Tech Apps PD Course Participants

"create and share visual ideas online vhemes are visual themes. drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea! Use easelly to create your own infographics!

Use this website to teach good research skills!  Its a completely true website, but refers to DHMO as something very dangerous.  DHMO = water

"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation. Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement."

(still in Beta) but great tool for e-portfolios

Great Pinterest board to follow

iPad app for digital storytelling "A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. Use its simple interface to create your characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create your story's plot. Use the Idea feature to quickly jot down your creative sparks, snap pictures and link them to your story elements. "

Students create an original story using art provided on the site.  The books can be embedded on a blog or webpage.  Stories can be made into a book or PDF. There is a fee for this option.   

Great for flipped classroom

Great infographic on the research process

Free Children's eBooks * for the iPad, nook, and other readers; and even some books for adults too!

SAM Animation is user-friendly software designed specifically for K-12 students and teachers, allowing for quick and easy creation of stop-motion animations in content ranging from photosynthesis to Newton's Laws to poetry to fractions.  SAM was originally developed at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and is now an exclusive product of iCreate to Educate.  Stay tuned for more research developments by the creators of SAM!

A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects.

This is a citation generator for Harvard and APA. It allows you to generate and organize your citation with a single click. It also offers tips about plagiarims and citation, Check it out it is a real treasure for teachers and students too. 

Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for students and  researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to -- because...

This is an automatic filler that lets you organise your resources in such a systematic and scientific way. It lets you enter the information yourself and create a bibliography to be downloaded in one of the four formats ( MLA, APA, Turbian, or Chicago ). It also supports several types of resources such as websites, films, newspapers, books ..etc

This is a great website that will help you not only properly cite your resources but also conduct your researches. It provides material on quoting and paragraphing your research sources, as well as material on how to avoid plagiarism. It also provides help on how to cite resources using four different styles like: APA, MLA, and Chicago Manual of style.

This one here integrates with  Word and OpenOffice and lets you collect, organize, cite and share your resources using different formats such as MLA, APA,Chicago.. and more.One of the cool features of this tool is that it syns your data online enabling you to have access to them from any other computer or mobile device.

EasyBib is a bibliography formatter tool where you can easily compose, format, alphabetize and print out your citation list.

a LiveBinder of all things Google--how to use Google apps, tools, etc.