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Hot New Technology Tools. Beth Malapanes bmalapan@amphi.com CDO Library 696-5711. Video. Google Video (Blocked so use Zamzar to convert) http://video.google.com/?hl=en&tab=iv Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/. Windows Movie Maker. Comes with Windows XP and Vista
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Hot New Technology Tools Beth Malapanes bmalapan@amphi.com CDO Library 696-5711
Video Google Video (Blocked so use Zamzar to convert) http://video.google.com/?hl=en&tab=iv Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/
Windows Movie Maker Comes with Windows XP and Vista Make professional looking videos with still photos
Zamzar.com http://www.zamzar.com Online file converter Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ?
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing voice and sounds
Voicethread http://voicethread.com/ Pictures with voice added, no special software needed, just a microphone Example: http://voicethread.com/#q+grandparents.b3763.i30523 Peggy’s works http://www.amphi.com/~technology/techtalks/online/dec07/bestpract.htm#article1
Tumblr.com http://www.tumblr.com Extremely easy place to post text, images, audio, and sound http://bmalapan.tumblr.com
Photos Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr is a photo sharing site where you can post your photos and tag them so others can find them
Other Photo Sites Photo storing and sharingPhotobuckethttp://photobucket.com/Picnikhttp://www.picnik.com/Picture Trailhttp://www.picturetrail.com/Tabblohttp://www.tabblo.com/studioRock Youhttp://www.rockyou.com/ Slide showsBubblesharehttp://www.bubbleshare.com/ Slide showsSliderollhttp://www.slideroll.com/ Slide showsSlide.comhttp://www.slide.com/ Slide shows
Clustrmaps.com http://www.clustrmaps.com/ See at a glance where your site's visitors are located Check out the map at the bottom of Amphi’s interactive whiteboard page
Bubbl.us http://bubbl.us/ Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online
Bibme http://www.bibme.org/ The best free bibliography maker
For educators http://www.google.com/educators/index.html Gmail - Offer email to your faculty, students and staff with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser (chat can easily be disabled for the whole school if you don't want students to be able to IM with their accounts). Google Talk - Teachers and students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free -- anytime, anywhere in the world. Imagine the possibilities for people collaborating on projects from different locations. Google Calendar - Everyone can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others. You can even publish the school calendar on your website to let families know about events like back-to-school nights, homecoming and vacation days. Google Docs & Spreadsheets - Students and teachers can create documents and spreadsheets and then collaborate with each other in real-time right inside a web browser window.Google Page Creator - Create and publish web pages for your domain quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get web design tool. No technical expertise required.
Jott.com Get More Done Create To Do Lists and Reminders Send E-mail and Text Messages Message groups in one call ... all with just your voice
MediaMax http://www.mediamax.com/ Free online storage up to 25 GB
Tinyurl.com TinyURL.com Making long URLs usable! More than 50 million of them. Over 1.1 billion hits/month
Wikispaces.com Wikispaces for teachers http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K Wikis can be used for collaborative writing projects; group work management; online reference guides and manuals; and electronic portfolios My wiki class
Skrbl http://www.skrbl.com/ Online interactive whiteboard that can be created and shared
Writeboard.com My writeboard http://123.writeboard.com/398e639c50f4cc87a
Letterpop.com http://letterpop.com/ Lets you create newsletters, flyers, announcements, etc, all within a browser
Scrapblog http://www.scrapblog.com/ Create online scrapbooks that can be shared online, printed, or burned to DVD
More cool stuff NECC 2007 Links http://amphinecc.wikispaces.com/