This document summarizes various tools that can be used for education, including screen casting software to create video tutorials, blogs and wikis for collaborative writing, social bookmarking to save and share links, and online document sharing platforms like Google Docs. It also mentions tools for creating and sharing presentations, spreadsheets, text/video chat, interactive whiteboards, social networking, photos, and managing school websites.

1. Tools for Education

2. ScreenCasting
Create a digital recording of your computer screen that
can be replayed as a video (think tutorial) by using:at
can be shared as a video.
This is from a
screencast by
a middle
schooler.
6th grader, Kat, http://www.mathtrain.tv/play.php?vid=247

3. Blogs & Wikis
Author or edit a shared online journal/log that can
include links, photos, videos, etc. by using:

4. http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/
This blog includes lengthy student forums.

5. This wiki
has 22
pages of
links for
5th
grade
research.

6. Social Bookmarking
Save, manage, and share links online. Links can be
private or shared with selected groups.
Diigo
Delicious

7. Online Document Sharing
Users can share, create, and edit documents
simultaneously by using:
Google Docs
Zoho

8. Movies and Videos
Flip Video Cameras & FlipShare
iMovie
via Apple> iMovie Tutorials http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-intro

9. Presentation
Keynote
Power Point
Prezi
Google
Presentation
Post them all
on SlideShare

10. Spreadsheets
Track financial
data, mathematical
functions and
create beautiful
tables using:
via The Chronicle for Education http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Create-Your-Syllabus-With-a/24416/
• Software based: Excel Numbers
• Web-based: Google Spreadsheet

11. Text/Video Chat
For instant local or international communication with
or without visuals use:
• Skype
• Google Chat
• Texting
via Italy A-Z A New Meaning to Distance Education
http://studentdev.jour.unr.edu/italy/?cat=5

12. Interactive White Boards
Prepare content ahead
of time; make static,
linear board work
dynamic and engaging;
then post it to the web.
via Nicole Sledge at http://community.scholastic.com/
scholastic/blog/article?
board.id=highschoolblog&message.id=26
http://www.astec-inc.org/middleschool.html

13. Social Networking
Set up an instant
community by using:
Keep them updated with
quick tweets (messages
with a 140 character limit)
by using :

14. Photos
& Images
Photoshop
pixlr
flickr
via Photography Schools Online
http://www.photographyschoolsonline.net/blog/2010/50-images-for-fans-of-photoshop-art/

15. Manage your
HRS Website