Format and Source: URL for online resources or link to vendors website describing the resource

Kidspiration- http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration Research- http://www.inspiration.com/Educators/Research NCLB- http://www.inspiration.com/Educators/NCLB Site License- http://www.inspiration.com/sitelicenses Kidspiration is a great site that the students can use for many things from thinking maps to working on word recall, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and written expression in English Language Arts. Not to mention that it works on reasoning and problem solving skills in the area of Math as well. Ten Marks http://www.tenmarks.com Online Math Program with video lessons About TenMarks: http://teacher.tenmarks.com/about-us TenMarks Approach: http://www.tenmarks.com/j-tmother-approach.action ClassScape http://www.classscape.org/ClassScape3/ Online assessment Research: http://www.classscape.org/ClassScape3/docs/userDocs/Research/research.html

Learn360 http://www.learn360.com/index.aspx Online source of videos that connect to North Carolina Standard Course of Study Freerice http://www.freerice.com/ Online game where students earn free rice to feed hungry people by answering questions in various subject areas that are in a drill and practice format by offering multiple choice answers. Dance Mat Typing http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ Online typing course with animation and games Treasure Hunt http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/gamespages/treasure.html Online math game that works on coordinate grids and following directions EducationCity http://us.educationcity.com/start/ Online games that correlate to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study in the areas of English Language Arts, Math and Science Research shows: http://us.educationcity.com/us/teacher/student-improvementresearch Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/

Online interactive collaborative site to create posters or glogs Storybird http://storybird.com/ Online collaborative storytelling site with artwork and publishing capabilities IXL http://www.ixl.com/math/standards/north-carolina Online math website that provides drill and practice for each of the math goals and objectives for K-6 that match the North Carolina Standard Course of Study Research shows: http://www.ixl.com/membership/school/research Prezi http://prezi.com/ It is an online web-based presentation application Tux Paint http://tuxpaint.org/ Is a free downloadable drawing software program similar to Kid Pix. Reviews: http://www.tuxpaint.org/reviews/ Mangahigh http://www.mangahigh.com It is an online math website where students play math games against themselves, other students in class, in the school, and around the world. Reviews: http://reviews.mangahigh.com/en_us/

ArcademicSkillBuilders http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ Partners: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/partners/ Reviews: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/why/ It is an online Math, English Language Arts website that provides games that are drill and practice the require the students to provide rapid responses.

North Carolina Standard Course of Study and justification for use with my school and classrooms
Kidspiration Third Grade: In the area of English Language Arts they will use technology (Kidspiration software) to compare and contrast two characters along with work on putting statements under the right heading of fact or opinion. English Language Arts: 3.02 Identify and discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, concepts and ideas within and across selections and support them by referencing the text. 2.04 Identify and interpret elements of fiction and nonfiction and support by referencing the text to determine the: fact or opinion TenMarks Third grade students will work on objectives with place value and number sense.

Objective 1 The learner will model, identify, and compute with whole numbers through 9,999. 1.01b Build understanding of place value (ones through thousands). ClassScape ClassScape is an online assessment for reading, math and science that correlates with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. For example, third grade can have an assessment set up just to assess multiplication and division. Objective 1.03 Develop fluency with multiplication from 1x1 to 12x12 and division up to two-digit by one-digit numbers using: 1.03 a Strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers. 1.03 b Estimation of products and quotients in appropriate situations. 1.03 c Relationships between operations. Learn360 Learn360 aligns with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for grades PreK-12. There are several objectives that are not covered by the videos throughout the various grade levels. There are a large variety of videos for all grades in Science, Social Studies, Health, and Language Arts. For example, Grade 3 science the will watch two videos about the moon and answer questions about it, then they will make a digital Moon Facts book on the computer.

Science: 3.02 Observe that objects in the sky have patterns of movement including: Sun. Moon. Stars. 3.03 Using shadows, follow and record the apparent movement of the sun in the sky during the day. 3.04 Use appropriate tools to make observations of the moon. 3.05 Observe and record the change in the apparent shape of the moon from day to day over several months and describe the pattern of changes. Freerice Online games where students earn free rice to feed hungry people by answering questions in various subject areas that are in a drill and practice format by offering multiple choice answers. Example: For third grade, in English Language Arts, the students can work on English Vocabulary skills by focusing on working on their grammar skills by picking the correct sentence. 5.01 Use correct capitalization (e.g., geographical place names, holidays, special events, titles) and punctuation (e.g., commas in greetings, dates, city learn how and state; underlining book titles; periods after initials and abbreviated titles; apostrophes in contractions). 5.02 Use correct subject/verb agreement.

