Katko's 10 Best Uses of the Internet in the Classroom

Mentormob

http://www.mentormob.com/splash

Mentormob is a way to create a learning playlist from articles, websites, and videos. A superb answer for the student's who finish early!

Example: http://www.mentormob.com/categories/browsePlaylists/academic

Khanacademy

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

Create a Graph

Capzles.com

Instapaper

This tool allows students to easily make graphs in many different forms.

Example:

http://www.capzles.com/#/A6A3B38E-D6FD-43DE-A376-DE95281CAAC3/

Instapaper is just an easy bookmarking

tool that saves pages for later, and can be

accessed from anywhere by signing in

to your account.

http://www.instapaper.com/

This site has over 3,200 free videos on multiple subjects. An awesome resource of quality visuals to add to lessons!

Capzles allows you to create a multimedia story using pictures, music, video, documents and blogs all in one.

This site allows students to create human-animal hybrids and can be a great tool for creating descriptions, which is a much needed skill for writing in any subject.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx?ID=4edd2254d7dc4b559f1989f83c8f3d30

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Wordlibs

Pocketmod

http://pocketmod.com/index.html

This site allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of parts of speech while creating a silly little passage.

Mrdonn.org

http://www.wordlibs.com/

Pocketmods are an online tool that can be used to create foldables for any subject. An old school concept with a new school twist!

Storybird.com

http://languagearts.pppst.com/similes.html

Mr. Donn has an overabundance of resources for teachers and students. There are PowerPoints, activities, and games. This is great for planning (teachers) as well as finding information (students).

http://storybird.com/books/scarecrow-3/

A great way to get kids to write! Students choose the art that appeals to them, then begin writing what it inspires into

their own book.