Saturday, July 31, 2010

MY FIRST VOKI

This is my first attempt at using Voki, a site in which you can create moving and talking avatars. What do you think?

Get a Voki now!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

This is a phenomenal site. BlogBooker produces a high-quality PDF Blog Book from all your blog's entries and comments. Archives can be generated from any blog running on WordPress, LiveJournal (and derivatives) or Blogger. The whole process takes about 3-4 minutes, depending on the size of your blog.

http://blogbooker.com/

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

PORTAPORTAL

Wow. I've never seen a website with this many educational hyperlinks. Way to go to Mrs. Kimberly Bedsole.

http://guest.portaportal.com/cwi

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

TEACHER BRIAN CROSBY

What a fantastic teacher who knows the importance of integrating Web 2.0 tools into the classroom and more importantly, he does it!

TYPE WITH.ME

Welcome to TypeWith.me!

This document text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents in your Web browser.
Go ahead - send the link to this page to a friend, colleague, or co-worker and watch the magic unfold!

http://typewith.me/

EINSTEIN AT A CHALKBOARD

Why not let Einstein himself introduce you or today's lesson to your students? You can change the text on this image to whatever you like. Change the text in the form below, then click on "preview image". The text in the image will change accordingly. You can align the text with spaces and enters.

If you're satisfied with the result, click on "save image" at the bottom of the page.

http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

YOUCONVERTIT

Bigger Conversion Size.

Free Sign Up Allow Storage 1 GB.
Priorty File Conversion.
Support More Image Formats than any other Services.
http://youconvertit.com/ConvertFiles.aspx

Sunday, July 25, 2010

TXTBEAR

TxtBear lets authors publish their documents online.
http://www.txtbear.com/

LIVEBRUSH

What is Livebrush?

Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics.

http://livebrush.com/

BUBBLE TEST FORM GENERATOR

http://www.catpin.com/bubbletest/

TINEYE

Reverse Image Search

http://www.tineye.com/

MORE SURVEY TOOLS

http://vorbeo.com/

http://www.buzzdash.com/

http://www.obsurvey.com/default.aspx

http://fluidsurveys.com/

ABCYA

Hundreds of FREE K-5 Computer Activities Created by Teachers

http://www.abcya.com/

Friday, July 23, 2010

DROP.IO

Simple real-time sharing,collaboration, and more.

Use drop.io to share what you want, how you want, with whom you want. Create a drop in two clicks, and we take care of the rest optimizing for the web, mobile, and more.

http://drop.io/

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

JING

Record visuals of online action.

http://www.jingproject.com/

SCREEN JELLY

Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email.

http://www.screenjelly.com/

GEOCUBE

The world of geography.

http://www.geo-cube.eu/

JIGSAW PLANET

Create your own puzzles.
Play your own and common puzzles.
Send puzzles to friends.
Put created puzzles on your web pages.
http://jigsawplanet.com/

JEOPARDY LABS

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake.

http://jeopardylabs.com/

MAGNOTO

A site that is similar go Glogster.

http://www.magnoto.com/

NOTALAND

Casual Collaboration.

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.

http://notaland.com/

FREE CLIP ART DOWNLOADS

Free clip art images for teachers and students.

http://www.school-clip-art.com/

INTERESTING WAYS

The Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. - Tom Barrett

http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/

TED TALK - GAMES AND FUN

Jane McGonigal offers the premise that games (video games) can change the world in meaningful and positive ways.

SLIDE SIX

Easily add narration to slide shows.

http://slidesix.com/

Thursday, July 8, 2010

BACK-CHANNELING

Interested in back-channeling with your students? Try one of these two websites.

What else can Tinychat do?

Quick and easy video conferencing.

+ Make video chatrooms instantly

+ Host small or large groups effortlessly

+ Control your room and moderate

+ Save and customize your room

+ Embed on your own web site

Talk.Listen.

TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.

http://todaysmeet.com/

http://tinychat.com/

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

GROU.PS

Create your own Social Network.

http://grou.ps/

GROUP TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE FOR CELL PHONES

http://worldtexting.com/

http://txtblaster.com/

http://swaggle.mobi/sessions/new

Here are three FREE group text messaging services that teachers might be interested in if they want to connect with their classes via text.

Monday, July 5, 2010

POLLEVERYWHERE

Teachers can get a FREE account.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/

SEARCH CUBE

http://search-cube.com/

STORY JUMPER

Publish your own children's books.
http://www.storyjumper.com/

KWOUT

"kwout" is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.
To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

http://kwout.com/

READ WRITE THINK PRINTING PRESS

http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=:

VUVOX

This dynamic media creation suite enables everyone to easily turn their photos, videos, text and audio clips into interactive stories.

http://www.vuvox.com/collage

ITEACH MOBILE

This is an awesome presentation about cell phones in the classroom.

http://grou.ps/iteachmobile/home

Sunday, July 4, 2010

FREE OCR

Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.

http://www.free-ocr.com/

NUMBER QUOTES

I typed in the number 1853. Did you know that 1,853 dollars would buy a Burger King Whopper for everyone living in Falls City, Texas (population 598)?

http://numberquotes.com/