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Top Free in C-FB • Gaggle • Email, blogs, message boards, chat, digital locker, homework drop boxes • Tech Apps Class Blog • Windows Movie Maker • Create movies • Book Trailer • Book Trailer Project • Photo Story 3 • Create video using still images • Fractured Fairy Tales
Top Free in C-FB • Animoto • Enhance photos and videos • ECHS Project • PBWorks • “Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents.” • Davis Elementary • 4th Grade Native American Wiki • Student Wiki
Top Free in C-FB • Newseum • Newspaper frontpages for each day around the country • Google Earth • Combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3-D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. • Google Earth Scavenger Hunt
Top Free in C-FB • Format Factory or Jodix • Video converters; used to convert .wmv format to .mp4 format • Audacity • Create audio files
Creativity Tools (installs) • Tux Paint • A drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. • Scratch • Create and share your own interactive stories, games, music and art. • Example 1 The Moon • Learnscratch.org
Creativity Tools (web-based) • Wordle or Tagxedo or Word It Out • Generate “word clouds” from text • 4th Grade GT Project • 50 Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom • BeFunky • Enhance digital photos • Imagination Cubed • Can email to friend and then add to the drawing • Example
Creativity Tools (web-based) • Scrapblog • Librarian Example • Kerpoof • Online Drawing tool • Sketchfu • Online drawing tool • ArtPad • Create and send an online drawing • sumopaint.com
Creativity Tools (web-based) • Newspaper Clipping Generator • Fodey.com • Blabberize • Upload a picture and make it "talk“ • Color Scheme Designer
Creativity Tools (web-based) • Big Huge Labs • Magazine Covers
Multimedia Tools • Irfanview (iView) • Freeware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit and convert image files and play video/audio formats. • Capture • A program for capturing portions of a screen or image
Web 2.0 Tools • Voicethread • Digital Storytelling • Voki • “Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.” • VozMe • Reads and creates .mp3 from typed text • xtranormal.com
Web 2.0 Tools • Wallwisher • Online notice board • Scribblar • Online Collaboration tool • Prezi • Create presentations live and on the web • Todaysmeet.com • Like wallwisher • 280slides – get URL
Web 2.0 Tools • UStream • Broadcast live • Molly the Owl – live feed • The Owl Box • Skype • Online communication • Moving at the Speed of Creativity • http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ • Wes Fryer
On-line Resources • Common Craft • Learning videos • Wikis in Plain English • BrainPOP • Animated videos to support curriculum • Technology and Internet Safety videos are free • Teacher Tube • Online videos • Atomic Learning • Tutorials on common applications (Mac and PC)
On-line Resources • Google • Wonder wheel • Timeline
FUSS • What’s all the FUSS about? Frequently Used School Sites
FUSS • Starfall • Reading program designed to be fun, exciting and to instill confidence in young children as they learn to read. • Spelling City • Online spelling program • ePub Bud • Write, publish and edit a book online • iPads, iTouch, iBooks app • Kidwings • Virtual owl pellet dissection • Engineering Interact • Interactive science and engineering activities • Interactives • Interactive learning websites for all subject areas
FUSS • Jig Zone • Online Jig Saw Puzzle Generator • Storynory • Audio stories for kids • MixedInk • Collaborative Writing Platform • Lit2Go • Online stories and poems in MP3 format • Illuminations • Interactive activities for math • Fossweb • The official site for the inquiry-based FOSS science curriculum. • PastPix • A photo-library of original, authentic, photographic subjects from the 1850s onwards
Teacher Resources • TinyURL or bit.ly • Time for Kids • Current events • Cool Tools for Schools • Web 2.0 tools • Pete’s PowerPoint Station • Downloadable PowerPoints by subject and grade • 4teachers.org • online teacher tools and resources. • Free Software for Teachers
Applications • Moodle • A course management system • C-FB Elementary Internet Safety Course • Google Documents • Online shareable word processing, spreadsheets and presentation applications • ZoHo Docs • Online document Management • Gaggle • OpenOffice • A multiplatform office suite
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