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SD 45 Digital Toolbox for teachers beta version Cari Wilson 2013

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A list of apps and sites that can be used by teachers wanting to incorporate technology into their classrooms.

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SD 45 Digital Toolbox for teachers

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Cari Wilson 2013

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Ø tools to present knowledge Ø tools to create content Ø tools to help research Ø not all tools work on all platforms

(ack!) Ø if you are in a byod situation, you

need to be more flexible about what you ask the kids to do

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“…there are lots of great apps and sites, but remember….

in the end it’s all about the teaching and the learning”

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slide tools

u powerpoint

u keynote

u haiku deck

u all of them upload to slideshare, which allows kids to then embed them in their blogs

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prezi

"   Has an edu sign up

https://prezi.com/profile/registration/edu/?license_type=EDUENJOY

"   Like power point on LSD

"   Can have more than one editor

"   Can be embedded

"   Does not play well with ipads (there is a viewing app but you cannot do much on ipads)

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movie tools

Ø imovie on ipad or laptops (easy enough for even the younger kids – plugins for the older kids)

Ø moviemaker (free – use version 2.4 if you can)

Ø Smoovie – make stop motion animation on ipads (on Macs, too $$$$)

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animoto

"   can be used to create videos using still photos

"   free for up to 30 sec video

"   combine images, text and knowledge to show understanding

"   can be embedded

" ipad app is tricky….search animoto app download and get it from there

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pixton "   fantastic comic book creator

"   has an edu sign up – not free

"   free version also available (over 13, no problem, under 13 you either need parental permission or you need to act as the parent)

"   limited but works great

"   embeddable

"   is not yet iPad friendly

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other comic creators

"   comic life

"   $4.99 on ipad

"   kids combine photos and words to create comics

"   can save as an image and put in blog

" Toondoo

"   free

"   embeddable

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glogster

"   Create digital posters than can incorporate images, text, sound and video

"   Can buy an edu account or use free account (kids must be 13)

" edu account allows you to set up assignments and use rubrics

"   Can be embedded

"   coming soon to ipads near you

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Timelines capzles

"   a timeline building tool

"   does not have an edu component

"   can incorporate images, text and video

"   is embeddable

preceden "   relatively new

"   allows user to go back billions of years

"   $29 teacher account allows some control

"   not yet embeddable

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voicethread

"   allows students to comment and interact around images or short videos

"   has an edu section

"   book reviews, art critique, science experiments

"   embeddable

"   costs money for most effective use

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storybird / storyjumper

"   online story creation tools

"   geared to younger students but useable by older students

" storybird – base the story/poem on art

" storyjumper uses photos, stickers etc to create

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iPad storytelling

"   book Creator

"   easy to use

"   can incorporate photos, images, sound and video

"   kids love it!

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Productivity Tools

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flipping your class

" camtasia/ jing – allow you to create a movie of what you see on your desktop

" keepvid.com – allows you to “rip” movies out of youtube

" tubechop.com – allows you to take small parts of a video from youtube

" zamzar.com – convert files

" ipad – explain everything, screenchomp

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working together

" googledrive – the google suite, which includes googledocs

" wikispaces – great wiki site – free and ad free to educators

"   multiple users can work together to create fantastic sites

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what are they thinking?

" TodaysMeet – set up a room and let kids “chat” during lessons, presentations

"   You get a record of what they’re thinking – you can see who is contributing

" padlet – get an account, post a question and encourage students to post their answers

"   Can be done before class or as ticket out the door

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Graphic Tools

" BigHugeLabs – allows you to create all kinds of cool graphics with photos

" Tagxedo/wordle – allows you to create customized wordclouds

"   On the ipad, use Word Collage (1.99)

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more graphics

"   Text2mindmap.com – free, easy to use

" infogr.am – a great way to make charts and graphs

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Website Tools

" wix.com

"   Easy, free HTML 5 or Flash animated websites

" weebly.com

"   Has a free education site

"   Super easy to use

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this just in….. pinterest

"   Seriously?

"   Yes, seriously!

"   There are a large number of teachers on pinterest who collect great websites and information!

Air server "   Install on your mac or

pc

"   Connect your mac or pc to a projector and then you can wirelessly project any iphone or ipad in the room

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Rem

emb

er "   You don’t need to have all the

answers – “google-it” and “youtube-it” are perfectly acceptable answers

"   Start small – try one thing, see how it goes and then try another

"   “If we are engaged, we forget about facebook”