English+Resources

====Most of these resources are more useful for project work for older students. While younger students can certainly make movies, the possibilities where students have depth of content seem more suited to older students. Movie making falls into this category and many schools and teachers use movie making as a part of class projects that make content come alive for their students. You may have heard that teaching someone is one of the most powerful ways to "make learning stick" and with cell phone cameras and inexpensive video cameras, it's something worth exploring. All divisions have sets of digital movie cameras so lack of equipment is not a problem for us. It has been replaced by [|Windows Live Movie Maker]. It has many of the same feature of PhotoStory and is a Web 2.0 tool in some sense. You can use still pictures or video in it. ====

====Here is an example of a Canterbury Tale rendered for a high school English project. You can also search YouTube for projects such as this. ====

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====Here's an interesting way to spur writing. It is a tool that uses Flickr's search capabilities.[| Check it out here.] ==== ====This [|site has] a unique purpose.Go to their page and put in the address of a web page you are reading,It makes any word you click on get a definition, the program remembers it and you can review them later. ====

Here is a Thesaurus that also gives additional information. Try it at [|Big Huge Labs].
====Although this is not really a web 2.0 tool, [|this site]would be helpful to writing teachers or students who need ideas or help with writing. This[| site is just a writing site as well but]has a plethora of activities, graphic organizers and other tools for writing both on and off line. And I call this a site for reluctant writers. I learned to use the "hot pen method" but this is a new twist--you go [|to the OneWord site]and see a word about which you can write. And the resource [|Toasted Cheese] has writing prompts for each day. ====

Free Tech for Teachers published a 5 quick ways to publish. These come from that post.(Some are already gone)
====[|Scriffon] is one. You can write and save drafts there until you are ready to publish. You do need an email address and password for this. ==== ====[|Wordfaire] is a blog but it is updated constantly. It would be more suited to having students write a story as journalists than prose. You can embed in it and post pictures. ====

====A site called [|Visual Writing Prompts] has pictures and scenarios for folks to use to begin writing. And this is a [|similar site with the prompts included.] ====