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  What it is:  RCampus is a collaborative environment that is a one-stop shop for everything school related.  RCampus utilizes Open Education Management system that makes it easy to build personal and group websites, manage courses, eportfolios, academic communities, build rubrics, connect students with tutors, and a book exchange.  All of these tools are FREE for students and faculty.  This would be a great place to organize your classroom life and keep your students organized.  Everything is integrated making management very simple.  Students stay well informed and communication opportunities grow with RCampus. How to integrate RCampus into the classroom:  This is an outstanding place to keep your classroom organized and easily managed.  Eportfolios are a great way for students to showcase learning, RCampus makes it easy to communicate, assess, and assist througout the year as students build their portfolios.  Set up courses where you can manage everything from one central location.  Grade, communicate, and keep yourself organized with the RCampus integrated learning and course management.  Rubrics are fast and easy to create and can be printed out or used with the RCampus click to grade system that lets you grade students from the gradebook with just a few clicks.  Students  can use RCampus to find an online tutor and teachers can sign up to be tutors on RCampus.  Trade books with no fees using the RCampus book exchange.  This is a great place to swap books with other teachers and students.  RCampus has excellent tools for communicating with parents, students, grading, and organizing your classroom, check it out!   Tips: RCampus is free and open access, easy and quick, highly secure, collaborative, life long, cross campus, comprehensive, and user centric.  It is the total package for classrooms and schools!     Leave a comment and tell us how you are using RCampus in your classroom.

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Wizz-e Free e-Books

Posted by admin | Posted in Fun & Games, Interactive Whiteboard, Interactive book, Language Arts, Phonics, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Teacher Resources, Websites | Posted on 19-10-2009

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What it is: Wizz-e is a kids interactive e-book website.  Not all of the e-books are free, but they are SO high quality and definitely worth any investment.  Wizz-e does have some free e-books for you to preview.  Both Puss-in-Boots and the Elves and the Shoemaker are free to play online or download to your computer.  The stories can be read to students who may struggle with reading on their own.  Students can also choose to read the story independently without sound.  At the end of each e-book is a quiz that checks for comprehension.  Wizz-e also has a few games that students can play online including puzzles and hidden picture hide and seek.

How to integrate Wizz-e Free e-books into the classroom: The Wizz-e ebooks are a wonderful way to read a story as a class on a projector or interactive whiteboard.  With the large print and pictures, every student in the class can read along and see the illustrations clearly. These ebooks also make for an excellent reading center on classroom computers.  They are especially good for students who may struggle reading indpendently.  Students can listen to the story and follow along or read a page independently and then click to hear the story for understanding.  The e-books bring reading to life and will draw in your struggling readers.  Wizz-e only features two free ebooks but would be a worthwhile investment for your classroom library.  The site features a variety of topics and genres and has some amazing math and science stories that teach key concepts through story.  If you teach 3-8year olds the two free stories are must downloads!  The quiz at the end will ask students question at the book and help them to monitor their own comprehension.  The quiz models the questions that good readers ask as they read.

Tips: Because the Wizz-e books can be purchased, there is an option to purchase a gift certificate for the e-books.  This would be excellent to put on your wishlist for parents to donate to your classroom.  The e-books add to your classroom library but have the added bonus of creating a listening center where struggling readers can read along.

Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Wizz-e Free e-books in your classroom.

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