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Great for having students creatively use language that has recently been taught and practiced, by creating dialogues among famous characters. A special touch: the characters actually speak the dialogues in the speech bubbles!!!

"Lijit provides an impressive search network creation dashboard where you can define and manage your trusted social networks connections. Basically you are creating your own search engine that searches your blog, bookmarks, photos, blog roll, and more..."

create your own printable word find worksheet

This is a great strategy that integrates reading and writing in a non-traditional way. It asks that students take what they have read and create a new product that illustrates their depth of understanding; it may be used with fiction or nonfiction texts.

Very interesting and apparently easy way to vary the way we present dictation in class. As I'm totally green, I still need more time to brose and learn and see how I can use it in the classroom.

Very interesting and apparently easy way to vary the way we present dictation in class

The Best Way to Create Online Tests - SMILE and CLEAR are both from Michigan State University, and allow teachers (and students) to easily create clozes, drag-and-drop exercises, and sequencing activities. They also allow you to use audio and video with the activities. This is an excellent site for making a variety of ESL/EFL-related assessments.

Digital Storytelling Cookbook gives specific details on how to create digital stories.

Learners can summarise lessons/thoughts using this strip generator

Creating a podcast allows students to share learning experiences. It provides them with a world-wide audience that makes learning meaningful and assessment authentic. Teachers can use the technology to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that suits them. The flexibility that such time-shifting offers makes podcasting a valuable educational tool.

>SplashURL.net This form will create a short version of the given URL and display it big, so people can easily copy it from a projector to their laptop during demos.

Tom Barrett has created some cool presentations for teachers on how to use various tools and resources in the classroom.

Open source way to creater screencasts

"A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization, lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively, and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content."

I created a number of tasks for teachers which I hope will help develop their ability to use technology and to evaluate and create materials using web based tools. I've decide now to share those tasks so anyone who wants to use them to train other teachers or to develop their own skills can take advantage of and make good use of them.

SpeakingImage is an application for creating interactive images and share them with others.

Find flashcards or create your own

"Every year Jane Hart (can't wait to meet her LIVE at the schoolnetsa11 conference) asks us to create our list of top 10 tools and every year it is the most difficult task that I have to do. As an educational technologist I use many tools on a daily basis as well as try out new tools to see how we can use it for teaching and learning. So choosing just 10 tools remains a challenge for me!"

4TheKingdomApps is a father and son team who have developed a couple of apps for learning. Kevin Scritchfield is a veteran high school math teacher and his son Tad is a high school student. They have each created a game style app to help students improve memory and practice skills.