"A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century."
PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
A literacy web tool for k5. An elementary parent recommended this to Stony Pt staff. 25 bucks for her home membership and she likes better than other ereading tools.
"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself. "
Keep track of the noise level in your classroom using the calmCounter "Calmness Counter." This colorful tool is simple to set up and use. Uses the built-in microphone on your laptop or connect an external mic and watch the calm counter respond to the noise level in your classroom. This is a concrete way to quantify noise level needed for goal setting and behavior (sound) management. Even the young can understand this tool's "thermometer."
"Organize your ideas, thoughts and documents. Share and find with ease.
Save anything and everything that's important to you. Be it the contents of a webpage, an email, scanned copy of a business card or an important pdf file, anything. Take rich notes to save your crazy wild idea or a snippet of your latest code.
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