Finding, Exploring, Collecting, and Sharing Web Tools!

Edheads - Activate Your Mind!

Edheads - Activate Your Mind!: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Yodio

Yodio.com allows users to record, create, and share pictures, presentations, etc. Yodio users upload pictures or a presentation and add narration from their computer or by phone. The number users call to record their Yodio is toll free. However, the number the user calls from must be registered with the account being called. Yodio was also very easy to set up and use.

Google Talk

Google Talk - you can only video chat with one person at a time.   You can chat with video or just your voice. 

Chat within Gmail, iGoogle, and orkut



Tiny Chat

Today students participated in video chat utilizing Tinychat.com

Password protect your chat room.

video chat provided by Tinychat

Podcasting

Podcasting!

Students will utilize Vocaroo to create a message utilizing this free podcasting website! Students will embed the code in a post or as a gadget!

You do not have to create an account to create a podcast.  However, if you want to save all of your message you must do so.  It takes no time at all to create an account.

With this website - students can record a message. It starts recording rather quickly after you hit allow. However, just click the record again button and record the message again.  Students can send the message in an email, embed the html code on to their website or add the link to their website.








Gabcast offers two free options for recording and sharing your vocal podcasts. You can record by calling in to a phone number.   The other way to record is by using a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) service.

You must create an account on Gabcast.  To start utilizing the recording service, you must create a channel.  You may have your recording private or public.  Once you have your channel you may dial one of the access numbers.  Dial the access number, and you will be prompted to enter your channel number followed by the pound key.  Then your password.  You then record your message.  You can publish right from your cell phone.  If you have subscribers, they will be notified of the new recording.  The message will be saved on to your gabcast account.



Your message will be saved under your episodes.


To add to your blog!
Once you are logged into your account click on "edit channel" and select "Custom" from the "Add new blog" drop-down box. Provide the username and password that you use to log on to your WordPress blog to post. Enter your server in the blog server field and provide the app path (e.g. /wordpress/xmlrpc.php). Important: Leave the "blog ID" field blank! Optionally embed the Flash player (recommended). Click "Submit".



http://www.voxopop.com

Voxopop aims to bring people together in an environment of constructive communication.They realize that the world needs more communication between people of differing social, political and religious contexts - and Voxopop aims to provide that kind of bridge to bring about social change. So lets talking!

Voxopop talkgroups let you discuss your interests and passions with people from all over the world, using your real voice. It's a whole new way to talk online. Find talkgroups to join, or start your own and spread the word. Great for families & friends, interest groups, website owners, bloggers, podcasters and teachers. Start talking, it's FREE!


Created a talkgroup!
Social Media 3o


Docs Online

Discover, create and share documents with your friends, coworkers, and classmates on Facebook. docs.com

Links to Explore

Math Tool Chest

Math Tool Chest is a site containing some fun math-oriented games and activities.

 

 Virtual Worlds Almanac

This is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to virtual worlds with educational value.

 

Create A Graph

Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world. This site from NCES provides you with five different graph and chart makers.

 

Global Education Conference 2010

The Global Education Conference, an entirely free, online conference, is being held from November 15 - 19. The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities. The goal is to help you make connections with other educators and students, and for this reason the conference is very inclusive and also provides broad opportunities for participating and presenting. There is an amazing list of expert presenters and keynote speakers. There is no formal registration required for the conference, as all the sessions will be open and public, broadcast live using the Elluminate platform, and available in recorded formats afterwards. There is a limit of 500 live attendees for any given session. Check the Schedule and Sessions pages for specifics.

 

YoYo Games

Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Then you've come to the right place. Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code.

 

Wordoholic

This cross-platform language learning tools helps you understand words in foreign languages. A quiz mode is available to test you on your knowledge of foreign words.

 

Wink

Wink is a tutorial and presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software applications. Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles, etc., and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

 

Musopen

Musopen is a collection of public domain music, primarily classical, in both MP3 and sheet music format. Music sheets range from simple instrumental pieces to symphonic arrangements.

Symbaloo

Abilene has their own Symbaloo site!  Utilize this social bookmarking website to keep all of your favorite websites organized!  Access your bookmarks from any computer utilizing Symbaloo!!

Visit at:  http://abilene.symbaloo.com/

Common Craft

I LOVE COMMON CRAFT VIDEOS!!!! When teaching Social Media!

Common Craft is a website where you can find videos on certain subjects - "In Plain English".  The cool thing about this website is that the videos use paper cut-outs.   The explanation of these videos are great to supplement any lesson!

