WSD Tech LEARNing

"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."

With Myfakewall.com you can easily create fake profile pages just for fun. This fake facebook wall generator allows you to create a funny profile to entertain your friends. Create it, and share it on Facebook !

Typing tools and games

"Word Dynamo is a superb site from Dictionary.com. Word Dynamo makes learning new words a whole lot of fun." Students can create their own vocabulary lists.

Be sure to check out the real world examples on this site. Great photographs that include explanations related to key vocabulary.

"New words of wisdom are posted to this blog weekly." Tips for SMART Boards and Macs. There is also a link to her web resources listed by subject.

"Evernote gives administrators the tools to capture anything, access it anywhere, and find things easily. " While this blog post features how admin can use Evernote it is a good example of best practice for this free tool.

"One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas."

Make movies onine

"This group is open to all K-12 schools within the states/provinces of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, and Pennsylvania who use or are considering using Google Apps."

lino is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser.

Council Rock School District Elementary Math Resources

YouTube video on teaching with Twitter

Kids Do Ecology Site - Links and resources page

ProProfs is an effective, highly functional, user friendly and convenient way to conduct almost every assessment you can imagine. I highly recommend it as a tool for quizzes and tests. I found it ideal for the classroom, in both on-ground and online learning environments.

60 engaging lessons in math, reading, and writing that infuse pop culture into learning to make prep accessible800+ challenging practice exam questions that simulate the SAT and provide full explanations...and unique features like a score projector to show you how you are predicted to score on the real exam.You can beat the SAT. You can go to college

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun.

great web 2.0 resource site with tools listed by category

This audio archive focuses on Creative Commons music. A quote "This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want."

Soundsnap is great for short, easily searchable clips. A quote from the website "Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD's."