Classroom Tools
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Class Timer is an online timer
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ClassTools: Create
free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds
with ClassTools! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
Samples in various content are available. Each template can be
saved as a stand-alone HTML file or as a Widget that can be
embedded into a blog or wiki - as long as it is non-commercial. *
Web-based * Save on-line * Upgrade to Pro at additional
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Education Place:
.pdf graphic organizer files, good for capturing! (Elem,
Middle)
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Goodreads: A social
network for book lovers! Members can keep track of the books they
have read, make recommendations to others, vote on book lists that
are posted, see what their friends are reading and recommending,
and form book groups. Tip: Teachers can develop a
reading group for their students where discussions can develop,
suggestions for new material can be found and lovers of particular
genres can find each other.
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International Children's
Digital Library: The largest digital collections of
children's book, ICDL contains over 4,400 books in 54 languages
representing 64 countries with applications for the iPhone and the
new larger screen, iPad.
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KooBits 4.0 is a
place to shelve ebooks. Just as with a physical version, users can
organize ebooks in a bookshelf either using the default categories
or renaming them. The software also enables audio and video input
on top of animation of characters and game elements. *
Web-based * Save on-line * More space
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KooBits Editor is a
program that allows users to create multimedia ebooks, ecards,
scrap books, photo montages and more. It is currently available in
four languages: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. Users can
publish their ebooks on their user profile, share them on various
social networks, and comment on books created. *
Web-based * Save on-line * More space
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Museum Box: This site
allows students to place items into virtual boxes; these items can
include images, video, text, and sound. MuseumBox can be used
across the curriculum and can help students to describe a person,
place, thing, event, idea, or issue.
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Our Story: Create
your story! Our Story permits users to develop and save
collaborative timelines that can be personalized with annotations,
photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be printed in book
format, archived on DVD, or even sent as postcards.
* Web-based * Save on-line
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Pencil is an
animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and
Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation
(cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. * Download
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Photo Story3 helps
you to create exciting video stories by adding panning and zooming
effects to your pictures. Use Photo Story to record narration for
your pictures, and add titles and background music to your story. *
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Prezi is an
presentation application - an editor that lets you create Prezi
presentations (similar to PowerPoint). However, unlike many
applications, Prezi can be used directly from an internet
browser (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari) without
the need to install anything. Prezi can also be installed (we call
this Prezi Desktop) so you can use it without internet access. *
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Puzzlemaker is a
puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create
and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and
more-using your own word lists.
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Storybird: Do your
students like to tell stories? Storybird will help them to create
short, visual stories. You can save them, share them and (soon)
print them. Use Storybird's beautiful watercolor illustrations to
tell your story.
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Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
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Webquests are made
and shared for your classroom. Webquests are an online
inquiry-based lesson format. Problem solving and creative thinking
skills are engaged in Webquests and this website links teachers to
many different learning opportunities.
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Collaboration
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21 Classes: Create a
virtual classroom and BlogPortal. Host and manage blogs for your
students. Use a Class Homepage to communicate with students that
includes fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert
videos. A class can have its own portal, where all students will
have their own blog. * Web-based |
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Debategraph: Join
debategraph, a browser based, wiki-style site, where students can
synthesize, evaluate, expand, collaborate, contribute and
substantiate their own thoughts and ideas to both sides of the
issues. Debategraph utilizes visual depiction to deepen and enrich
student understanding for a continuous and robust debate.
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Edmodo is a free and
secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools.
Edmodo provides classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and
collaborate, offering a real-time platform to exchange ideas, share
content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Accessible
online and from any mobile device via free smart phone
applications. * Web-based * Save on-line |
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Edublogs lets you
easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly
customize designs
and include videos, photos & podcasts. * Web-based
(10MB-free) * Save on-line * Upgrade to Pro at
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Global School Net:
Bring the world together through their website. Global School
creates opportunities for teachers and students around the world to
work together in international based projects.
Tip: Check out the webinars and cyberfairs.
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LiveBinders is a way
to gather all your knowledge, whether it is website links or files,
all into one place for easy, elegant sharing. It is similar to a
three-ring binder on the web. * Web-based * Save
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Mindmeister:
Simultaneously work on maps with friends and colleagues and see
changes as they happen. * Web-based * Save on-line |
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Primary Access:
Capture your students' imagination with movie narratives based on
primary sources. Primary Access is an online tool that allows
students and teachers to combine text, visual, and sound elements,
which are then combined to convey information about their chosen
historical event or time frame. A library of Primary Access movies
is available through a catalog by historical time period.
