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present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience This Mindmeister mindmap lists collaboration and interaction tools. Storify Drag and drop elements from Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, blogs to create a story that you can Tweet, blog, embed. Screenr Make screencasts instantaneously, then Tweet, blog, embed. Voicethread "Online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. Wikibrains "WikiBrains is a free platform to brainstorm and create mind maps with the rest of the world. How to make RSA style videos and another one on whiteboard animation This is a bit of work, but the result is spectacular. Popplet Prezi - "The zooming editor" Rizzoma Vic's Picks Creaza
10 Awesome Apps for Learning About Music, Nature, History and Math | MindShift | The 21st Century
Digital Tools Continuing our monthly Educational Apps series, a mixture of iOS, Android, and Web-based apps. STORYLINES: The educational games-maker Root-1 has released its latest app into the iTunes store this week. StoryLines (iTunes) is a bit like the game of “Telephone.” Players are given a sentence or phrase to illustrate using the touchscreen on the iPad. That illustration is given to the next person, who writes a sentence, captioning the drawing. BIRDS OF AMERICA: John James Audubon’s illustrated The Birds of America holds the distinction of being the most expensive book ever sold. BACK IN TIME: Back in Time is an animated e-book that, as the title suggests, chronicles the history of the universe. BOBO EXPLORES LIGHT: Bobo Explores Light is an interactive iPad app that helps explain scientific concepts about light (iTunes). Explore: apps
The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You
100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. But I wanted t... 20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content 23.98K Views 0 Likes What's the best way to organize it all into at least some reasonable manner? It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy 12.53K Views 0 Likes Every school has a different policy when it comes to social media.
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20 Excellent Free Rich-Text Editors
Rich-text editors, also known as online rich-text editors, are web components that allow users to edit and enter text within a web browser. Rich-text editors are used in numerous ways such as in enhancing your comment input form or as part of a web application that allows entry of user-generated and formatted content. Rich-text editors are essentially web-based WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) editors. There are many rich-text editors out there. In this article, we present 20 exceptional (and free) rich-text editors. 1. TinyMCE is an open source (under the GNU Lesser General Public License) rich-text editor released and maintained by Moxiecode. TinyMCE |Demo | Download 2. FCKeditor is another wildly popular open source online rich-text editor (check out some of the websites that use it). FCKeditor | Demo | Download 3. NicEdit is lightweight, no-fuss cross-platform rich-text editor that emphasizes user-friendliness and simplicity over barraging users with too many features. 5. 6.
Cool Cat Teacher's Favorite Apps, Software, and Sites
These are my favorite apps, software, and sites for managing my life, home, classroom, and more. Hope you enjoy and hope you share yours in the comments.Calendaring 1. My family and each child has a calendar (I set the kids appointments to automatically show up on the family calendar), and I use Google cal for my classes. The greatest addition to the calendar is that now I keep my 5 most important calendars on my Apple iPod touch 16 GB (2nd Generation) . Setting Appointments 2. For larger groups with time zones scattered around the planet, sometimes you have to go in and pick the best time, then it confirms and lets you know who is coming. Managing Group Communications 3. We handle all of our private teacher communication in this way. Networking 4. I have two favorite tools for power tweeting: 5. TweetDeck is my twitter tool of choice on my computer. 6. On my itouch I use TwitterFon and enjoy the features it has including the ability to look at conversations. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Blogging
10 Great, Free Apps for Students for Notetaking and Class Planning | The 21st Century
These days, there are some great apps for students to use to take notes for class, or to use as class planners. 1. Evernote and EverStudent My favorite is Evernote. I use it for everything, literally, and many of my students use it for taking notes, clipping web pages, creating to do lists, and more. 2. Skitch also works with Evernote and allows you to create sketches and annotate, edit and save photos and your sketches. 3. MySchoolNotebook is another note taking app I just reviewed earlier here: 4. Memonic is similar to other note taking tools in that you can clip web content, take text notes, share notes, and access it from any computer. There is also a feature coming that will allow you to use Memonic's web clipper to save notes directly to your Evernote account. 5. SimpleNote is exactly what it's name says - it's a free, simple note taking app. 6. 7. 8. 9a. 9b. 10.
