Digital Ambassadors’ Resource List
We want to share the vast resources the Digital Ambassadors used over the 2012-2013 academic year. Below is an annotated list of the platforms, software, applications, and tools that were important in helping these educators think about exciting new ways to teach and new opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.
Interactive Software:
Geogebra:
Free, interactive software for geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:
Library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials for mathematics instruction
Geometer’s Sketchpad:
Software for teaching mathematics using interactive whiteboards.
Wolfram Alpha:
Search engine that provides access to the world’s facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including mathematics and science
Google in Education STEM Tools:
Main Page:
Additional Google tools to collaborate and share resources in classrooms to improve teaching and learning
Trimble SketchUp:
3D modeling program for a broad range of applications designed for engineers, architects, filmmakers, and related professionals
Google Fusion Tables:
Additional experimental data visualization web applications to gather, visualize, and share larger data tables
Coding Applications:
Xcode:
Suite of tools for developing software on Mac OS X
MIT App Inventor:
Create and develop applications for Android phones using a web browser
Brainstorm and Mind Mapping Tools:
Popplet:
Tools that allow users to visualize and share ideas, graphic organizers, timelines, and other forms of visual organizations
Twiddla:
Online collaboration tool that uses a virtual whiteboard
Bubbl.us:
Teaching tool that allows the user to make graphical representations of ideas
Innovative and Interactive Presentation Applications:
Prezi:
Web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides
SlideRocket:
Online presentation platform that lets users create, manage, share and measure presentations
Voicethread:
Web-based application that allows users to place collections of media like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of an asynchronous conversation
Google presentation:
Google tool that is a free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form and data storage service
Screencasting:
Screencast-o-matic:
Web application that creates free screencasts on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems
Jing:
Captures anything on the computer screen, as an image, or short videos, and lets the usershare the applications instantly
ScreenFlow:
Record the computer screen, edit videos, and share with the world instantly on Mac
Screenr:
Instantly screencast and record videos to publish around the world
Real-Time Feedback Applications:
Google Moderator:
Google service that uses crowd sourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas
Polleverywhere.com:
Audience response system that generate participant responses and promote discussion
Social Media Tools to Connect:
Twitter:
Type of micro-blogging where educators update their followers with information, resources, and tidbits using 140 characters, a URL, and/or a picture
Google+:
Multilingual social networking and identity service that help share and discover places and information
Pinterest:
Pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections
LinkedIn:
Business-orientated social networking tool that extends users existing network of trusted contacts
Google Web-Based Office Suite:
Google Docs:
Web-based word processor that collaborate and share resources for creating docs, forms, spreadsheets
Google Earth:
Virtual globe and map information that promote geospatial awareness
Google Draw:
Online tool that collaborate and create representations