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From Edudemic: The Pinterest For Education
First, we have the new apps from Learnist. I met with one of the head honchos from Learnist and saw the apps (now available here) in person. They’re incredible and signal a shift in the quality of edtech tools for years to come. The Learnist website is robust, relatively straightforward (there’s some new vocabulary you’ll need to ‘learn’), and it’s downright informative. I saw a learning-board about Neil Armstrong pop up the same hour I heard about his passing (top right of the image below). That shows there’s a solid number of users and that it’s easy to update the site. All good things.
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Blubbr is a new, free, website that lets you create and play quiz games from YouTube videos.
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From http://www.freetech4teachers.com: Meograph helps you easily create, share, and playback beautiful stories in context of Where and When. Meograph offers a nice way to create narrated map-based and timeline-based stories. Much of what Meograph offers can be accomplished in Google Earth. However, Meograph is browser-based so that students can create stories even if they cannot install Google Earth on their computers. Meograph recommends using Google Chrome for the best viewing and creation experience.
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This site is amazing! You have to try it because I can’t explain it well enough to do it justice. Super cool! A great resource for history/social studies classes or English Language Arts/Reading classes to put a book time period into perspective for students. Select a year and view videos from that year. You can select sports, video games, commercials, current events, television, movies, and music from that specific year. Amazing tool!!!
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Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow other users and discover amazing data stories!
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From FreeTech4Teachers: A Cleaner Internet is a browserextension available for Chrome,Firefox, and Safari. The extensionremoves all of the related videosand advertisements that surroundvideos on YouTube. There areother browser extensions that do asimilar thing. What makes ACleaner Internet different frommost is that not only can youdisplay videos without the relatedcontent and advertisements, youcan also search YouTube withoutseeing any related sidebar content.
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Convert files like images, video, documents, audio and more to other formats with this free and fast online converter.
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Browser-based app easel.ly seeks to alleviate the hassle of facilitating infographics by cutting the time it takes to make one into teeny little pieces. Recently celebrating its beta launch, the “theme-based web app for creating infographics and data visualizations” offers up free templates to the public as well as an easy platform to start from scratch–allowing the app to cater to both the graphic design incompetent as well as the visually inclined.
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Would you like to produce a retro-style movie like The Artist (which won five Oscars)? The Artistifier is a generator that takes any YouTube video and makes it into a black-and-white silent film with period music. You can add your own titles and captions, too!
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Fifty Sneakers, formerly known as Quizinator, is a good service for cataloging content that you quiz your students on. Your catalog of quiz materials can include a variety of text questions, images, and videos. Fifty Sneakers makes it easy to create quizzes and other assessment tools from your catalog. When it comes time to create a quiz, open your Fifty Sneakers content then select the questions and materials that you want to include in your quiz then print out your quiz. Fifty Sneakers provides detailed tutorials to get you started building your content library and quizzes.
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Slides are the medium that most people default to when they need to give a presentation in person or over the web. When used correctly, slides are useful in helping you convey a message. The problem with most slide presentations is that there needs to be a speaker's voice attached to them to make them meaningful. Hello Slide is a tool that you can use to add voice narration to slides that you display online.
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Corkboard Me is sort of Wallwisher-clone that is even simpler to use but has fewer features. You just paste virtual sticky-notes on a virtual bulletin board. One nice feature it has is by pasting the url address of an image link, the image will show up on the sticky note. No registration is necessary.
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The best way to teach with digital content
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The online application that provides tools to easily generate text art images, also known as typographical images.
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Grammar & Spelling Check; Free Online Proofreading; No Downloads...Allows you to find those pesky mistakes and correct them before your teacher does...Paper Rater is a nice tool that can automatically proofread stuff you’ve written. It analyzes your writing style, word choice and tells about most of the grammar and spelling mistakes (it isn’t 100% accurate).
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Answer Garden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook. Pose a topic or question then share the link or embed in your blog and students type in words about the topic. You can limit the number of responses allowed per IP address and you can also moderate the answers. When finished you can also create the responses into a QR code that can be scanned via a smartphone to take you to the “garden” once it is finished.
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From FreeTech4Teachers: Citelighter is a helpful tool for anyone trying to organize their online and or offline research findings. At its core Citelighter is a browser extension (available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) that enables you to select sections of webpages and save them along with the important information needed to create an APA, MLA, or Chicago style bibliography. If you have pieces of text from books and journals that you want to include in your list of citations, you can add those in Citelighter too.
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From FreeTech4Teachers: If YouTube is blocked in your school, downloading videos from YouTube can be one way to bring educational content into your classroom. Download the videos at home put them on your laptop or on a flash drive to bring them into your classroom
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Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratree refers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use. Thinking guides can be created collaboratively on Exploratree which makes Exploratree a good tool for students working in groups to design projects together.
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If your skill at taking pictures leaves something to be desired and the rule of thirds consistently evades you, new web app Croppola might be just what you're looking for. All you have to do is hit the "select files to upload" button, choose the final aspect ratio of the image you'd like (with choices for standard photos in 4:3 and 3:2, movies in 16:9 and 2.35:1, and even the ultra-wide 2.67:1 Facebook Timeline cover photo), and let it get to work.
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Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.
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Qwips is a new service for recording and sharing short voice messages. To record a message with Qwips just sign-in, click record, and start talking. You can record a message up to thirty seconds in length. When your message is complete, Qwips provides a URL for sharing your message. That URL can be shared anywhere you like including as an image caption. Qwips could be used by students to create audio captions for pictures that they use in blog posts and webpages. Qwips could also be used by teachers to post short audio message reminders for students. For example, I could record a short "quiz on Tuesday" message and post it on my course blog for students.
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The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing.
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TenMarks offers a free online mathematics program designed to supplement your in-classroom mathematics instruction. The free TenMarks program covers materials for students in grades two through ten. In the program there are more than 2,000 video lessons available to students to view on demand. Teachers can use the TenMarks program to assign lessons and problems to individual students or to an entire class. Teachers can track the progress of individual students and the progress of an entire class.
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