Tech+Tools+for+Instruction

=Do any of these look interesting?= Poke around the links or contact Ms. Witten for help integrating these great tools into your instruction.

Classroom Management Resources

 * ManageBac: Need help? Most of your questions can be answered by clicking on the HELP link from within your ManageBac account. If you'd like someone to walk you through...please email Leslie or the IPA Tech Department. We'd be happy to help you!!
 * Evernote: Evernote, a multi-device digital notebook, makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web. A user can have all of their lesson plans, resources, web clippings, lesson schedule, meeting notes, misc. notes, task lists, reference materials and much more on here. Can access notes anywhere and can even share notes with others. Through the Evernote for Education page you can access an hour-long webinar explaining the how Evernote can be used by teachers and students.Take a tour here.
 * LiveBinders: If students are working on complicated projects, they may need help staying organized. LiveBinders (livebinders.com/) allows users to create virtual three-ring binders and organize digital documents in one place. Students might create a single LiveBinder to present one project, or they can combine several projects into a digital portfolio.
 * Edmodo: A free, secure, online learning network (aka social network) for your classes. Edmodo first became popular as a secure platform for classroom micro-blogging. A recent upgrade enables teachers to use this free site for organizing course work, sharing files, conducting polls, and communicating with students via mobile devices. The space looks and feels similar to mainstream social-media sites, which means students who regularly use Facebook or Twitter will be right at home.
 * Engrade: the #1 online gradebook and more since 2003. FREE. Services: gradebook, messaging, homework calendar, quizzes, discussions, wikis, flashcards, attendance, 24/7 student access, 24/7 admin reports, private and secure, completely free!
 * DropBox: a free service that lets people bring their documents, photos and videos anywhere and share them easily
 * Turnitin: The leading academic plagiarism detector, utilized by teachers and students to avoid plagiarism and ensure academic integrity.
 * Screencast-O-Matic: Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE! It's super  quick and easy!!
 * 8 tools for SCREENCASTING and SLIDECLASTING
 * Minus: File sharing - up to 2GB for free!
 * Plagiarism Checkers
 * Seven Ways to Quickly and Easily Share Files
 * Clicker Systems - and their economical alternatives
 * Resources for Differentiating Instruction
 * @Flip Your Classroom

Hawaii Public Library eBook Lending
The Hawaii State Public Library System is now offering "eBooks" and Digital Audio Books, two new services from OverDrive/Digital Library Reserve. Learn how to download eBooks or digital audio books at this website: http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com and follow each step carefully.  OverDrive digital material can be played on many smartphones, MP3 players and other devices. For information on what kind of devices are compatible with OverDrive eBooks and digital audio, go to this website: [|http://www.overdrive.com/resources/drc].
 *  [|Information on how to download eBooks]
 *  [|Information on how to download Digital Audio Books]

