There, Their, They’re – Reminders for Myself and My Students
On Sunday morning I was writing in a bit of a hurry and failed to notice a mistake in the title of my post about using the netstat command to see the connections a computer is making to external sites and devices. The mistake I made (I’ve since corrected it) was to use “they’re” when […]
Tools to Help Students Improve Their Writing
The spelling and grammar checkers built into word processors are fine for helping students catch basic mistakes in their writing. To get beyond the basics, students need tools that offer more than just spelling and grammar checking services. The following services can help students improve their writing. StoryToolz offers a collection of free tools for student […]
Tools and Tips to Help Students With the Writing Process
There are so many tools that will help students with the writing process. Some of these tools help organize research while others help students organize their thoughts or locate grammatical errors. Resouces and Tools Grammarly– Detect spelling, context, and grammatical errors. EasyBib– Generate citations and see the credibility of sites you are using. Diigo– Collect, […]
Two Fun Videos for High School Grammar Lessons
The resources that I shared in the post previous to this one offer games that help students learn and remember the rules of grammar. At the high school level, the following two videos offer fun introductions to grammar lessons. In Glove and Boots Fix Your Grammar the popular puppets Glove and Boots use fun examples from the web […]
Tap to Learn Grammar
Tap to Learn produces a bunch of educational apps for Android and iOS. The Tap to Learn Grammar app for Android offers more than 200 self-paced grammar lessons. The lessons don’t have videos embedded in them, but there are links to external videos hosted on YouTube. After working through a lesson students can test their new skills in […]
Quill – Packs of Interactive Writing Lessons
Quill is a free service that puts a new spin on the old writing worksheets that most of us used in middle school. The service offers more than just the writing practice activities, but that is its core feature. There are three activity categories within Quill. Those activities are Quill Proofreader, Quill Grammar, and Quill […]