Online Resources

Online Resources

The following online resources are web sites, compilations, databases, etc. contributed, in one way or another, by participants in the AWP Summer Institute. Feel free to email Karl <karlf@usca.edu> to contribute any other online resources.

We hope to have summaries and reviews for all of the material below. Please mark your review with your initials and the month/year you contributed the review. For instance, Jane Doe would include (JD 6/08) at the end of a review she completed in June 2008.

Resources marked with a "frowny face" need summaries/reviews. Resources marked with a "happy face" already have summaries/reviews.

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BBC--CBeebies <http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tweenies/>

Vicki used this site from the BBC for her demo. The site appears to have resources, specifically for pre-K stories aloud with some flash animation.

BookPals Storyline Online <http://www.storylineonline.net/>

Storyline features Screen Actor's Guild actors reading children's books and provides a list of ideas and activities for teachers.

I wanna see the guy from No Country for Old Men read Horton Hears a Who, but that might just be me.

edHelpers <http://www.edhelper.com/>

According to the web site, "edHelper.com is dedicated to providing teachers a single shop for educational resources. edHelper was created by a team of teachers who have edhelped (!) in its development.

Favorite Poem Project <http://www.favoritepoem.org/>

The favorite poem projects inlcudes video readings of poems and some teacher resources. Write a review.

Freeology <http://freeology.com/>

Free school stuff!

Um, I'm not sure it's really "free" if it includes Google ads. Advertisements cost me in distraction and frustration time.

Read, Writing, Think <http://www.readwritethink.org/>

Developed and updated by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, Read, Write, Think provides "educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction," at least according to them.

Zuckerman's Barn <http://www.zbarn.net/>

Here is part of their description:

"This web site focuses on children's books, particularly those of interest to 9-12 year olds. Parts of the site are highly interactive, but limited to students whose teachers include it in their classroom program. The rest of the site includes databases of book titles indexed in many different ways."

We need our own description/review.