Ms. De Santis’ Blog

Teachers Domain (see also post here) is no longer just a science only site. There is a new collection of material geared to promote Middle school literacy in writing in science and social studies.Click here to view.  Teachers Domain is a free site sponsored in part by Public Television. It contains videos, lesson plans, and activities.

Here’s a simple (free!) site to produce online stories- www.storytop.com. It’s easy to drag the backgrounds, characters, and speech bubbles into the tale.  You need to register (but no need for email).  Right now, you can only share with the url (the photo above is a screen shot).   Post it on your blog or set up a classroom group so your students can view each other’s work. Click here to view my sample.

Everything you wanted to know about podcasting- take a few minutes and expand your horizons.  How could you students use this technology?

Possessive nouns can be a tricky- just by changing the position of the apostrophe- well it changes the entire meaning of the sentence.  Two students from Tracey Paul’s fifth grade class shared their Animoto.  They know the difference between singular and plural possessives!  Watch as grammar becomes beautiful.