tech tools for the classroom web 2.0

1. New Tech Tools for the Classroom Dr. Angel Kymes (kymesa@nsuok.edu) Dr. Connie Cassity (cassityc@nsuok.edu) Northeastern State University April 9, 2010

2. Places To Go for More Info CENTRE FOR LEARNING & PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIESLearning Tools Zone http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/ Federal Resources for Educational Excellence http://free.ed.gov/ The Best on the Web for Teachers (mostly K-12) http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index.html Free School Stuff (mostly K-12) http://freeology.com/ ISTE’s (International Society for Technology in Education) Web 2.0 Resource List http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/EducatorResources/YourLearningJourney/Web20/Web_2_0_Resource_Links.htm

3. Communication & Collaboration Poll Everywhere – live audience pollingwww.polleverywhere.com/ Voice Thread – presentations with audio and collaborative featuresvoicethread.com Prezi – a presentation application using a large area where motion paths can lead the viewerprezi.com ProProfs provides FREE knowledge sharing tools. http://www.proprofs.com/ Stixy -- Upload your work, add comments, share files, and more—like a bulletin board. http://www.stixy.com/

4. Communication & Collaboration:Still Popular Blogging Tools www.blogger.com Easy to use blog creation tool www.edublogs.org Simply create, manage and moderate blogs for all your students with a minimum of fuss (based on Wordpress) http://classblogmeister.com/ Class Bolgmeister: Learning as Conversation

5. Communication & Collaboration:Still Popular Wiki Tools www.wetpaint.comWiki tool and/or "inject" Wetpaint into your website (free) www.wikispaces.comfull-featured wikis offer unlimited usage and our stellar visual editor (free) www.bpworks.com Wiki tool for business and education (free)

6. Visualization & Modeling Bubbl.us – online brainstorming and mappingbubbl.us Webspiration – “a visual thinking tool”http://mywebspiration.com/ DabbleBoard is a whiteboard for visualizing, exploring, and collaboration. You can conduct presentations, chat, and draw, but you can’t share files. http://dabbleboard.com/ Snap a picture of your screen; Record video of onscreen action; Share instantly over the web, IM, email. Jing is free software that adds visuals to your online conversations. www.jingproject.com Gapminder—unvieling the beauty of statistics for a fact based view http://www.gapminder.org/

7. Visualization & Modeling (Cont.) Flockdraw is a seamless realtime collaborative drawing tool flockdraw.com xtimeline is a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos. http://xtimeline.com/ Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. Use Mapwing to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Then, share your virtual tours with friends, clients, or the entire world. http://www.mapwing.com/ Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy. http://animoto.com/

8. Research Fleck – place sticky notes and annotations on webpagesfleck.com CiteULike – manage and discover references and organize researchwww.citeulike.org BibMe – generate bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago, & Turabian styleswww.bibme.org Google Reader & Google Alerts – RSS feeds & email alerts Issue Lab – archive and disseminator of nonprofit and university research – keep a library or subscribe to RSS feedswww.issuelab.org

9. Research Viewzi - search engine with varied displays (screenshots, grids, timelines)http://www.viewzi.com/ Clusty – search engine with clustered/grouped resultswww.clusty.com Carrot2 – clustering search enginehttp://search.carrot2.org/stable/search

10. Productivity Screen Capture & Screencasting Jing www.jing.com Snag It www.snagit.com ScreenToasterwww.screentoaster.com Hear who – convert text to audiowww.hearwho.com Zamzar – file converterswww.zamzar.com Readability – converts web pages to straight text (no images or ads) http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/