Quizlet allows teachers or students to create online flashcard with as many questions and answers as they would like. Access the flashcard sets online for studying or reviewing subject matter or print out the flashcards for use in class.
Create a group so members can study together and discuss their answers via chat.
Avoid reinventing the wheel by searching for flashcard sets which have already been created. Click here to view the top 100 topics for which flashcards have already been created.
Ed.VoiceThread is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. This online application permits users to create and collaborate on digital stories and documentaries, to explore geography and culture, or to solve math problems,
Ed.VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways: microphone, phone, text, audio file, or video. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. Click here for a VoiceThread on "The Networked Teacher."
The application is web-based so requires no special software. A free membership with limited capabilities is offered for free. Other price options are quite inexpensive. Click on the VoiceThread logo above to learn more. In addition, visit the VoiceThread Ning to learn about educational applications for VoiceThread.
Curriki is a wiki created by educators and learners who work together to create quality curriculum materials to help teachers and students around the world. It is the result of work done for the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC).
- Begin by clicking here to take a short guided tour or click on the image above to view the site.
- You do not need to become a member in order to use the materials found in Curriki, but if you wish to contribute your own curriculum materials, provide feedback, join groups, create a personal collection of items, or create your own wiki resources, you need to create a Curriki account.
Classroom 2.0 is a social networking Ning-based community of K-12 educators interested in integrating technology into their classrooms.
- Visit the site by clicking on the image above. On the lower right side of the new screen, locate the contents arranged by tool, by subject, or by area. You can also search for content.
- Spend some time familiarizing yourself with the contributions of active technology integrators.
- Membership is free, but site contents are available to non-members
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Remember The Milk is a free online list-creator which provides users with a robust program to create tasks, prioritize them, categorize them, share them, and embed them in your Google calendar.
When creating a group project for your students, have them create a task list in Remember the Milk.
Learn more by clicking on the Remember The Milk icon above.
Here are some websites that either don't have a rss feed or do and I couldn't find it to insert it into the protopage.
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Using this free tool designed by Intel for teacher use, students assign order or ranking to a pre-determined list of items. They must explain their reasoning and can compare their choices with others in a visual diagram.
Visual Ranking supports activities where students need to organize ideas, debate differences, and reach consensus.
Click on the Intel icon above to visit the Visual Tools site to explore its contents.
For a quick sample of an actual Visual Ranking activity, click here.
General Electric's virtual sketch and collaboration tool permits users to create a sketch, send the sketch to a friend through email or share with a link. Think of it as a free whiteboard which can be shared with others. It was created as a promotion for GE's slogan, "Imagination at Work,", but still finds relevance in the classroom.
Click on the GE icon above, click on the marker, and create a sketch or write a message. Click on Clear if you don't like what you've created. A tool bar offers a choice of shapes, a stamper, lines, and a variety of background themes. From a file button, you can print, send, or add a grid.
Shelfari is an online gathering place for authors, publishers, and readers where you could create your own professional learning community.
Click on the Shelfari image above and in the new screen, select the blue Explore tab to navigate.
As a Shelfari member, you can:
- Build virtual bookshelves of books you have read or want to read
- Discover books that are popular in your trusted circles of friends
- Influence peers by rating and discussing books online
- Discover and learn from people with similar reading tastes
- Participate in online book groups to further explore literature and share ideas
- Interact with and learn from authors
FlowGram permits users to create guided interactive presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint, and other documents. narrated by recording the author's voice. The presentation is interactive because users can actually click into the links on a web page or view a video on a web page included in the guided presentation.
Teachers could create a lesson using collected web pages, text documents, and photos, and then record a narrative explaining the presentation for students. The Flowgram can be shared via a link or could be embedded in a blog or web page.
Students could create a project using resources collected over the course of a unit of study and share their Flowgram with the class.
Click on the Flowgram icon above, and in the new screen, click on the FlowGram video to learn more. Then, to view an actual FlowGram, click on the green button labeled See Flowgram in Action.
Weebly is a website-building tool which permits the user to create a web page which is hosted by Weebly. Simple to use, it requires no knowledge of HTML code.
Users can choose from a variety of templates, and embed videos, pictures, and maps with a simple click and drag tool. It's easy to add new pages to your website because Weebly automatically creates the link for you.
Create a practice page or click on the Weebly icon above to create an account. Then you can begin building a website for your classroom!
BeFunky is a free online tool which permits users to upload a photo from their desktop or online photo storage location such as Flickr or Facebook, add special photo effects available at Befunky, and then save the photo and/or share it with others. BeFunky helps users enhance the look and feel of their blogs, personal websites and profiles on social networking sites. It includes a special tool for creating an avatar.
The BeFunky PhotoEffects allow users to easily create photographically rich and artistic results without any technical knowledge. Just click on an effect and then view the results.
Click on the BeFunky icon above, and in the new screen, view the various Photo Effects as they loop automatically in the center of the screen.