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SchoolTube: This is
the ideal place for teachers and students to share videos online.
Create your own channel for your school or share videos with other
students and educators. Instructions on how to load, create, and
compress videos as well as how to create video contests and TV
shows for your school.
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Scratch: Targeted to
8- to 16-year olds, Scratch allows students to create and share
projects, presentations, stories and best of all - videos games!
The emphasis is on multi-media and includes graphics, sound, music,
and photos. Supported by National Science Foundation research,
Scratch encourages creativity, problem-solving, and
collaboration.
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Tumblr lets
you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links,
music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or
wherever you happen to be.
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Wiggio is a free,
online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. Functions
include: a shared group calendar, polling function, central folder
for group members to upload to or download from, internal messaging
system, meetings with chatrooms and conference calls, and
more. * Web-based * Save on-line |
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Wikispaces: This
easy-to-use website allows anyone to write, edit and share content,
depending on the permissions granted by the wiki owner.
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Graphics
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Big Huge Labs: Turn
photos into personalized calendars, cards, holiday ornaments and
other goodies. Or make a one-of-a-kind poster using the Motivator,
Mosaic, Magazine Cover, Pop Art poster, Movie Poster or Jigsaw
toys. Customize your creation with your own photograph &
text.
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Block Posters: Create
any size wall poster from any size photo. Upload an image from your
computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster
to be once printed. Download the PDF file containing your newly
created images & print each one massively blown up, resulting
in a huge pixel poster to stick on your wall.
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Gickr.com lets you
instantly create Animated GIF online, free, right now! Just upload
pictures or grab them from your Flickr.
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GIMP (short for the
GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software graphics editor.
In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing,
GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing,
editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple
images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can
also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF
format.
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GlassGiant can make
fun custom pictures, unique signs, snowglobe photos and much more.
Insert pictures into other objects, etc. It has photo and text
options.
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Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online
learning platform for teachers and students to express their
creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. This site
allows for glogs - interactive posters; collaborative class
projects; school-level teacher management of students and classes;
and is a private and safe student environment
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Customized by user
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Mind Mapping/Graphic Organizer
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Bubbl.us is an
online tool that allows you to generate mind mapping and
brainstorming diagrams immediately. Thoughts and ideas are
linked by colourful and readable text bubbles which can be
printed or posted online. Bubbles are connected to the
parent bubble and are colour coordinated according to hierarchy. It
is fun, quick and easy to use.
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Exploratree: Create
"thinking guides" using Exploratree's endless options. You can fill
in the guides online or print them out for student use--both
options offer the option to save your work for future use. Thinking
guides are divided into five broad categories for use by educators
and students: map your ideas, solve problems, explore, analyse
(they're British!), and different perspectives.
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Gliffy online diagram
software can easily create professional-quality flowcharts,
diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.
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Mindomo is a mind
mapping software application. A mind map is a brainstorming tool
for arranging ideas in a non-linear graphic manner. This type of
tool is useful when problem solving and brainstorming for an
infinite number of purposes. * Web-based
* Save on-line * Customized by
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Organizations
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ASCD is where the
information is for supervision and curriculum. This association is
one of the leading groups in the field of education, supervision,
and curriculum. Offering conferences & up-to-date periodicals,
ASCD also provides ongoing research for school improvement.
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FRONTLINE: Frontline
Teacher center - New classroom activities with streaming video,
downloadable lesson plans and web-exclusive resources to accompany
FRONTLINE programs in the classroom
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KET: We are
Kentucky's educational television network, but our vision takes us
far beyond just television or computer screens. KET is really about
ideas-about learning, the arts and culture, and citizenship. We
work each day to use television, online video and related media for
the benefit of everyone in Kentucky.
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Newseum - a
250,000-square-foot museum of news - offers visitors an experience
that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second
technology and hands-on exhibits.
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Partnership for the 21st
Century offers educators information, resources, and tools
to understand, identify and integrate the 21st century skills of
creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving
skills and communication and collaboration skills. What skills will
our students need to be successful in the 21st century? Here's a
great resource to help educators learn how to integrate 21st
Century Skills into the curriculum.
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PBS stands for public
broadcasting service, and refers to a group of television stations
through the United States and through parts of Canada that are
non-profit and privately owned. Unlike most standard stations, PBS
is known for broadcasting shows without commercial
interruption.
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Photo Editing
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Citrify is a fresh
little web app that can make your photos look better. Easy to use
one-click tools for removing pimples, reducing wrinkles, or
applying funky effects. There is no user account signup and you
don't have to upload any photos. Software can open and save photos
right from your computer.
