Using Websites in the Classroom

One website that I found interesting, was timerime.com.  It enables you to create interactive time lines, that are fun and exciting.  Anyone can use this website, but you have a membership.  However, it does have a website that is dedicated to teachers only.  Education.timerime.com, is their new website that is closed to everyone except teachers and students.  This is a creative way to get students and teachers involved in technology, and creating their own time lines.  Museum Box is also another interactive website, that has a section for teachers and students.  This website allows you to tell a story throw dragging pictures and texts into a “box”.  As a teacher, you can create student accounts, and instead of asking them to write a boring research paper, they can use this website to tell their story and display the research they have done.  Wordle.net is a website where you can create a “word cloud”.  As an English teacher, I can think of various ways to use this website in my classroom.  I could students to create a word cloud and include words that best describe them and their interests, or have them pick a word and research synonyms and antonyms and create a word cloud.  All these websites can be used in the classroom, and they are fun, creative, and interactive.

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