Teaching+Tools

=Technology Tools for Professional Educators=

Presentation Tools
[|Prezi] prezi.com //create animated and splashy stories and presentations//

//Podcasts can be used for auditory support on assignments and tests//
[|Podbean] www.podbean.com ($3/month is least expensive option) (article) [|Weekend Project: Create Your Own Pod Cas]t reviews.cnet.com/4520-11293_7-6246557-1.html? (article) [|How Stuff Works: How to Podcast] computer.howstuffworks.com/how-to-podcast.htm
 * Example of audio support from [|Ms. Harrell's 'Solving One Step and MultiStep Inequalites Quiz'] harrell.podbean.com/

Surveys & Forms
[|Survey Monkey]  www.surveymonkey.com [|Wufoo] wufoo.com [|Survey Gizmo] www.surveygizmo.com/ [|Poll Daddy] www.polldaddy.com/ [|Free Online Surveys] freeonlinesurveys.com/

Quizzes & Tests
[|QuizMaster] www.cybertrain.info/quizman/qmhome.html //This is a free (donations requested) site where you can use existing quizzes or make your own. You can save the quizzes you make. You can also purchase a copy of the software to download and use offline.//

Rubrics & Scoring Guides
[|Rubistar] http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ "//a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics."// [|Project Based Learning Checklists] pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ "//age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation.//"

eBooks, eTexts & Text-to-Speech
//Test-to-Speech is a great way to check your writing for grammar and spelling errors. Plus, you can listen to//  //a book or other materials while you are driving, exercising, or just 'resting your eyes'.//

[|WordTalk] www.wordtalk.org.uk/ //A free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes//. [|Project: Power Reader] www.projectpossibility.org/viewProject.php?id=1 //"Our goal is to build a "graphical, interactive text reader integrated with computer text-to-speech whose level of focus, complexity, and detail is adjustable according to the user's needs. ....presentation of text where items can be viewed at the letter, word, sentence, and paragraph level, allowing the user needs to adjust it to their needs. Items can grow or shrink in size as they are read by the software, and the color of the text can also be adjusted. Image representations and dictionary definitions of words can be displayed next to the word as each word is read."// [|VozMe] vozme.com/index.php?lang=en //The user selects the text he or she wants read aloud. You can also insert the tool into browser or add to a web page.// [|BrowseAloud] www.browsealoud.com/ [|Spoken Text] spokentext.net/ //"Record books, articles,web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format."// [|Speaktex]t www.speaktext.com/index.htm

Creative Storytelling
[|ToonDoo] www.toondoo.com //Create comics// [|KerPoof] www.kerpoof.com/ "//Learn Through Creativity//" [|StoryBird] storybird.com/ "//short, art-inspired stories you can make and share on any device//" [|VoiceThread] voicethread.com //story telling with pictures and voice// [|Animoto] animoto.com/ //allows you to put together pictures and narrate// [|Scratch] scratch.mit.edu/ //create stories, games, music, art//
 * [|ToonDo Teachers Guide] toondooguide.wordpress.com

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General Resources
[|4Teachers.org] www.4teachers.org "a //suite of tools and information on practices works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use//." [|Filamentality] www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/index.html "//a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages//." [|BBC Learning] www.bbc.co.uk/learning/ [|Discovery Education: Free Teacher Resources] www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/ [|National Geographic Education] http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/?ar_a=1 [|Education World] www.education-world.com/ [|The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE)] www.free.ed.gov/ //Free searchable database of "digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations//." [|Educator's Reference Desk] www.eduref.org [|Teachers First] www.teachersfirst.com/about/index.cfm [|Response To Intervention – RTI Resources] [Intervention Central] www.interventioncentral.org/ [|ProProfs] www.proprofs.com/ //They offer (limited) free tools and resources. You can create and share quizzes, flashcards, bookmarking, blogs, discussion forums, wikis.// [|Trackstar] trackstar.4teachers.org "//TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators//." [|Internet for Classrooms] www.internet4classrooms.com/ [|AtoZTeachers Stuff] atozteacherstuff.com/ [|ABC Teacher] www.abcteach.com/ [|The Teacher's Guide] www.theteachersguide.com/

Specific Tools
[|Puzzle Maker] puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com "//Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists//" [|Word Search Generator] www.netrover.com/~kingskid/wordsearch/wordsearch.htm [|Hot Potatoes] www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot.php "//The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.” [Win only; download]// [|Quandary] www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php //Create web-based Action Mazes where "the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze". [Win only; download]//

Professional Development
[|The Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE)]www.bestevidence.org/ "//presents reliable, unbiased reviews of research-proven educational programs//" [|UDL Lesson Builder] lessonbuilder.cast.org "//provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students//." [|Kid Tools Support System] kidtools.org/index.php "//KidTools and KidSkills are new kinds of software to help students take control of their learning, behavior, and problem solving to improve success in school. The tools are research-based and have undergone extensive testing with actual students in classroom settings//." [|The Jigsaw Classroom] www.jigsaw.org/ //Cooperative learning techniques to reduce conflict in the classroom//

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Audience Response System <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">s
[|i>clicker] www.iclicker.com/ [|Quizdom] www.quizdom.com [|Turning Technologies] www.turningtechnologies.com/products [|Poll Everywhere] www.polleverywhere.com //There is a free version for up to 40 audience members. The other prices are low and are based on the number of participants//. [|Numina II SRS] uncdub.net/Numina/SRS/ //This is a “Web-based student response system that uses a combination of wireless networks, handheld computers, and a data projector to allow students to submit responses to questions posed by an instructor.” You can contact the developer at UNC Wilmington for a free account on their server.// [|Clicker Resources] www.cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/clickers.htm //Resources about using clickers by two programs that use the i>clicker brand//. (article) [|No Wrong Answer: Click I]t www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/05/67530 (article) [|Clicker U]. www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/03/clicker

Interactive Whiteboards
[|SMART] smarttech.com/ [|Promethean] www.prometheanworld.com/ [|PolyVision (eno]) polyvision.com/applications/writing-surfaces [|Mimio] www.mimio.com/en-NA.aspx (article) [|Creative Ways to Use Your Interactive Whiteboard] www.neamb.com/professional-resources/using-interactive-whiteboard.htm (article) [|Why Use an Interactive Whiteboard? A Baker’s Dozen Reasons]! by Dr. Mary Ann Bell teachers.net/gazette/JAN02/mabell.html (article) [|The Art and Science of Teaching / Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards] by Robert J. Marzano http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/nov09/vol67/num03/Teaching-with-Interactive-Whiteboards.aspx

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