PAEC E-Learning Workshops allow educators to have professional development opportunities online. You can view streaming videos for free and collaborate with other teachers!
This site allows teachers, students, or others to create presentations that can include multiple websites, photos, ect. The Flowgram also allows you to narrate throught your project to assist students or give them more information. This would be a great tool for assisting students in research project or a great tool for students to use when giving a presentation.
This is a site that can be used to make your own comic books. At the bottom right hand corner there is a link that if for schools, stating, Learning with Comics. This could be a great way to work with elementary readers to create their own interesting storyboards.
Audacity can be used for many things. One thing that I want to use Audacity for is for my struggling readers and those students that have difficulty retelling what they read. How I will use Audacity is to have students read a passage and then with Audacity retell everything they can remember. After retelling they will listen to themselves on Audacity and highlight everything in their passage. This will also them to reflect on their own skills.
This site provides teachers with suggestions on how to integrate video production into the curriculum. It explores the world of media literacy. This would be a great tool to use with struggling readers needing that extra motivation. After students have completed the task there is even a place where kids can get advice from other kids.
This site is a kid-safe search engine that is powered by google. It combines the google safe search with their own restricted elements. It also allows teachers to remove sites if desired. Great for elementary research projects.
Create surveys for your students to take. Surveys could be adminstered to see students opinions or thoughts. They could also be adminstered as an assessment tool after completing a unit. This tool is free and very easy to use.