Web_2.0



One website I like to use in my classroom is this Timeline Generatorat xtimeline. Before reading historic literature, it is useful to have student research the biography of the person or era in question. This tool will help organize this information. It is also useful as a post-reading activity: What are the major events in a story? Great if plot is a focus of the lesson plan.

Another great website is Make Beliefs Comix a fun and easy site where students can create comics. This is a fantastic way for students to write creatively, think about plots they have read in literature, and visualize what happened in the story.

Really, though, another great site is simply Education 2.0, which contains a list of great Web 2.0 sources for educators from Yack Pack, which is great for podcasts to Moodle, which is a virtual learing environment.