Using Google Earth, Apps, and Sites, students will create a Google earth tour of images and their locations. Can be modified to create Lit Trips and book mapping too.
Here is a great site that allows you do great things with pictures and words. Using templates, you can create word mosaics, YOu can also make photo frames, use the poetry blender, and create images with the sketch pad. They also have an iPhone app called Framed! that only costs $.99. They seem to have a Android app too.
Make your lessons more dynamic by creating your own flash and smartboard games or other cool activites. All tools are FREE. Tools included: QR code generator, Fake Facebook and Twitter pages,
The Open Clipart Library (OCAL) is the Largest Collaboration Community that creates, shares and remixes clipart. All clipart is released to the public domain and may be used in any project for free and with no restrictions. - Great for both teacher and student use.
My favorite desktop Twitter application. Allows you to group the people you follow to organize the noise. Create lists or use Twitter Lists. Add search columns. You can have multiple Twitter accounts. Also updates Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, GoogleBuzz and Foursquare. Allows schedule a tweet in the future.
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Using Google Calendar and Google Maps, students create a calendar of art images tied to a location and day/month. Make sure students choose yearly in the Calendar drop down so that they show in the current year. can be adapted for other subject areas.
Using Google Presentations. 1st grade students and their older book buddies produce a digital storybook. They also use a free drawing program to create images for their stories. The younger students tell their stories while their book buddies type the text.
"Present.Me combines video, audio and your presentations in an easy and intuitive way, so your audience get to see and hear your message in the way it was intended." No additional software - it's all there in your browser already. and you can instantly share it. The free plan allows you to record up to 15 minutes and create 10 presentations a month.
Manage your ebook library. You can search and download the metadata and cover for books. You can customized the fields in the database. Callibre creates and stores copies of the ebooks in its own directory sturcture so that you don't have to worry about storing them.