5.03 Demonstrate understanding by using a variety of complete sentences (declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory) in writing and speaking. Dance Mat Typing Online typing course with animation and games For third graders, the students to place fingers on the keyboard correctly and learn what the home row keys are. This site teaches them where the home row keys are, how to place their fingers, gives them visual clues and more. 2.07 Demonstrate correct finger placement for home row keys. Treasure Hunt Online math game that works on coordinate grids and following directions This game is great for both advanced third graders and all fourth graders. This works on Math skills in the areas of coordinate grids. For third grade it covers math skills: 3.02 Use a rectangular coordinate system to solve problems. Graph and identify points with whole number and/or letter coordinates. For fourth grade it covers Math skills: 3.01 Use the coordinate system to describe the location and relative position of points and draw figures in the first quadrant. Social Studies Skills: 1.01 Locate, in absolute and relative terms, major landforms, bodies of water and

natural resources in North Carolina. EducationCity Online games that correlate to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study in the areas of English Language Arts, Math and Science For third grade in the area of Science the learn about and play games that relate to plant growth and reproduction 1.01 Observe and measure how the quantities and qualities of nutrients, light, and water in the environment affect plant growth. 1.02 Observe and describe how environmental conditions determine how well plants survive and grow in a particular environment. 1.03 Investigate and describe how plants pass through distinct stages in their life cycle including: Growth, Survival, and Reproduction. Glogster Online interactive collaborative site to create posters or glogs For third grade, the learners will English Language Arts: 4.02 Use oral and written language to: present information in a sequenced, logical manner. share information and ideas. report information on a topic. explain own learning.

4.03 Share written and oral products in a variety of ways (e.g., author's chair, book making, publications, discussions, presentations). 4.04 Use planning strategies (with assistance) to generate topics and to organize ideas (e.g., drawing, mapping, discussing, listing). Storybird Online collaborative storytelling site with artwork and publishing capabilities For third grade, the learner can pick an artwork from the gallery. Write a paragraph to match each picture. English Language Arts: 4.10 Explore technology as a tool to create a written product. IXL Online math website that provides drill and practice for each of the math goals and objectives for K-6 that match the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. For third grade, the students will answer problems that work on elapsed time. Math: 2.01 Solve problems using measurement concepts and procedures involving: Elapsed time. Prezi It is an online web-based presentation application that third graders will use to make a presentation about a famous North Carolinian of their choice that they

have previous done research on and gathered information about. 2.09 Identify, discuss, and use multimedia tools (e.g., capture, create, edit, publish). 2.10 Modify/edit an existing multimedia project to include branching and identify added sources as a class. Tux Paint On this downloadable drawing program similar to Kid Pix. The third grade students will use stamps, objects and various shapes to represent unknown quantities in number sentences on the canvas. 5.03 Use symbols to represent unknown quantities in number sentences. Mangahigh http://www.mangahigh.com It is an online math website where students play math games against themselves, other students in class, in the school, and around the world. Third grade students will work on practicing their addition and subtraction skills by helping penguins from iceburg to iceburg by working on estimations and approximations. 1.02 Develop fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction through 9,999 using: Strategies for adding and subtracting numbers. Estimation of sums and differences in appropriate situations.

ArcademicSkillBuilders http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ It is an online Math, English Language Arts website that provides games that are drill and practice the require the students to provide rapid responses. Third graders will work on comparing fractions by playing the game Dirt Bike Tug Team. They will play the game against other students at other schools and around the world. 1.05 Use area or region models and set models of fractions to explore part-whole relationships. Compare and order fractions (halves, fourths, thirds, sixths, eighths) using models and benchmark numbers (zero, one-half, one); describe comparisons.

Description of Content, Instructional Uses and Best Features

Kidspriation for this particular activity will be used with first grade students. They are able to continue and create patterns using the Kidspiration software. Please refer to this site for a detailed lesson plan (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3099) Kidspiration allows the learner to pick the pictures from the numerous stamps and clipart that are available to make the stated patterns by the teacher and to

continue them on as well. This software has a lot to offer from thinking maps (graphic organizers), visual core concepts for math, 150 plus standards based activities, and it has a talking interface for your non- readers. This program helps students to manipulate information in lots of different ways to improve their comprehension, writing and math skills. This a great tool for teachers to use and for students to use independently to publish their work for work samples and for their portfolios. For this assignment the third graders will use Kidspiration to list three adjectives to describe two story characters from the story Charlottes Web by E.B White, and find examples from the story to support their reasoning. Then for a fact and opinion activity, the learner will read statements about the book Charlottes Web then drag and drop the statements into the correct category of fact or opinion using the Kidspiration software. TenMarks is an online math program that has online math videos that are in the form of a lesson to help the students with each math concept that they are working on. They have worksheets that correlate with that math goal and objective. 1. This website allows the students to watch a mini video that teaches them about the objective that they are working on for that problem or for several problems. 2. They then answer several questions on that objective. If they get the