"Common Craft Covers Subjects That Matter in the 21st Century"

 3 Minute Videos

The have created over 30 videos that have been viewed over 20 million times online.  Their current focus is building a library of educational videos that can be licensed for use in classrooms, on Learning Management Systems, Intranets and on websites. You can also hire them to create a video for you!!!

These videos can be viewed for Free, Purchase for Professional Use

You can watch their complete library of videos, in-full, on this site. If you'd like to take a video with you for professional use, they offer multiple licenses, depending on how you'd like to use the videos.  They are:
  • Web License: Embed a Common Craft video on your website (monthly subscription service)
  • Individual License: Download videos to your computer, for use in presentations, classrooms, etc. (for a single person's use)
  • Site License: Download videos for use across an organization via an Intranet, LMS, Extranet, DVDs, etc.
They are very flexible and happy to work with you, even if your situation doesn't appear to fit into our licenses. We also offer an educational/non-profit discount. Just contact us.
If you'd like to find out how people use the videos, take a look at the testimonials or learn more about licensing options.

fur.ly

fur.ly


Shorten multiple URL's into one.

Have a set of websites that you want to share with your students?  You can type them into Fur.ly - see pictures.  Copy and paste or key in URL's.  Click go and fur.ly will give you one URL.

Here is an example:  http://fur.ly/3bwq of a fur.ly I made for Keyboarding.

Here is what will appear when you go to the url.   There is a left and right arrow at the top of the webpage to move through each website.  Pretty COOL!!

Yoowalk

Click here to explore Yoowalk!

Yoowalk vitural world - chat room - enter various stores, etc.

YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web a 3D world where you can :
  • Browse the web in 3D with your avatar
  • Build a 3D version of your website
  • Have your personal room in 3D
  • Meet people and hang around with them
YOOWALK is organized by villages, grouping websites and brands by areas of interest. When you walk down the streets in one of these villages, you thus see schematic buildings that represent the major websites on a particular subject. You walk around the web!

Firefox Addons

Customize your Firefox  to enhance your online shopping, music, bookmarking and much more. 

There are several Firefox add on categories - see photo on right.


Have fun!  There are so many neat add on's to make your life easier!!!

TimeRime.com - introduction

TimeRime.com

TimeRime lets you search, compare and make free timeline. The time lines can be filled with audio and video fragments, as well.

Symbaloo | Access your bookmarks anywhere

Symbaloo | Access your bookmarks anywhere: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
The Ultimate Research Assistant is a combination search engine and summarization tool for writers, students, educators, and researchers. It uses a combination of traditional search engine technology and text mining techniques to facilitate online research of complex topics. Think of the Ultimate Research Assistant as "Google meets Wikipedia" - you type in your search query and get back a dynamically-generated Wikipedia-style article for your search results rather than the typical list of document links.

BurningWell

BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find here for any purpose. These free images were donated by photographers from around the world.

MorgueFile

MorgueFile contains a large collection of free images. This public image archive lets you use all the images for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

UpToTen

A games and activities search engine. Educational games are sorted in categories to make it easier for you to find what you want.

bit.ly

bit.ly | Basic | a simple URL shortener

Utilize bit.ly to shorten long links

Blog Background

Have fun changing your blog background to correspond with the holidays!!

Here is one of many websites:  The Cutest Blog on The Block

You can also add banners and accessories from this website to your blog! HAVE FUN!!

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BabelWith.Me - Create a Conversation

BabelWith.Me - Create a Conversation: "Communicate with anyone, anywhere in up to 45 languages. BabelWith.me is a simple, free group chat that automatically translates your conversation as you type."

Tinychat

Tinychat - Live video chat rooms, simple and easy.:

"What is Tinychat?

Tinychat is a simple, free to use, video chat rooms that just work! Enjoy chatting with your friends or making new ones, just create a chat room or join one."

CBOX

Add a chat box to your blog.  http://www.cbox.ws

Google Toolbar - Web History

Wow! Google Web History on Google's toolbar is pretty cool!  As long as you are logged in while searching Google, your web history will be saved.  So no matter where you are, you can access your web history.  It shows the time of when your search was conducted.

Google Toolbar


(The following information was obtained from Google's Help - Getting Started Page)

Toolbar offers helpful search suggestions as you type in the search box. While most suggestions come from popular Google searches, you'll also see suggestions from your Google bookmarks and your search history. Toolbar even lets you know if you've incorrectly spelled a word, and suggests the correct spelling.

Download Google Toolbar - for Firefox Click here

Search with popular suggestions

Toolbar offers helpful search suggestions as you type in the search box. While most suggestions come from popular Google searches, you'll also see suggestions from your Google bookmarks and your search history. Toolbar even lets you know if you've incorrectly spelled a word, and suggests the correct spelling.
Learn more about the search box

Access websites with a single click

Add custom buttons to access or search your favorite websites from Toolbar. You can add buttons created by other Toolbar users from our Button Gallery, or make your own using our Google Toolbar API.
Learn more about custom buttons


Contribute to any webpage with Sidewiki

Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read helpful information alongside any webpage. Share your insights with the entire Sidewiki community and post updates via Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, or email.
Learn more about Sidewiki

View your Google Bookmarks from any computer

Instead of remembering the addresses to all your favorite websites, save time by creating Google Bookmarks. Google Bookmarks are saved to your Google Account and can be accessed from any computer through Toolbar's Bookmarks menu, the Google Bookmarks homepage, or your iGoogle homepage.
Learn more about Google Bookmarks

Google Quick Search Box

Quick Search Box allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.  With the Google Quick Search Box you can search for information from just about anywhere. You can then perform actions on the search results, such as launching applications, emailing friends, or playing a song.

To install the Quick Search Box - for a mac:  http://www.google.com/quicksearchbox/

Networked Blogs

NetworkedBlogs.com is an extension of the NetworkedBlogs Facebook Application to make user-generated blog directory accessible outside Facebook and provide more exposure to our blogs.


  • Get Found
    If a blog is not read by anyone, does it really exist?
  • Visual Blogroll
    Show off a thumbnail image of your blog on your Facebook profile
  • Discover
    Find top blogs in humor, politics, technology, and more.

Promote your blog on Facebook and syndicate your feeds to your wall and fan pages. Join 1,000,000 other users on the largest community of bloggers and blog lovers on Facebook.


Promote your blog on Facebook and to discover new blogs. NetworkedBlogs is a community of bloggers and blog lovers. Join the fun, add your blog, and connect with others who read and write about subjects you like.

Features

  • Works on both: profiles and Facebook Pages
  • Import your blog feed to your profile or public page
  • A visual blogroll on your profile to promote your blog and blogs you like
  • A directory of blogs organized by topic and geographical locations
  • Read news and vote articles you love
  • A community of like minded people to connect with

In The Press



Take a Virtual Fieldtrip

Picture Virtual field trips collection. Organized by subject, this  resource has a great selection of websites that can be used for virtual field trips in the classroom.

Donors Choose

For Teachers | School and Teacher Donations

Is a nonprofit that connects public school teachers with people who want to support classroom learning.  Submit a project idea, and you may be chosen by a donor to receive funding!

Thanksgiving

PictureScholastic has a great interactive mini-site on the first Thanksgiving. You can sign up for a video webcast, take a virtual tour of a plantation, go for a trip on the Mayflower, and more. Teacher resources are included to help show you how to integrate these great interactives. Bonus content includes a reader's theater, a vocabulary quiz, and printable door signs. Grade specific activities are featured here, as are free historical fiction letters that are emailed to you from Thanksgiving characters. You can check out The First Thanksgiving here.
Information taken from (The Education Technology Blog) - THANKS FOR SHARING!

The Education Technology Blog - Home

PictureEdVoices.com is a website for teaching professionals who are looking to keep up to date with the latest educational resources and thinking. Created by the NEA, it provides news articles and posts from some of the best educational blogs on the web. Classroom management, education technology, and education policy are just some of the topics you can expect to find here. So, if you want to keep up to date with the latest news, views and information, it could be worth your time to check it out. als who are looking to keep up to date with the latest educational resources and thinking.
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SymbalooEDU is a recently released EDU version of the original Symbaloo site. Symbaloo claims to have 50,000 teachers currently using its original site, and this was the driving force for creating the EDU version. It is a visually appealing way to organize and share web resources. You can collect information on a given topic for a lesson, gather together some links for a webquest, or put together an e-portfolio. In the future, it may be nice to see a storage account that allows you to upload files of your own, but for now this is purely web-based content. It uses a drag and drop tile interface to link to sites of your choice, and if there is currently no pre-made tile for your site, you can easily make one of your own.  The screencast below will give you an idea of what to expect.   (Information taken from The Educational Technology Blog)

Google Instant

Google Instant: "Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way."

Benefits

Faster Searches: By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.

Smarter Predictions: Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.

Instant Results: Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.