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 * When this wiki was "cleaned up" a few of the hyperlinks were lost. All the links can be found on http://megormi.wikispaces.com/camp2010**

Social Media http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/05/100-inspiring-ways-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom/ PowerPoint Resources and Interactive White Board Resources

http://www.pppst.com/themes.html PowerPoint- Free PowerPoint presentations on every topic! Jeopardy templates Template and pre-made games Resource collection Interactive White board Resources http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/6-8/6-8.html Google Earth and Literature Prezi Create a presentation http://cybraryman.com/smartboard.html Interactive whiteboard resources.

Flickr

Flickr Remember to use the advanced search to find images licensed using Creative Commons Spell with Flickr This is a website that generates words using letters from Flickr qflick Is a different way to search Flickr

Editing images

http://fotoflexer.com/ http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ http://aviary.com/ http://www.picnik.com/

New http://dakinane.com/blog/resources/ Free online tools organized alphabetically. Math in the Movies A site organized by Harvard Social Media Display Shows a ticker of various media Teacher site full of technology ideas and video tutorials for podcasts, videos, iPod notes, etc.: www.mrcoley.com Final Project survey http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFJFbjhwVGZvbVNzOGk3eS02bXktMnc6MA.. http://johnfaig.blogspot.com/ The future of textbooks.

Web 2.0 Tools

Skype Facebook Ustream Ning Classroom 2.0 delicious Podcasting LinkedIn Bubble Tweet Twitter Google Alerts Blogs Google Calendar Google Docs Wikipedia Google Sketchup Image Chef Cameroid Wordle Google Earth Teacher Tube Google Maps You Tube Qik Jing School Town Plurk

Skype in the Classroom

Directory of educators that use Skype A Skype Phonebook of Educators http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/30/50-awesome-ways-to-use-skype-in-the-classroom/ Web Cams in the Classroon Bubblejoy Create cards or messages Cameroid Manipulate pictures or images.

Wordle Create a Wordle Historic speeches in Wordle Wordle in the Classroom Ideas Week 1 Tech Camp.doc Here is a nice blog entry on 5 Reasons to Use Wordle by Terri Freedman: http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/20322 Wordle of the Day: http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com/ Tagxedo For Word Clouds

Fun with Digital Images

http://cheezburger.com/ - add captions to pics, photos, posters, etc or preview others contributions Fun with Digital Images This is a link to a wiki with several other digital image sites. http://plasq.com/comiclife-win Comic Life Add Letters Image Chef make your own icon - lose the brown square Space Your Face My Movie Moment Add an image to a movie or clip. http://www.voki.com/

Image Generators Most of these sites are not appropriate to use with students, but are a great way to generate images for vocabulary work and graphics for websites. http://photofunia.com/ One PhotoFunia Put your face on Mt. Rushmore and more http://www.befunky.com/ Be Funky has a whole new look. http://www.pimptheface.com/ Pimp the Face, change the face. http://www.photo505.com/ Photo 505 A new effect is added everyday, explore. http://bighugelabs.com/ Big Huge Labs has some new features http://myframe.us/ Frame your pictures, for free! http://funphotobox.com/ This site is similar to PhotoFunia http://www.magmypic.com/ Fun magazine covers http://www.loonapix.com/ Put your face on various templates http://www.addletters.com/ Generate your name on various signs http://www.imagechef.com/ Generate an image from available templates. http://spaceyourface.nasa.gov/ Put your face on a dancing astronaut. http://mymoviemoment.com/ Add an image to a movie clip. http://sendables.jibjab.com/ Create a Jib Jab http://www.picartia.com/ Create photo mosaics http://www.faceinhole.com/us/Select a new body to place your face http://www.mushygushy.com/ Put your face into various animated scenes Online Photo Editing I am a fan of Photoshop Elements, but these free online sites may win me over! http://www.sumopaint.com/home/ Wow, this is like Photoshop Elements, for free. http://fotoflexer.com/ Online photo editing http://www.tuxpi.com/ Edit images using a variety of backgrounds and frames. Picnik to edit images Web Cam Sites Bubblejoy Create cards or messages Cameroid Manipulate pictures or images. Online Comic Creators http://plasq.com/comiclife-win Comic Life http://comiqs.com/editor/ Create your own comics http://www.toondoo.com/ Create your own comic strips http://www.makebeliefscomix.com Create your own comics.
 * Photoshop.com**Photoshop to edit images.

To print posters http://www.blockposters.com/ Takes a graphic and prints on multiple sheets http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ Takes a graphic and prints on multiple sheets

Collaborative Tools - A whole group of collaborative tools: the good, the bad and the ugly Web pages that aren't static - they are constantly changing

VoiceThread

Voice Thread Website

Voice Thread Literacy Example

Voice Thread Simplifying Expressions

Voice Thread Solving One Step Equations

Voice Thread Solving Two Step Equations

Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers from an Art Teacher

Filesharing Tools

http://www.yousendit.com/ http://drop.io/

Interactive Tools

Live Audience Polling ask a question - they answer using sms text messages or the web Online Stopwatch DebateGraph ClassTools.net ilighter Savethewords BenFranklin300 Soundboard Library Thing Compare Google and Bing

Classroom Response Systems

H-ITT Classroom Performance Systems Qwizdom SMART iRespond Promethean Activexpressions