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ClosR is an online service which allows you to
upload high resolution pictures and make them zoomable and
browsable without requiring the user any large bandwidth. In the
same way, ClosR allows you to focus on the side of the picture you
are interested in and view it without any image quality loss. ClosR
widget technology allows a quick and fluid Web browsing with
minimum loading time.
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FotoFlexer: Online
photo editor
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Phixr: Easy-to-use online photo editor,
directly supports Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, flickr and many more.
No browser plugins required.
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Pixlr is an online
photo editing tool. Fast, simple and enough features to make this a
great find for low- to moderate-level photo editing. You can create
a new image, upload an image, or grab one from a URL location. The
Pixlr Editor has nice features but requires some knowledge of photo
imaging software or you will get lost.
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Sumo Paint is a full
featured photo editing / painting application, which works right in
your favorite web browser! The only requirement is the Flash
Player.
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Browser Tools
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Delicious is a
bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and
share web pages from a centralized source. Get to your bookmarks
from any computer, anytime, anywhere. Share your bookmarks, and get
bookmarks in return.
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Edutopia: Search by
keyword from over 2200 features on this site or browse a collection
of over 100 downloadable videos to find the tools needed to help in
promoting an interactive learning environment.
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Fur.ly is a link
aggregator that will take as many links as you'd like to feed it
and generate one short URL. When that URL is accessed, the first
page in the list is displayed, along with a yellow fur.ly banner
across the top. The webpages in the list can be accessed using
left/right arrows or a drop-down list. The list created from the
sites in the photo above can be seen here.
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Search engines:
Visit How to Choose a Search Tool, a more extensive list of search
tools organized by features.
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Jog the Web: Do you
want an easy and innovative way to guide students through the
Internet? jogtheweb is a web-based tool that allows anyone to
create a synchronous guide to a series of Websites. Its
step-by-step approach of taking viewers through Websites allowing
the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is
unique.
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Weblist is a great
way to gather and organize content based on a theme with the added
feature of one URL. Your weblist can then be shared through social
media networks or posted on a blog or Website. No time to make your
own list, then search their playlist for subjects from music to
science and everything in between.
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Video/Audio Toos
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Animoto automatically produces beautifully
orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos,
video clips, and music. Similar to Movie Maker. Can post to
YouTube, blogs, etc.
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Any DVD Converter:
Any DVD Converter Pro is an all-in-one DVD ripper and video
converter with fast converting speed and excellent output quality.
As a video converter, Any DVD Converter Pro convert all kinds of
video formats including DVR-MS, WMV, AVCHD, TS, TP, RM, RMVB, MOV,
MKV, etc to AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, FLV and audio formats. Video
merging, video clipping, video cropping, subtitles and more useful
features are also provided.
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Any Video Converter:
Any Video Converter is an all-in-one video converting freeware with
easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed, and
excellent video quality. It can convert almost all video formats
including DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, and AVI
to MPEG-4 movie format for PSP or other portable video device, MP4
player, or smartphones. It is the freeware to convert video files
between multiple formats and download YouTube videos.
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Fotobabble enables
you to create Talking Photos in just three clicks. Adding a voice -
your voice, your child's voice, grandma's voice - gives photos life
and creates a more memorable experience for everyone. You can also
use our iPhone app to do it all from your device!
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Handbrake: Handbrake
allows you to convert video from virtually any format to whatever
file type you want. HandBrake is an open-source,
GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder,
available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Outputs: File format:
MP4(M4V) and MKV; Video: H.264(x264), MPEG-4(ffmpeg),
MPEG-2(ffmpeg), or Theora(libtheora); Audio: AAC, CoreAudio
AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, or Vorbis. AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD,
AAC and MP3 pass-thru; Misc features: Chapter selection. Works best
for Apple computers.
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Jing: Do you need to
quickly snap a picture of your screen or record a video of an
onscreen action? Jing is the solution; it's free software that adds
visuals to your online conversations. Include it in an email,
Website, or IM.
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Primary Access:
Capture your students' imagination with movie narratives based on
primary sources. Primary Access is an online tool that allows
students and teachers to combine text, visual, and sound elements,
which are then combined to convey information about their chosen
historical event or time frame. A library of Primary Access movies
is available through a catalog by historical time period.
