Group items tagged

This list of great web tools is automatically updated. Whenever I find something new and useful it gets added here. Bookmark it if you like.

Great resource for sound effects, sound clips for multimedia projects.

"TokBox is the simplest way for you to video chat with your friends, family and colleagues. Here at TokBox we're all great believers in the power of face-to-face communication. That's why we created TokBox, the simplest way to video chat with one person or twenty. It's easy to get started. There's no download, so all you need to get started is an internet connection and a webcam. TokBox works with a Mac or a PC and in any browser. Simply go to www.tokbox.com, sign up in seconds and then get video chatting. Our demo will tell you more. Chat with up to 20 people at once. It's easy to invite people to video chat, whether it's one person or twenty. Every call has a unique URL which you can send out via email, Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. You can also invite your other friends who have signed up to TokBox, directly from your contact list."

Person that is great resource for ed tech

I decided to avoid the obligatory "What-I-Learned-at-NECC" post, primarily because I did learn so much, and one post would not do justice. Instead, I would like to share my thoughts on a conversation I had with a colleague I met via twitter. He asked me: "With all of these Web 2.0 tools, and everything else out there, what does a teacher absolutely need to be "wired." Great question. So I decided to put together a list of absolute essentials for today's teachers.

Great for any meeting

FreshBrain is a great resource for use in your classrooms. It is progressive, allows for teams of students to work together, and is completely flexible in terms of what you have them do. And best of all it is both FREE and safe!

Click on each day. All pages have great resources.

Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world. NCES constantly uses graphs and charts in our publications and on the web. Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Graphs or charts can help impress people by getting your point across quickly and visually.

Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know!), and it is COMPLETELY FREE! If you've ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you'll feel right at home and will appreciate the extra features that Stykz has to offer! And even if you haven't used Pivot, you'll find Stykz to be a powerful, easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently. Take a look at the "Intro to Stykz" video to get a feel for the program and how it works...

Great overview of Twitter and how it can be helpful to educators.

If you use the Notebook software and a SMART Board you have to check this out! This is awesome! Tables, introduced in Notebook 10, have proven to be a great tool for teachers to create simple activities.  Recently TeqSmart discovered a new way to  use

Use these slates to interact wirelessly with a smartboard. Great potential for a classroom. Have multiple smartboards with students working on slates and the teacher can see all the work in one glance. Cool.

# Amberjack enables webmasters to create cool site tours, without the need to take screenshots or record screencasts. # Amberjack improves the usability of your website through easy, great looking and helpful tours. # Amberjack installs with no hassle. The comfortable Tour Wizard gives you HTML code to paste in your site. # Amberjack is a lightweight (~4K), stable, LGPLed & browser compatible JavaScript library.

This is my new project : A New Type Board . I named this software "typedrawing". I feel a great interest in application or software to communicate and represent one's mind and thougth through internet. Board(bbs) is very easy and useful thing for communicating. and board is evolving day by day such as blog. but why we have to type words in the same way such as typing from left to right. that is typical and easy to recognize but not interesting, sometimes boring. This is one of the easy and exquisite way of showing one's word. You can say anything with your letters by drawing them. Feel free to represent your types and words to say. It's just a easy and funny thing. I'm looking for your beautiful typedrawing and take a look around other's work.

The National Zoo is home to 2,000 individual animals of nearly 400 different species. Our best known residents are our giant pandas, but great apes, big cats, Asian elephants, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, aquatic animals, small mammals, and many others can be found at the Zoo.

Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos. Just think: hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth. Finally, imagine them all deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught. WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is trying to do this.

This is a great photo mosaic tool and it is free. Very easy to use! Great for an end of the year class project.

Adobe® ConnectNow, one of the Acrobat.com services, is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work with others - all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that's easy to access and simple to use. Built on the Adobe Flash® Platform, ConnectNow operates inside a web browser. There's no installation required, so getting started is easy - and free.

"Looking for some great free educational widgets and tools for your site or social media pages such as Facebook or MySpace? Select a widget from the following list that works for you and add it to your page in minutes."