Categories of Resources

CATEGORIES OF RESOURCES

AWESOME TECH TOOLS:

Information mobility/ Communication & networking–

Dropbox- Be able to have your information everywhere you go with Dropbox.

http://www.dropbox.com/

Edublogs- This site offers a free blogging service for students and teachers. It allows its patrons to share work, class notes and pictures online while still allowing for privacy.

http://edublogs.org/

Flash Meeting- It is an online resource that allows people in various location meet together. It is like Skype, only it allows more that two separate parties "meet" at the same time.

http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/

Geni- This site hosts free geneaology and millions of profiles.

http://www.geni.com/

Podomatic- This is the world's biggest free site that helps to create podcasts.

http://www.podomatic.com/login

Voicethread- This is an incredibly interactive way to communicate and interact about a given subject.

http://ed.voicethread.com/

Music-

Pandora- This is a free online radio service where you can control the content to play the types of music you like.

http://www.pandora.com/#/

Presentation tools-

Google Lit Trips- This site has a bunch of “bookmapping” based on literature. Bookmapping is when a character’s journey is tracked throughout a piece of literature. For instance, this sight has a lit trip for Elie Wiesel in Night. The lit trips are divided up between three age groups.

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Glogster EDU- This is a great visual way for people to express their creativity, thoughts, knowledge, and ideas. Here you make interactive posters.

http://edu.glogster.com/

Museum Box- The Museum Box site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/

Photo Peach- Here you can quickly load pictures, add captions and accompanying music for a fast slide show.

http://photopeach.com/

Prezi- Forget boring PowerPoint presentations make a Prezi instead.

http://prezi.com/

Voicethread- This is an incredibly interactive way to communicate and interact about a given subject.

http://ed.voicethread.com/

Sreenshots-

Jing- This is another site you can use to make screenshots and easily share it via email, the web, IM, twitter or blogs.

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

Screenshots-Have you ever wondered how people can put a screen shot in their notes or presentations? Here's one mechanism.

http://take-a-screenshot.org/

Timeline creation-

Dipity- It is a free digital timeline website that provides users with a multimedia approach, allowing you to use video, audio, images, text, links and social media. This timeline site stands out from the others because of its special features.

http://www.dipity.com/

Our timeline- This site will allow you to create a timeline for a span of time ranging from 5-140 years.

http://www.ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2c.html

teAchnology- It is a get resource for creating original timelines, educational games and many more technologically based resources.

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/

Time Management-

Casa Notes- Use this site full of templates for creating easy notes to send home with students. It makes them in English and Spanish.

http://casanotes.4teachers.org/

Online stopwatch- This site has many ways to keep students aware of how much time they have. It counts down to a time as well as up to a deadline.

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

Video & photo editing-

Animoto- This site allows you to make professional looking videos with music. It is free up to 30 seconds for educators and students.

http://animoto.com/intro/animoto/8?gclid=CPK11Nrx4qgCFQnrKgodfzZgEw

Aviary Education- It allows image editing, vector editing, audio editing and music creation while using private student accounts.

http://www.aviaryeducation.com/

Big Huge Labs- Do different things with your photographs like creating jigsaw puzzles and mosaics.

http://bighugelabs.com/

Blabberize- You are able to put 30 seconds of audio to any picture, making ithe subject "talk."

http://blabberize.com

Voki- This is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

http://www.voki.com/

Xtranormal- This is a site dedicated to making free animated videos.

http://edu.xtranormal.com/

BOOK RESOURCES:

Teen Buckeye Book Award (Grades 9-12)- Books that have gotten this award are nominated by and voted on by teen only. It is a great place to see what other teens love to read.

http://www.bcbookaward.info/teens/index.html

YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), a branch of The American Library Association- They advocate for young adults. Every year they give awards for books for reluctant readers, books that have special appeal to young adults, best audio books and many others. This is an excellent site to utilize if you need help finding a particularly interesting book for young adults.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm

Lexile- This is a great site to reference if you would like to search for an item and find out its designated reading level.

http://lexile.com/

EBOOK RESOURCES:

Myebook- This site allows you to publish your own ebooks.

http://www.myebook.com/

Project Gutenberg presently boasts having over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, and many other digital devices. The items here are no longer copyright protected. They are in many formats including audio.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Storybird.com- This is an online writing to that allows you to choose pictures from various artists and then accompany their work with original writing.

http://storybird.com/

Wattpad- This is a popular ebook community where people share their writing, read each other’s work and make comments on the pieces. Members can follow particular people’s writing and start literary based clubs.

http://www.wattpad.com/

ONLINE RESOURCES:

INFOhio- This is an amazing free resource that is available to students, teachers, parents, and administrators in the state of Ohio. Please contact Mrs. Milner or your local school media specialist for the password if you need to log-on.

http://www.infohio.org/

TEACHER RESOURCES:

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives- This is an amazing bank of web-based math manipulatives. They are separated into appropriate grades and specific content area. In the age of Smartboards, this is an amazing tool!

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Readwritethink.org- It is a jam-packed site with classroom, professional development and parental resources all pertaining to language arts.

http://www.readwritethink.org/

Teachers.net- This is a great resource for teachers. It offers oodles of lesson plans, possible project ideas and a place to network.

http://teachers.net/

Thinkfinity- This site gives many resources for teachers like lessons plans and professional development opportunities as well as games & tools for students and parents.

http://www.thinkfinity.org/

Terra Clues- This is where you'll find scavenger hunts for academic subject areas.

http://www.terraclues.com/teachers/Default.aspx

Content Areas:

English-

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Readwritethink.org- It is a jam-packed site with classroom, professional development and parental resources all pertaining to language arts.

http://www.readwritethink.org/

Math-

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

NCES Kids' Zone- This has too many skill building items to list. My favorites are the easy graphing templates and the items pertaining to probability.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp

Social Studies-

Terra Clues- This is where you'll find scavenger hunts for academic subject areas.

http://www.terraclues.com/teachers/Default.aspx

Noodle tools????

Schmoop???

Tagxedo- This allows people to take famous speeches, news articles, lyrics and other documents and create a word cloud in the form of a picture.

http://www.tagxedo.com/