Tools+for+classroom+use

** Lots of new tools featured on this Libguide I created for our school community ** media type="custom" key="8432742" The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators
 * Tools for classroom use **

Edited by Richard Byrne, blogger who writes Free Technology for Teachers

Evernote Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small, using your computer, phone, and the web. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.It's a cloud based application. You create an account, and can access it from any computer or smartphone, anywhere.

10 Evernote tips for school - Education series

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Symbaloo Over 50.000 teachers and students all over the world are using SymbalooEDU as a Personal Learning Environment tool. media type="youtube" key="YEls3tq5wIY" height="390" width="480"

Soundcloud Very easy audio creation tool. Sign up, record your track and embed into blogs, wikis, nings etc. media type="custom" key="8440278"

Slideshare You can use Slideshare to upload PowerPoint presentations. I often search Slideshare to find presentations about the latest technology offerings. You can learn a lot from the Slideshare community. An advantage of uploading a presentation to Slideshare is that you can track viewing statistics. Take a look at this Slideshare presentation - hats off to Jesse for initiative. A teachable moment for our students, don't you think? media type="custom" key="8440400"

LiveBinders

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web

 * Collect your resources
 * Organize them neatly and easily
 * Present them with pride

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Edmodo "Edmodo is a free participatory learning environment that brings safe and secure collaboration between teachers and students. The platform creates a vehicle for students and teachers to engage in a virtual classroom experience where topics for any subject may be presented, discussed, discovered, analyzed, and/or assessed by students and teachers. While students can interact within our system, the teachers and administrators have total control and visibility." media type="youtube" key="TzPHQr1ONaA" height="390" width="480"

Capzles Create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.

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Wallwisher Use Wallwisher to get feedback about student understanding of concepts, to aggregate information, to share thinking transparently. media type="custom" key="8440642"

Storybird Collaborative storytelling. Easy for junior students to use.

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
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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. Users can [|doodle] while commenting, use multiple [|identities], and pick which comments are shown through [|moderation]. VoiceThreads can even be [|embedded] to show and receive comments on other websites and [|exported] to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

Using Voicethread for digital conversations - Bill Ferriter's handy tips.

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Khan Academy





We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an [|open source project]--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World." || Take a look at Salman Khan's resources. Does this challenge our current education system, or compliment it?media type="youtube" key="UuMTSU9DcqQ" height="390" width="640"Bill Gates talks about the Khan Academy on the Gates Notes. One Word  "simple. you’ll see **one word** at the top of the following screen. you have **sixty seconds** to write about it. click ‘**go**’ and the page will load with the cursor in place. don’t **think**. just **write**." A very simple site to use. I used to begin English lessons using this.
 * ==="The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.===

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