Teacher Resources
https://www.docs.google.com/
- Google Documents is a free, Web-based office suite, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html Gives an overview and tutorials on how to use GoogleDocs is used in an educational setting. |
https://www.prezi.com
- Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. |
http://www.livebinders.com
LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web
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http://edu.glogster.com
-Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has over one million registered users. The majority of the Glogster community are teenagers |
http://www.commoncraft.com
- Common Craft focuses on building a library of educational videos on a variety of topics that are easy to understand for people without a technical background. The videos use stop-action animation with whiteboards and paper cut-outs to illustrate the topic. Common Craft creates videos in four categories (Green, Money, Society, and Technology) and in five languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish). |
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm
- Provides a link and a description for the "Top 25" Websites that foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. |
http://www.animoto.com
- Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips and music. Animoto analyzes the provided photos, video clips and music, using them to generate a video similar to a trailer. According to the website, the song is analyzed, producing a unique video every time. |
http://www.youtube.com/education
- Why Use YouTube in your classroom?
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http://www.khanacademy.org
- The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi-American educator Salman Khan, an educator and graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,600 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics and computer science. |
http://www.wikispaces.com
- Wikispaces are a great way to get your voice heard on the Net. You can start a wiki about anything you want. A wiki allows you to discuss something that's important to you, while at the same time getting opinions and information from other people that visit your wiki. Wikis allow your readers to become part of your Web site by letting them add their ideas and information to the wiki too. |
http://www.goofram.com
- Goofram is a mash-up of Google Search and Wolfram Alpha search. Enter your search term(s) into Goofram and it will display relevant results drawn from Google and Wolfram Alpha. Goofram really shines when you're searching for information about a topic that could potentially have a lot of numerical information as well as text-based information. |
http://www.easybib.com
- Easy Bib is a powerful and very useful tool that helps students and teachers properly cite in MLA and APA formats for formal reports. |
http://www.bized.co.uk/learn/index.htm
- Biz/ed is targeted at students and teachers in the post-16 education sector, covering schools, FE colleges, universities and beyond. The site offers support for economics, business, accounting, leisure and recreation and travel and tourism at many different levels including AVCE, AS and A2 level, International Baccalaureate, HNC, HND and MBA. The Biz/ed site is a unique combination of primary and secondary teaching and learning resources. Resource discovery is integrated with simulations, worksheets, glossaries, spreadsheets, resource databases, online chat with examiners and a series of Virtual Worlds to give a rich package of support for teachers, lecturers and students. |
http://www.voicethread.com
- VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and 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). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. |
http://schoollibrarylearning2.csla.net
"This professional development tutorial is brought to you by the California School Library Association (CSLA). It is designed for you to do on your own or as a part of a group. We encourage anyone to form a group - districts, schools, associations, or even a single department within a school site. On the following pages, you will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that bring our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and game sites. Take time to explore and enjoy. You have our permission to have FUN!" . |
http://www.sumopaint.com
- Sumo Paint is a free online Flash-based image editor created in 2007, which is developed by Sumo Ltd., formerly Snap Group LLC. It is very similar to Photoshop, in that it features many of the same tools, but Sumo Paint is geared towards illustration, where other software such as Photoshop are more suited for heavy image editing. |
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
- Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations. Create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them instantly! |