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Teacher Links

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The following are links that I either use a lot or that I stumbled onto and found just plain cool or very useful.

 

 

In-house links:

JH Lab Sign-up

Mobile Lab Sign-up

English Department Reading List

 

Other Useful Links:

Wikis

Wiki Basics-basic information about creating and maintaining a wiki. 

 

Wiki Junior-online books for and by kids.

 

MindMeister-online mind mapping, collaborative

 

How can wikis, blogs and web 2.0 tap into visual learning? 

 

Project Based Wiki Example-Waukee Elementary trip project

presentation link

 

Wiki Books-from wikipedia.  Create online educational books that are available right on the web.

 

Online Quiz/Study/Survey

Quizlet-great site for students to study from--creates flashcards and other study tools for vocab, etc.

 

ProProfs-FREE knowledge sharing tools & FREE online education

 

MyStudiyo-make online quizzes--free. 

 

Grammar Girl-Quick and dirty grammar tips via podcast.

 

Survey Monkey-free survey tool.

 

XTimeline-create your own free timeline charts.

 

       

Teacher Resources

ITEC '09 Handout Information-This year's links and resources.  Lot's of great new ideas.

 

Read*Write*Think-lots of great teacher and student resources. 

  

Thinkfinity-great searchable teaching resource.

 

 

My Hero Project

 

WizIQ-enables teachers and learners to collaborate through:

  • Virtual Classes
  • Online Tests
  • Educational Content
  • Contact Network

 

Online Collaboration for Writing- using online resources to promote writing.

 

ITEC '08 Handout Information-lots of good resources that were presented at the conference.

 

Open Education Resources

 

Book Talks for Book Worms- What a great idea!  I want to do this next year.


Scholastic Book Wizard-good resource for leveling books quickly. 

Social Networking

Ning-(Educational option for social networking)

 

flatclassroomproject.com

Twitter-a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

 

EPals-world's largest online educational community

Video/Audio Edit/Hosting/Podcasting

Animoto-makes videos for you out of pics and sets to music-up to 30 second videos free.

 

Jingproject.com-using screen video and voice over--really cool and useful

  

Teacher Tube-some funny and serious educational videos.  

 

Audacity-This free software is a must if working with podcasting and sound in general on a PC.

  

Skype-free phone service and video connection.

 

 Voice Thread-capture voice and attatch to pictures for free. 

 

Podcast Overview-lots of helpful links about podcasting

 

Podomatic-pod hosting and assistance 

 

Natural Reader-Text to voice software that has a free version.  Wonderful for struggling students or those with disabilities.

 

Other Cool Tools

Tiny URL-Tired of those long links that run on forever?  Tiny URL shrinks them down for you and they still work!

  

Freewebs-(no kidding-free webhosting and easy to use)

 

Blabberize

 

Voki

 

Glogster

Wordie-Like Flickr without the photos  

 

Freemind-free concept mapping software

 

Tag Crowd-Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency.

 

Lulu-publish and print your own books!

Tag Galaxy-Kind of a cool way to search Flickr pictures 

  

Google Docs-great resource to save documents for use at home and school.

 

Gamequarium

 

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

 

 

 

 

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