Top Websites for Teaching and Learning
The "Top" Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active
participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are
user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
SIMPLY BOX:If you’re a visual learner, then this is the tool for
you! Simply Box is a tool that allows users to capture, share,
and organize anything found on the web into an unlimited number
of "boxes" and then share with friends, groups, students, or the
world. However, rather than saving lists of bookmarks, it allows
users to capture just a part of a webpage, whether it’s a
headline, a paragraph, a photo, or a video. Items can be saved
and organized.
Click here to visit SIMPLY BOX!
BUBBL.US: An online mapping allow users to think visually,
collaborate, and share ideas through concept maps. Think "mind
maps".
Click here to visit Bubbl.us
CURRIKI: Seeking new teaching strategies? If you’ve got an old
lesson that you want to breathe new life into, Curriki can help.
It is a free member website where educators share ideas and hear
from others in the profession.
Click here to visit Curriki.
PRIMARY ACCESS: Capture your students' imagination with movie
narratives based on primary sources. Primary Access is an online
tool that allows students and teachers to combine text, visual,
and sound elements, which are then combined to convey information
about their chosen historical event or time frame. A library of
Primary Access movies is available through a catalog by
historical time period.
Click here to visit Primary Access.
SOS INFORMATION LITERACY: Learn how to effectively incorporate
information literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for
Information Literacy is a dynamic, collaborative web-based
multimedia resource for educators, K to 16. This site links
lesson plans and teaching ideas for information literacy through
a comprehensive quality control system to ensure that lessons are
high caliber.
Click here to visit SOS for Information Literacy
ANIMOTO: Create a video in five minutes – no kidding! Using
Animoto, educators and students can create videos that contain
photos, graphics, music, text and more! It is only limited by
your imagination.
Click here to visit Animoto.
OUR STORY: Your story! Our Story permits users to develop and
save collaborative timelines that can be personalized with
annotations, photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be
printed in book format, archived on DVD, or even sent as
postcards.
Click here to visit Our Story.
TEACHER TUBE: What could be better? You Tube – just for teachers
and students! Teacher Tube offers videos solely for the field of
education. Videos are created by teachers and students to be
shared with other teachers and students.
Click here to visit Teacher Tube.
VOICE THREAD: The end of the boring slide show! VoiceThread
allows users to share images, documents, and videos with added
narration by the authors and others.
Bring oral history to life in the classroom, as students narrate
a series of images that relate to the skills and ideas they have
learned in a particular lesson.
Click here to visit Voice Thread.
WORDLE: Do you like to play with words or create visual poems?
A "Wordle" enables you to create a word "cloud," visually
depicting the relationship between words based on their frequency
of use. You can tweak your word "clouds" with different fonts,
layouts, and color schemes. Teach students to create a Wordle to
express their reading interests or their favorite book.
Click here to visit Wordle.
Do you find it difficult to keep up with the latest Web 2.0.
technologies? Join Classroom 2.0 Ning, a social network for
educators who are using or want to use Web 2.0 in their libraries
and classrooms.
Look at the Classroom 2.0 weekly webinars, featuring leading Web
2.0 educators - a great way to learn for both the novice and
experienced educator.
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SKYPE: Can you hear me? Skype is a basic and easy-to-use service
that offers free voice, video calls, conference calls, instant
messaging and group instant messaging. Download the software;
connect to the Internet and you're good to go.
Tip: Invite an author or a content expert to Skype with your
students.
Click here to visit Skype.
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful
images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you.
The object is to put the right words in the right place and the
right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the
picture.
Click Here for PICLIT
MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using
its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global
brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind
maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In
brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or
just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind
map and see each other's changes as they happen.
Click Here for MINDMASTER
Slideshare is a site where you can host your presentations and
share them with others. Presentations can be linked to at the
site itself or else embedded in a web page. You can also
synchronise an MP3 audio file (podcast) with the slideset to
create a slidecast - a more powerful way of distributing
presentations/tutorials. Slideshare is also a tremendous
resource site of presentations.
Click Here for SLIDESHARE
Audacity is an open source cross-platform sound editor and
recorder suitable for podcasting.
Click Here for AUDACITY.
Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and
shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
Click Here for JING
Screentoaster is a free online screen recorder.
Click Here for SCREENTOASTER
Browse and use millions of flashcards created by other students
and teachers, or create your own.
Click Here for QUIZLET
Great site for teachers and students with the ability to search
for copyright free images by topic.
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