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Roxio: Edit videos
and create DVDs like a pro - even in 3D; Fix photos and make cards,
calendars and slideshows; Rip music and convert audio files to most
popular formats; Burn and copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs; Share
on DVD, portable devices such as iPad®, iPhone®, Android
Smartphones YouTube™ or Facebook®
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Second Life: Create
an avatar and join other educators in Second Life to explore
virtual reality, a world where you, the user, can participate in
professional development, meet colleagues to explore and discover
and create new understandings about learning in virtual worlds.
Tip: Meet with people from all over the world
without having to leave your classroom , library, or home.
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Vocaroo: The premier
voice recording service. It allows you to send voice mail messages
to friends or post them online. * Web-based *
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Voki is a free
service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and
use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. This site
also has lesson plans that use avatar videos to present some lesson
plans for different subjects.
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Xtranormal:
www.xtranormal.com is a website where users may use cartoons to
make movies of their taste. They may publish their movies. Then,
other users may watch the movies. You type something; we turn it
into a movie. On the web and on the desktop.
* Web-based * Save on-line
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Creative Commons:
Give everyone from individual creators to large companies and
institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright
while allowing certain uses of their work - a "some rights
reserved" approach to copyright.
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Evernote: Tired of
trying to keep track or find your various notes on taken throughout
the day and want to be able to organize your thoughts from a
variety of sources? Evernote will do this and you can access it
from anywhere, even your iPhone.
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Flickr: Online photo
management and sharing application. Get photos and video into and
out of the system in as many ways as possible: from the web, from
mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever
software they are using to manage their content. Publish them to:
RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs. *
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Flickr for Creative
Common searches for license photos and videos.
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Hulu is a website
and over-the-top (OTT) subscription service offering ad-supported
on demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other
new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC,
Fox, ABC, and many other networks and studios.
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MonoPrice.com:
Monoprice, (DBA. MonoPrice.com) Inc. is an eCommerce leader
specializing in high quality cables, components and accessories for
computer and consumer electronics.
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Poll Everywhere: If
you want to get learners' attention, then ask a provocative
question. Poll Everywhere is a voting platform that can be used in
classrooms and libraries to gather answers to a particular
question. Participants vote by sending a text message via their
cell phones or by voting on the web.
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Schoolhouse Rock:
This site lists Schoolhouse Rock song lyrics. It also provides a
link to the video on YouTube.
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SchoolTube: This is
the ideal place for teachers and students to share videos online.
Create your own channel for your school or share videos with other
students and educators. Instructions on how to load, create, and
compress videos as well as how to create video contests and TV
shows for your school.
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Screencast.com is
TechSmith's media hosting site that securely hosts your content.
It's perfect for images and videos. We use Screencast.com to ensure
everyone has access to a free, secure hosting option that enables
the fastest visual communication possible. Free online storage and
sharing with Screencast.com. 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of
bandwidth per month for free.
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Skype is a basic and
easy-to-use service that offers free voice, video calls, conference
calls, instant messaging and group instant messaging. Download the
software; connect to the Internet and you're good to go.
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TeacherTube
is a video sharing website similar to, and
based on, YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational
industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources
such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site
contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others
designed to aid teacher training.
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TED is a remarkable
Website sharing ideas from the world's most innovative thinkers and
experts related to technology, entertainment, design, business,
science, and global issues. Watch, listen to, learn, discuss and
spread TED.
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ToonDoo is the
world's fastest way to create cartoons! Licenses are relatively
inexpensive for groups. Free 15 day trial. * Web-based * Save
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TubeChop does
exactly what it sounds like it does. It lets you search for YouTube
videos via keyword or by copying and pasting in the actual video
URL. It then opens a screen with a simple editing slider ala
QuickTime. Simply move the beginning and ending sliders and click
Chop It!
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TurningPoint: Three
basic elements make up a typical audience response system: polling
software, response keypads, and a response receiver. Turning
Technologies provides a variety of software and hardware options
for you to choose from to meet your unique learning and meeting
needs.
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Twitter, a website
for communication among friends and colleagues, is based on this
question. Everyone who is connected to your account can know what
you are doing at anytime, just send a "tweet." This is a way
for everyone to keep track of everyone else. Tip:
Students working in research teams, designate secretaries to keep
the instructor and librarian up to date on how the group is doing
throughout the project.
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Wall Wisher is an
online notice board maker. It gives you a virtual space where you
can post short text notes in the same way that you could put
post-it notes onto a notice board in your classroom. But this
noticeboard can be shared between people all over the world. *
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Zoho: While using
Zoho your documents and data are securely stored
online on our servers and can be accessed from anywhere. Saves in
.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc. Can use MicroSoft Office when
off-line.
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