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A text-to- speech app.  Announcify reads out loud various kinds of information, like events or whole documents, for you. You don't need to take your phone out of your pocket anymore everytime someone sends you a message.

Combines with google hangouts to create small groups within a larger class session. Ability to start session with a presentation, move participants into groups, and then broadcast a message for everyone to return to the large class session area. Meant for all students to be on their own devices.

 The role of assessment has always played its part but it is a role that is changing in the present global climate and understanding this shift is important for educators.

A good site for creating private Twitter-like networks where colleagues can send messages and attach files. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Clever site for generating messages through different types of signage. 

This is the most comprehensive list of net shorthand terms I've ever seen.

Here are a few of our favorite web tools to engage your students VoiceThread -- Featured in the video above, VoiceThread allows teachers to create a Welcome Board, where students can easily answer questions by typing or speaking a message. Have them introduce themselves on a classroom VoiceThread, and they'll be talking up a storm.

"Maintaining Classroom Discipline (1947). Good and bad methods of disciplining inappropriate classsroom behavior. This was a very well made instructional movie for teachers. While there are new & different problems in the modern schools, the basic ideas of this film still holds. The opening messages are exactly what the best research on classroom behaviour tells us:"

"I believe that every single subject taught in high school is a mistake. What I write here will infuriate teachers, but teachers are not my enemy. It isn't their fault. They are cogs in a system over which they have no control. I believe there are many great teachers, and I believe that teaching and teachers are very important."

Today I got a message from my students (who have a midterm with me tomorrow) that they were implementing one of my tools to help them collaboratively study!

Text your classroom. Broadcast updates to parents and students. Engage any student on any device - during or after school. Ask and answer questions, individually or with groups of students. Incorporate modern technology in your teaching safely and easily. Use ClassPager to instantly message everyone's phone - where you know they'll read it. Let ClassPager protect everyone's phone numbers while you manage everything easily from the web. Use ClassPager to run classroom polls in realtime. Confirm everyone's understanding.

Corkboard Me is a great site for posting messages online with virtual post it notes. Share the link to let others see. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Write a online letter to santa. Fill in the boxes to make the message. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas

Email Dodo is a simple to use Email group messaging service that is easy to set up and well designed.

A useful, simple drawing site with pen, line tool and shapes. It also records all the strokes you make and you can replay this and add a message. Then download the result to your computer. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

Using multiple modes of communication to experience and convey a complex, interactive message.  Information flows smoothly from one media to the next.

This is a superb online recording tool where you can make a 30 second audio recoding at the touch of a button. Just share the short link to share your message. There are apps for mobile devices and a bookmarklet for quick access. It's a wonderful way to give homework/instructions and for students to ask questions when away from class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Examples of fake email messages, used in phishing schemes. From Common Sense media Digital Citizenship curriculum

This is a useful QR code creator that allows you to add a password to your codes. You can use this to protect private information or make the passwords the answer to a question to access a new question to create a chain of questions for a QR code quiz. Encode for a web link, message, contact details or maps. All without needing to sign up! Sign in to get analysis of your codes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools