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Cool Internet Tools for the Classroom - Part 2

Page history last edited by D. Doctor 15 years, 5 months ago

 

Research/Searching

 

Coolirus

Plugin download for Firefox and download onto your iPod touch.

Search for photos and videos presented in an interesting way.

Viewzi

Search on a specific topic and the first page of those websites are presented in a scrolling format.

   

Kartoo   

An interface mapping metasearch engine

Nibbo

Showing videos, images, blogs, wikipedia and more on one page - you specify the settings

Slideshow

 

Picture Trail

Make your own photo flick slideshow. All sorts of neat effects.

The only part I didn't like was the fact that in order to set up an account, personal information had to be given.  Also under the terms of use, users must be over the age of 13.  This link provides information on the various types of accounts.

Pagecasts

 

Pageflakes

An example at http://teacher.pageflakes.com/ddoc01

Tools for your classroom wiki, website or blog

 

Class Tools

Create interactive flash tools such as an interactive quiz.  Free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites.                                                                      There is no signup and no password required.

 

Click here for full screen version

  

Click here for full screen version

ClustrMaps

Thumbnail hit counter map widget and tracker shows locations of all visitors to your site.  Motivating for students in realizing that others from around the world are visiting their site.

 

 

Google Gadgets

All sorts to add to your website, such as a Google search bar.

Feedjit 

Real-time blog traffic feeds

Video/Video Sharing Sites/Podcasts

 

Animoto for Education

A web application that turns pictures and text into beautiful video clips with the click of a button.  Use it to create content for your lesson plans, assignments, or course materials. Have your students create their own educational pieces.

Schooltube

Provides students and educators a safe, moderated and free media sharing website for teachers and students that is nationally  endorsed by premier education associations. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers.  An online community for sharing instructional teacher videos as well as student created videos.

   
 
 
   

TeacherTube

An online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student created videos.  For a fee, you can create your own private community.

   

Take a look at SCSS's RamTube's channel on YouTube  - 57 student created videos with 35 from Season One.   Create your own school channel.

Whiteboard Collaboration

 

skrbl

No account required to start using this interactive whiteboard right away.

  skrbl now

Twiddla

A meeting "playground" - team whiteboarding.

Markup websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas.

Browse the web with your friends or make a conference call more productive.

 

 

iTunes and iTunesU

Using iTunes, take a look at the available podcasts that are free for downloading.

iTunes U

Mobile learning through Apple

Watch the video here.


Words/WordProcessing/Writing

 

Lexipedia

An online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality

Motivator

Create your own motivational poster

wordnik

Discovering words and everything about them.

Wordle

An online site where users can make their own Word Cloud, by submitting a list of words and then modifying the layouts, fonts and colour schemes.

TagCrowd

Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency.

No account is needed.  You can point to a specific URL, or paste text to be visualized, or upload a plain text file.

 

 

 

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