Flash Game Design

Gamestar Mechanic

Easily teach students the elements of designing flash games.

ImageLoop: Create Unique SlideShows

VuSafe

Looking to host and post internal videos, check out VuSafe.

"VuSafe is an online content library that enables schools/districts to create a secure environment for showing Internet-based videos in the classroom. Teachers can use VuSafe to find videos, post them to a VuSafe library, organize the videos using keywords and categories, and share them with their students safely. The service removes all outside content present on sites such as YouTube, eliminating access to inappropriate comments, advertisements or other non-approved videos."

Teach Weather?

Weather Spark is a great site that gives visual representation of local data about clouds, precipitation, temperature, sun, pressure, (etc.) with graphs, along with the forecast. Look at the history of the day through the years as you customize the data you wish to view.

Did You Know 4.0

The New WWW

For students WWW no longer stands for World Wide Web, it stands for Whatever, Whenever, Wherever.

The point is not to teach with technology, but to use technology to convey content more efficiently and powerfully.

Help Students Get Organized

TrackClass

is a free resource for students. Students can track their classes and assignments, and it will even send reminders (email or SMS) for upcoming assignment due dates and test dates. There is also a note taking utility so students can take notes on it if they have a computer in school, or transcribe notes later. You can attach files to each class and assignment to keep things organized. It is a great way for students to stay organized.

Great iPAD Apps for Special Education

iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Apps for (Special) Education

Library Spot

Library Spot- Great site for students
Links to online libraries (film, government, law, public etc.)
Reading room (headlines, journals, newspapers, magazines etc.)
Reference Desk- (acronyms, almanacs, biographies etc.)

Shorten URL w/Google

http://goo.gl/

add .qr to end of shortened URL and create a QR code (a barcode) that can then be scanned with a phone and it directly goes to the page

Embedable Student Safe Search Engine

sweetSearch

Poll Anywhere

Poll Anywhere

Send polls from your phone.

Tagul: A different word cloud.

Send large files for Free!

DropSend or WeTransfer 

     allows you to email large files up to 2GB for free.  

Addictomatic

Create your own custom web page on the latest buzz words.
Addictomatic

Digital Research Tools

DIRT
"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.  Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers."

Bubbl.Us- Concept Mapping

MapLib- Create Your Own Maps

Flip Video

What do with with a Flip video in the classroom...

• Taping Projects & Reports
• Interviews: Students, Staff or Community Members
• School Trips
• Capturing Science as it Happens
• Puppet Shows, Skits, & Plays
• Demonstrating Experiments
• Students Sharing "Their World'
• Digital Storytelling Projects • Commentaries on News Events
• Speech Presentations
• Structured Narratives • Capturing the "Moment"
• EPal (like Pen Pals) Videos
• Recording Reading for Fluency
• Recording World Languages (add English Subtitles)
• Body Movement, Yoga Poses, Dance
• Create "How To" Videos
• Personalized Thank You, We Appreciate & Miss You Videos
Give it to your students and see what they can create!

Free Hosting Site to Embed Your Files

Divshare
Example of a MP3

Digital Storytelling: Comics Through Pictures

Free Virtual Thumb Drive

No more losing your thumb drive, visit DropBox.

Here is a great site if you don't want to carry a thumb drive between your home and school computer (and mobile devices) AND have your files automatically sync. Get up to 3 gigs free, sync PCs, Macs, & Lynix computers, takes any file type. You can share files and it has an online backup.

Think of it as a virtual thumb drive, the free space is limited, but so isn't a thumb drive. You can even work offline and your changes sync once you back on the internet. Watch the quick video to get a better understanding. It's been great not having to use a thumb drive between my computers.

Bloom's Taxonomy Revised

Old Way-------------------------- New Way

Free Math Software

GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching.

Communicate- Ning