Memorize.com is a new learning website that allows users to create their own study guides and then share them on the web. The free site assembles user-generated content in three formats -- flash cards, multiple choice, and visual learning diagrams. The topics range from traditional school subjects, such as history, languages, and geography, to less academic categories, such as food, billiards, and television. Users can follow other users and their pages and edit other users' pages to craete their own unique page.
"Tux Paint\n is a free, \naward-winning\n \ndrawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It \ncombines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon \nmascot who guides children as they use the program."
This is a really great site. Users can create book lists of books you have read, want to read or are currently reading. You can connect with friends and family and see what everyone is reading and share your book reviews. It is free.
What a great tool for groups of people to network about what they are reading. One of my grad students shared this with me. She uses it for her gifted students. She is able to see what they have or are reading. She can also see what their goal is and what books are yet to be read from their goal. Free site. Users add their own book reviews.
The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Eductional Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should prossess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discuver what studetns need in order to meet the NETS for Students.
This site is really nice. Many of the things we talked about in the grad class are covered here but the really nice thing about this site is that it take the NETS-T that we used and makes a connection to Marzano's 9 (Classroom Instruction that Works) and 21 things. It is really interesting. On the home page check out the two downloads of 21things and Marzano. On the right if you click on any of those categories, tools that can be used are presented. This is definitely one you will want to save in your own diigo library.
"Anyone can use LeveledLibrary without registering for a free account. However, registered users have access to many features that are not availble to the unregistered users. Most notably, registered users can:
Everyone
Keep an inventories of the books you own and their levels
Specify the leveling system in which you want the book levels displayed.
Print labels for your leveled books in popular label sizes
View book details, such as binding, dewey decimal number, suggested categories, and cover images
Keep books in your shopping cart across multiple computers
All Educators
Search the inventories of colleagues at your school
Vote on book levels for books in the system
Manage Courses and Track Student Lending
Access reports about your classroom library
Administrators
Purchase and unlock reports:
See what books are in your school
Analyze how well a teacher's library matches the students in the class
Track student reading growth over time
See how well your students are picking books on their reading
level"
"TypingWeb
is a free online typing tutor
& keyboarding tutorial for typists of all skill levels. TypingWeb also
offers officially sanctioned typing and 10 Key certification."
"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."
There is a free trial version of the materials in the National Library of virtual manipulatives. Math topics Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis & Probablity are covered. I did not come across anything asking for money so I a not certain there is a cost. There are tons of manipulatives to access from each of the above categories. This site is associated with the Uta State University.
Jott can be used by students to help keep themselves organized. The voice-to-text services enable users to call in reminders to themselves, send e-mails or text messages to group sof people, create posts, create a schedule on a google calendar, listen to their Google calendar, listen to their e-mail, and even listen to podcasts and webpages on the go. http;//dial2do.com will work very much the same as Jott.
Yodio enables students to create and participate in individual or collaborative digital storybooks using a mobile phone. For example: a class of 1st graders on a trip to the zoo creates a collaborative digital sotrybook with Yodio concerning what they learned about the animals on the trip. Each parent chaperone has a group of four or five students, who take turns calling in to the yodio phone number (on the parent chaperone's phone) and recording their observations about an animal, perhaps even capturing the animal's sound. Students also take a picture of their chosen animal with the cell phone. Back at school, the students log in to Yodio and create a digital sotrybook combining their recorded narrations and photos.
The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience: project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!
A fun site for creating animated slide shows that has lots of content to choose from. This site will let users create amazing slide shows and edit and share photos.