Big List of Coolness Summer 2011

Big List of Coolness
Summer Edition

Presentation Tools
Slideshare
Upload PPT’s
Link to or embed the slideshow
Mixbook
Combine pictures and text into Flash scrapbooks
Actual book available for purchase
Sliderocket
Create slideshows with Flash animation
Finished product online available to link or embed

Presentation Tools
Glogster
Online posters with animation, links, and images
Manages student user names and passwords
Collects products under teacher login
Prezi
Create a presentation on an endless plane
No square slides, chart your own path
Easy to use menu and animation

Collaborative Tools
Wikispaces
Website that allows multiple authors to contribute information.
Move classwork online and manage it all in one place.
Wordpress
The king of blogs for the teacher.
Integrate writing
Lengthen discussions
Provide extra information
Posterous
Super simple blogging
Blog by emailing to your posterous.

Collaborative Tools
Kidblog
EASY!!!
Create a blog and one for up to 200 students in minutes.
Students can comment to your posts or write their own.
Edmodo
Create a safe, social network experience.
Distribute announcements, assignments, and grade.

Collaborative Tools
Google Apps
All things under one account!!
Incredibly flexible and intelligent calendar
Docs features a word processor, spreadsheet, form and presentation tool
Sites has all the features of a wiki and some of blogging.
Reader aggregates your favorite web information like checking the mailbox.

Collaborative Tools
An entire crop of website using the idea of sticky notes as brainstorming and note-taking tools have appeared.
Wallwisher
Easiest, create a wall in a minute
Brainstorm notes from a number of users
Revisit the link whenever you like.
Stixy
More robust
Easily upload documents, to-do lists
Utilize as agenda for the day

Collaborative Tools
Voicethread
Turns images into embeddable slideshows
Narrate each slide
Comment on others presentations
Great tool for peer review, story retells, any multimedia reports

Video Creation
Video apps are moving online with more functionality. Use these instead of Movie Maker or Photostory 3 in some cases.
Go Animate!
Create animated videos using provided characters
Just enter text to create a templated
Direct a movie of your own by adding characters, directing their actions, and making a video scene by scene.
Animoto
Upload images or video
Choose the soundtrack
Animoto does the rest (with a max of 30 seconds)

Video Creation
Stupeflix
More robust than Jaycut
Added function to assemble webcasts of videos
Flixtime
A balance between Animoto and Stupeflix
Assemble a timeline of content
Flixtime creates the movie
The user can edit the video provided or use as is

Timeline/ Graphic Organizers
A number of timeline websites have been created over the last several years. They integrate video and photo content into beautiful timelines.
Capzles
Elaborate editor
Add blog entries as well
Share via link or make private
Dipity
Adds a social networking element
View the timeline as flipbook or stream

Timeline/ Graphic Organizers
Moving away from a purchased software like Inspiration, we can find any of a number of online graphic organizer tools.
Exploratree
Features completed graphic organizers.
Complete them online or print them.
Spiderscribe
Similar to Inspiration and Stixy.
Allows calendar and document additions
Popplet
Also similar to Inspiration.
Very intuitive.

Research
Teachers.tv
Library of videos with lesson plans
Online Tate
Awesome collection of art activities
Easily integrated with SS and ELA
Google Art Project
Ergo
A guide to the research process
Provides resources as well
Sweet Search
Searches only evaluated sites
Insures validity and safety

Source Material
One of the biggest issues as students research and create products based on their findings, can be finding copyright friendly material. The next few slides are devoted to those resources.
Creative Commons
Clearly identifies how the author wishes their content used
Assembles other websites that collect CC material
Provides CC licenses so that you can participate
Does NOT overrule copyright law

Source Material- Audio
Jamendo
Free Play Music
Publicdomain4u
Soungle
Free Sound Project
CCMixter

Source Material- Photos
Flickr
Catalogs images from thousands of users
Displays the copyright on each
Allows download in multiple sizes
Pics4learning
Small collection uploaded by individuals strictly for educational use.
Sparse results, but without copyright concern
Compfight
Searches Flickr for only CC material
Displays many more results by default

