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Easy to create your own QR codes. Great for K-3 or Special needs to access sites easily - can even be differentiated by color ( eg. green code is for the plant website). Challenging puzzle work for Gifted, MS, or HS to comprehend or create -( eg.make a map and document great websites to explore about cities with a QR code for each location).

History of The Wheel on Dipity. Dipity can be used to create historical timelines for class. I really like the sources feature available at the bottom of the timeline. Keep in mind, this is also an EXTREMELY social medium - it can pull your pics, tweets, blog posts, even your bookmarks together from all over the web and put them in a timeline or flipbook format. I think there is a tremendous amount of potential for that and I am interested to see how its use evolves. In the meantime these features also make it great to grab information on current events and global issues - which is probably the best use of the tool right now.

More information about copyright and the internet. Create, remix, and share - legally. "The infrastructure we provide consists of a set of copyright licenses and tools that create a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work - a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright - which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law."

Lots of fun ways to play with your pictures. Interacts perfectly with Flikr. I love the trading card feature which could be used as a fun icebreaker activity with older students- creating their own trading cards and sharing. The thumbnail links to one I made a few years ago. You could also use it with 4th to 6th for making trading cards for historical persons/places/things as the year progressed - students could use them to study and they still love the idea of - "collect them all." Try some of the tools on your own to make a photomosaic or design your own header for your Wordpress blog.

Gamestar Mechanic features gameplaying leading to gamebuilding. Excellent problem-solving skills required. Accessible to older elementary and middle school students. The AMD challenge takes this interactive work into the realm of global issues, asking players to create games that have social impact. IBMYP teachers may see this as Community and Service. Students are asked to use the elements they have learned to make a game that raises awareness about challenges like "energy, food, pollution, and poverty." BTW, my 5yo loves this: enjoys playing others game and creating his own. He truly gets the collaborative nature of this space.

Easy websites for your classroom or your students!

Students need access to plenty of content that is available for them to use if they are creating - useful for everything from Animoto to websites.

Morguefile.com free stock photos Students need access to plenty of content that is available for them to use if they are creating - useful for everything from Animoto to websites.

Create a presentation that lives in the cloud - accessible anywhere you can hop on the internet. Insert text and photos. Zoom in and out. Play with the path you take through your presentation. The nonlinear presentation style may remind some of sitting in the midst of piles of papers preparing to type a paper. Students in middle school will use this to its best advantage, given some time to be creative. Of course teachers can use this one for their presentations, too. .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool on Prezi

LiveBinders is a free resource that allows you to gather together all of the web-pages you want in one location. You can also include images, videos, and documents (as pdfs) in the binder. Teachers may want to let younger students access the pages they need directly from a binder. Teachers might want to gather all of their websites and resources for a topic in one binder - like all math worksheet sites. Students can put all of the pages in one binder as they are working on a project - to make the information more manageable. Currently, I have students using this for their Technology process folders - they can make tabs for each part of the process, keep all the pages they refer to, and upload any documents they create in googledocs as pdfs. They give me access to see them so i can know how much progress they have made. I actually made a binder with the tabs laid out for them that they copied so we could all start with the same basic plan.

Use stock photos, video, and music or upload your own. Your images are coordinated with music to make a video that is great to insert in everything from websites to presentations. I used one as preview for a play to show all the behind-the-scenes work the students did. Free videos up to 30 seconds - or pay to have full length videos. Students can use Animoto to create their own videos- great for music class - but can be an interesting tool for anything from vocabulary to science. The one below is actually a mock-up I made showing waht a vocabulary exercise might look like.

Choose an artist and create a story with that art. The pictures can inspire you. It is like a visual story starter. Students would have to lay out the pictures in the order they want and supply the test to accompany them. There are special teacher/class accounts to help educators get around the issue of student emails. I feel like this would work best for the Upper Elementary crowd - 4th to 6th - because some of the picture options are a little dark. I also think that the leaps that might be needed to make one page connect to another well would require some more sophisticated thought. Very appropriate for a poetry/rhyming type unit - on the writing end. What I like best about this site is that it shifts the way you look at writing - it presents new possibilities.

A great way to have kids dig a little deeper about historical topics, events, and persons! When you create a box you have spaces for 6 persons or things in one box. You can create multiple layers. When you click on one of those images, it comes to the forefront as one side of a cube - as you click on the different sides of the cube you learn a little more about the significance of the item. So I may see a picture of someone on the original side, but the rest of the cube gives me more information such as an image of a document, the student's own writing, a video, or a weblink. As you explore all of the cubes in the box, you can see the evidence build up. In this way the students can prove what they think happened. The box in the link below shows items relating slavery/abolition. http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/viewer/show/34

Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Easy to collaborate or submit assignments for viewing. Create forms that can be used as surveys to collect information.

This dictionary site features slides created by children in Beijing. A good resource for a Chinese classroom to use, it is also a model of what children can create and share with others.

David Warlick's new InfoGraphic-a-Day is a great way to help kids (and adults) understand how data can be formatted and analyzed. The site's organization with specific subjects and some interdisciplinary themes like Health works well with a 21st century approach. Students also can work on developing skills related to understanding all of the content that is available and creating and sharing their own work. Conveniently, Warlick has included a section just for data sources - although teachers and students could certainly seek out their own. If you like this site, you might like to check out his Blogroll too - I liked the DailyInfographic.com because I thought its Glogster-like posters looked like a great idea for a student project - with models already created. Check out this one about technology and the environment to see! http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/earth-day-internet-infographic.png

With so much data available via the internet, an important skill students must learn is how to make meaning of that information. Many Eyes gives middle school+ students an opportunity to experiment with comparing values, tracking value over time, looking at the relationship between the parts and the whole. Data can also be interpreted as text or with maps. Creates polished looking infographics that would be great visual aids for science experiments or oral presentations. Good resource for teachers and administrators, too!

Lessons and web links for the math teacher. Includes over 100 online activities for K-12 with some overlap. Topics cover a variety of areas - including lots of work with fractions, factors and use of data. I like the paper tool that allows the teacher to create specially designed paper for an assignment.

EduPic Graphical Resource is a teacher designed free image resource for use by teachers and students. All images contained within are free for use by educational professionals and the students they serve without permission. All other use is by permission.