Edmodo
Edmodo
is a free site that offers the world of blogging and collaboration to students
and teachers in a safe, educational setting. I have just started using it this year, as a pilot program
and many of my students love it.
It’s surprising to see which of them are quite engaged and offer many of
their ideas and opinions, though in class they are quiet and don’t often
participate. I like this
alternative opportunity it provides for them to share. It can be used to gather information
from students in surveys and polls, disseminate information with links,
attachments or text, and it provides a venue for thinking, reflection and
collaboration with students. www.edmodo.com
Prezi
Prezi
is a free online tool that can be used as an alternative to power point. It has huge potential in the way you
can connect your information and help your audience see your stream of ideas
and thoughts. It has a great zoom
feature that allows the user to embed pictures, videos, etc within the
presentation and makes for an interesting view. I just created my first prezi and my students positively
received it. I found it a bit
picky in creating one of my own but appreciated all the tutorials, help categories
and large gallery of completed public prezi presentations that I could refer to
often. http://prezi.com/
ToonDooSpaces
ToonDoo Spaces
is a great online source for creating and sharing comics written by students in
a protected, safe environment. My
students love creating comic strips and would LOVE this website. It has great connection with our
writing workshop model in sharing and getting feedback from one another. I also think the use of the website
would be a huge incentive for some of my students as it seems like their work
is being published. It does
require you to create an account so students’ work would not be shared
publicly. There is a huge gallery
of images available to make the creation of the comic strip to go rather
quickly, once the idea, sketches and text are created. I’m trying this one as soon as our
current unit is wrapped up.
Glogster
Glogster
is a great online resource for students in creating collaborative projects and
interactive posters. I
see this as an easy way to incorporate technology into our science and social
studies topics. Students would
love to find text, visuals and video to support their glogster topic. Its link to Google Earth is a great
geography connection and its link to Edmodo would be a neat addition to our
class blogging. I will try to
incorporate this into my classroom this year – I think it would be a good match
to a study of George Washington coming up in late spring. There is a gallery of
excellent completed glogsters to preview and use. There seem to be a lot of supports in place for any novice,
student or teacher to figure it out.
Kerpoof Scholastics
Kerpoof Scholastics
is a multimedia site where stories can be created, games can be played and many
lessons are stored and shared. The
graphics programs included offer great options and the way a story can be clearly
laid out and created are user-friendly and fun. I know my students would love this! The choices of settings, backgrounds, and
clipart are endless! There is a huge
bank of lessons already written that use many of the Kerpoof tools. In addition, there are games that are
fun and somewhat educational. I
can see using this site as one students can work on independently, once we’ve reviewed
the basics as there is so much there, they can choose from.
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