Cool Tools for Educators!

This link was provided by fsinfo on Plurk. It is a web2.0 web tool that permits you to manipulate images.

Free software for collecting multimedia resources and links, I am using this to build a new Earth science 11 program. Freepath lends itself so well to enabling my students (who work individually) to engage in the joy of self-directed discovery within the parameters of a structured learning package because they will be able to maneuver around my collection of multimedia materials, worksheets, readings, and links non-sequentially -- following their interests and going where their curiosity takes them, but will still have to come back to the framework and fulfill the expectations of the unit.

The companion site to the Freepath software --here you can store and share your multimedia files. You can set up groups colleagues or students who can access your files (aka: playlists) online, and then download and use them.

My first blog --> introduces meshows tools I like & questions I am grappling with "When I first started teaching and used to imagine how I'd end up, I thought perhaps I'd be helping student teachers learn how to work in the classroom. Now I think that goal may be within reach, but with a different twist, because I'm getting enormous pleasure from helping colleagues -- many near dinosaurs like I almost was -- renew, refresh and re-energize their work -- by letting web-based tools and resources breathe new life into our work.

Welcome to my web page. Here you'll find links to some tools and resources my teaching partner and I have used to begin to move from 'text, paper and word processor' towards a more blended learning environment.

PixelPipe link was provided by RipTide on Twitter. This site will permit you to upload pics to it and have them distributed out to multiple multiple sites.

Here is a free online product that uses your web browser as a teleprompter.

Upload photos and add speech callouts to them.

This free online text to audio converter was shared on Plurk.

Free online scientific calculator.

Free avatar generator.

Animated illustration of the US as it grew from the original 13 colonies to the year 2000.