Tools+and+Resources

= 21st Century Tools = toc [|Integration of 21st Century Skills] Ning to refer to about Integration of 21st Century Skills in the classroom.

[|Search Twitter] Ability to see how people are responding to your ideas. Twitter search helps you filter all the real-time information. Here is a printable list of the best educational hashtags on twitter

[|Google Tools]

[|Symbaloo]

[] Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Pyramid
Here is a website that has tools sorted according to Bloom's taxonomy: Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

Timelines
Dipity is a free **digital timeline** website. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

TimeToast - is a great way to share the past, or even the future...Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.

Tell a Story
[|Pixton] - Click-and-drag comic strip maker

Create/Share Multimedia Content
[|Showbeyond] is a multimedia slidecast (slide show + podcast) creator, online publishing platform and story sharing community. Students can easily grab images and then add sound (both voice narration and continuous background sound) and text to create multimedia stories.

[|Slideshare] Upload and share your PowerPoint and Keynote presentations, Word and PDF documents and professional videos on slideshows. You can add audio as well.

[|Prezi] Online tool that allows to create presentations live and on the web.

[|Zoho Show] Online tool for making presentations. Zoho Show’s pre-built themes, clipart and shapres couples with features like drag-and-drop makes it easy to use for teachers and students.

[|Jing Project] Free screen casting download

A [|VoiceThread] is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos. It allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways: using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Voice Thread is a great tool for hosting online conversations about pictures and or documents, and for connecting classrooms around the world to create a global conversation.
 * The [|Digital Library] is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects.
 * The VoiceThread 4 Education wiki has many excellent ideas for and examples of using VoiceThread in education and is designed to help teachers find other teachers who would like to connect their classrooms.

With [|Animoto], students can aggregate photos and videos to create a show complete with musical background.

[|Glogster] Poster yourself. Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. [|Glogster][|EDU] lets educators and students create online multimedia posters with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments, and more. **Glogster Educator Resource Library** (PDF)

[|Museum Box] allows users to build up an argument or description of an event, a person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. Students can add text, images, video and sound.

[|Vuvox] is a media creation suite enables everyone to easily turn their photos, videos, text and audio clips into interactive stories or collages. A collage can be published, embedded, and syndicated into any website, blog or social networking site.

With [|XtraNo][|rmal], students can even create talking avatars for web-based dramatic presentations.

[|Math Train] free educational “kids teaching kids” project. Have students come up with tutorials to demonstrate their understanding of a concept and share through this site.

[|Voki] Free service that allows you to create personalized avatars and use them on your blog.

[|PodBean] Easy and powerful way to start podcasting. Easy to publish your podcast in three steps.

[|Fotobabble] Ability to add voice to photos. Its free - upload a photo, record your voice and share.

[|Empressr] Free online presentation tool. Add photos, music, video and audio, and share it publicly or privately in an instant.

[|Posterous] “What might be the simplest blogging platform to date...”

[|Weebly] Easy drag and drop interface, No technical skills required, Dozens of professional designs, Free domain hosting, Create a free website & blog

FakeBook Create a "Fakebook" for a historic figure, etc.

You Publisher Create online magazines

GIMP Free Adobe photoshop-like software download

[|Titanpad] collaborative notetaking tool

Collaborate With Others Globally
[|Ed.gov Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet] contains resources, project examples, and how-to guides // to help teachers use the Internet to "reach out" globally. //

[|ePals] is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally.

[|Join.me] is an impromptu online meeting space, the opportunity to share your screen to collaborate, meet, train, or demonstrate something. Want to help someone use their computer? Ask them to start a meeting and give you control. //No audio…//

[|Skype] Use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Possibly use Skype for classrooms as a global communication center. Teaches that you have to learn how to interact with people.

[]

Today's Meet

** Learn From (videos and interactives): **
These would be good places to start for flipped classroom possibilities

[|Khan Academy] contains over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.

[|Sophia.org]

[|Academic Earth] offers full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.

[|Highlights for High School] features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers: lecture videos, study aids, exam prep, introductory MIT courses, and hands-on learning activities.

[|HippoCampus] offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help students with instruction, homework, and studies. Browse multimedia lessons or complete courses to find help with topics covered in popular textbooks.

[|MathTV]features free video tutorials from math basics to algebra. Users may search by topic or textbook.

[|wickED] contains math, science, and literacy interactives for 7–12 year olds.

[|WatchKnow] has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7.

