MACUL09_Free&Fab

=Free and Fabulous Tools for Educators - MACUL 2009/Spice It Up! 2009=

Krista (Hanna) Harmsworth & Pam Shoemaker from Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
//Click on the hyperlinks below to explore as we share some of the following resources://

> Free programs/activities for teachers to use with their students. > Free Internet calls and chats! > Access your documents from anywhere,save directly from Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. > A free wiki site that is very popular with educators. A wiki is a type of website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. > Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. It creates a great visual of important themes in a piece of text. > Find resources linked to Michigan GLCE's! > This site is all about geography; many maps, lesson plans, videos. > An online writing graphic organizer for writing an essay... printable before or after the entire map is complete. > An online educational comic generator for kids of all ages. > Create digital videos the easy way! > Sign up for free, and people around the country/world can adopt your classroom. Shop for classroom items on your sponsor's behalf! > Look up words in an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus, and learn how words associate. > Capture images and video from your computer screen. Great for creating tutorials and web page tours. > Take any image you have saved on a computer, then add speech bubbles. Save in a variety of formats. Use alone or in PowerPoint, Word, MovieMaker, or other software. > Teachers of all grade levels can easily find lesson plans, interactive activities, worksheets, rubrics, media, primary source documents, and reference materials from many high quality content providers with one search. > Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. > Kidpix-like online site for creating drawings, videos, cards, and more. > Create professional-looking flashy videos with music in a matter of minutes. > A powerful way to talk about & share your images, documents, and videos. > Students (and teachers) like this online avatar creator. > Create cool projects with your own (or saved) images. > Create online word webs and other graphic organizers. > This is an online teleprompter. It can be helpful when students are recording podcasts or other other types of broadcasts. > Outstanding math resources for educators. > Blogging service that is safe and easy-to-use. Contact Pam for Walled Lake's passcode to get started. > Easy photo editing. Add special effects with a few mouse clicks. > This is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. > A way to create on-line multimedia posters. Can add links, audio, videos, etc. > SlideShare is the best way to share your PowerPoint presentations with the world. You can share your project publicly or privately. > Teachers can create online surveys to pre or post assess learning. Students and teachers can also create online surveys for analysis. > Shareable videos posted and used by educators. > Create your own comic strips; then publish, share & discuss. > This is a site like Youtube, but for kids! > Find images that photographers have licensed with creative commons licenses for use in student projects. > This is a blog, written by Richard Byrne, who highlights new web 2.0 tools that are free. > Free open source suite of productivity programs.
 * [|4Teachers]
 * [|Skype]
 * [|Microsoft Office Live Workspace]
 * Wikispaces
 * [|Wordle]
 * [|Michigan Online Resources for Educators]
 * [|National Geographic Expeditions]
 * [|Read Write Think Essay Map]
 * [|Make Belief Comix]
 * [|Photostory]
 * [|Adopt-A-Classroom]
 * [|VisuWords]
 * [|Jing]
 * [|Speechable]
 * [|Thinkfinity]
 * [|Google search for LIFE photos]
 * [|Kerpoof]
 * [|Animoto]
 * [|Voice Thread]
 * [|Avatar Creator]
 * [|Big Huge Labs]
 * [|Bubbl.us]
 * [|Cue Prompter]
 * [|Sadlier-Oxford Mathematics]
 * [|Blogmeister]
 * [|Picnik]
 * [|Delicious]
 * [|Glogster for Educators]
 * [|SlideShare]
 * [|Survey Monkey]
 * [|Teachertube]
 * [|Toondoo Comic Creator]
 * [|Totlol]
 * [|Flickr Creative Commons Search]
 * [|Free Tech For Teachers Blog]
 * [|Open Office]

Contact Us: kristaharmsworth@wlcsd.org pamelashoemaker@wlcsd.org