English

=English Teacher Resources=

General English Resource Links
The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness blog has a huge range of ideas and links for using technology in the English Classroom Online Writing Tools wiki. There are some excellent ideas here. =__Visual Language__= Make your photographs speak with Blabberize.

Avatars
Create an avatar to put on your Moodle site. Voki allows to record your own voice or an accent of your choice.

**Cartoons**
Bitstrip is a free online comic maker.

[|Toondoo] is a free online comic maker. You can share your cartoons with others and email them to them. =__Written Language__=

Blogging
For class blogs and individual blogs for your students go to Edublogs. Take a look at Our Bookblog, with links to student blogs.

Writing Prompts
Grab Bag is the writing version of a bag skit. You get to decide how many words you want in your bag, and the computer will generate a writing prompt for you using randomly selected words and/or phrases from its list. Use that random word list as your starting point, and write a story, essay, or poem which uses all the words. Grab Bag Bogglesworld has some interesting writing prompts. Write Source has topics listed by grade. BBC Bitesize has resources for different writing genre and purposes. Writing fun with Jenny Eather has a range of interactives for planing and writing

Story maker
Write your own online fairy story, horror story or science fiction story.[|Storymaker]

Story strips
Add your own dialogue into the speech bubbles to create your own story strips. You get to choose the situation for your story.[|It's my life, games, story strips]

Spelling
Spelling City is an online programme which allows teachers to create and edit their own lists as well as use the lists of other teachers. There are many interactive games to reinforce the vocabulary and spelling.

Character Study
Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Use this scrapbook to describe a character from a book you have read.[|Character Scrapbook] Get students formulating ideas for character essay writing with Character Trading Cards.

Poetry - Rap Poems
Rap poems - make your own beats online to go with your rap poem. [|Make your own beats online]

**Text Collage** **Dynamic emotional designs**
This creates totally random works of art, composed of text and based on varying emotions. It chooses an emotion, then displays associated words and dynamically created sentences in random fonts, sizes and places. It's quite addictive to watch over and over again, as each design seems to tell its own story.[|Text Collage]

Wordle. A site where you can create a creative collage of words.[|Wordle]
=__Oral Language__= Fun interactive debate game.[|Debate game for kids]

Podcasts
Create a simple voice and music podcast with Audacity.[|Audacity]