Great Education Apps
A handful of helpful applications for educators!
Class Dojo
Class Dojo is a website that I will definitely have to write down to remember when I become a teacher. It keeps track of the little everyday class things that I will struggle to remember or write down, things like everyday attendance and student participation. By doing it all online it would be kept nice and organized for me!
Mr. Keefe's Class Dojo
Class Dojo in the classroom
Here is a video showing how a teacher uses class dojo in his 5th grade classroom.
Glogster
Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia presentations - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.
Discovery Education recommends Glogster EDU - online teaching and learning tool
Quick Glogster Tutorial
Visit http://edu.Glogster.com and find out more details about this amazing online teaching and learning tool.
Discovery Education recommends Glogster - short overview of the most important features of this online teaching and learning tool. Teachers can prepare interactive presentations for their students to catch their attention. Students can also use it and create interactive posters for their projects with this learning tool and develop their creativity and imagination.
PhotoPeach
With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further.
Bring Your Students' Writing to Life
PhotoPeach in the Classroom
This is a brief documentary of how a teacher uses PhotoPeach in the classroom.
Chartle
Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations - offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity instead. Quickly create charts and graphs with this!
Screencast by jdwamsley from Screenr.com
Chartle Tutorial
Short Demo on how to use Chartle
Shape Collage
Making a photo collage with all of your photos, This is a simple collage maker unlike the other sites that require too much work to make a collage, they don't look nice, and they don't give you enough control.
Shape Collage - Free Automatic Photo Collage Maker
Shape Collage in 3 minutes!
Shape Collage is an automatic photo collage maker that creates collages in different shapes in just a couple seconds. You can create picture collages in the shape of a rectangle, heart, text, or logo, with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Graffiti Creator
The Graffiti Creator© allow you to design your own name or logotype in graffiti-style.
You have several different font styles to choose from and the program has an array of cool tools
to further enhance your logotype to look like the real thing. Go ahead and explore the possibilities!
You have several different font styles to choose from and the program has an array of cool tools
to further enhance your logotype to look like the real thing. Go ahead and explore the possibilities!
Make Beliefs Comix
This site allows students to quickly create "Comix" for fun creative classroom projects.
Board800
Odosketch
Odosketch is a Flash drawing application that we first launched in August of 2006 for an Adobe Design Gallery feature on Odopod. After that, we left the tool open for anyone to use and as of our most recent launch, over 19,000 sketches had been saved.
Culture Crossing
Culture Crossing provides users with valuable cultural information about every country. It’s a dynamic database, built and kept up-to-date by its own community of registered members from around the world.
Kansas State University Research and Extension Podcast
Here is a link to over 300 podcasts over a wide variety of agriculture topics published by KSU Research and Extension.
Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
This link will give you quite of few options of different Ag related podcasts published from Iowa State University.
LifeKnowledge in Action
Designed with the active teacher in mind, LifeKnowledge in Action is a podcast to bring the latest from the LifeKnowledge Center for Agricultural Education directly to you. Learn how others are facilitating premier leadership, personal growth and career success as we work together in advancing the integration of LifeKnowledge in local agricultural education classrooms.
Organic Agriculture Theory and Practice
Understanding of the historical origins and ecological theories underpinning the practices involved in organic agriculture. Interdisciplinary examination of crop and livestock production and socio-economic processes and policies in organic agriculture from researcher and producer perspectives
Career-Technical Education Research News
Interviews about new CTE research findings with researchers associated with the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE)