Teacher Tools

Keyboarding: Students click on link, set up their own account, then the admin. puts them in a class to practice keyboarding on their own. 

(Currently, Ms. McMackin is the administrator.  If you'd like to use this for your class we can add administrators easily.)

Typing Club-Hazelwood West Middle School

Citation Generators

EasyBib  A citation generator with many resources relating to internet research. 

Social Bookmarking  

Diigo. A social bookmarking site.

Website Creation

Weebly.  A website creation tool designed for education.

Example: Mr. Berry's blog

Reading

Lexile.com  The website that supports the Lexile reading level system.  Gives lexile levels of books, suggests book lists for students. 

Presentation creation

Glogster  A presentation tool, like a live bulletin board.  

Link to an example.  

Glogster example
Prezi.  A non-linear presentation tool

Screencasting

Jing  A program to capture video from a computer screen. Free.

Discovery Streaming.  A district-provided source of streaming video, images, lesson plans, etc. etc. Need school code and password.  See the LMC staff.