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Free tools to detect plagiarism--might want to introduce to students so they see the function. Helpful to teachers as well.

Livescribe (reviewed positively in NY Times 8-19-10) allows the writer to take notes that are translated to computer; can also record and play back. Lots of potential, though a bit pricey (around $200--probably will come down, if we are patient!).

I searching through our old posts and found this one. The pens have come down in price, I bought one last fall ($100). My principal also bought a dozen or so with multiple paper packs (an educator bundle). I am using them in the fourth grade tier 2 intervention group for fluency. The students use them to record their reading, then they can listen to them selves to determine expression, monitor their time, and answer comprehension questions (again listening if they need to). I use them in 6th grade for literature circles. The students initial when they talk, so I can go back and tap their initials and evaluate their questioning/discussion. Some of my teachers use them for running records to share with other teachers and parents too.

It's an iPad program for teachers and students. If a school has a iPad cart, the iPads are distributed to a class of students and then the teacher uses his/her iPad to push PPt's, movies, documents to the students individual iPads. It's very interactive and the teacher can wait for students to respond on their iPads (questions, drawings, quizzes, etc.) before going forward with the lesson. The teacher obtains a roster of students participating and see how each is doing with the lesson tasks.

PhotoCollect allows multiple people to upload pictures to same account--would be useful to share photos from filedtrips, for example. Easy to use.

Glogster is an online FREE interactive poster tool. Ability to add hyperlinked video, insert digital images and voice (mp3)--lots of ways to personalize. Great potential (e.g., introduce self in course, individual book reports, group projects). EASY to use.

I just found this this week!! I love it. I think I might use it for our WWII unit, or disUtopian book reports, or as a culminating activity for my postcards from the past/postcard to the future workshop! So many uses!!

Tools that allow you to add notes (even hyperlinks to other videos) and questions to YouTube videos. Could be very helpful

gClassFolders (google shared public template) looks like it has a lot of potential for English teachers. Student has to 'drag' the dropbox folder to their desktop, but they can put work 'view' and 'edit' in for the teacher as well as final copy. Check it out--click on the video to see a quick, clear demonstration.

Listing of alternatives to PPt. You would need to search for specifics, but most of the recommendations are ones that I think are well done.

If you haven't seen this website, you should! It's a great one to use to encourage students to think about trustworthiness of website.

Good blog on what teachers should be able to to with mobile learning for 21st Century learners. Has sensible links too to social bookmarking, audio and more.

Want to annotate YouTube videos? Here are some great resources.

This was so helpful to me. Explains many of the 2.0 technologies--what they are and how to use them.

NYSRA Members need to know Volume 20 of the Language & Literacy Spectrum is now online. Members type in their username and password to gain access. Great articles pertaining to Digital Literacy that include social bookmarking, bloggin, wikis and more.

Be sure to do your part! Help the drive to donate books to needy children.

I think this website would appeal to kids to foster comprehension strategies--lots of visuals and good clear voice as students (grades 3-8--probably best) self select what they want to do (e.g., visualization).

For those of you looking to build your PLN, this might be helpful and remember, if you want to follow me, it's @kimyaris

Guide to wordle; helpful to teachers, I suspect.

Audacity Tip Sheet for Students--succinct. If your students use Audacity to record sound (for podcasts), this is helpful. Remember Audcity files have to be converted into mp3. Most students struggle with finding LAME, which only has to be clicked on once.Obviously, this is for PCs and not Mac.

Grockit is an online social learning community--good for test preparation for SAT, ACT, GRE etc. Of course, they are trying to get you to purchase theiri online test preparation program. Might be helpful to persons working with secondary learners.

Audio recorder--easy to use--can send digital audio over email, add to website. Free version allows up to 1 minutes of recording, which is fine for most purposes.