Mary+Tovar

My favorite educational, interactive site due to presentation and data collection is: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ because it is a great resource for basic math, language arts, geography, and typing skills at the K-6 or so level. It is colorful and playful in appearance, but not to the point of distraction. There are many games where to win the student has to display a very specified bit of knowledge, which makes it a great place to practice drill skills. It is free and will tally the students progress data automatically and navigation is easy. I love this feature because as a resource room teacher, I often have to collect a lot of data on my students.
 * INTRODUCTION**:

Teachers can use this site by saving the link to a bookmaking site such as delicious, or having it as a link from your teacher page and having students in a computer lab access it and print their results, or it can be used on a smart board or promethium board with students trading turns.
 * INCORPORATING CLASS TOOLS INTO YOUR CLASSROOM**

Examples of my two favorite games on this site are:

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/viper/viper.html

and

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/drag_race/drag_race.html

My students love these because they are similar to "real" video games they play.