answer wrong they are given 3 hints to help them get it right. 3. There are worksheets that the student can print off to continue off line to work on that particular objective if they are having difficulty. 4. This online program allows the students to come back and redo this objective again to get a better score. 5. The scores of the objectives are sent to the teacher on a weekly basis in an email ClassScape Helps teachers focus instruction by identifying class and individual student strengths and weaknesses using the North Carolina Standard Course of Study indicators It helps teachers assist students in achieving or maintaining curriculum alignment by providing assessments approved by content experts. It helps teachers to evaluate instructional strategies and monitor student progress through real-time feedback reports that they receive the same day that the student tasks the online assessment. Learn360 Learn360 aligns with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for grades PreK-12. There are several objectives that are not covered by the videos throughout the various grade levels. There are a large variety of videos for all grades in Science, Social Studies, Health, and Language Arts. The videos range

in length. The site also has audio clips of books, still pictures and written descriptions of various events related to a variety of animals, topics, units, themes and more. You can pick all of the videos to watch or you can pick certain sections of it to embed in your multimedia presentations for your students to see. The site gives the teacher the option to view the video before downloading them. Each video gives the teacher an overview of the video, resources, the state standards that go with that video and a list of citations for that video. It also provides an embedded link for you. Freerice Is a great online educational website that has various subject matter games that work on the North Carolina Standards Course of Study for various grade levels starting with third grade all the way up to high school. On this site they answer multiple-choice questions in the areas on Math, English Language Arts, Chemistry, Geography, Foreign Language, and Art (paintings). This site helps prepare students for SAT test in the future as well as feeding hungry people around the world. Learning new vocabulary has tremendous benefits. It can help you: 1. Better formulate your ideas 2. Write more effective papers, emails and business letters 3. Speak more precisely and persuasively 4. Comprehend more of what you read 5. Read faster because you comprehension improves

6. Get higher grades in high school, college and graduate school 7. Increase your scores on tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT 8. Improve your performance at job interviews and conferences 9. Sell yourself, your services, and your products more effectively 10. Be more successful in your job Dance Mat Is an online typing course with animation and games. The students have to complete task. They have levels and each level has a number of stages in it that they must complete before they can go to the next level. But before they can go to the next stage they must complete certain activities in that stage or they do not advance. This is a fun way for the children to learn their typing skills. Educationcity Is an online drill and practice website for Math. In the area of Science it is teaches them about the subject area before giving them games to play and quizzing them on the concepts taught. For these particular standards, the learners will play three different games called vive La Resistance, Zubas Day Out and Outer Space. These three games the students work on helping them to understand the force of friction, the force of gravity and its effect on objects. Glogster Is an online interactive collaborative site to create posters or glogs that

incorporate still pictures, audio, video imagining, clipart and so much more. This site allows the creator to be creative and express who they are the way they want to. It allows them to even put music onto their glob. They are able to add hyperlinks to their websites, wikispaces, and more. They can use these to display research papers, create personal narratives, create media enriched book reviews, movie reviews, video game reviews and so much more. This site truly allows for the creator to freely express and design the work they way they want to. For the assignment that the third graders will do, they will use Glogster to create a thinking map and organize their ideas to prepare for their oral report on their famous person. They will also share a glogster that they created in a trade card format with the class. Storybird It is an online collaborative storytelling site with artwork and publishing capabilities. It allows students to pick artwork, write sentences to go along with the artwork or they can pick several pieces of artwork and create a book then publish it. Once the story is published their classmates and other students around the world can read their story and make comments about. This is another way to incorporate global exchange but in a different way. This site truly allows the students to be the author of their story and the company is their publisher. IXL Is an online math website that provides drill and practice for each of the math

goals and objectives for K-6 that match the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Teachers or students can pick the objective to work on and answer problems for that objective. These are great to use on the smart board with the class. For third grade they will answer problems that relate to elapsed time. Prezi It is an online application that allows you to create non linear web-based presentations that can be downloaded onto your computer Tux Paint Is a program that is downloaded onto your computer. It is a drawing program that has a lot offer. Students are able to draw their pictures with various sizes of paint brushes and in all different colors. They can type words, stamp objects onto the screen. They can change the size of the objects, flip them or make them mirror images of each other. They change their background to different colors or scenes. They are able to both save and print their work. There are a lot of great features to this FREE program. Mangahigh http://www.mangahigh.com It is an online math website where students play math games against themselves, other students in class, in the school, and around the world. This site is free to schools. It offers lessons for teachers to download for some games to teach to the class, the games can be assigned to the whole class or

