This tool is great to help students with their creative writing. The site provides visually stunning images with a bank of words for writing a poem, descriptive paragraph, or caption. Lists of words are categorized by verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and with an additional universal list. The work is public, supports vocabulary building, and helps with word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Wordle is a tool for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
I used this site and it's online study tool that I paid for to study for my ACT that I took last weekend. I would recommend this study tool for anyone- it includes two practice tests and allows you to review your scores and see what you did wrong with the explanation provided. Hopefully this study tool pays off through my score on my ACT.
This site remind you of regular household items you can use, as well as tools that you should buy to have in your home to use and keep your mouth clean.
I plan on using this site for purchasing some equipment such as a small torch and some metal/ gems. I also find this site useful because it contains many tutorial videos that I have used to learn new techniques and find ideas for projects.
This site is very useful when using Photoshop. It has many great tutorials that show you how to use basic tools, and do really neat affects to your images in Photoshop.
This website has a lot of information on how to go about designing sets and props. It also has information about working with other production team members. This includes information on how to draw floor plans to show your fellow production team members exactly what you are thinking the set should look like. The article gives a list of suggested pieces to add to a set that make your set successful and good quality. A list of designing tools are also written on the bottom of the page.
This is a handy tool for classroom use that guides students through the process of organizing information in timeline form and results in a polished finished product. To add events to a timeline simply click on the "add an event" button and a simple event box pops up in which you can enter enter text, place a link, or add a picture.
Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can add to your blog or website. You can create historical timelines of important events, or build a timeline of your vacation.
This site allows you to look at reviews of colleges written by alumnis or attending students. This gives you a different perspective of that college. It also allows you to know things that college tours simply don't tell you. They also have scholarship opportunities that you can apply for. On top of that, you can see rankings of schools and research further into each school you are interested in. I have found this website very helpful in my college search, and I have even applied to a few scholarships on this site.
This website includes college reviews written by current students. College Prowler is a student community where you can ask questions, share tips, and discuss campus life at more than 7,000 colleges and universities.
College Prowler is a site that rates colleges and universities so that people who are going through the college process can navigate towards a better school. If you can't decide between two schools and you don't have the time to visit again, you can use this site to help make your decision!
College Prowler is the website to use! Its a quick, easy, and free sign up process to gain access to all the website has to offer. Once you have an account, you can search any college you want and it will bring you to an information page. The college pages consist of student reviews, which in my opinion, are the most reliable source! You can look through individual tabs such as summary, about the school, about the students, about the campus and about the location. Under each of these tabs are an abundance of information and reviews that help you fully understand the college. The best tool on College Prowler is the Applicant Status. With this tool you can plug in your GPA and SAT/ACT scores, and it will place you among statistics showing people admitted, denied, wait listed, and attending. It is a great way to see where you stand in terms of college admittance!
Many people have heard about and used the College Board website to help with college prep. However, I thought I would share this one tidbit of a tool that is within College Board called "Compare Colleges." This is a tool that you plug in any three colleges and it will line their information up next to each other. This information includes; name, location, type (private/public), campus life (how many students, rural/suburban/city, size), admissions (selectivity, requirements, score ranges), and cost and aid. This was a great way to see the colleges I was interested in without having to pull the information from their separate websites.
Free video editing tool, which can be shared with colleauges for collaboration. Naturally, digital citizenship is important and our Acceptable Use Policy must be respected. Wevideo may be used on Chromebooks, iOS or Android devices.
Weebly is an excellent website making tool that allows even more customization than Google sites. I prefer it because it allows me to make a very nice looking webpage to showcase my work very quickly.
Sai is an extended version of microsoft paint designed to include a large number of custom brushes. With a large brush editor, it allows digital artists to easily create their own person workspace.
Manga Studio is a drawing software designed to be used with a drawing tablet. Unlike Photoshop, Manga Studio allows artists to focus more on drawing. It comes with a variety of tools to help even beginners make their drawings more realistic.