student can communicate such as Spanish, French, and German. It also promotes cultural awarenss and helps students become more culturally sensitive. It is a non profit organization that allows you as a teacher to be under direct supervision of your students and allow them to work on their literacy. Something like this I would do once a week( or every 2 week since it might take longer to recieve a response letter from their penpals) and have the class within the schools computer labs. This way students that might not have access to a computer at home, have a equal opportunity to participate. Before students send their letters I would make correction where neccessary so that letter is conherent in the Spanish language. This I think would be a great tool to use and also could be a fun activity for the students.===

===i found this website which has A lot of ideas fro lesson plans and activities. I really like it because it has different ideas for different grades and classes. the site has worksheets and game ideas. and is a great way to get lesson plan ideas.===

===Spedtrack is a website that can potentially make the lives of special education teachers much easier. There is an endless amount of documentation involved in the special education process. From annual reviews to individualized education programs to behavior plans to academic progress reports, special educators have much paperwork to handle. Spedtrack consolidates these important documents into one place for districts that subscribe to its service. Spedtrack updates educators via email of impending documentation that is due allowing teachers to have all of their work in one place. I have seen the amount of paperwork involved in the special education process first hand having worked in the classroom as a teaching assistant and therapeutic staff support for seven years. I have a hard time keeping track of all my weekly and monthly paperwork and would love if my agency had an all-inclusive website like Spedtrack available to employees. I firmly believe that this software would be an helpful addition to any school district's special education department.===

**[|Un viaje al Ecuador]**
==="Un viaje al Ecuador" is an online interactive story book, in which students can read, write and listen to a story, filling in correct verb forms and identify verb forms. There are three parts to the activity, allowing it to either be a full lesson, or seperated into three parts. Because it is a story, the students will be actively engaged in learning the verb tenses. It is easier to learn vocabulary and verbs in a context setting. It is online, and can be used on a smart board, and the students can type the answers on a classroom computer. Each section contains a reading, writing and listening section, totaling 3 lessons of each discipline. I plan to keep this website in mind, either for my classroom, or for my mentoring teacher to use.===

===Wordle is a free website that allows people to create “word clouds”. Word clouds are a variety of words that you enter into the site and then it put the words in a mesh of different patterns, making an explosion of the words. The website also allows a person to pick the type of font, color, pattern, and background. I think this would be a great program to use in all grade levels. For the younger grades, in which I would like to teach, you could use this to type number or letters in. I think it would be a fun way for students to learn their number or letters. I think that it would be a fun way to make a game and have the students pick out the numbers and letters. My current classroom that I am observing is a kindergarten classroom and for their first math test, the students had to be able to pick out the word forms of each number from one thru five. Like the previous game I mentioned, I think the students would like to play a game to try and match the number to the word. A variation could even be make a couple teams and have it as a competition===

Phil Leid's Website for class ED 191 Website This is the website I would utilize within my classroom.

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Jill Grasso Here is a website that I found that is good for math and also a few other subjects. Time4Learning

[|Robin's Cool Math Link]

Cool math is an excellent and up-beat site for kids learning introductory math skills. It has lessons for teachers to use when they need different ways to teach a concept whether it be about fractions, least common factors, geometric shapes, order of operations, and so much more. It covers a wide variety of divisions of math from geometry to calculus to algebra. Lessons can be printed out and shared with other teachers as well. This site also has fun games for kids to help reinforce what they've learned in class and they engage students with fun and exciting tasks. I would definitely use this site for lessons when I am in an elementary class because you can use it for concepts as basic or complex as you need it for. I also want to point out that I don't like math very much and it has never been my strong subject, but I think this site delivers these math related subjects in such a way that it makes fun less dreadful and more fun.

Corie Clark This is the website I found and the ways I would use it in the classroom. []

Jillian Cheslow http://ocean.si.edu/

Here is the cool website I found. It's run by the Smithsonian Institute and it's all about the ocean. I think it's important for children to learn all about the ecosystems and the planet we live on. I know when I was in elementary school we were split up into groups and each group was given a large piece of paper and we had to draw whichever habitat we were given. I think giving kids a website like this one where they can click around and learn on their own is really beneficial to them. It gives them a chance to explore at their own pace and it allows them to learn more about the parts of the ocean that interest them most.

The website I found was called Fun Brain, it is a fun way for children to learn grammar. There are many types of grammar such as nouns, prepositions, and verbs. Students would be able to access this easily on the Internet and the more they play the more that they can access fun games related to the amount of knowledge they have in language arts. Liz Mason [|Fun Brain]

[|Cartier Scott's website] This is coolmath4kids.com, it is a great website that makes math fun for students. It is full of fun math games and even has math lessons on it. I plan on using it in my classroom by allowing students to play some of the games and allow them to see how the games relate to the lessons i plan on teaching.