individually. The teacher can pick a target grade and a specific due date for the game to be completed by. The teacher is able to collect formative assessment from the site and progress monitor her students. When the students are playing the games they are able to get hints, go to game tutorials or use the prodigies that are available to them. ArcademicSkillBuilders http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ It is an online Math, English Language Arts website that provides games that are drill and practice that require the students to provide rapid responses to problems. This site helps the students have more time on task, it provides them with immediate feedback to show them their correct responses or what mistakes they have made. The games on this site are based on research that deal with automaticity and critical thinking skills.

Learning strategies and teaching methods

Kidspiration is both a tutor and a method for authentic learning through student produced projects. 1. Modeling connections to math 2. Activities allow for student creativity but in a structured way

3. Connects visual thoughts to written views 4. It allows students to publish their writing pieces to a word processor 5. This software is a tool, tutor and a tutee. It can be used in so many different ways to reach students in the classroom TenMarks is a tutorial along with a drill and practice website 1. Mini lesson videos can help the students to better understand the goal and task at hand 2. The site gives them several opportunities to get the answer correct with 3 hints 3. The site helps to build their skills and math knowledge 4. Helps them with all math standards. Then standards are then broken down by objectives. 5. They take multiple quizzes on the same objective 6. They have to do a certain number of quizzes to unlock a game that works on knowledge to play the game. The game is problem-solving game that requires them to think ahead. 7. It offers higher-level questions. The questions start out easy and progressively get harder as they answer them. 8. Teachers can assign students quizzes to take (differentiated instruction) 9. The teacher can pick the grade level for students based on student ability to challenge them if necessary. 10. It builds on what they have previously done.

ClassScape 1. Helps students prepare for the End of Grade test 2. Allows the teacher to see each students strengths and weakness per objective and standard 3. It provides drill and practice for the students 4. Students can get immediate feedback when they complete an assessment. Learn360 1. Videos can be used to meet the needs of the visual and auditory learners 2. Can me more meaningful to them (make connections to it) 3. Expand on the textbook, Time for Kids, Scholastic, story or theme 4. Great discussion starters 5. Help to teach concepts in a different way than the teacher may have Freerice To improve their grammar and vocabulary skills to help them be better speakers, writers and to prepare them for the SAT test. DanceMat Online typing course to teach students in a fun and innovative way to type with their fingers in the correct positions and with the correct sweeping motions.

Glogster With this online interactive collaborative site the object is to help students to be creative and have them make posters to for presentations using visual aids with an awareness of purpose and audience to describe and tell about a famous person to work on their oral and written skills. Storybird With this online collaborative storytelling site that has its own artwork and publishing capabilities, the goal is to help the first graders to become confident independent writers while working on the NCSCOS objectives in English Language Arts focusing primarily on writing. IXL With this online math website that provides drill and practice for each of the math goals and objectives for K-6 that match the North Carolina Standard Course of Study it is help students master each goal and objective. If they are having trouble with that goal it gives them more practice to improve on that goal and objective. They will work on elapsed time. They will practice this by using the following links: Time: Read clocks and write times (Third grade - O.1) Time: Elapsed time I (Third grade - O.2) Time: Elapsed time II (Third grade - O.3)

Time: Relate time units (Third grade - O.5) Time: Time patterns (Third grade - O.6) Time: Convert between hours and fractions of hours (Third grade - O.7) Time: Reading schedules (Third grade - O.8) Time: Time lines (Third grade - O.9) Prezi It is an online application that allows you to create non-linear web-based presentations that can be downloaded onto your computer. This site can be used to help students create more lively presentations that actively get their audience involved. The students will include clipart that they can zoom into for their audience to possibly get a better understanding than they would from a PowerPoint presentation. Tux Paint With this drawing program the third graders are going to use the stamps, shapes and objects to represent unknown quantities in number sentences. They will be able to use these items to create their number sentences to print and have a partner solve in class. They will complete a few in class first with the teacher. Mangahigh It is an online math website where students play math games against themselves, other students in class, in the school, and around the world.

