Type a question mark followed by the word you want searched and Quicklyst will automatically add information from Wikipedia and DuckDuckGo. Type a colon followed by the word you want defined and Quicklyst will automatically insert the definition into the notes. Students can click on the + sign next to their notes to add the notes to their Study Queue.
Teachers can create an online community for their students.
"Share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts. Post discussions, deadlines, homework. Instrantly create surveys for students. Keep parents informed of daily projects."
"Not only will twiducate.com give your students the web 2.0 skills they need, but also expand their reading, writing, thoughts and ideas beyond the classroom setting."
The eMINTS National Center is a non-profit, independent business unit of the University of Missouri. eMINTS offers professional development programs created by educators for educators. Leading experts have collaborated to produce programs that
* inspire educators to use instructional strategies powered by technology
* engage students in the excitement of learning
* enrich teaching to dramatically improve student performance
eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be implemented in any subject area at any level.
"This website has a collection of short, simple and fun video clips to correctly define and provide examples of around 800 words in context. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. The students are encouraged to play with words,create their own vocabulary videos and upload their work to the website. Teachers may direct activities and assign word projects to the students. The Study Room allows personalized list creation and sharing. Visitors can also sign up to receive a word of the day in the email."
ImaginationCubed
is a multi user drawing tool.
GroupTweet.
It lets you create your Twitter account into a group communication tool
where everyone in the group uses direct messages
create your forum, mailing list,
share documents,files and your agenda to organize events, have your own
YouTube, share links, bookmarks, photos
emails, text messages,voice mails.
PageFlakes is
a social personalized homepage
WriteBoard is
a-web based text documents
Wiggio
is an online toolkit
Nik Peachey's Wallwisher as a great example.
eep shared calendar,
WeToku is an interview tool that automatically records
share your notes
Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer
PalBee is
a free online service that allows you to set up online video meetings
Phuser
is a tool for groups to discuss or work together and privately
WikiDot is
wiki builder to share content, documents and collaborate with your
students, colleagues, friends
Creately lets you create professional looking online diagrams with your colleagues
DoingText is
a web based text editor for collaborative writing.
SpringNote is
an online notebook for collaboration.
MeBeam is a place where you can create your chat room
Diigo
Need help in organizing your favorite websites? Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows users to save websites, as well as tag them, add sticky notes and annotations, and share them with other users in various groups.
Tip: Sticky notes are an effective way to start a virtual conversation among teams of students on the merits of a website.
Our Story
Create your story! Our Story permits users to develop and save collaborative timelines that can be personalized with annotations, photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be printed in book format, archived on DVD, or even sent as postcards.
Tip: Teach your students to develop content-specific timelines that are linked to the teaching of research and information literacy skills.
Primary Access
Capture your students' imagination with movie narratives based on primary sources. Primary Access is an online tool that allows students and teachers to combine text, visual, and sound elements, which are then combined to convey information about their chosen historical event or time frame. A library of Primary Access movies is available through a catalog by historical time period.
Tip: Encourage active learning: have students choose a historical event or time frame to research and synthesize their information through a Primary Access movie.