Photo Editing
Aviary
Huge suite of photo editing apps
Image editing, vector editing, all free
Adds new apps frequently
Picnik
Fast editor in a pinch
Recently linked to Google’s Picasa
Doesn’t require a login

Photo Editing
Photoshop.com
2 GB of free photo storage
Photoshop-like online editor
Link and embed a photo without download
Photopeach
Creates slideshows
Integrate questions over the pictures
Collect the answers online

Photo Editing
Picasa
Requires a downloadand Google account
Clean simple photo editor and photo cataloging
Provides free online storage as well
Create slideshows, collages, and even simple videos
Automatically catalogs photos from specific locations
Learns facial tagging

Audio Editing
Audacity
Record narration, reports as MP3
Add sound effects, music
Use on its own, attach to video, or make a podcast
Voki
Create a talking avatar for your website
Interesting way to add a personal touch
Soundation
Make your own music
Upload your effects or use their library of clips

Audio Publishing/ Podcasting
Podcast Machine
Upload up to 1GB of audio files and use up to 1GB of monthly bandwidth for free.
Create an embeddable player for your website.

Research
If It Were My Home
Compare your home with that of people around the world
Qwiki
Easy Bib

Research
Fur.ly
Compile a number of websites into one link
Make researching easier
Assemble sites for a webquest or cyberhunt
Jog the Web
Also collects a number of sites
Includes a side pane with text
Add questions, instructions, additional info.

Social Bookmarking
Delicious
Quick bookmark tool
Suggest websites to others
Collect favorites at your own open URL
Diigo
Advanced tagging
Group bookmarking
Highlight the portion of a page to jog your memory
Annotate your thoughts to review

Social Bookmarking
Livebinders
Create shelves of links to resources.
Make collaborative “binders” to house growing and embedded links.
Symbaloo
Creates a homepage of resources that appear like phone apps.

Survey
Polling sites are yet another genre cropping up everywhere. These allow you to make surveys and tests that leave online and collect results for you.
Polldaddy
Create a survey or poll in minutes
Provide a link OR a widget for a website
Polleverywhere
Create online or text polls
Can display results live to PPT

Audio Resources
Books Should Be Free
Books on MP3
Download entire novels for MP3 players
Modify instruction for low readers easily

Video Resources
Snag Learning
Collection of videos by grade level and subject.
Features newer, documentary content
Learn it in 5
Technology how-to videos for free
Quick, short tutorials on any topic
The Week in Rap
Weekly song on current events
Provides lyrics to study as well
Great global news, quick and easy
Woopid
Promising website opening soon
View brief tutorials one by one or view them in related bundles.

Screencasting/Screencapturing
PicPick
Downloaded software
Take pictures of your screen
Edit the images, annotate them, and save them
Allows user to set hot keys
Screentoaster
Similar to Jing, but in-browser
Video your actions on screen
Jing
Downloaded software
Take picture OR videos of your screen
Save online to embed anywhere
Save on your computer for easy access

Converters
Format Factory
Downloaded software
Converts quicker than Zamzar and allows more file types
Zamzar
Convert most files to the type you need
Download Youtube videos for use at school
Keepvid
Download videos from a URL fast

Online Storage
DropBox
Add a Dropbox folder to your computer or phone
Saves files online, but works like a computer folder
Email documents from your app
Find all of your documents from anywhere
Box
Also stores files and uses an app.
Additional benefit of collaborative boxes to embed on websites

Online Storage
Evernote
Saves everything everywhere
Collects notes, audio, pictures
Utilizes phone apps and browser
Adding a number of patterns so that saved items from other websites are parked in one place

Miscellaneous
VisualCV
Online resume
Add multimedia elements
Provides one nice link to distribute
LinkedIn
Online resume and portfolio
Network with colleagues from any workplace
Join job alike groups

Miscellaneous
Twitter
Collect resources from an endless network
Constant stream and easily updated
Follow companies of interest for news and special offers

Miscellaneous
Togetherville
Vocab Sushi
Thoughtboxes
Wordle
Tagxedo
Head Magnet
Foldermarker
Doodle
Face Your Manga

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