Computer and Internet Tools for Elementary and Secondary Teachers

Deborah Healey, 2001 ORTESOL Conference

Types of computer tools

Software - freeware and shareware

Kids Domain at www.kidsdomain.com/index.html - lots of programs to download. Start by clicking on Language Arts (either PC or Mac), then select by age. Here are a few recommendations to start with:

Beginning

Beginning and Intermediate

Intermediate and Advanced

Hot Potatoes - download at web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked - free authoring program. You can easily make a wide range of exercises, including multiple choice with a reading (timed or not), crossword puzzles, gap-filling, and matching. You can use sound and graphics as well as text in these. The program turns your exercise into a webpage that students can use either on the Internet or just from a floppy disk. What's even better is to have the students create the exercises as practice for each other.

Commercial software

See "A Place to Start in Selecting Software" at www.onid.orst.edu/~healeyd/cj_software_selection.html for suggestions. Preview before you purchase and make sure there is a place the software fits in the curriculum.

Websites

Compilations for K-12 websites

See sample lesson plans

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Last updated October 20, 2001 by D. Healey, deborah.healey@orst.edu