 Technology in the Classroom
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280 Slides Audience: All 280 Slides allows the user to create classroom presentations online, access them from anywhere, and share them with others. Presentations can be run online, published on a web site, or e-mailed to a colleague. Users may also upload PowerPoint presentations they have already created, or download slides from the site into PowerPoint. Photos and movies may be added to presentations directly from popular web services such as Flickr and YouTube. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY. 4Teachers.org Audience: All 4Teachers.org helps teachers integrate technology into the classroom by offering online tools and resources. Teachers can locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics, and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Available professional development resources address issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students. Recommended by AJ Edwards Assignment Calculator Audience: All The Assignment Calculator provides steps for the research and writing process using intermediate due dates. This resource includes hints and “how-to” resources for each step, and reminder emails during each step of the project. Recommended by AJ Edwards AuthorPoint Lite Audience: All This free software converts PowerPoint presentations to flash, allowing users to share them easily without sending large e-mail attachments. Converted files maintain effects, sound, animation, etc. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY. Center for Applied Special Technology Audience: All The CAST site defines the center and its work in making technology and universal design for learning (UDL) an integral part of teaching and learning. Teachers and administrators can use CAST's professional development and consultation services. Recommended by KDP member Susan Trostle Brand. Delicious Audience: All Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking tool for saving and accessing online resources. Users can share them with others, and see what others are bookmarking. This resource also provides popular bookmarks in different areas of interest. Recommended by AJ Edwards Diigo Audience: All Diigoallows users to save and access online resources, as well as create highlights and notes on the saved resources. Educators can upgrade their account and create a group login for their classroom, so that students can share resources with each other. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY. DimDim Audience: All This site offers open source web meetings where users can show presentations, applications, and desktops to any other person over the internet. Web chat, web cam, and other features are available without any new software to download. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY. Education World: Technology Integration Audience: All This section of Education World’s site features articles, columnist podiums, featured site reviews, Learning Machines, the EdTech tip of the week, tools, WebQuests, and templates for teachers. Recommended by AJ Edwards Edutopia Audience: PreK–12 This resource, sponsored by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is dedicated to advancing educational improvement, particularly in the areas of technology, project-based learning, and curriculum integration. High quality videos located on this site can help educators identify ways to implement projects and to integrate technology in the curriculum. Recommended by KDP member Patty Phelps. ePals Classroom Exchange Audience: All ePals is an online community for schools, connecting teachers and students locally, nationally, or internationally with classrooms in 200 countries and territories. Educators can collaborate on projects with other classrooms, create classroom e-mail accounts, and find other collaborative software resources. Recommended by AJ Edwards FastStone Audience: All FastStone is a free image browser, converter, and editor that supports all major graphics formats. Some features include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, e-mailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustment, musical slideshow. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Google Apps for Education Audience: All Google offers e-mail and online collaboration tools geared toward the classroom. There is no hardware to maintain or software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Haiku LMS Audience: All Haiku Learning Management System helps teachers organize their classroom and manage lesson plans. Teachers can create online lessons with articles, images, audio, and video for their class; manage discussions; auto-grade assessments; and track scores through a gradebook. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY iKeepBookmarks.com Audience: All iKeepBookmarks.com allows users to upload and keep bookmarks on the web. School accounts can be set up. Links can be organized by topic, by classroom, or even by individual students. Recommended by AJ Edwards Internet4Classrooms Audience: All Internet4Classrooms is a resource for using the Internet effectively in the classroom. Links are available for K–12, grade level help, technology tutorial, assessment assistance, on-site training, and a daily dose of the web. Recommended by AJ Edwards ISTE/NETS for Teachers and NETS for students 2008 Audience: All The NETS for Teachers (NETS•T) were originally released in 2000, following the acclaimed NETS for Students (NETS•S) in 1998, which set the bar for integration of technology in education. The NETS•T 2000 defined the fundamental concepts, knowledge, skills, and attitudes for applying technology in educational settings. This page contains the 2008 edition. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY IT4ALL Audience: All Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL) is a non-profit educational organization that offers free or low-cost professional development workshops on how to integrate technology, using blended online learning (BOL) courses, workshops, communities of learning, international collaborative projects, and live online events. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Intel Visual Ranking Tool Audience: All This tool encourages higher-level thinking for students when they identify and refine criteria as they assign order or ranking to a list. Students can participate in activities in which they must organize ideas, debate differences, and reach consensus. Recommended by AJ Edwards iSpring Audience: All This free software converts PowerPoint presentations to flash, generating a web-friendly format that maintains effects, sound, animation, etc. