This document provides a summary of various free educational tools and resources for teachers, including Kidblog for student blogging, Story Jumper for digital storytelling, Sweet Search as a kid-friendly search engine, Cacoo for creating online charts and graphics, Webspiration for visual thinking, Kizoa for creating animated slideshows, Drag and Tape for video editing, greenshot for screen capturing, ArtProject for viewing art, Dropbox for file storage and sharing, Coursesites by Blackboard for course websites, Polleverywhere for classroom polling, WolframAlpha as a computational knowledge engine, Magic Studio for multimedia editing, Wordia for bringing words to life through video, Quintura for Kids as a kid-friendly

1. Freebie Queens – 2nd Decade

2. Kidblog Great way for schools to have kids blog Peer review No need for student emailaddresses Here is a wayto keep the discussion going!

3. Easy to setup and monitor

4. Story Jumper Create digital storytelling Lots of educational resources for teachers

5. Quick tutorial to get started

6. Sweet Search Search engine just for kids that have been reviewed by educators http://www.sweetsearch.com Every day can be something different! Check it out!

7. Cacoo Create online charts and graphics Built in chat feature for collaborations

8. Webspiration (free until 4/2011) Web based visual thinking environment If you sign up now…cost will be $9.99 for 1 year subscription or $19.99 for 2 years subscription

9. Kizoa Creating animated slide shows with lots of content

10. Drag on Tape User-friendly site that uses a drag-and-drop interface to edit and mix video

11. greenshot Free open source screen capture

12. ArtProject by Google Power Great opportunity to view great art upclose and VERY personal

13. DROPBOX Offering free, secure file storage and sharing, along with automatic syncing across multiple computers from any location Can be used on any platform device include mobile devices (no need to keep a flashdrive handy!) Dropbox offers a selection of teacher-friendly controls, such as the ability to set bandwidth limits, eliminate users from individual computers, and create shareable photo galleries

14. Coursesites by Blackboard Free hosted course management service by Blackboard Create up to five (5) websites for you and your class to use to provide an web presence for your students.

15. Coursesites by Blackboard

16. Polleverywehere a new approach to classroom response systems by harnessing existing Web and mobile phone technology and relying on text messaging Functions of the service include the ability for students to respond with typed-in text rather than just multiple-choice answers, and for teachers to gather data from students at home or in other locations off campus. For schools that incorporate social networking tools, Poll Everywhere also offers poll integration with Twitter Used on mobile devices; free to K-12 classes of 32 or less in size!

17. Wolfram alpha Computational Knowledge Engine built by humans (expert systems) Now available for iPhone, iPod, Android and other mobile devices ($1.99 for app; free for pc’s)

18. Magic Studio A great multimedia site for uploading photos, documents, and video and then editing them

19. Magic Studio Create quizzes, drag ‘n drops, image hotspots, etc. Can access content from Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube Can upload Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images (jpg and png), video and mp3 audio to use www.magicstudio.com

20. Wordia Brings words to life through the use of video

21. Quintura for Kids Search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud in that results can be embedded in a site

22. Middlespot Innovative web site for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way

23. Khan Academy Free site with LOTS of videos on world-class instruction on various topics! www.khanacademy.org

24. A couple of personal favorites! Wordle Create a mashup of words in a creative way Prezi Free presentation tool that really can grab the imagination! Google Docs Great collaboration environment to teach our kids how to work together in a virtual world!!!!

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26. Thanks for coming! For more information: Maryly Skallos Maryly.Skallos@sungardhe.com Julia VanderMolen Julia.Vandermolen@davenport.edu