Links

Sites to bookmark on your Chromebook

The Socrative login page

The Hoover City Login page for IXL

The online Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Homepage of Mr. Lochamy's Site

The Lesson Plans Page of Mr. Lochamy's Site

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Grammar Monster (a great site with helpful information about grammar basics)

Pronunciation Symbol Key (for looking up words on Merriam-Webster)

The Punctuation Guide (a useful resource that answers most any question you could have about punctuation)

Methodize Test Prep (a site to use to practice for the ACT--or SAT)

Research-related Links

Play (and master) this plagiarism game:

http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/plagiarismGame.aspx

Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) (the place to go for reliable research information--and tools that help you create your MLA citations for your bibliography)

http://www.avl.lib.al.us/

Bibme.org (a great website that helps you create MLA citations for resources that don't create them for you--like the resources on the AVL)

http://www.bibme.org/

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (a great resource for information about how to write and format research papers and how to make sure you're following the rules of our language--grammar, punctuation, etc.--when you're writing)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Getting the most out of Google (a great infographic resource to help you make sure you're searching for information using Google as effectively as possible)

http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-get-more-out-of-google.html

(and here's another e-book with some helpful google tips: http://files.simplek12.com/downloads/GoogleTricks_eBook.pdf)

Creative Writing Links

Writing Prompts (a great blog on tumblr with interesting writing prompts to help get you started writing when you're looking for inspiration)http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/

Tips for writers (from the creator of the Harris Burdick books)http://www.hmhbooks.com/features/harrisburdick/tips_for_writers.html

Info for writers from the OWL (lots of helpful information for young writers, compliments of the Purdue OWL)http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/677/01/

Figment (an online community for writers)http://figment.com/

Advice for aspiring young authors from Linda Sue Park (author of When My Name Was Keoko) (at the bottom of the linked page)http://www.lspark.com/faq/faq.html

Information about the Red Mountain Writing Project's 2012 summer writing camp for middle school studentshttp://alabamaenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Summer-Middle-School-Flier-Final-2-2.pdf

Publish your own e-book using advice from this article:http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20010547-82/how-to-self-publish-an-ebook/

Become a rapper (everything you need to know is here):

http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphoplanguage/

Get an interesting critique of your writing (from a craft perspective) using PaperRater:

http://www.paperrater.com/

Reading-related Links

Destiny Quest (this is the site for our school's library. check it out, find books, and then check them out--literally.)Hoover High School's Destiny Home Page

Want to see what Mr. Lochamy has been reading? Check out his page on goodreads.

A guide to the Dewey Decimal System (which might be helpful when it comes to picking nonfiction titles to read): http://bit.ly/deweyguide

Do you know your Lexile number? If so, go here and find out how to use it to pick the right books for you:http://www.lexile.com/

Looking for a good book to read, but not sure what might be the right one? Let this site help you by suggesting titles based on books you've liked in the past: http://www.yournextread.com/us/#

Cool Tools

Bit.ly (shorten your links)

https://bitly.com/

WolframAlpha (information, information, information in the form of a computational knowledge engine--super cool)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Youtube EDU (educationally appropriate videos)

http://www.youtube.com/education

Tagxedo (word clouds with style)

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Here are two great sites with flashcards to help you study a variety of areas/genres/disciplines:

http://quizlet.com/find-flashcards/

http://www.studystack.com/QuizBowl

Cool Stuff

Wonderopolis (the best thing that has ever happened. go there now and learn everything.)

http://wonderopolis.org/

Got some down time? Go find a Sporcle quiz to take:

http://www.sporcle.com/

Word Games

Sound Effect Sites

http://www.dramabutton.com/

http://www.hiyoooo.com/

http://sadviolin.com/

http://sadtrombone.com/

http://www.virtualrimshot.com/

http://priceisrightlosinghorn.com/

Learn to Type

Look for the TypingClub App for your Chromebook. Download it into your apps cube. And go get busy with tutorials/practice on their website:http://typingclub.com/typing-qwerty-en.html

Learn to type (without looking) by running through the lessons on this site:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Practice your newfound typing (without looking) skills by running through the drills/lessons on this site:http://www.powertyping.com/qwerty/lessonsq.html

Practice your typing by playing the following games:http://www.powertyping.com/rain.shtml

http://www.powertyping.com/fog/foggies.html

http://www.powertyping.com/typing_games/jibe/jibe.html

http://www.powertyping.com/trees.shtml

Practice your typing skills (without looking at the keyboard) by playing some of the games on this site:

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

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