Socrative – A smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Watch the video to learn more. http://vimeo.com/socrative/intro
Poll Everywhere - Instant audience feedback - Free online tool that gathers live responses in any venue. Teachers are allowed as many sessions as they like. Up to 75 participants allowed to respond in each session.
AnswerGarden – Use it in the classroom as a brainstorming tool or you can embed it on your website/blog to use as a poll or guestbook.
Pollmo – No account or sign up required – create a new poll in just three easy steps.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Collaborative Tools
Wallwisher -http://www.wallwisher.com/ - a virtual board for virtual post-it notes. Anything you can do with post-it notes - you can do here. Account not needed for students to post. Try it out at:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/robertah - 8/4/11
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/rrisdaug4 - Secondary Teachers - August 4, 2011
Linoit - One of the best online bulletin board experiences can be found at Linoit. Set your background to look like a cork board or even use a picture. Then add stickies (with or without due dates), images, videos, documents and even private notes that are viewable by only you. Linoit is excellent as a homepage for your class as well as student projects.
Stixy is an online bulletin board on which you can add stickies, images, documents and calendar dates. This site works great as a classroom homepage; you can add “to do” notes on the board which are added to the calendar.
Edistorm is an online bulletin board that is perfect for developing writing projects. Students can brainstorm, collaborate and organize their thoughts. They can even vote for the most important stickies, hide the rest and export their board as an Excel spreadsheet.
Twiddla is a very powerful online whiteboard that includes sticky notes, text, images and drawing tools. A chat feature is also included, excellent for students collaborating on a project for homework.
Typewith.me http://typewith.me/- students can work on a collaborative word document and you can see who typed what/when etc.
Try it out here: http://typewith.me/Q29OKAf0TL
http://typewith.me/qapa2cTzX2
TodaysMeet - http://todaysmeet.com/ - create chat rooms that last for 2 hours to 1 year. Participants do not need an email account to join in the conversation all they need is the URL
You might also like:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/robertah - 8/4/11
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/rrisdaug4 - Secondary Teachers - August 4, 2011
Linoit - One of the best online bulletin board experiences can be found at Linoit. Set your background to look like a cork board or even use a picture. Then add stickies (with or without due dates), images, videos, documents and even private notes that are viewable by only you. Linoit is excellent as a homepage for your class as well as student projects.
Stixy is an online bulletin board on which you can add stickies, images, documents and calendar dates. This site works great as a classroom homepage; you can add “to do” notes on the board which are added to the calendar.
Edistorm is an online bulletin board that is perfect for developing writing projects. Students can brainstorm, collaborate and organize their thoughts. They can even vote for the most important stickies, hide the rest and export their board as an Excel spreadsheet.
Twiddla is a very powerful online whiteboard that includes sticky notes, text, images and drawing tools. A chat feature is also included, excellent for students collaborating on a project for homework.
Typewith.me http://typewith.me/- students can work on a collaborative word document and you can see who typed what/when etc.
Try it out here: http://typewith.me/Q29OKAf0TL
http://typewith.me/qapa2cTzX2
TodaysMeet - http://todaysmeet.com/ - create chat rooms that last for 2 hours to 1 year. Participants do not need an email account to join in the conversation all they need is the URL
You might also like:
- Skype - http://www.skype.com/ - With the use of webcams teachers and students can video call anyone else who also has skype for free!
- Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/ - build your personal learning network by connecting with other professionals
- Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com - create collaborative webpages
- PBWorks - http://pbworks.com/ - another wiki option
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Word Maps
Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ - create word clouds from typed test. Ability to change font, color and direction. Results can be printed or saved to the online gallery.
Wordsift - http://www.wordsift.com - Creates word clouds from your text, but also provides a visual thesaurus and images related to the most used words.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Presentations
Prezi - http://prezi.com/ - create presentations that spin and move for the audience. - Educational account is free for teachers. Be sure to choose that option.
http://prezi.com/-oxw53u3nxx9/skype-in-education/
Glogster EDU -http://edu.glogster.com/ - create interactive posters - EDU accounts allow you to create student accounts under you without them having email.
Animoto - http://animoto.com/education - Create videos using your images and 5 second video clips. Site provides copy-right free music and builds the video to time transitions in sync with the music. Educators get free access to unlimited length films. Final products can be embedded onto websites, emailed out, or uploaded to YouTube.
Great example - poetry - http://animoto.com/play/OHJnYC3gx67vB6AVXTVWEw
Scoop.it - a one-click publishing platform that allows content curators to publish beautiful online magazines.
http://prezi.com/-oxw53u3nxx9/skype-in-education/
Glogster EDU -http://edu.glogster.com/ - create interactive posters - EDU accounts allow you to create student accounts under you without them having email.
Animoto - http://animoto.com/education - Create videos using your images and 5 second video clips. Site provides copy-right free music and builds the video to time transitions in sync with the music. Educators get free access to unlimited length films. Final products can be embedded onto websites, emailed out, or uploaded to YouTube.
Great example - poetry - http://animoto.com/play/OHJnYC3gx67vB6AVXTVWEw
Scoop.it - a one-click publishing platform that allows content curators to publish beautiful online magazines.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Publishing Tools
Pic-Lits - http://www.piclits.com/ - Create original pieces of writing with this website. Choose a picture and them drag words up from the word bank or choose freestyle and type in anything you wish.
Storybird - http://storybird.com/ - Create original stories using stock artwork.
VoiceThread - http://voicethread.com/ - Upload photos, artwork, or stories. Audio and written comments can then be added. Final products can be shared by embedding them in webpages or by sharing the link.
http://voicethread.com/share/2166582/
ZooBurst - http://www.zooburst.com/ - ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D augmented reality pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.
Storybird - http://storybird.com/ - Create original stories using stock artwork.
VoiceThread - http://voicethread.com/ - Upload photos, artwork, or stories. Audio and written comments can then be added. Final products can be shared by embedding them in webpages or by sharing the link.
http://voicethread.com/share/2166582/
ZooBurst - http://www.zooburst.com/ - ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D augmented reality pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Bookmarking Tools
Symbaloo - http://edu.symbaloo.com/ - It is basically a personal online desktop, which helps users in managing favorite sites and services
Fur.ly - http://fur.ly/ - shorten multiple url's into one address
Delicious - http://delicious.com/ - save all your favorite websites into one place that is easily searchable
Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/ - share your bookmarks, join groups and make annotations on webpages.
Weblist.me - http://weblist.me/ very visual way to put multiple websites into one link, the students can scroll the the list visually to see each website you want them to use.
Fur.ly - http://fur.ly/ - shorten multiple url's into one address
Delicious - http://delicious.com/ - save all your favorite websites into one place that is easily searchable
Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/ - share your bookmarks, join groups and make annotations on webpages.
Weblist.me - http://weblist.me/ very visual way to put multiple websites into one link, the students can scroll the the list visually to see each website you want them to use.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Video Tools
TubeChop - http://www.tubechop.com/ - Take Clips from YouTube Videos.
Kick You Tube - http://www.tammyworcester.com/TipOfWeek/TammyWTechTipOfWeek/Entries/2009/1/30_Tip_63_-_KickYouTube.html - tutorial on how to download videos from YouTube.
Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/ - a video hosting site like YouTube
Keep Vid -http://keepvid.com/ - download videos from YouTube
Kick You Tube - http://www.tammyworcester.com/TipOfWeek/TammyWTechTipOfWeek/Entries/2009/1/30_Tip_63_-_KickYouTube.html - tutorial on how to download videos from YouTube.
Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/ - a video hosting site like YouTube
Keep Vid -http://keepvid.com/ - download videos from YouTube
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