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Jing Project Audience: All Jing allows users to make screenshots with descriptions, drawings, and five-minute video tutorials to share instantly over the web. A free version is offered. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Learning.com Audience: All Learning.com, a web-delivered curriculum and assessment provider, helps educators create their own lessons, integrate those lessons with Learning.com curriculum, and manage everything online. Additional classroom resource software is available for download. Recommended by AJ Edwards LoTi Audience: All The Levels of Teaching Innovation (LoTi) Framework offers assessments and recommendations for integrating technology more effectively into the classroom/institution. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Mindomo Audience: All Mindomo is an online resource for creating, viewing, and sharing “mind maps.” Educators can create assignments, design lesson plans, and brainstorm with students to help them solve problems collaboratively. Recommended by AJ Edwards Moodle Audience: All Moodle is a course management system designed for online courses and blended learning. The software is open source and free to use. Recommended by AJ Edwards Nicenet Audience: All Nicenet provides the Internet Classroom Assistant, a web-based classroom environment that gives teachers and students a forum to collaborate and share ideas. This free service brings web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling, and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. Recommended by AJ Edwards Noodle Tools Audience: 6-12, undergraduate and graduate NoodleTools helps guide students through the research process. Site users learn how to assess the quality of sources, create notecards, and format bibliographies in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style. Notecards and bibliography can be created online, saved automatically, and exported into Microsoft Word. Recommended by AJ Edwards PBworks Audience: All PBworks is an online collaboration tool for educators and students. It provides access to information sources, supports hosting and sharing of information between students across any distance, and allows even young students to build web pages, embed images and video, and post documents. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY PicLits Audience: All Users create poems and prose by matching works with pictures. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. PicLits can be shared via e-mail or blog. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Scholastic for Teachers: How to Set Up Computers in Your Classroom Audience: All On this page of the Scholastic Teachers’ site, Peggy Healy Stearns offers advice for teachers on how to set up computers in the classroom. Recommended by AJ Edwards Screencast-o-Matic Audience: All Screencast-o-Matic allows users to make a screen capture, record video with audio (aka screencast), and upload it for free hosting without downloading any software. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Screenr Instant Screencasts for Twitter Audience: All Users can create screencasts for their Twitter followers through this free web-based recorder. No software download is required. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Scriblink Whiteboard Online Audience: All Scriblink is a free online whiteboard that allows users to collaborate in real-time. No registration is required and built-in chat, image uploading, and file-sharing features are available. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY SlideBoom Audience: All Users can upload PowerPoint presentations and convert them to a web-friendly format. They can embed presentations on a web site, collect feedback from online viewers, and discuss presentations in groups by interest. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Survs Audience: All Surv users can create online surveys and collect responses via e-mail or weblink. Users can customize question types, distribute to up to 200 respondents, and follow results in real time. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Teachers Love SMART Boards Audience: All Teachers Love SMART Boards provides resources for teachers who use Smart Board interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Users can read others’ comments and share their own experiences with others. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets in 140 words. For classroom applications, see 25 Interesting ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Vidipedia Audience: All Vidipedia features videos uploaded by participants, free to download and free to upload. There are clips for history, science, people, politics, and technology. Recommended by AJ Edwards VoiceThread Audience: All A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments using voice, text, audio file, or video. VoiceThreads are stored online, and they can be exported to mp3 files. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Go2Web20 Audience: All This site lists various web 2.0 tools and applications available on the internet. Each application listed contains a short description and reviews. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools Audience: All This wikispace page, compiled by Lenva Shearing, lists web 2.0 tools particularly useful for teachers. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Webs Audience: All Webs is a free website builder that can be accessed on slower connections. Websites created with Webs software are easy to update for novice users. Pages can be designed without graphics that take time to load. Recommended by KDP member Shannon Rice. Wetpaint Audience: All Wetpaint is a free tool that has some of the design power of traditional web site-building tools, but incorporates the ease-of-use associated with wikis. It also offers the wiki's power of collaboration, allowing group writing, editing, and design activities. Recommended by AJ Edwards Wikispaces Audience: All Wikis are simple web pages that groups or classrooms can edit together. Users can edit pages directly in the browser using simple text editing tools, add image and media files, and save revisions as they are added. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY WiZIQ Audience: All WiZIQ is a free, web-based virtual learning and teaching environment for webinars, meetings, and web conferences. No downloads are required. Recommended by KDP member Ludmilla Smirnova, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY Writeboard Audience: All Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let users save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes in collaborative environments. Recommended by AJ Edwards |