Digital Storyteller is a user friendly website that allows anyone to create a digital story. Although you have to join, it is free. There are probably more complex and flashy programs to make digital stories, but this is a great into site that allows anyone to learn to make digital stories.
QuizStar is a user friendly website that allows teachers to easily create web based quizzes and tests. A great feature is that you can time the quizzes, whether that being the amount of time they are able to look at the quizzes, or the days that the quiz is available. For anyone who wants to create online assessment, this site is a must!
The website MyiCourse.com is a user friendly website that allows anyone to create a virtual classroom, whether as a study aid or as an online learning tool. This site allows for anyone to create a site that is user friendly on a virtually accepted platform.
The website dipity is a great classroom tool for teachers. This site can be used by teachers and students to track projects, class assignments, and the school year. This site could also be used to track current events or for a school project of historical events.
I found yodio.com for podcasting. This is a unique site in that you "call in" to record your podcasts and then can go back to add pictures. Not the best for making videos.
iPad applications are very useful and are finding their way into everyday classrooms and life. Teachers and students alike are finding a lot of uses for iPads and their applications. The Notarize application would be very useful in the classroom for the teacher to be able to keep notes. If a student wanted to leave a teacher a note, they could write it on the teacher's iPad instead of having students write on paper that could get lost.
Online collaboration allows students or groups to work together without actually being face-to-face. Online collaboration keeps track of the most current version of a document and still has the previous versions available. This is a very efficient way for groups to work on documents together and keep track of changes and what is happening in a document.
This website appears to be a user friendly tool that would enable teachers (or anyone) to professionally produce diagrams, charts, graphs, and pictures. In my career, this would be a helpful tool for use in the classroom for both student interaction and setting up classroom rules and objectives.
WordPress is a user friendly website that allows even a novice blogger to blog like a champion. There is a very nice tutorial that will teach a user everything they need to know. WordPress allows users to include maps, pictures, videos, posts, discussions, polls, and much more!