[|neoK12] houses educational videos, lessons, and games for K-12 students. Teachers can create and share video playlists with notes and instructions for students.

[|YouTube]

[|TeacherTube] is an an online community for sharing instructional videos, photos,

[|EduTube] contains educational videos that are easy to find, watch, and download. Because sites such as YouTube are often blocked, each video also has a download link displayed on the right of each video.

[|Great Alternatives to YouTube]

VuSafe, is a free website that lets educators search for relevant video content from YouTube and other sources, add video clips from these sources to an online library, and then share these clips with their students—without the inappropriate ads, comments, or outside links that might accompany them.

ViewPure gives educators the ability show students YouTube videos without advertising, free from links to suggested videos that might be inappropriate, and without user comments below the video.

[|Ted] Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.

[|SafeShare] removes distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos and also allows users to crop videos before sharing them.

[|SnipSnip.it] and TubeChop allow users to select and “cut” just the portion of the video they would like to show or share with others.

[|Online Science Interactive Animations from PHET]

[|Newsmap] is a word cloud map of the most popular news stories for different countries.

[|Gapminder] unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact-based world-view.

http://www.absorblearning.com/media/search.action#search

Biodigital Human The BioDigital Human is a virtual 3D body that brings to life thousands of medically accurate anatomy objects and health conditions in an interactive Web-based platform.

** Word Cloud Generators **
A word cloud is a visual depiction of words within text. Words that appear more frequently have greater prominence. the frequency/importance of each word is shown with font size or color

[|Wordle] is perhaps the most popular generator amongst educators. Users can tweak their clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text (famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, student research papers) that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. Users can tweak their clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
 * [|Wordle in Education]
 * [|Top 10 Ways to Use Wordle's Word Clouds for Classroom Lessons]
 * [|Using Wordle in Education]
 * [|Wordle: Using Word Clouds in a Lesson]
 * [|51 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom]
 * Using Word Clouds in the Classroom

[|Wordlings] offers a large variety of shapes and sizes for displaying word clouds. Sign in with Twitter or Facebook and create a word cloud of your posts. allows users to create word clouds from Twitter or Facebook posts and

[|Tagul] offers the option to link every word in the cloud to a Google search. Users may also create a word cloud from any url.

[|WordItOut] allows for many custom settings - allows users to filter text and design your cloud

[|Tagxedo] has the same functionality as Wordle, but also allows users to choose the shape of their tag cloud, and they can import a picture if desired.
 * [|101 Ways to Use Tagxedo]

** Brainstorming/Mind Mapping **
[|Mind42] - Nice collaborative mind mapping site that is easy to use.

[|Bubble.us] Create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map, save your mind map as an image

[|Dabbleboard] is an easy-to-use online collaborative whiteboard that will help you visualize, explore and communicate ideas.

Creatly s tudents can create and collaborate on all kinds of visual graphic organizer templates as well as mindmap, fishbone diagrams and other class assignments.

[|LucidChart] -easy to use mind map and flow chart-making program. Student friendly (with their own account). Save your document as a PDF to print or upload to website or blog.

Popplet another tool for this

Digital Flashcards
StudyBlue.com Make, study and share online flashcards, study guides and quizzes. Anytime. Anywhere.

** Assess Students **
[|Poll Everywhere] Audience response system that uses audience mobile phones. Start with the phone number and then text answers from your mobile phone. Type in corresponding number to answer questions. Features live, animated charts in PowerPoint and on the web. Free of audiences of 30 people or less.

** Digital Literacy/Research Resources **
[|Wolfram|Alpha for Educators] is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base.

[|turnitin.com] Provides rich feedback on student work and check for potential plagiarism.

[|Plagiarism Checker] Cut & paste your student's paper or homework assignment into the box below, and click the "check" button. This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports.

[|The Way Back Machine] Everything on the Internet is archived in its entirety back to 1995. Students can compare/contrast specific sites.

[|Country Codes] Get a different perspective of country context. How are things interpreted in different countries?

[|Google Custom Search] Create a customized search experience for your own website.

[|Delicious] Tag websites and able to share with other educators or students in your classroom

[|Tiny URL] Allows for you to shorten a long URL address

[]

This website is a great place to find free worksheets. Many of these are great for ESL studnets.

iPad Apps for the Classroom
[|k-5 IPAD apps according to Bloom's level] http://ipadsela.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling educreate penultimate pdfpen

= =