It helps teachers to determine student strengths and weakness to help her determine what groups she may need to make to work on certain goals. It allows the teacher to see where her students are compared to other students in the nation. This site provides practice, it is a scaffolding website based on student performance. This site provides the teacher the option to differentiate instruction, whole group, small groups, or individual instruction. This site is engaging it will pull students in with ADHD and keep them actively engaged. This is a great site to help with students who are in the RTI process also. (http://www.mangahigh.com/en_us/) Scroll to the bottom for more information. ArcademicSkillBuilders It focuses on students giving rapid responses to problems and more time on task. This site is mainly a drill and practice site where students compete against other students. This site is full of action and color that is engaging to students.

Possible Problems
Kidspiration 1. Students must be trained on how to use the software or at least introduced to it

2. It can be overwhelming for someone who is just starting out, too many visuals on the screen for some children TenMarks 1. If you get the problems wrong it gives you the chance to fix it 3 times. 2. If the teacher picks a grade level that is above the one they are in, the problems could be too difficult for them. 3. They must have Internet connection in order to complete these activities. 4. Students need to keep track of what they have done for proof of completing an activity before the teacher gets her weekly report. The students are not able to print a certificate or their grade for that activity. ClassScape 1. It requires a subscription that is expensive 2. Students can access it from home ONLY if the teacher assigns the time to be available in after school hours. 3. Students cannot get onto ClassScape unless they have a username and password. 4. They cannot get on and just work on a specific goal and objective that they are having trouble with. The teacher must assign them a test and provide them with a testing code in order from to take the test. 5. Teachers are not allowed to print the test and questions because they are copyright protected.

Learn360 It requires a subscription that cost money in order to download the videos after the trial period is over. When your school/county no longer has a subscription you cannot use the videos in your lessons and presentations Some standards do not have videos to go with them. For some teachers it could be a problem that that has to preview the video to determine the following: If it meets the standards being taught Is content appropriate for all students It is highly recommended that you download the video prior to class, if not your could have too many people on the internet at the same time and cause the video to download slowly and ended up pausing while trying to watch the video. Freerice If the game gets to difficult the student can pick the level of difficulty and go all the back to level 1 and start all over from the easiest and not challenge themselves. The teacher needs to put something in place to help ensure that this does not happen. This site will read to them when they click on the speaker but the site has no animation or video. It does have still pictures but they are limited.

Dancemat The students do not have to keep their fingers on the home row keys to do what is asked of them to complete the stages. They can peck the keys or use the pointer fingers to complete the task. If the teacher is not watching and walking about to monitor to make sure what the children are doing then the program is not 100% effective. It is hard to track student progress unless they print certificates to show progress. Glogster If the student is not very creative and/or does not want to take the time to create a good presentation. Or it could be the opposite the glogster could be too busy and overwhelming to some. This can be very time consuming. Storybird The teacher must teach the students how to do it first before allowing them to go for it independently them selves. The teacher must bookmark the website for students to get to it, they must have a subscription to the site with a username and password in order to log in. The site is open to the outside world. They are limited to the artwork that is on the site. They cannot import pictures that they have drawn and created themselves to truly make a personal book and publish it. IXL It requires that you have a subscription but you can still do the problems online

but you have a limited amount of time that you are allowed to play on the site. When they (teacher or student) pick a goal they can only work on that goal they cannot work on several goals and objectives at the same time. If a student has a visual problem or a reading problem may have some difficulty reading the math problems independently. You would need a text to voice feature turned on so the student could hear the question read to them or have a peer read it to them. The questions do not always appear in the same order that you could record them in advance to help them out. Prezi If you do not have Internet access then you cannot work on your presentation unless you have Prezi desktop, which are included with the Prezi Pro and Edu Pro licenses, which cost additional money. The free account to teachers and students do not have access to this feature. This is truly a program that you need to model and teach your students how to use. They need some guidance before you just say go for it, if not they may get a little frustrated before they even begin. Tux Paint I do not see any problems with this program. I use this program with my EC students and my regular students. They love the program and are able to freely express themselves. It is easy to navigate even with the use of a trackball, touch screen, and enlarging the screen for my visually impaired student.

Mangahigh The math problems can not be read out loud by the computer to the visual impaired students. Certain games on the website are very fast paced. For a visually impaired student they would have a hard time locating numbers on the keypad unless they had an assistive device where the number keys were enlarged for them to see them better or had a keyboard where the letters where enlarged. The computer screen does have the option to be enlarged for them to see it better if need be. ArcademicSkillBuilders One of the biggest problems that I have come across using this game in the computer lab with my students is that they want to play other games not just the ones that they are assigned to. They want to play games that are often above their level. Another problem that I have seen is that children that keep ending up in last place end up giving up and do not want to keep playing because they feel like losers. This is a negative to the competitive part of these games. If there was a way to play the games that they did not play against others and only themselves the games would be more beneficial to some students.