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This is my Classroom 2.0 site.....Take a look!

__Web 2.0 Evaluations: __ __PaperRater __ PaperRater was the first web 2.0 site I visited and I was very pleased with the site. I think its a great site because it checks papers beyond what a typical microsoft Word document would catch. It checks for grammatical mistakes that are not picked up in Word and it also checks for spelling and punctuation. It is also a great tool for checking for student plagarism. Students can import sections of their paper and the site will scan for plagarism. This is especially important as middle school students begin to write research papers and learn to cite their work.
 * Compatibility || 4 ||
 * Load Time || 3 ||
 * Advertisement || 4 ||
 * Navigation || 3 ||
 * Learning || 4 ||
 * Cost || 4 ||
 * Training for Teacher || 4 ||
 * Total (out of 28) || 26 ||

__Yaca Paca __
 * Compatibility || 4 ||
 * Load Time || 4 ||
 * Advertisement || 4 ||
 * Navigation || 4 ||
 * Learning || 3 ||
 * Cost || 4 ||
 * Training for Teacher || 4 ||
 * Total (out of 28) || 27 ||

Yaca Paca is really wonderful. The website has a section for both teachers and students. The teacher section is divided into subjects and countries and provides curriculum resources that are relevant. The language arts section has great tips for writer's workshop, including rubrics and lesson plans. In addition, it offers teachers great tips and tools for SAT vocabulary, Greek Mythology, poetry terminology and practice in punctuation. The site has no advertisements and is free of charge!

__﻿Quizinator __  I think quizinator is a helpful resource. After looking around the site a bit, I see that it can be a benefit in helping to create tests and quizzes. In addition it helps ﻿categorize the questions and answers I create and it synchronizes the changes made. The site is limited in the sense that is just generates quizzes and doesn't have many additional capabilities.
 * Compatibility || 4 ||
 * Load Time || 4 ||
 * Advertisement || 4 ||
 * Navigation || 3 ||
 * Learning || 2 ||
 * Cost || 4 ||
 * Training for Teacher || 3 ||
 * Total (out of 28) || 24 ||

 __﻿Photopeach __  ﻿Photopeach is very similar to animoto except that it allows for free slideshows of longer length. In addition to a slideshow, teachers can add music and embed a quiz into the slideshow. The website does feature others' slideshows, which can ber a problem if students are creating their own slideshows because they might encounter inappropriate content. However, this is a wonderful website for teachers.
 * Compatibility || 4 ||
 * Load Time || 4 ||
 * Advertisement || 2 ||
 * Navigation || 3 ||
 * Learning || 3 ||
 * Cost || 4 ||
 * Training for Teacher || 4 ||
 * Total (out of 28) || 24 ||

__Knotebooks __
 * Compatibility || 4 ||
 * Load Time || 4 ||
 * Advertisement || 4 ||
 * Navigation || 4 ||
 * Learning || 4 ||
 * Cost || 4 ||
 * Training for Teacher || 4 ||
 * Total (out of 28) || 28 ||

﻿Knotebooks allows teachers to create their own custom library of course content and curriculum, by taking full lesson plan ideas or bits and pieces of lessons contributed by members. Teachers can also create study guides and class notes in their knotebook and share the information with their students, which is a great tool especially when students are becoming comfortable with notetaking. I would definitely use this site and it is free!

Check out my Catcher in the Rye educational animoto! <span style="color: #007bff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿I chose to create a Catcher in the Rye slideshow to use after my students have completed the novel. Throughout the novel, Holden returns to NYC and moves around the city, meeting old friends, finding new ones and searching for his identity. I think this is a great slideshow and a wonderful tool because it helps represent the visual aspects of the novel and it brings the novel to life. After spending a lot of time analyzing the novel and Holden, the slideshow is an exciting way to represent what was previously studied. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">media type="custom" key="10001489" width="518" height="518" <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Here is my voicethread for Jodi Picoult, my favorite author!

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<span style="color: #3e0f6c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">View the glogster below to learn "all about me!"

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