Tech Tips 2Day
January, 2015
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Infinit
Download your files with just one click
With Infinit, you can download files the second they're sent to you. All of your received files are saved straight to your Downloads folder.
And if you're receiving audio or video, you can stream your media even before the download is complete!
mystorybook.com
Encourage Expression
Kids will read, write, and have fun -- while learning to tell great stories!
Teachers
Use our story prompts and templates for fun and memorable lessons.
Word Tamer
Word tamer is a digital storytelling web tool that takes students on an interactive carnival journey through creative storytelling. As students progress through the journey, they are exposed to thrilling videos and activities that teach the process of developing characters, setting, and plot while also introducing various literary devices.
Newseum Digital Classroom
http://www.newseumdigitalclassroom.org/digital-classroom/default.aspx
Digital Classroom Resources:
- Flexible, ready-to-teach lesson plans and handouts
- Standards-aligned content, including Common Core
- Integrated interactives that support media literacy, critical thinking skills and civic engagement
- Hundreds of primary sources, including historic front pages, photographs and newsreels
- Video lessons and viewing guides
- Extension activity ideas
LibrAdventures
Welcome to LibrAdventures, The Literary Atlas.
Browse through the carousel or click on a marker to explore.
Discover the index, read the introduction, travel at random.
Share with your friends & like the facebook page!
Annotary
Bookmarking for the Exceptionally Inquisitive
Annotary is the smarter way to save and circulate information. Bookmark and highlight web pages, take notes, share ideas.
Tackk
Tackk is a simple way to create beautiful pages on the web. It's your very own page, flyer, blog post, or poster.
Google World Wonders
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/world-wonders
From the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google’s World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world.
By using our Street View technology, Google has a unique opportunity to make world heritage sites available to users across the globe.
Booktrack
Booktracks are soundtracks for books. The Booktrack Studio allows you to read and create synchronized soundtracks for e-Books or any kind of digital text by adding background music, ambient sound, and sound effects. Booktrack automatically adjusts the soundtrack to your individual reading speed.
Max's Math Adventures
http://teacher.scholastic.com/max/
Max’s Math Adventure is a web tool featured with math and language arts activities designed for students in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The activities are designed to challenge students to solve math problems, while using clues embedded in rhymes.
Whyville
http://www.whyville.net/smmk/nice
As a citizen of Whyville, you can:
- Design your own look
- Chat and play games
- Hang out with friends
- Much more!
Dweeber
Welcome to Dweeber, a social website that connects youth and helps them get homework done faster by working with their school friends online. Dweeber.com was created bySmartWired, a group dedicated to helping young people understand their strengths and talents, and work together more effectively with parents, mentors, and each other. SmartWiredhas been working with audiences around the world since 2003 to help them reach (and exceed) their potential.
Dweeber launched in public beta in April 2009 to allow young people to use the growing phenomenon of social networking to actually help them learn, study, and do homework, as opposed to getting in the way of it. We spent many months researching and envisioning the coolest site we could create that would be engaging to use, and simultaneously empower youth to share learning and help bring out their best. Homework happens — Dweeber helps get it done faster! A couple of our guiding principles:
- Everyone has their own unique brilliance.
- Think of differences as resources rather than disorders
- Track assets rather than deficits
- Think of mistakes as experiments rather than failures.
- Everyone has an inner Dweeb, a geek part of us that is passionate about something important.
Glean
Explore the best video lessons in education. We’ll find the right ones for you.
Gain deeper understanding into your class with Insights. Assign video lessons to your students and follow their progress and viewing habits. It’s like you’re sitting with each student one-on-one.
My Award Maker
http://tammyworcester.com/tip-19-my-award-maker/
Do you want to present some certificates to your students to celebrate their accomplishments? Here is an online award maker that allows you to easily personalize and print certificates of all types.
Powtoon
Create animated videos and presentations
You've seen Jim use this site for some of his presentations, especially those created to help teach students.
Gliffy
Diagrams Made Easy
Create professional-quality flowcharts, Org charts, UML diagrams, Network diagrams, Wireframes, Technical drawings and more. Gliffy works directly in your browser!
Visme
Vismeis a web tool that allows users to generate their thoughts and ideas into engaging visuals using a simple drag and drop feature. Users can choose from a wide range of motion text or image templates.
- Presentations
- Animations
- Infographics
- Banner Ads
NASA Kid's Club
NASA Kid’s Club is a unique web tool that provides information about math and space science in the form of interactive space missions. Students can complete these interactive missions and stimulate further interest in space by receiving real time updates from NASA. These updates include the latest images, videos, and news.
Bitstrips
Our mission is to give you an entertaining and dynamic visual identity that you can use to express yourself in ways that words can't capture.
Poll Everywhere
Live Audience Participation
Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class anywhere in real time.
Note: The free service only allows for a limited number of responses for each poll.