Awesome+Teacher+Tools!!

=Check these sites out for use in or out of the classroom!!!=

Useful Links

 * 1) Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
 * 2) Cool Tools for Schools Wiki
 * 3) Digital Citizenship - Teaching students about safely using the Internet
 * 4) Support Educational Blogging Wiki (includes examples of teacher blogs)
 * 5) [|Top Cool Free Tools on Web]
 * 6) [|Free Polling Site]
 * 7) [|Create Webinars - Share Presentations]
 * 8) [|Free Photo Slideshows]
 * 9) [|Live Journals]
 * 10) cool tools
 * 11) [|wall writing]
 * 12) [|Teacher Tube]
 * 13) [|ALA Top Teaching and Learning Sites]
 * 14) Education Podcast Network - over 1000 different educational podcasts
 * 15) Miss Training (Office 2K7) from Foxborough Public Schools
 * 16) [|Storybird-collaborative storytelling]
 * 17) 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Educators

**Useful Web 2.0 Tools:**

 * 1) Tiny URL - Tools to share web links using shorter web addreses
 * 2) Zamzar- free file conversion
 * 3) Google Reader - RSS Reader
 * 4) VoiceThread - Tool for conversations around media
 * 5) Blabberize - Creating a talking picture (quite literally)
 * 6) Voki - Create a talking cartoon of yourself
 * 7) Prezi - Free 3-D presentation tool
 * 8) Photo Peach - Free slide shows to go!
 * 9) Glogster - Free online posters
 * 10) Wordle - generates word clouds from text provided
 * 11) Slideshare - Upload and share PowerPoint presentations and documents
 * 12) Delicious - Social bookmarking website
 * 13) Audio Boo - Mobile & web platform for podcasting and uploading audio to share
 * 14) ipadio - broadcast from any phone to the Internet live **(phone blogging = phlogging)**
 * 15) [|10 Other Word Cloud Generators] -this is a blog giving URL's for word cloud generators (Wordle and others)
 * 16) Dipity.com -- free digital timeline
 * 17) Xtranormal.com -- free text to video website
 * 18) Screentoaster.com -- free screen recording of your computer
 * 19) Onetruemedia.com -- create free videos using pictures and other multimedia

**Other Useful Resources:**

 * 1) Technorati - Search engine for Blogs
 * 2) ISTE NETS Standards (see left side menu for link to NETS for students vs. teachers)
 * 3) [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://introtoedtech.wikispaces.com/file/view/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.pdf"]] [|NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.pdf]
 * 4) RIDE Website including lesson plan template
 * 5) Lesson Plan Template from RIDE website --> [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://introtoedtech.wikispaces.com/file/view/LessonPlanTemplate.doc"]] [|LessonPlanTemplate.doc]

Useful Software:
4. [|ALA Top 25 Teaching]and [|Learning Sites] 5. [|Shape Collage] 6.[|Slide.com]- create cute slideshows free 7. [|smilebox.com]--create free slideshow 8. zooburst 9. **[|Picnik for photo editing]**
 * 1) ===Jing Project - Free screen recording software===
 * 2) ===Tech Smith - paid screen capturing and video editing software===
 * 3) ===Camtasia Studio - screen capturing & video editing===
 * 4) ===Snag It- screen capturing & picture editing===
 * 5) ===Audacity - Free audio recording software===
 * Tools to use with your wiki** [|www.quizlet.com] [|www.sharepoint.com] [|www.slideshare.com] [|www.teachertube.com] [|www.animoto.com] [|www.schooltube.com] [|www.flickr.com] [|www.picturetrail.com] [|www.picasa.com] [|www.yoyogames.com] [|www.mygame.com] [|www.polldaddy.com] [|www.surveygizmo.com] [|www.cooltext.com] [|www.logomaker.com] [|www.ourstory.com] [|www.snapjot.com] [|www.voicethread.com] [|www.voki.com] [|www.gcast.com] [|www.authorstream.com] [|www.sliderocket.com]