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Create a page to store all your research. Adds shortcuts to websites. You can also annote them or color code them based on the type of information contained on each site. You can also drag and drop to place them in any order you wish.

Create a page to store all your research. Adds shortcuts to websites. You can also annote them or color code them based on the type of information contained on each site. You can also drag and drop to place them in any order you wish.

Very specific tips for classroom

A simple image editor. Just upload your image and press one button to add an effect. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

A wonderful introduction to using animation tools in the classroom and how you can add an extra spark to your lessons.

A wonderful introduction to using animation tools in the classroom and how you can add an extra spark to your lessons.

This is my latest blog post about why educators should try using the Google Drive Add-On MailChimp.

Need to add captions to a video? here is how you can do it.

Asa Spencer of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute writes in the Education Gadfly Weekly: "Traditionalists cringe, tech buffs rejoice: This latest NAEP writing assessment for grades eight and twelve marks the first computer-based appraisal (by the "nation's report card") of student proficiency in this subject. It evaluates students' writing skills (what NAEP calls both academic and workplace writing) based on three criteria: idea development, organization, and language facility and conventions. Results were predictably bad: Just twenty-four percent of eighth graders and 27 percent of twelfth graders scored proficient or above. Boys performed particularly poorly; half as many eighth-grade males reached proficiency as their female counterparts. The use of computers adds a level of complexity to these analyses: The software allows those being tested to use a thesaurus (which 29 percent of eighth graders exploited), text-to-speech software (71 percent of eighth graders used), spell check (three-quarters of twelfth graders), and kindred functions. It is unclear whether use of these crutches affected a student's "language facility" scores, though it sure seems likely. While this new mechanism for assessing kids' writing prowess makes it impossible to track trend data, one can make (disheartening) comparisons across subjects. About a third of eighth graders hit the NAEP proficiency benchmark in the latest science, math, and reading assessments, compared to a quarter for writing. So where to go from here? The report also notes that twelfth-grade students who write four to five pages a week score ten points higher than those who write just one page a week. Encouraging students to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a start."

A nice presentation creator where you add images and text to the sections and the site makes stylish slides for you. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

"The iPad is not magic, and as many educators have found integrating them meaningfully is by no means a just-add-water proposition. The same applies to Project-Based Learning."

Comic builder

Comic builder to draw comics, caption photos  and take webcam pics and add speech balloons.

Cathy Davidson discusses the need for a fourth "R" -pertaining to "algoRithim" - It is important, she argues, because, "in the 21st century, we need [an]...expanded push towards the literacy that defines our era, computational literacy.   Algorithms are as basic to the way the 21st century digital age works as reading, writing, and arithmetic were to the late 18th century Industrial era." 

"The classic "3 R's" of learning are, of course, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic.  For the 21st century, we need to add a fourth R--and it will help inspire the other three:  Algorithm. "

The rich media presentation tool Tell your story anyway you like. Add photos, music, video, and audio, and share it publicly or privately in an instant. 13 yrs or older to have an acount

Have students to create visual works of art online. Silk is an interactive site where students can drag their mouse around on the page to create beautiful weaving & whirling designs. Drawing lines on the screen will add color to the moving art, & by speeding up or slowing down their movements the effect will change. Students can choose between 6 different colors, & 3 different modes of symmetry. Students can share their creation with a simple link. Have students describe their unique artwork as a description & creative writing exercise. Also available as an app for the iPad.

requires research of different eras NOTE: 1920s & 1960s links work but can add new ones--can tie into 1930s & 1950s from earlier research project

Make your videos interactive.  It is like ThingLink for video

Gives you the ability to add tags and questions to existing videos.

Good information for those looking to add iPads.

Nonetheless, I wonder when we will stop seeing "technology" as an "add on" to sound teaching pedagogy.

Image Dictionary is a Chrome extension that enables users to right-click on a word and quickly find an image that is representative of that word.