Twitter

Twitter We Follow Twittersheep Caveman Twittering 5 Ways to Have Fun with Twitter Twitter for Teachers Twittas ? First Twitter Follow TweetCloud – What’s Being Said? FriendorFollow – Find out who you are following, who’s following you and more Twitter Background Creation

30 New Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom Historical Twitters Google Earth

Glogster Poster Yourself

Voicethread: http://www.voicethread.com Engagement

Engage Me

Blooms Taxonomy – 1956

Matrix

Bloom’s Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms DigitallyBlooms Digitally

Bloom’s and the Digital World Visualblooms

12 Essentials for Technology Integration from Richard Byrne

Creating Documents and Presentations

Google Docs – gives you the power to create documents, spreadsheets, and slide shows using any Internet-connected computer

ZOHO Show – part of a suite of free web based tools – sign in with google or yahoo account. Offers more editing options and templates than those found on Google Presentation

Tools for Communicating with Parents and Students

edublogs – free blogging site designed just for classroom use

drop.io – Quick and easy setup – no registration and completely free for up to 100mb of storage space

Weebly – create a free classroom website – they have excellent user support

Tools for Creating Collaborative Student Projects

Wikispaces – Not the only site for collaborative sites – pbworks and ning are others. Wikispaces has provided more than 100,000 free advertising-free wikis to educators. Use it as a resource page for your students – they can share notes and references throughout the year. They can use it as a study guide for assessments.

Direct Link to Educator Sign Up: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

ediscio – flashcard creation tool – can be used by an entire class to create a “card box” that all of the students can study. (images can be included on the cards also)

Educational Alternatives to YouTube

snagfilms – good for those on a limited budget and can be embedded in a blog or wiki for students

schooltube – similar to teachertube in that both are designed for classroom use. Schooltube generally has less advertising and faster uploads

dotsub – great resource for foreign language teachers, ESL/EFL teachers, and teachers of students with hearing impairments

Sir Ken Robinson on TED talks

Sound, Music, Video or Narration Soundboard http://www.moviewavs.com/Movie Wavshttp://freeplaymusic.com/ Royality free music. http://www.songsforteaching.com/ Songs for teaching. Musipedia - The Open Music Encyclopedia - searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Kind of neat – you can search by playing a flash piano, whistle it to the computer or tap the rhythm on the desk. http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/music.shtml Science songs http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE/searchbrowse.html Collection of math and science songs. http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/index.php Educational Rap Songs: http://www.educationalrap.com/ I found the name of the song and searched for it in itunes. I downloaded it for 99 cents http://activehistory.co.uk/updates/uncategorized/songs-history-classroom-british-empire-slavery-civil-rights/ History Songs http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=9774&view=&hl=zappa&fromsearch=1 More songs for history teachers

Media Converters To Convert Just the Audio from a You Tube Video

Listento youtube This conversion site works Video2mp3 Convert a You Tube video to mp3 Dirpy to convert You Tube videos to mp3 You Tube mp3 Convert to mp3

Convert Audio and Video from You Tube

Zamzar Copy the address, the file will be sent to your email to download. Media Converter This site has a limit of 5 conversions a day

Software to Download and Convert

Video Lan Software to download Format Factory software to convert videos Scott Meech's favorite You Tube Downloader This software has been highly rated by Cnet.

Digital Storytelling Resources http://gvtc.com/~mgriffin/digital/ Excellent examples of Photostory as well as fabulous tips on how to put one together!

Free Computer Clean Up Tools

Spybot Search & Destroy scroll down page to download section and select the first option – install with default options. You must check for updates each time you run the program to be sure you have the newest data files. Run weekly for high internet use. Malware Bytes install with defaults - update this program also and a simple scan will do you well unless you are having lots of issues. AVG Free antivirus free antivirus that works well and doesn’t take a lot of your processor to run

Creating the Morph

This was created by using a free software program I downloaded from http://www.tucows.com/previ... The program is called Sqirlz Morph. This was great fun

Creating a Wiki

http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/ - A guide for creating and using a wiki.

SmartBoard Resources This is a collection of resources for your work with the Smart Tech Activities

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/ Smart home. Resource collection Interactive White board Resources organized by Meg. http://www.d46.k12.il.us/groups/fs-staff-shared/wiki/bbc26/Smartboard_Information.html http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/2009/01/smart-boards--auditorium.html http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/templates.htm Templates for teachers. http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/smartboard.htm Interactive Websites. http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm Wichita schools resources. http://downloads.smarttech.com/media/services/quickreferences/pdf/english/lat%20nb10%20qr%20mar%2028%20fso.pdf templates and other resources to download. http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/ A social network focused on the SmartBoard use in the classroom. http://delicious.com/lsullivan/SmartBoard Bookmarks to many different resources. http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/smartboard.htm Amazing collection of resources. http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_106c9fm8j&skipauth=true 37 interesting ways to use your SmartBoard. http://www.teachertube.com/groups_home.php?urlkey=teachingwithsmartboard A group that posts weekly videos. http://www.bobsedulinks.com/Smart_Board_Links.htm More links and resources across the content areas. http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en Use Google advanced search to find specifically what you are looking for. http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/lang_arts.shtml New addition of interactive games organized by content areas. http://teachnic.googlepages.com/home http://whiteboards.msad52.wikispaces.net/ Thanks to my Twitter network!