This quiz was developed to get students thinking about their digital footprint. The quiz was created at the request of high school students who thought the creation of such a quiz could lead to a smart conversation about ways students can update their digital footprint so that it is one that leads to college and career success.
Animoto's philosophy is to make it simple and make it beautiful. This tool can be used to make a video. Animoto can also be used byiPhone and Android owners by downloading the free app! Create and share videos using your phone's pictures and video clips, or watch and download the ones you've made on your computer.
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.
It's fantastic for many things: interviews for your website, wonderful ambient sounds, music you've made, even a full-on radio show. You can use it for reporting, storytelling, education, or as an online dictaphone. Audioboo works on ios, android and nokia devices or via the web, and soon blackberry and windows 8.
Slideshare is an amazing repository of both excellent and poor PowerPoint presentations. If you need some inspiration to create engaging slides, this is a great starting point. In addition you may use this site as a resource for information on your project
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.
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.
Fotobabble is a free service that allows you to quickly turn a picture into an audio picture story. To use Fotoabble just upload an image to the site, and allow the site to access your computer's microphone, and start recording your voice. You can comment on your photo, explain what's happening in your photo, or tell a story related to your photo. When you've completed your recording you can save it in your Fotobabble account, contribute to a public gallery and or embed it into your blog. Have students upload images from lab experiments or field trips and then talk about them. Have student define vocabulary words and offer images. Have students describe an image of a painting or some other piece of art.