We will be using these tools in order to better integrate what we are learning with how we are learning. We will use these tools to make videos, websites, solve math problems, and communicate with each other and learners all over the world! The only limit to our learning is our imagination!
In addition, please be sure to stop by and visit Ms. Brockway's daily educational technology newspaper, Education in the Digital Age. There are lots of cool resources for teachers and students!
In addition, please be sure to stop by and visit Ms. Brockway's daily educational technology newspaper, Education in the Digital Age. There are lots of cool resources for teachers and students!
Interactive Learning/Collaboration
Socrative
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Socrative allows the students to actively engage online with the teacher, take real-time quizzes and get real-time feedback. The teacher can also get real-time feedback on students' conceptual understanding.
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Collaborize Classroom
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A great site that allows for students to collaborate across subject areas.
CK-12
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CK-12 offers great resources across a whole range of subjects, from information to flashcards to critical thinking challenges and videos.
Multi-Use Tools
Edublogs
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Edublogs allows us to facilitate classroom discussions, blog, post videos, podcasts and documents, and create a class publication.
Diigo
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Diigo is like an electronic, all-purpose digital Filofax! Use it to store links, resources, websites, blogs and more. It boasts handy sticky notes for reminders, highlighters for personalizing documents, and the ability to store documents and images too. An all-round winner of a tool!
InstaGrok
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InstaGrok allows students to create their own web of learning materials, links, passages, and more to create a learning portal on any subject!
Assessment
Ten Marks
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Ten Marks allows us to practice our math skills by taking quizzes. We can even get hints and watch videos for help!
Free Rice
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Free Rice lets us practice and learn lots of new things. And we get to donate rice to hungry people while we are answering the questions!
Presentations
Prezi
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A must-have tool for teaching presentations, this is one web 2.0 resource that really has changed the face of the classroom. Including photographs, diagrams, flowcharts and being able to zoom in and out makes presentations far more engaging and visual than ever before.
Vuvox
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Vuvox allows us to create really stunning presentations!
Kizoa
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With Kizoa we can make our own slideshows, collages, and even edit our photos!
Slidestaxx
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Slidestaxx is another cool online presentation maker.
Empressr
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This site allows us to make our own online presentations!
Slide Rocket
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Slide Rocket lets us make our own presentations, or we can import a Powerpoint and edit it.
PhotoPeach
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Another online presentation maker.
Slideshare
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Slideshare allows us to share our presentations.
glogster
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Glogster allows teachers and students to create a virtual "poster" of information, complete with photos, videos, links, and much more!
Posters
Poster My Wall
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This a great site where you can make a poster with pictures, graphics, and text.
Zeen
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Zeen is another great tool that allows for a combination of words, images, maps, links, videos and many more.
Art Skills
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Art Skills has great tools for students and teachers!
Web Poster Wizard
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This is a basic poster-making site.
Website Development
Weebly
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Weebly allows us to have our own webpages! It's easy-to-use and a lot of fun!
Thinkquest
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Thinkquest allows a student, a team of students, an entire class, or a teacher to create an inquiry-based website to explore learning!
Video Editing
Animoto
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Brilliantly easy to use, Animoto produces high-quality videos from pictures and text, set against chosen backgrounds and music. A great way for students to get creative and produce something they can be proud of, Animoto has a wide variety of classroom uses, from projects to reports.
Vimeo
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With Vimeo, we are able to create and edit video we have taken in class, then display it for our friends and family to see!
Magisto
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Magisto is another great video editing program!
Tube Chop
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TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
Pixorial
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Pixorial allows us to upload video clips, then create fun and educational videos with them.
Digital Storytelling
Storybird
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Storybird allows us to write and illustrate our own stories, then share them with others worldwide!
Make Belief Comics
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This fantastic websites allows students to make their own comic book strips and share them with their classmates!
Animation Creation
Sketch Star
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Sketch Star from Miniclip is a fun and free tool for creating animated comics. On Sketch Star students can create draw animations from scratch or use pre-made shapes and characters. Students build their animations frame by frame. Each frame appears in a timeline that can be altered by dragging and dropping the frames into different sequences. The length of time that each frame is displayed can be adjusted too. Completed projects can be saved online.
