General+Tech+Resources

=General Technology Resources= toc

General

 * Tagxedo:Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
 * 101 ways to use Tagxedo
 * Wordle: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
 * Visit this website to acquire ideas on how to use Wordle in the classroom: Ideas to Inspire
 * [|VoiceThread]: A 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.
 * [|Poll Everywhere]: Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, **...**
 * [|Wallwisher]Great way to have students post reflections/thoughts
 * [|Exploratree]: Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
 * [|Voki]: Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
 * QR Codes: QR code is a specific barcode, readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL, or other data.
 * QR Code Generator
 * Sample QR Code: Use a QR Code reader on your phone, such as NeoReader to scan the QR Code to take you to a video on how QR Codes are being used.




 * Thinkfinity:Thousands of Free Lesson Plans in Math, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Music, Physical Education, Reading, Writing, Geography, Science Projects, and Science Lessons.
 * iGotta: //igotta// is a personalized one-stop workspace for students to find, analyze, organize and use information for reports, writing assignments, presentations, studying and project work.
 * Prezi: Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books.
 * Animoto:Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple.
 * [|Video Download Firefox Add In]: Install this Firefox Add-In to be able to download media from your Firefox browser
 * [|Flash Game Maximizer]: Click a button or hit the hot-key to maximize (almost) any Flash content to the entire browser window. You can then enjoy your favorite games in any size you like, simply by resizing the browser window.
 * [|SMART Notebook] search engine is designed to help you find resources designed for teaching with SMARTBoards.
 * 101 Uses for a Document Camera [[file:101 Uses.pdf]] by Joe Carr
 * SnipSnip.It crop the video down to only the parts I want to share with students, just copy and paste a YouTube url, choose the start and end point and click “snip”. Easy! After snipping your video you can embed the shortened video on a website or blog or share the shortened video with a link. The other benefit: all of the YouTube extras (a.k.a. distractions) are eliminated in the SnipSnip.It version.
 * Make Your Coat of Arms: you can make your own personal family crest based on the values and principles important to you now and for years to come.
 * Games for Change: curates digital and non-digital games that engage contemporary social issues in a meaningful way. These games have been created by cross-disciplinary teams from around the world.
 * ECB Surf Reports: Monthly annotated list of web resources. Covers all subject areas
 * Sheppard Software: Free, fun online learning games and activities for all ages and subjects
 * Teaching with TED: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. **TEDTalks** began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
 * Royalty Free Music: Website that has royalty free music for download
 * Legally Resuable Media: On this page, you will find a list of legally reusable media that you can use in your projects.
 * 25 collaboration tools: We all know how useful and practical Google Docs, Basecamp, Huddle and Zoho can be if you need any kind of collaboration tools or software. But there are many other tools that can really empower our collaboration strategy.
 * GarageBand Tutorials: Made 4 students to teach podcasting.
 * Twurdy: It is not always easy to find "easy to read" texts online. With [|Twurdy], you can now find texts that suit your students' readability level. It looks for the number of words on the page, the average number of syllables in each word and the average sentence length. The lighter the colour is, the easier the text is. Also, Twurdy comes from "Too Wordy?".Isn't it so cool?
 * Howjsay: free online dictionary. The words are pre-recorded and it is not synthetic. You can also hear multiple entries by separating them with semi-colons.
 * Make Beliefs Comix: Create your own comics online using characters and backgrounds. Free to use. Can be done in multiple languages.
 * //Present//.//Me// is a really easy way to record and share your presentations using your webcam.
 * Blended Learning in Plain English:
 * www.**safeshare**.**tv**/ @http://www.safeshare.tv/: Not only does //SafeShare//.//TV// remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.
 * Back Channel Chat: Resource to have students discuss topics. Teacher can act as moderator and remove comments if neccessary.
 * Ten Game Templates to use in MS Office