Web 2.0 Tools

 * Web 2.0 Tools for Use at Any Level of Bloom's Taxonomy
 * Lessons, resources and Media by Subject (courtesy of Digital Learning Day)
 * Technology Integration Matrix, grades K-12
 * National Educational Technology Standards for Students PK-12, from ISTE
 * Open-Course, Free Resources, Videos, Tutorials to help you FLIP YOUR CLASSROOM
 * Over 25 Links Uncovering Project Based Learning Resources On The Web
 * Assistive Technologies to support students' learning needs
 * Dragon Naturally Speaking Software Training & Support
 * Infographics to Use and Create
 * Design projects in 3D with real-world fabrication skills - Tickercad
 * Create comics to demonstrate understanding
 * [|Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media]
 * Resumé builders
 * Digital Portfolios
 * Favorite File Conversion Tool: [|Online-ConVert] handles conversions of many media formats and file types in one central location.
 * Quick Screen Share - Quick & Free Screen Sharing
 * Mind Mapping
 * G-Snap: Turn watching videos into an interactive, real-time learning experience
 * 15 Sites for Learning How to Program or Code
 * [|Cacoo] is a free online diagramming tool which allows real-time collaboration. Teachers can sign up for a free [|Academic Plan] which allows them to add student users. Classroom Applications
 * [|Fotoflexer] is a free online image editor which allows you to perform basic editing options as well as some advanced features. You can create an account to save a project you are currently working on to login later to complete. Classroom Applications
 * Odosketchis a free online sketchpad that, like many similar sites, provides a blank canvas on which you can create drawings from scratch. You can save your work to a free Odosketch account, share it online, or download it. Odosketch's niche appears to be creating drawings with "charcoal pencil" effects. Odosketch is well suited to use on touch screen computers and interactive whiteboards. When students create multimedia projects, if practical, have them create their own images rather than re-using other people's work. Having students create their own images for multimedia projects removes any possibility that they are misusing someone else's work.
 * **Images**for Student and Teacher Use:
 * Pics4Learning: copyright free Images for your presentations: @http://www.pics4learning.com/
 * Nine places students can find Creative Commons and Public Domain images
 * 15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education
 * 4 Tools for Building Academic Vocabulary: @http://gettingsmart.com/blog/2012/10/4-tools-building-academic-vocabulary/
 * [|11 Web-based Polling and Survey Tools]
 * Poll Everywhere: A Web based polling service that allows users to submit votes via SMS, the web, and Twitter. Online surveys or polls can be an interesting and a fun way to get to know our kids better, to learn their opinions about school,learning English or what activities they enjoy doing in class. [|SurveyMonkey] and [|PollDaddy] are two other good choices. For integration and classroom management tips, click here.
 * Pinnion is a tool that you can use to survey your audience through your website, blog, or through mobile devices. Using Pinnion you can create multiple surveys using multiple question formats. Your survey can be distributed to a specific audience through Pinnion's channel service (you create the channels) or you can cast a wide net and gather responses from anyone who visits your website or blog. Pinnion offers Android and iPhone apps for gathering feeback. A sample Pinnion poll is embedded below.
 * Curation Tools - innovative tools to research on the web - highly visual, often collaborative, 21st century tools
 * **Diigo**: a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else.
 * **Wikis**: //Wikis// are simple web pages that groups, students, and colleagues can edit together. I've used them as student digital notebooks as well a collaborative workspaces. Two of my favorite wiki providers are Wikispaces and PBWorks.
 * **Glogster**: a 21st century multimedia tool - Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the //creative expression of knowledge and skills// in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create **//GLOGS - online multimedia posters//** - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. Glogster EDU is so //SIMPLE TO USE//, that now over 7,000,000 people (including students as young as 4 years old) across the planet are reaping the benefits of this amazing system.
 * **Webdoc**: A multimedia tool that creates media documents (think media-posters or Glogster). You can easily embed, or drag and drop, all sorts of content / media right onto the page. It is also designed for discussion / conversation that can have media included as well. The applications for learning are many. Here's a quick look at how it's done. Here is a look at how it can be used in the classroom.
 * **VoiceThread**: A collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. They have an educator (K-12) version that gives even more opportunities to integrate multimedia into your curriculua. TOUR. OPTIONS.
 * **Museum Box**: Imagine asking students to display their understanding of history, art, or a controversial current topic by selecting a few key artifacts and explaining their importance. Museum Box (museumbox.e2bn.org/) enables users to do just that. Inspired by abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, who carried a box of props to support his anti-slavery speeches, Museum Box is a good fit for projects that ask students to make arguments and defend their choices.
