Lingro refers to itself as the coolest dictionary known to hombre.
When you visit the website, you can paste the address of another website into the top search field, then it will allow you to click on words you don’t know the meaning of, and Lingro will define the words.
Open Culture offers thousands of resources that are free of copyright, and can be used by anyone. Their list of classic books informs users where the free resources are to be found, and in the case of the audio books, it specifies if the file can be downloaded from Audible (free app for iphone and android), iTunes, Spotify and other MP3 options.
This is a great site for high school English students to peruse should they need or want audio support for their novel study portions of their classes.
Word Hippo is a cute thesaurus/dictionary/word rhyming for younger learners. It asks the question “What’s another word for” at the top of the screen and children can type their sought-after word into the search space. The search at the top of the screen changes based on the tab. When on the Antonyms tab, it will ask “What is an antonym for ___?”
This site could also be useful with older students working on rhyming and poetry in Language Arts class.
Help Teaching is a website where teachers can create printables for their classroom. The free version will allow you to make a test or quiz of up to 10 questions. There is content for all subjects and all grades on this site.
Plagiarism is a serious consideration in any classroom, and it can be tough to conclusively catch. Obviously, teachers can copy/paste the segment in question and do a Google search of the content and you may learn something, but that can be a slow, arduous process.
What if you could watch the writing process your student went through on a time-lapse video? You actually CAN, and it’s awesome!!
With a Chrome Extension called Draftback you can watch your student’s writing process as a time-lapse video. Simply install the extension linked above, and you can have an instant replay of the assignment’s work!
Plagiarism becomes very obvious when you see a sudden large paragraph appear on the time-lapse replay!