Productivity/Organization

 * [|Soshiku]:Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.
 * [|Google Docs Tips]: Keir Thomas provides some little-known tips about Google Docs features, such as: creating drawings within presentations, fixing pictures into position, and dragging images directly from the desktop in Firefox or Chrome.
 * How to use Google Docs in Classroom: 32 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom blog from a high school Business teacher.
 * Bloomin' Google Google Tools to support Bloom's Taxonomy. This is a clickable image map.
 * Zen.do is a site created by students with a mission to help make learning more efficient. As they are taking notes, they add a hyphen between terms (concepts, names, important dates, etc.) and definition. Students can then study their notes as flashcards, indicating what they know and how important it the information is to them.
 * Remind101: This free site is created for teachers and students to seamlessly create text and/or email reminders for assignments, projects, quizzes, tests, labs, class activities and homework. Teachers create accounts, upload syllabi, insert all class projects, activities, homework and assignments.
 * [|Studyblue]: make quizzes, flashcards, notes, and videos and it has an iphone and android app.
 * [|Livebinders] – “Three ring binder for the web. Teachers share their entire file cabinet digitally”

Google Search Tips

 * **Google Squared:**allows you to search a broad topic from multiple sources at once.
 * To Use: Go to Google Squared, enter a search term, results come back in "squares", can add/delete columns as needed, or mouse over a square and choose a different source
 * **Wonder Wheel:** allows students to view a wheel display of relevant search terms. Clicking on one of the search terms will open a new wheel of relevant search terms and so on. Video about Wonder Wheel
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 * To Use: Built in to every Google Search, on the left hand side of your results click on Wonder Wheel
 * **Timeline:**see your search results in a timeline format and be able to view a certain time period
 * To Use: Perform search. Click Timeline for search result timeline. Can click on time period to see results related to that period.
 * **Related Searches:** See other searches that are related to you original search. Just click on related searches after searching.
 * **Other search features:** []
 * **Advanced search options**
 * Find copyright free images or other information: In the advanced search area of Google you can select what level of copyright you would like
 * Find results by file type (.ppt, .doc, .pdf) Note: students may also know how to do this so you may need to double check students work
 * **Google News:** Gathers news from a variety of sources. News can be sorted by category, images, latest
 * **Go** **ogle Scholar:** Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Results can be filtered by date, type, or result.

Other Google Tools

 * Free, online training for Google Docs in Education: []
 * **Google Demo Slam:** Short videos about how to use technology, you choose your favorite. Great way to spark ideas!
 * 101 Google Tricks for Teachers
 * Using Google Docs to Create Digital Kits for Student Projects: incorporating digital storytelling projects into their classrooms create digital kits that students can use as starting points for their efforts.

Graphic Organizer Tools

 * [|Gliffy]: With Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.
 * [|Bubbl.us]: Brainstorm and mind-mapping software, free but requires an account to save.
 * [|Webspiration]: Online version of Inspiration. Can go between mind map and outline views.
 * [|Exploratree]: Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
 * [|MindMeister]--very similar to Bubbl with a few more features in creating the map.

Assessment and Grading

 * Flubaroo: Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free! Flubaroo also:
 * Computes average assignment score.
 * Computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions.
 * Shows you a grade distribution graph.
 * Gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key.

iPad/Pod Apps

 * Air Sketch - Turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard! Project live sketches to a local computer.
 * GoodReader - GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad.
 * BlueFireReader - Bluefire Reader (available in the Apple App Store) is your go-to reading application for ePub and PDF content, including ebooks from most online book stores and leading libraries around the world. Bluefire Reader includes support for eBooks protected by Adobe® Content Server.
 * iEtherPad: EtherPad is a web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.
 * iPads in Education: Information about iPads in education
 * iPads in the Secondary Classroom: Great resources for secondary high school use.
 * iPads as Teacher's Pet: great infographic

History of Technology in Education
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Where to get more information:

 * [|Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works] book
 * [|Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works]: //Click on the strategy that you want to see how technology was integrated into the strategy.//
 * iLearn Technology An edublog about integrating technology into the classroom.
 * Always Learning Blog A blog on teaching with technology.
 * CogDogRoo: wiki with lots of resources and information
 * 50 ways to Integrate Technology tomorrow:

Copyright Resources:

 * http://playingwithmedia.com/pages/copyright