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- Critical Thinking/Fractured Fairy Tales
Invite your students to turn familiar fairy tales upside down and inside out—and to have fun. This interactive tool gives students a choice of three fairy tales to read.
They are then guided to choose a variety of changes.
successful people when they are confronted with problems, the solution to which are not immediately apparent."
Activity #3 - Resources
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Our Best Schools Don't Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do About It.
Activity #4 - Resources
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where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
Adobe Resources
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- SeekLogo
Looking for logo art? This database has over 200,000 images available for viewing and downloading.
Brainstorming Tools
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Collaboration Tools
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- Collaboration
Collaboration Wordle
- iEARN
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit global
network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate
on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world. Please note, membership is required to access project database and forums.
- DoingText
doingText helps you to get comments, suggestions and write together on ... Academic Papers Project
Concepts Blog Posts Todo Lists Code Reviews Invitations Brainstorming ... any text you can think of
- Phuser
Phuser is the easy way for your group or team to discuss or work together privately.
- Write Board
Writeboard makes it easy to... Write without fear of losing or overwriting a good idea Compare different
versions of a document Collaborate with colleagues on copy, proposals, memos, etc. Subscribe to documents
via RSS and be notified of changes Keep your writings organized with Backpack integration
- Group Tweet
GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post
updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message
from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.
- Stixy
Think of Stixy as your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project.
Use Stixy to easily organize and share: Your family's schedule Projects at work An upcoming holiday with
your friends Your photos from your last bike trip Or share a file or two with a friend Only you set the limitations for how you want to use Stixy.
- CoSketch
CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share
your ideas as images. Simple sharing • Anything you paint will show up for all other users in the room in
real time. • One click to save a sketch as an image for embedding on forums, blogs, etc. Zero hassle • Runs
in all common browsers without plugins or installation. • No registration Now with Google Maps support!
• Use google maps as the background for your sketches to show directions or share trips.
- Dabbleboard
Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that's centered around the whiteboard. With a new type
of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!
- Imagination Cubed
- Nicenet
Collaborative Online Classroom Management System
- Voice Thread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and
allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone),
text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Digital Citizenship & Internet Safety
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Examples of Ways to use Web 2.0 Tools
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Growing Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
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- Tweepml
Share lists of Twitter users
How To/About Resources
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Information Literacy
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- Sweet Search
Search engine for students, Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by research experts.
- Encyclopedia of Earth
An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals,
educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in
non-technical language and are useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.
Interactives
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- Birthday Paradox
This activity demonstrates the Birthday Paradox, using it as a springboard into a unit on probability.
Students use a graphing calculator to run a Monte Carlo simulation with the birthday paradox and
perfrom a graphical analysis of the birthday-problem function.
Mobile Devices in Education
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(cable, DSL, wireless, or dial-up) and your PC to plug you directly in to the regular telephone network.
- Kaywa
KAYWA offers you the convergence blog today – a blog which is useable from the internet and from
your mobile device at the same time. Now you have your memory in the pocket: you can share,
communicate and interact wherever you are, whenever you want.
- Google Voice
Google voicemail: voicemail like email Voicemail transcription: read what your voicemail says Custom
greetings: vary voicemail greetings by caller International calling: low cost calls to the world
Notifications: read voicemail messages via email or SMS Share voicemails: forward, embed, or download voicemails.
- Hey Cosmo
- Wiffiti
Feed Your Screens Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from
jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.
- StoryRobe
Storyrobe is an exciting new digital storytelling application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Storyrobe lets
you tell create digital stories using images and video from your camera or photo library. You can use the
built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos and videos.
Use Storyrobe to tell, share, and add to others stories creating a Storyrobe™. Download it today from the app store.
- Dial 2 Do
Voice to text, email and more.
- Yodio
Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues.
- Hipcast
Create audio, video, podcasts and blogs
- Utterli
voice to text and update all your networks
- iReport
Welcome to iReport, where people take part in the news with CNN. Your voice, together with other
iReporters, helps shape how and what CNN covers everyday. So you know: iReport is the way people
like you report the news. The stories in this section are not edited, fact-checked or screened before
they post. Only ones marked 'CNN iReport' have been vetted by CNN.
- Drop.io
Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more.
Create each drop in two clicks and share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.
features on the go. You can view all your Springnote pages, modify them, take pictures and upload
them to Springnote, or even jot down your notes and save them online. All pages are automatically
cached, meaning that once pages are viewed they can also be viewed offline.
audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're
doing - ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms.
Moodle
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or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create
effective online learning sites. Moodle.org is our community site where Moodle is made and discussed.
- Moodle Bugs and Fixes
Tracker.moodle.org allows you to report bugs and track updates on the "fixes." In the tracker,
you can also request features that you think would be great additions to Moodle.
- Moodle Manual
Docs.moodle.org is the Moodle documentation wiki or an ever-evolving manual for Moodle.
The Moodle documentation wiki offers explanations for the various features and settings within Moodle and how and when to apply them.
Other Classroom Resources
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through links, and inside of documents. We take unwieldy results and surface key information so you can focus on getting things done.
