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This is the new way to facilitate and help teachers create common assessments.  Everyone has access at all times, and the products can be altered from home or the classroom.. actually anywhere.  :)

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!!!

Very fun way to turn a lesson into a DIGITAL POSTER. Student Side- Have them posterize an important events, a book, a main character...etc. Teacher side- Use it for a lesson that incorporates different videos, graphics, and ideas for organizational purposes.

Technology Glog... help us go through some rather interesting videos.

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!

Feel free to share more fake websites that can be used to teach website validity

A few more sites for students to explore in order to determine website validity: http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/h200/index.html http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm http://www.thedogisland.com/ http://www.fvza.org/

Cool Stuff!

You can have parents "sign up" to recieve e-mail notifications whenever you update it. I use it for nightly homework assignments. You can also add links to sites and docs

Great way to create background music for presentations

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FREE text message polling & response

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Ideas for interactive and engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. Contributed by teachers from all around the world.

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.

Embrace the backchannel (what's going on in the room while you are presenting). Create a "room" where the audience (your students) can ask questions, make points, get clarification and allow you to tailor what you are presenting to meet their needs.

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.

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.

Confused about the term Cloud Computing? Watch this video from Common Craft to learn more about why Cloud Computing is all the rage.

FREE online video editor (import video, sound, insert transitions, save in multiple formats)

Ideas for using Google Apps in the classroom

Type a topic in the search bar to find FlickR photos related to your search. Create a PhotoSphere to visually represent a topic.