Stop Frame Animator
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Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.
Wideo
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Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos online.
Draw Island
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Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations.
Photo Editing
Pixlr
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Pixlr allows us to do basic photo editing, experiment with advance photo editing processes, and also use Pixlr-o-matic for fun and creative photo effects!
Aviary
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Aviary allows us to edit our own photos and add fun effects!
Fun Photo Box
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Fun Photo Box allows us to give our photos fun effects!
Digital Whiteboards
Conceptboard
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One of the most striking manifestations of online technology is the rise in digital whiteboards. This one hosts a bunch of fantastic features, allowing teachers to share and discuss ideas in multimedia format with students both in the classroom and virtually.
Wallwisher
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Wallwisher gives you a blank "wall" with which to put just about anything on: images, videos, links, notices, lists, and more!
Information Gathering (Info, Photos, Videos, etc.)
Sweet Search
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Sweet Search helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources.
School Tube
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We visit School Tube to find loads of videos on all the subjects we are studying!
EdShelf
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Edshelf lets us collect our favorite websites and group them according to topic.
Evernote
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With this tool we can collect ideas from the internet and store them here!
Screenr
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Screenr allows us to record instant audio and visual screencasts!
Blogs and Wikis
KidBlog
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Kidblog allows us to have our own blogs on a safe, user-friendly server.
Online Note Taking/Sticky notes
Sqpad
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Sqpad allows us to write a note, then save the URL so we can see the note later.
Square Leaf
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With Square Leaf we can make sure we record important information and store it where we want it.
Mind MapPing and Brainstorming
Bubbl.us
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Bubbl.us is a fantastic way to collaboratively brainstorm online!
Popplet
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Popplet allows us to collaborate with each other using mind maps.
Audio Editing
Audioboo
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Audioboo helps us with recording and sharing audio blogs. A great way to encourage kids to get
interactive and spontaneous with blogging, particularly if old-school written
blogs aren’t their style.
interactive and spontaneous with blogging, particularly if old-school written
blogs aren’t their style.
Audio Expert
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Another great audio editing website!
File Storage
Dropbox
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Simple, foolproof, easy to use… Dropbox is the best way to share files and documents with your students from any computer, anywhere!
Live Binders
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Live Binders allows us to collect and store our resources, then share them with everyone!
Paper.li
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Paper.li allows us to curate our own online newspaper!
Infographics/Word Art
Tagxedo
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Tagxedo allows us to make interactive word art in a variety of shapes and colors!
Wordle
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Wordle allows students to visually display words and phrases related to the topic in which they are studying. And it's fun, too!
easel.ly
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Easel.ly helps us make really cool infographics!
Visual.ly
![Picture](/uploads/1/3/3/6/13365921/7380063.jpg?102)
Another cool infographics creation site!
Infogr.am
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Infogr.am is another great infographic creation site.
e-Portfolios
Mentor Mob
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With Mentor Mob we can make our own learning playlists!
Social Learning
Edmoto
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Edmoto is a great social learning platform and a great way to teach and learn using technology.
Task Management
Thoughtboxes
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Thoughtboxes allows us to create our own lists, which makes it easier to stay organized.
Polls and Surveys
Poll Everywhere
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This invaluable resource gives a new lease of life to student surveys and polls. Quick and simple to use, it works across multiple platforms, with respondents able to submit answers via mobile phone, Twitter or web browser.
Kwiq Poll
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Kwiqpoll is another great site to make your own polls.
Annotate and Highlight Webpages
Markup.io
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Markup.io allows us to save a screenshot of a web page and mark it up. This will help us when reading informational material on the web!
Web Quests
Zunal
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Zunal allows the user to either complete one of thousands of web quests already created, or create a personalized web quest.
Webquest.org
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Webquest.org allows students to find, create, and share web quests.
Quest Garden
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Quest Garden allows teachers to go beyond rote learning engage students in meaningful inquiry.