Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Evaluating Teacher Websites for Secondary English





The website on the bottom is Lexipedia.com. It seems to be powered and sponsered by iSeek. The purpose of this website is to educate students in a fun and inventive way on word meaning and usage. You type in a word, press search, and it gives any part of speech for that word as well as synonyms, antonyms, and fuzzynyms. It also provides a cool web graph that is fun to play around with. This site could be advertised easily for students and teachers who want to look up words for any purpose. I could see myself using this website as a dictionary in my future clasroom. It is a dictionary, thesaurus, and more. There is a link to share this website on facebook. I think that this website could be extremely helpful in the classroom.

The website featured on the top is writingfix.com. It is sponsered by the Northern Nevada Writing Project. This website can be used to give teachers fun ideas for writing prompts and lessons. It also gives resources to help teachers with teaching how to write. Advertising for this website would be well recieved by any teacher and is also on twitter and facebook. I can definitely see myself using this to come up with ideas for writing assignments and to help me when I find myself looking for answers. There is a link to the NNWP website as well. This is a great tool for anyone teaching writing for educational purposes.