The first is fur.ly. This site allows you to link multiple pages to one page. So if your students are doing a research project and there are five different sites that you are allowing them to gather information from, this allows you to give them one web address for them to type in rather than five. It can also be useful during center time. I used it at the beginning of the year in the computer lab to set up websites for all six grade levels at once, rather than having to reset all the computers in the very limited time I had between classes.
The second site is tinyurl.com. This is unbelievably useful! When giving students a website, rather than having them copy addresses that are many many characters long, often with weird symbols that makes it easy for them to mistype, tinyurl will shorten the website address to tinyurl.com/#### (they usually give four to five characters in their randomly assigned web addresses). You can also customize the name if you would like. For example, rather than typing in http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/fairytale2/goldilocks/goldicontents/goldicontentspage.htm to thirty computers for one of my classes I made a shortcut address: tinyurl.com/gl3bear. Not only did this save a LOT of time, but the address was easy for me to remember as I went from one computer to the next.
The third site is www.sqworl.com. This site is a bookmarking tool that portrays an image of the bookmarked sites. I find it useful when allowing students choice for an activity or when sharing resources with the teachers I work with. Here are some sqworl categories I have set up:
- Reading and Language Arts http://sqworl.com/3lhpuo
- Read Aloud Stories http://sqworl.com/eb3xbk
- Math Activities http://sqworl.com/o4xsas
- 3rd Grade SOL review http://sqworl.com/xgl0d6
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