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 **GROUP MEMBER’S NAME: **Ropp, Lieber, Weber (Group 5) **TOOL NAME:** International Children’s Digital Library GRADE LEVEL: **all levels
 * CATEGORY: **library of on-line books
 * URL: **[|http://en.childrenslibrary.org]**
 * TOPIC/DISCIPLINE: **Language Arts, Foreign Language
 * TUTORIAL URL: **The site has a help menu and a first-time visitors menu to provide tutorials.
 * POSSIBLE USES: **The on-line books can be viewed on a smartboard or projector for whole class viewing. Creative writing activities abound…view a story written in another language and have your students write their own stories based on the illustrations.
 * BASICS: **Historical and contemporary texts are available, and 54 different languages are represented. A total of 3,932 books are available for viewing.
 * POSITIVES: **You can search for books using the following categories: age, genre, length, and language. The search tool allows users to perform a simple search or advanced search using multiple categories.
 * NEGATIVES: **At times, navigating back to the home page can be time-consuming.


 * Authors: ** Hickman, Corbly, Ewen (Group 3)
 * Tool Name: ** Sadlier-Oxford
 * Category: ** Interactive lessons and activities
 * URL: ** [|http://www.sadlier-oxford.com] [|Sadlier-Oxford]
 * Grade Level: ** K-12
 * Topic/Discipline: ** Math, Vocabulary, and Phonics, Writing, Reading
 * Tutorial URL: none **
 * Possible Uses: ** Students: to practice skills using interactive games Family: Games & Activities Teachers: Videos, Games & Activities, Basal Correlations and State Standards
 * Basics: ** The students go to the site, click on subject area, level, and specific skill to practice.
 * Positives: ** Very easy for students to use. The Phonics and Math games & activities are great! They target very specific skills, for example, Phonics is broken down by long vowels, r-controlled, etc. The games are very interactive and would be great to play on a Smart Board.
 * Negatives: ** I was disappointed in the reading site. I could find interactive games, but the games did not require reading.


 * Group Name:** Kristina Floyd, Vicki Bonnett, Michael Regilio (Group 6)
 * Tool Name: ** Google Translate
 * Category:** Language Translator
 * URL: []**
 * Grade Level:** All
 * Topic/ Discipline:** ESL, Language Arts, Teach the Teacher
 * URL for tutorial: []**
 * Possible uses:** Can be used as an ESL, or foreign language aid. I use it to help me connect with my Korean students when we have a language barrier.
 * Basics:** Type something in the language you know how to say it, select that language in the from box, then click the language you want to translate to.
 * Positives:** Free, easy, and web-based.
 * Negatives:** sometimes the actual translation is not reflective of the meaning of the sentence; “lost in translation.”