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Technology is a great teaching/learning tool in today's world. There are so many great sites out there that promote student learning. While taking this class, I explored many of the various sites that were available to peruse. Because of the content I teach in the high school English classroom, I noticed several sites that would be beneficial for the students, and I will eventually be implementing then into my classroom next school year.
The first site I found interesting was "Little Bird Tales." This was an interactive site to create stories, read stories, etc. for younger students. Obviously my older students could not utilize this one, however, they could pair up with students from a younger grade level to help them create stories and publish them. I've done this with other sites in the past and have found the collaboration across grade levels to be very beneficial to all students involved.
In addition, I thought "wordle" would be an interesting site to use when students are creating a character sketch in a novel. Many different forms of words can be used as well as a shape for the words to "fit into." I also believe this would be an easy, quick assignment to assess and check the students' understanding of a character.
Lastly, many times I have students create mind maps of novels we are reading. It is a good way for them to keep a vast amount of information organized. While looking through these sites, I found a couple that would help the students to create great mind maps: "Mindmeister" and "Bubble.us." Both seem to be user friendly, which is a plus while the ultimate goal is organizing large amounts of information.
Overall, I found this "site brainstorm" to be very useful. I have several things I can already implement when going into the 2017-18 school year!
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