Resources

Story book and cartoon strip creator at Toondoo This Web site is great for creating short picture books (with limited text) and cartoon/comic strips. Have fun exploring! To get to the comic strip creator, simply click TOOLS, then either Toonmaker or Bookmaker. You will need to register for an account, but it's free, and you can save all of your creations on their Web site.

[|Marzano's Nine Essential Elements of Classroom Instruction that Works]

Download these packets of information on lesson planning.

Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2009: [] This is a web site that is being used by students in ECI 512 Emerging Technologies. There are some creative and interesting tools here for use in the classroom. Many of them are free.

The web site, [|www.quia.com], contains computer games and activities for use in the classroom. It contains 1497 activities for English classes. The ninth grade teacher who shared this site said she uses the activities on station days. From the site's main page, select "Quia Web". Then, below the student tab, select "English".