Research

Research =**Resources for teachers that encourage engagement and allow interaction for our students**. =

1. [] This |website is one that allows the teacher to set up an account and enter assignments and assessments for students to take. This site also allows students to set up accounts so that they can take notes and keep themselves organized for class. 2 . [|http://www.weebly.com] / This website allows teachers and students to create websites for class. 3. [] This website allows students and teachers to upload and store videos or podcasts on an account. 1. [] This website allows teachers to make and administer tests and quizzes. It also lets teachers record scores for their classes. 1. [] When students need to research for the class projects, this site allows students to search for scholarly articles and websites that suit their needs. 1. [] This site is for homeschool or traditional teachers, but has many valuble activities to use that are fun ways to learn. This is a subscription website. 1. [] This site provides free use of reference materials such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and scholarly articles.
 * =__** Websites that allow proactivity in learning: **__=
 * At the following link, [], I found a teacher who uses Classjump for her webpage. It is very well designed. Ms. Whitley has an explanation of her class and how students can succeed in it. There are downloads for her classes and links to the sites of other teachers.
 * This site is chock full of design elements! It is so easy to use and it is free. This would be a great site to use for a teacher. You are able to add documents, downloads, even photographs and videos. The directions are very easy to understand and you would not need a great deal of computer savvy to be able to use it. This is a link to Jan Harding's page for teachers [], on it, she has set up videos and other links to instruct teachers how to use technology (including setting up a Weebly page) in their classrooms.
 * Youtube is also relatively easy to use, but you need to know how to use a computer more than for Weebly. You can publish videos and assign the students to watch and critique or they can create their own videos for the class. You do have to have an account, but it is free . Edudemic.com has a website ( []) that gives some ideas for using youtube in a classroom. According to this site, a teacher can use youtube to provide lessons and reviews, note taking, showing creative videos to help students practice for tests and the students can also post their own videos as projects.
 * =**__ Online assessment tools :__**=
 * This sight is rather simplistic, which of course can be a good thing. It is somewhat difficult to find out how to use it. But once you do, I can see it working very well. A teacher would have to know how to upload or create tests for the site. The site allows you to keep and organize grades for each class you create. The website itself has documented uses of it. You can connect and use other teachers quizzes and tests, so there are obviously other teachers who use it successfully.
 * =**__ Research databases: __**=
 * This site is Google and is therefore outstanding! It allows you to search for educational topics and to look through scholarly articles and documents to find information about the topics for their research or projects. There are so many sources on Google, it is almost impossible for the students to not find information they can use. This video [] is AMAZING. The video demonstrates how to use filtering and various types of searches. I was amazed at how much is available to be used on this site. I will definitely be using this database in my classroom.
 * =__** Activities and Games for learning: **__=
 * I was unable to find a way to set up an account for free, but I may not have been able to use the site properly. There is a LOT of information and there are many options on the first page. It is set up to be used as supplemental practice and learning activity. The activities are broken up based on topic. For example, the language arts area has activities to increase phonemic awareness and strenghten the use of syntax. At this link, h[|ttp://www.time4learning.com/add.shtml], there is a way to differentiate for different learners. I can see this being very useful. There are ways to streamline the site for many learners.
 * =__** When students are looking for daily topics: **__=
 * There are so many links on this site it is nearly overwhelming. However, if you take the time to figure out the navigation everything you need to conduct research is there. Every reference resource for your students is there. The students can use this site to find daily topics for journals or mini projects that you would have in your class. It is a vast source for trivia. [] has opportunities to view archived reference sites of the day. This site could be used by teachers to de t ermine daily journal topics for their students.