Digital Tools |
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| Digital media may be used in the classroom in a variety of ways. Digital images can be used in a PowerPoint presentation, inserted in to Word, Excel, and even SMART Notebook. Digital video can also be used in a PowerPoint or Movie Maker presentation. Student-produced video can empower students with the tools, skills and confidence to take creative control of their research and presentation projects. | ||||
Blogs |
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| Blogger | Blogger Tutorial |
| Blogger | Create and manage blogs powered by Google (blogging tool) |
| Bloglines | Read Blogs and news in one location |
| Google Reader | Read Blogs and News in one location |
| Technorati | Blog search engine |
Example Blogs |
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| 2010 Edu Blog Awards | Award winning Blogs 2010 |
| Corey's Book Talk | Book reviews and discussion |
| John Woodring - teacherbytes blog | Instructional blog for teachers |
| One Trick Pony | Mr. Brigg's first grade Blog |
| Scholastic | Top 20 Teacher Blogs |
| Top 100 Classroom Blogs | List of outstanding classroom blogs |
| My Favorite Online Discoveries | Share classroom links |
| Mr V's Crusade | Discussion of historical topics |
Collaboration Online |
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eBoard |
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| WTPS eBoard | Local eBoard help site |
| eBoard Web Tools | eBoard's Help website |
| eBoard.com | eBoard help and tutorials |
Moodle |
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| Moodle.wtps.org | Teacher/student collaboration and interaction site (requires login) |
| Moodle.org | Description and tutorial |
| Moodle Commons | A place to share Moodle courses |
| Moodle tutorials | Video tutorials to watch, upload, share |
| NJIT Moodle tutorials | Tutorials created by Instructional Technology and Media Services. |
SharePoint |
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| SharePoint Inside the District | SharePoint access | SharePoint Outside the District | SharePoint access (requires login) |
| SharePoint Services | Tour Windows SharePoint Services |
| SharePoint Getting Started | Take a tour of your SharePoint site |
| SharePoint Upload Lesson Plans | .avi video tutorial to upload lesson plans to SharePoint |
Miscellaneous |
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| Scribblar | Create and edit text based documents online |
| Type with Me | Online document collaboration |
Digital Storytelling |
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| Digitales | Tips and tricks for creating a digital story |
| Digital Storytelling in the Classroom | Learn about digital storytelling and download an e-book |
| Digital Storytelling Resources | Collection of resources by Meg Ormiston to help educators create powerful digital stories; Curriculum integration |
| Drawing Together | Make a storyboard and animate your drawing |
| Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling | Instructions, suggestions, resources, ideas |
| Evolver | Create an online animation |
| Kitzu | Digital story kits for the classroom |
| Kerpoof | Creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation |
| Making Movie Storyboards | Procedure for making a movie storyboard |
| Myths and Legends | Create animations of myths and legends |
| Read, Write Think Student Tools | Many interactive tools which may be used with storyboarding |
| School History | Create, print off and play historical storyboard |
| Story Jumper | Create and discover online stories |
| Zimmer Twins | Register and make a movie |
Digital Video |
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| Digital Video in Education | Video production in the classroom |
Video lesson ideas in PDF format; Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view the file |
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| Kids Vid | Instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in the classroom |
| Multimedia Seeds | Everything you need to know about editing a video |
| Tube Chop | Easily chop funny or interesting section from You Tube |
Digital Video Convertor |
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| Safe Share | Remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube video, and crop the video before sharing it with others |
| KickYT | Convert Video files You-Tube |
| View Pure | Remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube video, and crop the video before sharing it with others |
| Zamzar | Convert Video files like YouTube |
Digital Video Search |
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| History Channel | Collection of history videos |
| PBS | Search PBS programs from A to Z |
| Teacher TV | Teacher videos sorted by key stage, subject or role |
| Teacher Tube | video sharing of ideas relevant to educators |
| You Tube | Online video collection |
Kids Video Search |
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| Kideos | Kid friendly video search |
| One Minute Wonders | 2 Minute videos on a variety of topics for kids, quizzes etc. |
Google Earth |
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| Atomic Learning | Tutorials Google Earth 5 (two free) |
| 10 US History Tours | US History Google Earth Tours |
| 26 Ways | 26 Interesting ways to use Google Earth in the Classroom |
| Google Earth | Download Google Earth |
| Google Earth Gallery | Gallery of Google Earth Tours |
| Google Earth Tour Tips | Handouts and tips for using Google Earth |
| Google Earth Tutorials | Google video tutorials |
| Google Earth Lessons | Google Earth lessons |
| Google Lit Trips | Google Literature Trips |
Online Polls |
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| Poll Daddy | Polling and survey widgets |
| Poll Junkie | Multiple questions and answers no registration required |
| Survey Monkey | Online surveys registration required |
| Vizu | Add images to your questions registration required |
Movie Maker |
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| Georgia Movie Academy for Movie Maker | Tutorials, information and production tools to use with Microsoft Movie Maker |
| Information Technology Lab School | Windows Movie Maker 2 Tutorial |
| Movie Maker Tutorial | Tutorials on Movie Maker |
| Windows Live Movie Maker(for Vista or Windows 7) | A few tutorials on Windows Live Movie Maker |
Photo Story 3 |
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| Jacksonville | Printable, step by step Photo Story tutorial |
| Microsoft Photo Story 3 Tutorial | Wow your teacher with stunning school reports using Photo Story 3 |
| Photo Story 3 | Online Photo Story and Movie Maker tutorial |
Web Based Shows |
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| Animoto | Create and Share 30 second video |
| Flixtime | Create and Share 60 second video |
| Museum Box | Build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box |
| One True Media | Create slide shows with video and photos |
| Prezi | Create astonishing presentations live on the web |
| Slide Share | Upload and share PowerPoint's |
| Voice Thread | Online media album, make and share comments |
Web 2.0 Tools |
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| Author Stream | Share PowerPoint anywhere (registration required) |
| Blabberize | upload a picture of a person or animal and easily record a message that the picture speaks (registration required) |
| ClassTools.net | "create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash" |
| Community Walk | Create a map with photos, videos and comments |
| Convert a document to .pdf | Instantly convert many of the file formats that are used daily to PDF. |
| Delicious.com | Search the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe... |
| Digital Vault | Use National Archives resources to create movies, posters, and what it calls “Pathway Challenges" |
| Dumpr | Create special effect wit photos, puzzles, Rubik's cube etc. |
| ESL Video | Take any video off-the-net and create a quiz to go with it |
| Glogster | A collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom |
| GoAnimate | Allows users to create animations quickly and easily |
| Jog the Web | Create an online web tour |
| Lino it | Online stickie notes |
| Media Converter | Free site for converting media files |
| Mixbook | Create a photo book online |
| Quiz Star | A free quiz-making tool to create, manage, disseminate, and automaitcally grade online quizzes |
| Rubistar | An interactive online rubric generator to help teachers create quality rubrics |
| Send it Home | Send your project home to your personal e-mail address |
| Screen Cast-O-Matic | The original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser |
| Taxedo | Word Clouds |
| TimeGlider | Timeline maker |
| TimeToast | Timeline maker |
| Type with Me | Create a collaborative document with up to 17 users |
| ViewPure | Gives educators the ability to show YouTube videos without advertising. |
| Voice Thread | Create online conversations through Voice Thread; Links to the education version |
| Voki | Text to speech generator |
| Wallwisher | Online notice board maker |
| Web 2.0 Tools for Schools | Many web 2.0 tools for education, categorized by use |
| Weblist | A tool that aggregates different resources under one URL |
| Wordle | Word Clouds |