Fantastic Tools for Schools

Fantastic Tools for Schools 50+ ways to rock! Vicki Davis, Teacher

www.wiffiti.com

• http://wiffiti.com/screens/83428 http://wiffiti.com/screens/83428c

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/noocneohefmdhonidldnlhaainpiomkp

www.evernote.com

Google apps for domains (free)http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/

Cell phone friendly email (gmail) • Groups with distribution lists of parents. (i.e. I send to Computer Fundamentals and it sends to all the parents) • Automatic distribution lists – Classes – teachers

Google Docs • Shared folders • Color codes

Collaborative editing in Docs• How we edit Kindle Kids corner

http://kids.kindlenationdaily.com/

http://gadd.lib.overdrive.com/171866E5-F8A1-41B0- B638-2CC566B998B3/10/512/en/Libraries.htm Check out ebooks Kindle Audiobooks With your library card Online!

Class rules http://docs.google.com

Google Forms – A school survey

Goes into Spreadsheet

Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into Wordle! Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.

www.wordle.net

What Westwood Students own

Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech http://en.wikisource.org

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Google Calendar

Picasa web album, Google Calendar

Wikis!http://westwood.wikispaces.com

www.edmodo.comFree, blogging, assignments

Give assignments and receive responses

Assignments

www.smugmug.comMonetize the photos your annual staff is taking. I hereby authorize the School to use photographs, videos, writings, artwork, and audio recordings of my child in school media and advertisements. I understand that I must notify the Ravenscroft Communications Office, in writing, to change this authorization. Ravenscroft School

Sharing the message • Automate Automate Automate!

Setting up to have an easy social media distribution planCreate a blog on blogger.com Use feedburner to create a feed Feedburner email (lets people sign up with a form) Take the feed into Twitterfeed Twitterfeed posts to Twitter

Now one post can!Blog Post Email to subscribers Tweet from the post Facebook fan page update

Make it easier• Go into blogger settings  Mobile and Email• Make an email – now your secretary or principal can update using email.

www.hootsuite.comSchedule updates like lunch menus.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org

www.classtools.net

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/p age

Diigo www.diigo.comBookmarking groups; Auto blog posts

www.igoogle.comBuilding your PLN and tracking projects

Netvibes.com or Pageflakes.comFor building Classroom Monitoring Portals (CMP)

Brainstorming tool bubbl.us/Source: http://www.web2teachingtools.com/bubbl_us.html

Voicethread www.voicethread.com• See these in action on the Eracism Project• http://eracism.flatclassroomproject.org/Semi+ Finals+VoiceThreads

Dropbox www.dropbox.com My key to paperless

www.droptito.me

http://www.dipity.com/

Glitch: Only 3 from one IP address can sign up here in a day.Unless you get the free email service from https://skydrive.live.com

http://www.microsoft.com/education/ en-us/solutions/Pages/liveedu.aspx• Live@edu: Microsoft’s free email, site alternative.

Stellariumhttp://www.stellarium.org

Microsoft Worldwide Telescopehttp://www.worldwidetelescope.org

Build your own planetariumhttp://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ExperienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?Page=Dome

Free interactive whiteboard resources http://www.iboard.co.uk

Free painting softwarehttp://www.getpaint.net/

Livebindershttp://livebinders.com/play/present?id=164223

Spelling Citywww.spellingcity.com

www.funbrain.com

Google nGram Viewerhttp://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

Wolfram Alphahttp://www.wolframalpha.com

Audacityhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net

www.iear.org

http://www.epals.com/

www.iearn.org

http://flatclassrooms.ning.com

Skypewww.skype.com

Diigo www.diigo.com• http://www.diigo.com/list/coolcatteacher/fan tastic-classroom-tools• QR Code Generator• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

Vicki Davis@coolcatteacher http://tinyurl.com/cct-differentiate www.flatclassroombook.com

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