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PREZI- Awesome presentation tool.  Kids can use it at home without needing additional software.  

Don't want to learn ANOTHER tool? Have your students become the Prezi experts and teach each other how to use this powerful multimedia presentation tool. Free classroom account is available.

MentorMob Webinar

Different utility tools available through this link.  one is the magic 8 ball.  You enter in the student's names on the spreadsheet and then the "8 Ball" picks students for you at random.

Photobucket is an awesome tool for showcasing the students.  Take pictures, or video.  Then you can easily manage and turn the pictures into slideshows...copy the html.. and post to your class website.  OR- use the slideshow in an email home to the parents... The choices are unlimited!!!

This is the link directly to Ms. Vogel's website.  If you need any help or ideas on how to implement the tools we are showing you, feel free to look and steal away.

Here is a link directly to Ms. Emerson's Class website. If you need any ideas, or how to utilize some of the tools we have shown you, feel free to steal away.

Oh KITTY KITTY!!! Look at what I found! For all of you that are reluctant, this wonderful educator did tutorials for you. In his words, "This site is for teachers and educators of all grade levels and subject areas. It hosts short tutorial videos on many of the best digital tools to use with students. Its also a growing community of ideas submitted by teachers for classroom use."

Complement classroom instruction and encourage students to use online tools with Collaborize Classroom. FREE online discussion tool WITH Teacher Resources including how-tos and Dos and Don'ts of online discussion.

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.

Embed audio onto your classroom website with AudioPal. Uses could include explanation of a project or directions for the night's homework

Create screenshots for tutorials

Note: Jing is being phased out through incorporation into SnagIt. I was a Jing Pro user. So when notified that Jing Pro was being phased out I bought the latest version of SnagIt and it has become my goto screen capture and image capture and image editing tool.

The 20 Features Teachers Should Know about The 21st Century Classroom 21st century teaching skills,inforgraphic Med kharbach We have been talking a lot about the 21st century skills teacher need to have but what about the 21st century classroom ? Do we know how it looks like ?

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!

Another free website creation site that Mrs. Emerson recommends

Thanks Ann. This is the one that the students made that I showed in Session 6 Of the Technology Shoot Out. Here is the link to the student made page http://www.wix.com/rubych/autism

The most valuable tool ever.