Technology+Tools

=Technology Tools = 21st Century Learning Tools
 * Tool || URL || Uses || Other ||
 * Glogster (Education version!) || [] || Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. || Take a Tour ||
 * Animoto || [] || Turn your photos, video clips, and music into video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free and shockingly easy. || Learn More/ Features ||
 * 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. || Voki for Education ||
 * Wallwisher || [] || Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. || FAQ ||
 * Kerpoof || [] || Create artwork, animated movies, a story, printed card, etc. || About - How to, etc . ||
 * 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. || Support/ How To/ Manuals, etc. ||
 * 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. || Learn ||
 * Jing || [] || Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor. || Free Version ||
 * Wordle || [] || Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide || FAQ ||
 * Tagzedo || [] || [|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. || [|FAQ] ||
 * UJAM || [] || UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music or enhance their existing musical talent and share it with friends. || Not Supported by IE7 ||
 * Google Docs || [] || Upload your files from your desktop. Access anywhere. Share your work. ||

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 * PBWorks || [] || Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools. || Resources ||
 * Bubbl.us || [] || Brainstorming made simple ||  ||
 * Blabberize || [] || Upload picture and make the picture "talk" ||  ||
 * Survey Monkey || [] || Free Survey Tool || Tour ||
 * Scribblar || [|http://www.scribblar.com] ||  ||   ||
 * || Diagram.ly || lets students create mind maps, diagrams and flowcharts in a very simple, straightforward way, and has lots of tutorials. No registration or account required! Students can save diagrams to their desktop ||  ||
 * Storybird || [] || create stories ||  ||
 * || Twurdy || new search engine that rates each search result according to its reading level. It takes it a bit longer than other search engines to show the results of a search, but it's worth the wait ||  ||
 * || Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection || fantastic collection of different brain-teaser games. These types of games really work the higher-order thinking skills and problem solving skills ||  ||
 * || Twister || create fake 'tweets' from historical characters, characters in a novel, etc. Could be a great quick assignment! No registration or login required. Also, check out the rest of the tools on ClassTools.net, such as the countdown timer or the different mind map templates ||  ||
 * || Wonderville || interactive science games and lessons ||  ||
 * || Scrumblr || a virtual 'corkboard' or 'sticky-note board' that is text-only. Please check it out, see the demo page; there are tons of uses for this sort of thing. Other similar sites are Wallwisher and AnswerGarden ||  ||
 * || [|intothebook] || Reading Strategies - games ||  ||
 * || http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ || site with many links to web 2.0 tools ||  ||
 * || [] || Using Web 2.0 with Kindergarten students ||  ||
 * || [] || List of sites with "how to videos" ||  ||
 * Scratch || scratch.mit.edu || Create video games ||  ||
 * Thinkfinity || [] || GREAT STUFF HERE! ||  ||
 * The Invention of Hugo Cabret || [|http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com] || Great Book for Read Aloud to use with the document camera. ||  ||
 * Jogtheweb || [|www.jogtheweb.com] || Create projiects for students, insert all the web links and diretions - webquet - like site. ||  ||
 * Weebly || [] || Easy site to create your own website. ||  ||
 * Study Stack || [] || Great site to create your own flashcards ||  ||
 * Signup Genius || [|www.signupgenius.com] || Create forms for people to sign up for events (conferences, etc.) ||  ||
 * Spelling City || www.spellingcity.com || Great site for practicing spelling words - lots of fun games ||  ||
 * Ducksters || www.ducksters.com || Student friendly Google search ||  ||
 * Morgue Files || www.morguefiles.com || Free photos for student use ||  ||
 * MixBook || www.mixbook.com || Great for making picture books, showing them online, then if students want to buy the book they make they can for as low as $6.99 ||  ||
 * || www.iamlodge.com || Academic songs ||  ||
 * LittleBirdTales || [|http://littlebirdtales.com] || create stories, record voice ||  ||
 * Voluteerspot || www.volunteerspot.com || online registration for classroom activities/volunteer, parent conferences, etc. ||  ||
 * || [] || Create stories save them digitally and/or order them. ||  ||
 * LiveBinder || [] || create a binder for information that you can categorize, easy to add links and content ||  ||
 * Symbaloo || [|http://www.symbaloo.com] || bookmark websites ||  ||
 * Edmodo || [] || set up class assignments for students to collaborate, share content, access information, homework, etc. ||  ||
 * || [|Spinner] || assigning jobs randomly, game making Assign Jobs - Facilitator, Reporter, Materials Distributor, Recorder, Timekeeper ||  ||
 * || [|National Library of Virutal Manipulatives] ||  ||   ||
 * || [|www.tikatok.com] || creating books for publishing and possible purchase, Barnes and Noble ||  ||
 * Online Time Bomb ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Ten Marks || [|www.tenmarks.com] || Group Response, Data collection for Math strands, math instructional videos ||  ||
 * SamAnimation || [|www.samanimation.com] ||  ||   ||
 * || [|www.bookbuilder.cast.org] ||  ||   ||
 * || [|www.bookwizard.scholastic.com] ||  ||   ||
 * //Above and Beyond//** video

Group Discussion: How do we provide "Above and Beyond" experiences for ALL our students. How is this 21st Century Learning? Student Activity: Group Discussion and have students create speech inspiring others to strive to go Above and Beyond.

Video: [|Vision of 21st Century Teachers.wmv]