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. | 10/13/2009 21:31:47 | Donna Baumbach | Black Mountain, NC | Phreetings | http://www.phreetings.com/ | Simple to use site lets you search Flickr for a photo and add some text to create a good looking webpage. It's designed to send as a greeting (photo + greeting = phreeting) and I use it for that, but it could easily be used for creative writing, a book report, or other assignment. I send birthday greetings, notes to students and colleagues, illustrate poems, etc. and send myself the URL then paste it in an email or link to it from a webpage.
Here's an example: http://phreetings.com/x69jmog0
(You can also choose a video search, but I haven't been able to get the finished link to work for me.) | any |
. | 10/13/2009 21:03:24 | Mark Cruthers | California | WiZiQ | http://www.wiziq.com/Tour/online-educational-platform-teachers-learners.aspx | WiZiQ brings students and teachers together regardless of the boundaries. With absolutely no cost to join or use its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, WiZiQ is becoming a vital tool in an online teacher’s or a student’s toolkit.
Members
Meet with other WiZiQ members, teachers and students who share subjects of your interest.
Content
Find, share, download or upload Powerpoints on educational subjects and topics. Share educational content with other members in form of PowerPoint presentations and slide shows.
• Find, share or download the presentations that interest you.
• Upload unlimited presentations, PDFs or documents for your own private content library.
• Share your content with other participants during a live class in a virtual classroom.
Classes
Use an intuitive interface to schedule classes with a single participant or a group. Online classes are your live, online classes to teach or learn live in a virtual classroom, sharing a whiteboard, without having to leave your place. The whiteboard has numerous interactive features, which help you learn in real time, and make your online classes a great experience.
• Conduct or participate in classes with live audio or video, have one person in the class or a large group or set up classes for the same or varied time zones.
• Recordings for all your classes are available to you all the time to learn and recap from archives.
• Participate in live, online public classes on varied educational topics delivered by subject experts.
Virtual Classroom
Teach and learn live, online in WiZiQ’s virtual classroom technology that needs no downloads and launches with just a few clicks. Virtual Classroom is your online classroom to learn or teach live. Interactive with no time and travel costs makes it the next best alternative to face-to-face teaching and learning.
• WiZiQ’s Virtual Classroom is completely web based with no software download requirements and works on any operating system including Windows, Mac and Linux.
• Use features like live audio and video communication, text messaging, whiteboard with drawing and writing tools, PowerPoint, PDF and Flash file sharing and privileges to transfer control to any participant independently.
• Search in class archives for review or reference to the previously conducted classes
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. | 10/13/2009 21:36:35 | Donna Baumbach | Black Mountain, NC | SafeShare | http://www.safeshare.tv/ | Show YouTube videos without the distracting and offensive elements on YouTube screens, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them. Just copy and paste a YouTube URL into SafeShare and get the new URL.
(Won't work if YouTube is blocked, sorry to say....but it might be a way to get it UNblocked!)
| Teachers |
. | 10/13/2009 22:07:25 | Peggy GEorge | Phoenix, AZ | MyPlick | http://www.myplick.com/ | Free online tool where you can upload PowerPoint slides and audio and sync them easily so the audio matches the slides. The audio can be created by students or downloaded from the internet. Presentations can be embedded on sites and shared publicly or privately with a group. | all grades and teachers |
. | 10/13/2009 22:33:32 | John Weidner | Oklahoma City, OK | StudyStack | http://www.studystack.com | (disclosure - I created StudyStack)
Many SEEDling members are probably familiar with StudyStack, but they might not know about the new labeled image feature. Here's a video that describes how you can set one up:
http://www.studystack.com/videos/greatLakes.swf
Here are some examples of what others have created using this:
http://www.studystack.com/StudySlides.jsp?studyStackId=263906
http://www.studystack.com/StudySlides.jsp?studyStackId=286694
http://www.studystack.com/StudySlides.jsp?studyStackId=287456
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. | 10/13/2009 23:28:42 | Sheri Edwards | Nespelem, WA | Teachers First | http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm | "TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus. " This is a wonderful site for teachers k-12 for learning about Web 20 tools: provides links to the tool, a review of the tool, adaptions for use in the classroom, examples. It is fantastic! | For teachers to use with k-12 |
. | 10/14/2009 8:54:20 | Cyndi Danner-Kuhn | Kansas State University | Story Online | http://www.storylineonline.net/ | Storyline Online: The Screen Actors Guild Fundation(SAG) is proud to Bring you Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas. Famous actors reading the books, how cool is that!!
