That quiz

I am all about easy grading!!!  This site I happen to stumble onto during some protected professional learning network time... Again you can add your students and they can get on to take assessments. The accounts are free!  Sign up at http://www.thatquiz.org

Kidblog.org

I'm here on the Mountain at the Arkansas Teacher Leadership Academy and I have learned about yet another resource.  This is a blog website that you can use with your students.  You add your students and start blogging.  The suggested ages for this site are elementary and middle school students.  :-)  Visit http://www.kidblog.org and sign up for your free account.

Wall Wisher

One resource that I used with my students last year was wallwisher.  Wall wisher is an online sticky note board.  I posed a question and have the students add there response on sticky notes.  Check wall wisher out at www.wallwisher.com

Testmoz.com

One of my favorite resources is testmoz.  Teachers can create assessments on testmoz.com and the students can sign in to take them.  The tests can be multiple choice, true false, or fill in the blank.  The fill in the blanks must match exactly for grading purposes.  This resource saves time with grading and grouping.  The teacher can sign in as the administrator and the reports page will show exactly who missed what so that you can reteach to just a small group or one-on-one if needed.  Best of all it's FREE! :)

Storybooks online

I have been scouring the Internet again and I have found a few more great sites that every teacher should know about.  This year I have been doing some action research on the effectiveness of using listening centers to improve fluency.  I did not have a huge selections of books on tape or CD.  I used some that I purchased from scholastic and other book stores as well as some that I borrowed from my librarian.  But these still weren't enough.  I have found some websites with free or almost free audio books.  Here are a few that I have found.  Have you found more?  Feel free to post and share!

http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm

http://www.mightybook.com

http://www.wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm

http://storynory.com/

http://www.kidsaudiobooks.co.uk/mp3_downloads.htm

Story Bird!!!

I have been trying to create an account at storybird since November.  I finally succeeded!  Wish I had been able to create this account earlier.  As an educator you can create an account, add your students, give them assignments with or with out a due date and let them go to work creating stories.  Names are kept private only able to be viewed by the teacher and other students in class.  Another great thing about it, they just added fundraising.  The parents can get online and order their books and the class earns $5 off of every book sold. :)

www.storybird.com