- Viddler
FREE Video platform: # Upload as many videos as you want—you get nearly unlimited space with
Viddler # Record videos directly to the site using your webcam! # Post comments and tags at
specific points in the video # Share your videos with RSS and iTunes
and text to their timeline to support telling the story sequentially. Themes, colors, backgrounds, and
background music can be added to further personalize the timeline. Timelines have the ability to be shared with other students and teachers.
- PodBean
For creating podcasts
- Book Adventure
Teachers create student accounts on Book Adventure. In the student account students can research books based
on their reading level, age, and interests. They get a convenient printable list of books that match their level and
interests. The list includes the ISBN, Title, and author. This makes it easy for students to head to the library and
hunt down new reading material. After students have read a book, they can log onto their Book Adventure account
and take a 10 question multiple choice quiz based on the book they read. Students can take each quiz multiple
times and must get 8 or more questions correct to earn points to purchase prizes from the Book Adventure store.
Each students score is automatically sent to the Book Adventure teacher gradebook along with the number of
times the quiz was taken. Students earn and save up quiz points to purchase fun goodies from the Book Adventure
store. Students can get everything from a 6 month subscription to Highlights magazine to a chocolate bar
from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. This is a completely FREE program for students and schools to participate
in. Book Adventure has a great teacher area with ideas for encouraging reading as well as certificates to
print out to recognize good readers and notes for parents with the students latest reading progress.
- Shelfari
Create a virtual bookshelf!
- Kerpoof
Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
* Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) * Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
* Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug * Tell a story * Make a drawing * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
- PikiKids
Comic strip creator
- Creaza
Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time.
You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes: historical periods, fairy-tales,
fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment.
- Book Trailers
Student examples of book trailers
- Twitterfall
- SafeShare
Safe way to share videos
- Many Eyes
Data visualization tools from IBM. Site allows users to upload data and then produce graphic representations for others to view and comment upon.
- Digital Portfolios Made Easy
Portfolio templates you can use.
- iTALC
iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network
- Scribd
Millions of documents and books at your fingertips! Read, print, download, and send them to your mobile devices instantly.
- Or upload your PDF, Word, and PowerPoint docs to share them with the world's largest community of readers.
- 4Shared
Interested in Book Trailers (like movie trailers) but created by Texas librarians from popular books...elementary
and secondary...set up an account here www.4shared.com then ask to join the group Book Trailers 4 All.
They are free for your use and display. All copyright guidelines have been followed.
This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere.
letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
- YoLink
Find multiple key terms and view search results in context. Scan dense bodies of text, e-books, online
documents, and pdfs. Review your results without ever losing your place.
elementary, middle, and high school. The default text has been written to be appropriate for each level.
After choosing a title and grade level for the rubric, you will be able to choose and edit a variety of existing
performances, as well as create performances specific to the content your class is studying.
- Rhymezone
Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more:
- Education Glogster
- Blabberize
Upload an image, make a mouth and record information
- Prezi
Create presentations online live and on the web. Capable of zooming in and out, inputing video/images, etc.
- Invention at Play
Explore the playful sid of invention and the inventive side of play.
- Newseum
Newspapers from around the world
- Smile Box
Smilebox is a photo service that lets you quickly turn life's moments into digital creations you can share with
others or save for yourself. Choose from hundreds of ecard, scrapbooking, and slideshow designs for every
occasion. New designs are released every week. Personalize and share your Smilebox creation for free,
or select premium options for print, DVD burning, expanded music choices, and no advertisements.
- MakeBeliefsComix
1-No account required 2-FREE 3-User friendly tools 4-Email or print comic 5-Does not save
- Comic Life
1-No user registration needed 2-Automatic email invite 3-$19.95/1 user license 4-Email result 5-Requires download
- Museum Box
Allows users to create 6 sided cubes. Each side can hold content, including images, flash or other
video, text, links, or web pages. Students can create as many boxes as needed to hold cubes for which they have content.
- MeBeam
Create your chat room. Type the name of the room and tell the people to meet you there.
- Springnote
Web notes
- Creately
Create online diagrams
- Wetoku
Record and share videos
- Xtra Normal
Animation tool
- Xtranormal.com
Text to speech avatar movie making which free for the basic services.
- TCEA
Texas Computer Education Association
- Animoto
- Today's Meet
- Filamentality
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet,
gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities.
- WordSift
- Thinkfinity
- Google Squared
Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.
- Wordle
Word Clouds
- VodPod
Browse, collect, share and display videos.
- GoogleDocs
Create and share your work online: Upload from and save to your desktop Edit anytime, from anywhere
Pick who can access your documents Share changes in real time Files are stored securely online It's free! Username: mmartinez@tcea.org Password: Password/1
- Glogster
Mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs.
- ToonDoo
Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss
- Twitter
Share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in the world.
- Tag Galaxy
Image search
- Wolframalpha
Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.
Personalized Webpages/RSS
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- Page Flakes
A social custom personalized homepage. Add Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, photos, music, videos, calendar, to-do list, message board, and more with RSS feed.
- Google Reader
Social Networks
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- WetPaint
- Wikispaces for teachers
Create a full featured K-12 wiki without ads or restrictions.
- Wikidot
Publish content, share your documents, collaborate with friends or coworkers, create a place for your community!
- GROU.PS
GROU.PS is a social applications platform that gives you all the tools you need to keep your online community connected. Custom create your site for FREE.
- NING
There's an App for That!
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