http://www.storylineonline.net/ | K-5 |
. | 10/14/2009 8:56:38 | Cyndi Danner-Kuhn | Kansas State University | Cyndi' Education Technology Place | http://www.cyndidannerkuhn.info | Lots of resources for teachers including access to my Class Technology for Teaching & Learning . Sign up for my weekly Technology Newsletter full of resources each week. | Teachers |
. | 10/16/2009 7:16:02 | Jose Rodriguez | Los Angeles | Mr. Anker's Tests | http://henryanker.com | Fellow Los Angeles teacher that created Flash based quizzes... aligned to Elementary curriculum. NOT your run of the mill quiz and game site. Students get to practice basic skills. I usually have my students work in pairs. They are very engaging and Henry Anker offers CD of games for free to all educators. My challenge is to create our own Flash based games in this fashion. Shoutout from Los Angeles. http://twitter.com/coordinatortwo | K-5 |
. | 10/16/2009 9:02:41 | Lisa Thumann | Rutgers, NJ | Mashable: Twitter Lists Are Live! | http://mashable.com/2009/10/15/breaking-twitter-lists-are-live/ | Check your Twitter home page to see if you have access to "Lists". This is a new feature that is being rolled out to a number of Tweeters a bit at a time. It's similar to TweepML - but on your actual Twitter page. VERY HANDY!! | Teachers |
. | 10/16/2009 9:17:05 | Connie Otero | Mt Blue RSD, Farmington ME | Snow Leopard Compatibility Wiki | http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/snowchecker | If you're planning for an upgrade to Snow Leopard you should check for any outdated and unnecessary software accumulated on your hard drive.This useful wiki site has a link to download an application called SnowChecker that finds apps you have and displays information about their compatibility. Tried it out this morning and it showed me some older versions of browsers will work better than newer ones. Worth a look. Thank you for the workshop - you guys are great. Wish I was there this year but will be 'attending' online. | Technology |
. | 10/16/2009 12:23:34 | Michael Richards | Waterboro | Text the Mob | http://textthemob.com | Use your cell phone to conduct instant polls | 9/12/2009 |
. | 10/16/2009 12:24:20 | Terri Dawson | Gorham | signapp | http://www.signappnow.com/ | Great free way to have staff sign up for workshops. | Teachers |
. | 10/16/2009 12:24:20 | Kern Kelley | Newport Maine | MultiURL | http://www.multiurl.com | Ability to use frame display to show many sites, with or without a password | All |
. | 10/16/2009 12:25:03 | Sarah Sutter | Wiscasset, ME | Cool Iris Firefox plugin and Cool Iris Wall | http://developer.cooliris.com/?p=embed/quickstart | The site above is the link to the Cool Iris Wall with directions to make one and the embed code to put it in your website of choice.
Google the Cool Iris Firefox plugin and add it to your firefox so you can see pictures in a wall - great tool for scanning tons of pictures quickly. | Everyone |
. | 10/16/2009 12:26:13 | Ben | Dixfield | Project Central | http://pc.celtx.com/ | Collection of scripts, from stage plays and movies to podcasts or audio plays.
| grade 7 and up |
. | 10/16/2009 12:26:49 | NGleason | | Screencast-O-Matic | http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ | Free open source site for making screencasts. Works great and can save as Mp4. | any grade or prof. development |
. | 10/16/2009 12:27:09 | Jacquelyn Breedlove | Bangor | What Book Got You Hooked? | http://booksforkids.firstbook.org/whatbook/index.php | A good site to use with students that do not like to read. Has lists of books that were famous and not so famous people to love reading. Also good for finding some good books. | K-5 |
. | 10/16/2009 12:27:51 | | | spelling city | www.spellingcity.com | Your students can practice spelling words with pre-made or custom spelling lists. There are about a dozen games that will use those lists for the games. They also can practice and test themselves. | all |
. | 10/16/2009 12:29:10 | Ben | Dixfield | Celtx | http://www.celtx.com/ | Great public license script writing tool for scripts, story boards and more.
I love free | ALL |