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Great full screen online stop watch.  Great for classroom management.

Also has fun options like a ticking time bomb (the kids love this one!) and what I like to call the "sands of time" timer.

You might have heard me mention Google Forms at a Technology Shoot Out but did you know Google Docs does templates, too? Check out this link with some pretty sweet pre-made Google Forms you can use to gather information in a meaningful way.

Download audiobooks (many popular in the classroom) or listen to the audiobook online. Great for students who need to AT for reading or for students who prefer to have books read aloud.

Students create their own clay avatar. They can name themselves, create a script - great for a formative assessment to see if they know the parts of speech. Lots of uses here.

Holy Cow! How did I not know about backpack.tv???? It has great videos for education with embed codes and probably isn't blocked by our filter! Check it out!

Create visual timelines - great for a get-to-know-you activity at the beginning of the year.

Great site to teach civics.  There are video games and lots of learning activities. You will love it.

This is a great site to set up so students can create flash cards to study for your class.  (Bonus- they can access this on their Ipad or Iphone to study on the go too!)

Create, share, edit using Google Docs. Great uses for the classroom including collaborative writing, presentation & spreadsheet creation. This presentation by Tom Barrett (http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/2613) from Clif's Notes (a great ed. tech blog from Clif Mimms) shares ways you can use Google Docs to collaborate and create online.

Great site for ideas for technology integration. Tammy offers a Technology Tip of the Week & access to her training handouts.

Create a fun, interactive, fictional profile for school education. Check out Fakebook. Great literacy activity for students in intermediate grades.

I LOVE THIS!!! Just checked it out... very cool. I'm thinking Fakebook profiles of Presidents??? Hmmmm....

Great way to create background music for presentations

Narrow search results to include reading level, language and/or file type. Great idea for a synthesis activity: Have students find a PowerPoint presentation on a topic they are studying. Then, have them modify that PPT and have them give a rationale for their modifications.

Create free online surveys. I have used Survey Monkey with the English department @VBHS to get feedback about the summer reading requirements. Results allowed the department to make decisions about what assignments and books would be part of this requirement. The district has also used Survey Monkey to research professional development opportunities you'd like to see offered. Survey Monkey can also be used with students to get an idea of what they know and/or what choices they might like to have in an assignment. Results are presented graphically which is a great use for a Statistics class or to use when teaching percentages.

I know Concetta Hall (8th Grade History Teacher at SGMS) uses Survey Monkey each month for our "Citizens of the Month." This makes it super easy for her to compile the results and determine the winner.

I used SurveyMonkey to get feedback about our sustained silent reading program from the entire upper school student body at St. Ed's. It really helped us understand the effect (or lack thereof) that the program was having on students' reading habits. We emailed the survey link to the students, and they completed it during homeroom at the prompting of their teacher. Very easy to set up and, I agree, extremely easy to compile the results!

Create "word clouds" from text you paste into a textbox. Words that are used most frequently appear more prominently than others. Great analysis tool for speeches, compare/contrast. I have used Wordle as a tool when creating class rules. I pasted student rule ideas into Wordle and together the classes viewed the word cloud to come up with rules using the words that were the largest.

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Classroom 2.0 has some great ideas for using Animoto in the classroom - http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/hello-animoto.

Check out http://www.edugatorvogel.com/englishiv20112012.htm to see examples of student produced Animotos.