TechnologyToolsTeachers

Important Links:
[|Click here to go to usmtech.wikispaces.com, which includes tutorials and tools!] Websites Every Teacher Should Know TeachersFirst.com Youth Media Exchange -- Open your classroom doors! Encourage students to share their own work with youth all over the world. Cool Tools for Schools -- Looking for something? It's here. Mr. Barth's UWM Cool Tools blog USM Summercore Workshop page [|Raven About Web 2.0 online tutorials about web 2.0 tools] 100 Apps for Tech-Savvy Teachers Go2web20 The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You Cool Tools for Schools

Resources for brainstorming:
SlickPlan -- Online flow chart creator. FreeMind -- Interactive mind mapping software available for download. Popplet -- Visual brainstorming and idea mapping and sharing. Bubbl.us -- Online brainstorming.

Resources for words and search terms:
Visuwords -- Dynamic, graphic dictionary.

Wordle -- Create word clouds for any text. Tagxedo -- Beyond Wordle! Word clouds with style -- create images made up of word clouds. Wallwisher -- A new approach to a discussion board: an online notice board with post-its!

Resources for presentations:
Prezi -- Very cool, whole new way to imagine the presentation. Ahead -- Dynamic presentations, similar to Prezi, but a bit more streamlined and contained. Glogster -- Create interactive multimedia posters. VoiceThread-- Amazing interactive slide shows. Sliderocket -- Presentation program, like a very cool version of PowerPoint. Animoto -- They claim it's the end of boring slide shows! XtraNormal -- Super cool! If you can type, you can make short animated movies! MuseumBox -- Create amazing, innovative, interactive museum boxes -- "This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. " Atmosphir -- Create your own video games. Empressr -- Create rich media presentations that you can then embed.

Resources for utilizing multimedia:
Embedr.com -- Make playlists of videos to embed in your wikis, blogs, etc. TubeChop -- Edit youtube videos -- allows you to take out just a portion of a youtube video for use.

Resources for creative images and sound:
Pixlr -- Photo editing program, like Photoshop. Kerpoof -- Cool animation studio. Blabberize -- Make any picture talk. Audacity -- Free, cross-platform sound editor -- record a sound, edit it, save it as an mp3, and embed it. Photo Story 3 -- Microsoft's answer to Mac's iLife.

Resources for creating timelines:
Dipity -- Timeline creator. Capzles -- Timeline creator. Timetoast -- Timeline creator.

Resources for collaboration and peer review and editing:
CrocaDoc -- "Mark Up and Review Documents Online --Collaboratively highlight and comment on PDFs, Word documents, images, and more!" SharedCopy --"Annotate and collaborate on any website!"

Resources for sharing files and bookmarks:
Slideshare -- Share your presentations, documents, and films. Zamzar -- Free online file converter -- Converts files from one type to another. Can make pdfs into editable documents.

Delicious -- Create and use bookmarks on any computer and share them with others. (This is one of the most useful tools ever!)

Resources for world languages:
Audacity -- Free, cross-platform sound editor -- record a sound, edit it, save it as an mp3, and embed it. Gcompris -- 100 activities in 40 different languages

Resources for Goolge Earth:
All things Google Earth Google Earth Gallery -- The world at your fingertips! Google Earth tours of all kinds of amazing topics. googlelittrips.com -- For the English teacher in all of us. :)

[[image:wikispaceslogo.gif align="left"]]**Wikis:**
[|Wikispaces for Educators]

[|Skype] [|Skype WeeMees] [|Call Graph] [|Calliflower] [|Yugma]

[|Castilleja School] [|Heather Pang's website] heather_pang@castilleja.org
 * Heather Allen Pang, History Department Head and Archivist (Skype session at 12:45 p.m.)**

[|Recording of USM's 2007 online conference with Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese]

Skype call rates to land lines and cell phones: UK, France, Spain, and China: $ 0.024/minute India: $ 0.106/minute Egypt: $0.213/minute
 * FYI...**

**[[image:bloggerlogo.png align="left"]]Blogs:**
[|Blogspot] [|USM Blogs] [|Flickr] [|Flickr Slidr]

**Examples of Blogs:**
[|Shakespeare] [|Dickens] [|Taft in the South]

**[[image:deliciouslogo.png align="left"]]Bookmarking:**
[|Delicious]

**[[image:somlogo.gif width="174" height="89" align="left"]]Screencasts:**
[|Screencast-o-matic.com]

**Avatars:**
[|WeeWorld] [|DoppelMe] [|KerPoof]

**Examples of Student Work:**
Poetry VoiceThread Hole in My Life FAQ Wikispace Witch-Hunt FAQ Wikispace Into Thin Air FAQ Wikispace