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The following are a list of websites that you may be able to use with your students.

[|Readability website]—//http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/// //Readability // is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading.  [|Lingro]--//http://lingro.com/// Allows users to click on any word on a webpage to see what the word means.
 * Make content more understandable **

[|Jeopardy Labs]-//http://jeopardylabs.com/// Duhh! You’ve used Jeopardy haven’t you? This is an online Jeopardy creator.
 * Turn Content in to a Game **

[|The Game Crafter]—//http://www.thegamecrafter.com/// Scan in drawings to create board games of your content material. Your game will be created for you with a board, pawns, dice etc.. and even mailed to you if you want. Of course there is a cost to this one.

[|Quizlet]- http://quizlet.com/ Website to create flash cards and generate quizzes.

[|Jigsaw Planet] //- http://www.jigsawplanet.com /// Create a jigsaw puzzle out of curriculum content. You can upload your own images. Make jigsaw puzzles out of content maps you create in Smart Ideas or Inspiration.

[|Umapper] //http://www.umapper.com/// GeoDart Game-put markers on a map and then creates a game.

[|PicLits]—//http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx// Provides images so that you can drag words onto the images and create poetry or inspirational writings.
 * Invite Creativity **

[|Twine]- //http://www.twine.com/?_p=&_a=tools&_c=tools&login.required=t// Twine is a tool for creating stories with branching from prompts that you provide. You can use fiction or factual prompts. Then ask the question, “What do you think would happen next?”

[|Multicolor Search Lab] //http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/// Search engine that looks on Flicker and finds images that have the colors you have chosen. This will give you color coordinated images to use in a website, webquest or PowerPoint.

/ Tools help you create timelines. You or your students can see other timelines people have created or create your own.  [|TimeGlider] //- //http://timeglider.com/// Contains1980 through today New York Times newspaper articles that are searchable by key words.//  [|Aviary]  http://aviary.com/// -Manipulate images online to morph images together. Create text on images to use in your presentations. Free//

[|AudioBoo]— http://audioboo.fm/ //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Captures sounds via phone or web that students can then analyze per your instructions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sound **

[|Ipadio]- //http://www.ipadio.com<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">/// Captures 1 to 3 minute oral reports, Phlogging-blogging by your phone. Use cell phones to capture audio.

[|ReadTheWords]—// http://www.readthewords.comhttp://www.quicktopic.comhttp://www.wallwisher.comhttp://www.librarything.com/// Get together and post what you like about the books you have and see what others are saying about books you may be studying in class. It shows kids that others are also reading the books that they are reading.