 * Word Clouds: use [|Wordle] and [|it's alternatives] for different activities. Create a word cloud using the children's name to welcome them in the classroom or we can create a word cloud of our classroom rules. Create visual representations of key concepts and vocabulary from a unit or lesson. Children can create their own wordles about themselves including their ages, family, hobbies etc. and they can share and talk about them in the classroom. This can be a good icebreaker for the first month.
 * [|Voki] is a famous edtech tool that allows a user to create a voki avatar talking about him/herself. Ask or assign kids to create their own vokis.
 * **Jing**: A free screencast software.
 * **Maps -- Google and Others** -- making interactive maps is an enriching opportunity to demonstrate understanding of learning. Check out these tools to try.
 * **File Conversion --**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Do students try to turn in files that you cannot open? Here is a free file converter that you or your students can use: @http://www.zamzar.com/
 * Converting YouTube files to MP3 files [[file:YouTube to MP3 Conversion Step Sheet.pdf]] //Be mindful of copyright laws!//
 * Copyright Answers and Resources
 * **Digital Storytelling**
 * Film-making Techniques
 * Loopster: Free Online Video Editing Tool: @http://www.loopster.com/
 * Making a Slideshow in Windows and Burning it to Disk
 * **VideoConferencing / Skype**
 * Virtual Book Clubs: Connecting Adolescent Readers
 * **Podcasting**
 * **Blogs/Online Newsletters**
 * Creating Screencasts, student demonstrations of learning, student created tutorials
 * Top 10 Video Editing Websites
 * **Probeware with GPS systems**
 * [|Five Free Bibliography Generators]
 * 77 Educational Games and Game Builders
 * YouTube Accessories for Teachers and Students: Removing Related Content and Banner Advertisements; Tools for Cutting and Remixing YouTube Videos; Editing Tools Within YouTube
 * GLEAN: Information literacy tools
 * ABC's of Tech Tools:
 * G + H
 * Youtube has always been a great resource for us to use with our students, but it has also many destructive features, ads and comments on one page if you want to share it with your students. Now we have __ [|SafeShareTv] __ that can help us to remove inappropriate elements around the page and generate a safe link for our students. It also lets you crop youtube videos and get rid of the unwanted parts from a video.
 * __ [|Adout] __ is another tool that blocks all sort of ads and banners on a website so you can easily share the links with your kids and they can safely surf the net without clicking any inappropriate ads.
 * Vocaroo is a simple tool to record your voice and share it with others. You don't need to download a software or sign in. You simply go to the website, record your voice with a microphone and create your podcast easily.
 * __ [|MultiUrl] __is a tool to combine links into one short link and share it with others. All the links are editable so you can delete or add new links. You can also see how many times the links have been clicked.
 * It is not always easy to find "easy to read" texts online. With __ [|Twurdy] ,__ you can now find texts that suit your students' readability level. It looks for the number of words on the page, the average number of syllables in each word and the average sentence length. The lighter the colour is, the easier the text is. Also, Twurdy comes from "Too Wordy?".Isn't it so cool?
 * __ [|Howjsay] __ is a free online dictionary. The words are pre-recorded and it is not synthetic. You can also hear multiple entries by separating them with semi-colons.
 * [|Tricider] is a brainstorming tool. You create a topic or ask a question and ask kids to answer and brainstorm on the ideas. They can also vote for each other's statements or they can go against them writing why. It can be a good tool to talk about the classroom rules and how to improve English.
 * [|Bubble.us] is a collaborative brainstorming and a mind-mapping tool. We can brainstorm and create mind map of the classroom rules, our hobbies, the topics that we are going to cover this year.
 * __ [|VideoDL] __ lets you download videos from video sharing websites to your computer. Please be careful with Creative Common Works rights and make sure that you ask the owner and get permission to do that.
 * You can spell check a text by simply copying it to the box on__ [| Orangoo] .__
 * __ [|Tinypic] __ is a free image hosting site where you can upload your pictures and get a link for that to share it with others.
 * If you want to learn if a text is copied from somewhere or not, here comes __ [|plagiarismchecker] __. Just copy and paste the text and see if the text is original or not.
 * Online Tutoring and Online Teaching: Need a tutor? Here are the top 10 sites for online tutoring. Good teachers, Good prices. No need to drive...just plug in.
 * Make an avatar for your screen.

Web 2.0 Motherload of Resources:
@http://www.bhsu.edu/education/edfaculty/lturner/web_2.htm Remind me why I spend time re-inventing the wheel? :)

Digital Learning Day's Lesson Resource Page @http://www.digitallearningday.org/learn-and-explore/lesson-portals/

LoTi Resources

 * Middle School

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 * Media
 * Statistical data and Infographics
 * Primary sources
 * Virtual field trips
 * Simulations
 * WebQuests

Assistive Technologies
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Several resources listed on this page.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Showcase - Best Practices and Tools
Showcases highlight students and teachers engaged in digital learning and show some of the exciting and innovative activities and methods teachers and schools are using with technology and digital learning. Learn & Explore these incredible resources!


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