Thursday, February 17, 2011

Personalize Learning with Online Tools

There are lots of ways that teachers differentiate learning and personalize learning for their students? How do you personalize learning in your classroom? Do you use any online tools?
Let’s look at a several fun, online tools that can be used in your classroom.
  1. Story Jumper - http://www.storyjumper.com/  Free
    • Build books from scratch or choose from one of the free templates.
  2. Story Bird - http://storybird.com/  Free
    • Collaborative storytelling where students can read a book, play them like games, or send them like greeting cards.
  3. Glogster - http://edu.glogster.com/  Free
    • Teachers and students can create interactive posters to express their creativity or share knowledge and ideas.
To help you find other exciting ideas to personalize learning in your classroom take a look at “10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports”
http://theapple.monster.com/benefits/articles/8529-10-technology-enhanced-alternatives-to-book-reports

If you’ve never checked out Sue LeBeau’s site I recommend that you browse through her "Tools for Teachers" at:
http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm

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