Greetings and welcome to Five for Friday. I hope to start posting more regularly here with sites, tips or tools about technology and teaching.

Just like Free Rice (www.freerice.com), allows students to build their vocabulary skills Spelling City (www.spellingcity.com) will allow them to improve their spelling skills. Students may enter their spelling words and choose three different types of activities: Test Me, Teach Me or Play a Game. Teachers can register and post their spelling lists on the site so that students don’t have to enter their own words.

If you make small booklets with your students here is a tool for you. It is a booklet stapler and is available from Amazon for only 8$
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KICA7S/ref=nosim/kkorg-20

With conference time coming up soon check out these links for information about Student Led Conferencing.
http://del.icio.us/techicebreaker/StudentLedConf

Are you looking for an easy way to keep track of the cool web sites you find for school? Are you looking for an easy way to share them with your fellow teachers? Are you looking to expand your network? Check out del.icio.us! http://del.icio.us/ Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to bookmark sites and save them online. You can also give sites tags which are a way of labeling sites so that you can categorize them according to your needs. The links for Student Led Conferencing came from my del.icio.us account. There is also a search feature that will allow you to search for topics of interest that other users have already tagged. As you meet other educators or view their links you can also add them to your network. This gives you access to their bookmarks in their del.icio.us account.

Here is a site that is becoming one of my favorite blogs for education resources. In fact it is where I heard of Spelling City.com
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ This site provides many resources for all sorts of school subjects specializing in ELL or ESL students.