www.summercore.com/delicious

Grammar

List of Interactive Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Games and
Activities
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html#Interactive

Houghton Mufflin English
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html

Funbrain Mad Libs
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html?Password=null

Interative Grammar Games
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm

List of Interactive Writing Activities (more Lower School than Middle)
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001228.shtml

Quia Grammar Games
http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html

kblumberg@theschool.columbia.edu on January 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM -0500 wrote:
From @dianadell on Twitter this morning:
Interactive Proofreading for grades 1-8. Multiple activities for each grade level:
[ http://www.spellingconnectionsonline.com/# ]http://www.spellingconnectionsonline.com/#

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Sam Schalman-Bergen <[ mailto:sb@horacemann.org ]sb@horacemann.org> wrote:


List of Interactive Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Games and
Activities
[ http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html#Interactive ]http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html#Interactive

Houghton Mufflin English
[ http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html ]http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
[ http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html ]http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html

Funbrain Mad Libs
[ http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html?Password=null ]http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html?Password=null

Interative Grammar Games
[ http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm ]http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm

List of Interactive Writing Activities (more Lower School than Middle)
[ http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001228.shtml ]http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001228.shtml

Quia Grammar Games
[ http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html ]http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html

> Our MS LA teacher useshttp://[ http://www.harcourtschool.com/index.html ]www.harcourtschool.com/index.html
> Êand a sample game can be found at ....[ http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index_pre.html ]http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index_pre.html

Grammar Gorillas ([ http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html ]http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html) is okay
but pretty limited and such a cluttered, busy page design.

http://www.flocabulary.com ... Hip Hop in the Classroom

In addition to visual thesaurus and free rice, here are some vocab sites (and one How To tutorial)
~Jayme

www.myvocabulary.com/ 
WELCOME TO MYVOCABULARY.COM and a DAILY WORD PUZZLE - a free resource used in over 20,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.

http://vocabahead.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx
VocabAhead Study Room provides a distraction free environment with over 1000 difficult words explained using Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards. More vocab videos continuously added. Join us, its FREE!

http://www.screencast.com/users/Russell1955/folders/Jing/media/a8e7f721-a888-4a4c-ae7b-43ebb834cc2b 
Video tutorials on how to use VocabAhead.

http://www.vocabsushi.com/

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

NYC Transit Links

NYC Real Estate Links

NYC Charter Schools

• Bronx Prep ... Click here ... founded by Kristin Kearns Jordan ... principal is Fred Givens ... this was posted in June 2006 ... click here for HW prototype on Summercore
• Harbor
• BWCF in Bushwick
• Harlem Day Charter School executive director is Anne Burns ... location is 240 East 123rd St ... As of September 2005, Harlem Day serves 260 students in grades K-5.
• Harlem Success Academy ... Click here for Harlem Success Academy Charter School is a new, academically rigorous charter school which opened in August 2006 on 118th Street and Lenox Avenue ... Harlem Success Academy Charter School opened its doors in August of 2006 with kindergarten and first grade classes totaling 155 students. It will eventually serve students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade, adding a grade each year. Eva Moskowitz, former New York City Council Member, Education Committee Chair, and teacher, is the Executive Director.
• Hyde Charter in the Bronx ... click
• Kipp Star
• Kipp Infinity
• WCCS in Brooklyn

You Tube Videos Perhaps Appropriate for a Teacher Professional Development Workshop

Note that converting the video via Zamzar and showing in full screen mode via QuickTime Pro may be useful recommendations

• A Vision of K-12 Students Today ... 4:09
• A Vision of Students Today ... 4:45
• Bringing 21st Century Learning to Your Classroom ... 4:47
• Education Today and Tomorrow... 2:30
• John Palfrey from Harvard 9/15/2008 .... very long ... 1 hour and 1 minute
• 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year... 5:16
• Shift Happens 2008 (might be the same as above)... 5.16
• Taylor Mali on what teachers make... 3:09
• The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)... 4:34

Other Web sites in Chronological order

• I started using HANDBRAKE to rip some Storefront DVDs in March 2009
• I started using MIRO as recommended by Fred Bartels on 4/3/09