Web Activities

For this activity, review the links below
Using your blog: Review & Rate (3) of the Web activities listed below. Have fun and play a couple games!
Discuss in your blog about the possible uses for these eLearning sites in relation to teaching. Might you use these sites in your classroom? Why or why not? How could you use them

This was fun!

The three activities I enjoyed most were:

The Children's Ditigital Library. I would rate it a 9/10. This is a fantastic learning tool for my students because most of them are learning English. The stories in English are interactive and engage the students by having them select and name the main characters. Also, students get a chance to hear the story being told and acted out. However, my favorite aspect of this Library is that it is bilingual. Many of my student speak Spanish but have no formal literacy education in their mother language. This is a great chance for students to practice reading and listening to a story in Spanish. Parents who are EL learners can also use this Web tool to have a shared story time with their children. I will use this site in my classroom to reenforce what we have been learning regarding parts of a story. It will be interesting to see students complete a story map of a story from this site. Students take part in creating the story characters and the plot. Students can compare/contrast their story maps.

Between the Lions: I would rate this an 8/10. It had great word work games. The two games that were of greatest interest to me and my students were the antonyms and synonyms game. In the game, Hopposites, students got to hear three words and then click on the word that was opposite the first word given. If the player did not know the meaning of a word, he/she could simply click on a flower beneath the word and it will state the meaning. What a great way to develop vocabulary. The words were great for third grade level readers. I will definitely share this site with my students on our next visit to the computer lab and encourage to hop around.

Syllables Factory: I would rate this a 7/10. This is a game that assesses students' ability to divide a given word into 1, 2, 3, or four syllables. A word appears on the the screen and is stated. Then students drag the word into the appropriately numbered bin. For each correct answer given the student powers his robot. My students had great difficulty with syllabication last year, and it is a highly tested skill in 3rd grade skill. I will share this with my collegues and students and give them time to explore it in class as well as in the computer lab. Slight drawbacks to the game are that you must get ALL the words correct to power your robot. This might be frustrating to students just learning the syllabication rule.

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A favorite on line learning link: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/