Tool:

Notes & Stuff:

Symbaloo A bookmarking tool to keep track of your favorite and most used sites in one convenient place!

• Bookmark your most used sites (Brainpop, Class site, etc.)
• Easy to add bookmarks
• Apps for Android and ipad, too!
• Access your links from any computer, tablet, or ipad.
• A sample Symbaloo

Edmodo A social network that can be used with students and has great privacy settings. Post assignments, links, and communicate with students.

• Post assignments and announcements
• Share assignments
• Post questions for your class to reflect upon
• Post a student of the week and ask classmates to compliment him or her
• Ask each student to post one thing that they learned
• Students share work with each other and give feedback
• Printable Guide to Edmodo
• Use as a "backchannel" for student chatting during Skype calls

• Create a "Menu Bar" that will access your favorite links
• Drag and drop links to the bar
• You may have to "Unlock" the toolbars for it to work
• Link Class Website, School Site, Email, etc. for quick access

Smart Notebook An interactive program to use for creating classroom content.

• Use SMART Exchange to get FREE stuff!
• You can use this program with a projector!
• "Printing" documents so you can write on them
• Interactives like clock, timer, etc
• Center activities that can be "reset"

Twitter (or Twiducate)
A social network where you can tweet or post your thoughts in 140 characters or less

• Tweet with another class in a different city or country (GREECE!)
• Have students tweet as a famous person and the class guess who they are
• Ask students to summarize their thoughts of the day in 140 characters
• Follow other educators to collaborate, share, and learn
• Click on hashtags to instantly "sort" Twitter #edchat #elemchat
• Twitter Guide by @v2ltch
• Our School's Twitter Hashtag #hawkpd

Skype Using a simple webcam and microphone, connect instantly with another classroom through a video chat

• Chat with another class to investigate weather patterns
• Host a “Mystery Chat” and let students question each other to figure out where each class is from
• Monster Exchange: Draw a monster, write directions, trade through email, then Skype to compare drawings
• Book chats
• Discuss current event

MakeBeliefsComix An online comic creator that allows students the chance to select their characters, design the setting, and write their own story.

• Demonstrate a math problem
• Use a comic to explain cause and effect
• Show a scientific process through a story
• Model character words in a visual form
• Brainstorm a story by creating the plot visually
• Represent a vocabulary word

Voicethread The ultimate way to share and collaborate with voices from around your classroom or around the world.

• Post a photo and ask each student to comment on it.
• Exchange with a class in another state or country to share your town and learn about theirs
• Scan artwork to create  a project gallery and allow students to complement each other
• Post photos and have students describe mathematical terms like probability in the photo.
• Use for student led conferences

Wordle Create WordArt with various forms of text

[ABCYa] [Tagxedo]

• Compare a fiction and non-fiction passage visually
• Create an “All About Me”
• Summarize an article
• Analyze your writing
• Put up a Wordle and have class guess the mystery topic

Schooltube A kid-friendly alternative to YouTube;

• Paste YouTube links and SchoolTube will add the videos to your channel
• It's free to have your own channel!
• Link classroom videos and embed on your site! (No more file limits!)
• Creating a school "newschannel"

Kidblog Each student can have their own private blog! Allow them to publish their own writing to a global audience.

• Creative stories
• Reflections on school events
• Have one "Class Blog" and allow guest bloggers
• Post a "Question of the Week"
• Blog as a "Center" or in the Computer Lab

Picmonkey Easily edit photos, add words, and save to your computer.

• Create classroom posters
• Create poetry over photos
• Graphic Organizers

Glogster.edu
A digital poster creator to link audio, video, text, and photos.

• Summarize the scientific process
• Create a poster for collaborative research
• Make a norms poster for your classroom
• Summarize the water cycle and cite sources
• Create a student portfolio with links to Google Docs

Google Docs
A place for students to share their work, collaborate, connect, and give each other feedback.

• Set up a spreadsheet for students to share data
• Use Google Forms to get feedback from students in a formative assessment or “Exit Slip” (Sample Google Form)
• Have students share their writing with partners for feedback
• Put classroom presentations online for access from home
• Access classwork from anywhere
• Google Sites for portfolios

Animoto
A video creator that puts photos, music, and short phrases together easily.

• Create biography of famous person
• Develop autobiography
• Summarize a special class event or field trip
• Create a visual story with a plot in pictures
• Develop a “Shape Scavenger Hunt” and share photos taken around the school
• Create a visual for a poem
• Create an advertisement for a charity or campaign
• Embed the video on your class website!

Audacity
A sound recorder that you can download and mix music and voice easily through copy and paste!

• Fluency practice
• Podcasts on ANY topic (See ColeyCast for great examples)
• Record dialogue
• Create commercials
• Write and record songs in any content area
• TIP: ”Export as .wav” and save to your own website!

Prezi
Great presentation tool that allows photos, videos, and text to be embedded; create 3d presentations online

• A great alternative for PowerPoint
• Create a timeline
• Develop a story outline
• Prepare a research outline before writing a formal paragraph or paper
• Cause and effect
• Problem and solution
• Type a number, then work with a partner to create number sentences of word problems linked that make that number

Cool Tools for SchoolsConstantly updated directory of Web 2.0 interactives for the classroom.

• Search for new tools to use in the classroom
• Offer link to students to let them explore tools
• Let kids "teach" each other how to use the tools

WallWisher
A virtual wall where students can post digital post-it notes.

• Pose a question and let students respond.
• Allow students a wall to share research links they have located on a certain topic
• Use the wall as a reflective “What did you learn?” tool at the end of class
• Post a number and ask students to put a new way to make that number on the wall

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