A great and simple tool for making screencasts for tutorials, software demos, and more. You don't even have to download anything. This works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and lets you even share your screencasts on the web or embed them on your blog or web site.
This blog will be dedicated to sharing all the great technology tools and teaching strategies that can be used in any classroom. I will share with you the web tools that the AHS Social Media class explores this semester as well as others I find. I am constantly searching for web tools to share with students and staff - so have fun exploring!
Computer Essentials 2013
Finding, Exploring, Collecting, and Sharing Web Tools!
Soungle
A royalty-free sound effects search engine. Just enter your keyword, and Soungle will find all the free sound effects it can.
Writeboard
With this free web app, you can collaborate on documents from anywhere and view changes in a snap. Whiteboard allows users write, collaborate, and compare in real time without fear of losing information.
ThinkFold
If you need an easy way to work on group projects, you may find what you need in ThinkFold. This free web-based tool allows users to create documents, add images, and make changes -- all in real time.
Flash Card Exchange
Easily the world's largest online flashcard library, FlashcardExchange can be used to create and study flashcards online. If you don't have time to create your own flashcards, you can use ready-made cards created by other people.
The Awesome Highlighter
The Awesome Highlighter takes some of the confusion out of online research by allowing you to highlight the important parts of a web page and transform it into a useful link.
BibMe
BibMe is a free bibliography maker for students who want to create a fast bibliography or works cited page in MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian format. You can enter the required information in yourself or use the search feature to find books, articles, websites, or films.
Supalogo
This easy-to-use web application creates instant "Web 2.0"-style logos for your web site, letterheads, or anything else you need to brand. Just enter the words you want, adjust the settings, and Supalogo creates a basic graphic file for you.
Babble With Me
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, into the reader's own language.
Big Huge Labs
Create your own customized motivational posters, magazine covers, movie posted, jigsaw puzzles, calendars, and a lot more on this site. Just upload your photos and do all sorts of fun things. Also, view the top 100 digital camera makes and models, updated weekly.
Fonts
This site boasts over 6500 free fonts you can download and use for free. These are TrueType fonts that work with any Windows operating system.
Freeplay Music
This is a collection of free music and sound effects suitable for classroom videos, podcasts, and more. Search by style of music or sound and browse the vast collection. Sounds are available as MP3s.
StudyStack
StudyStack produces online flash cards. Create, study, add, and edit on the web. Play hangman or solve crossword puzzles, word searches, or word scrambles. Print or export to your cell phone, iPod, or other mobile device for studying on the go.
Musipedia
Inspired by Wikipedia, Musipedia is a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour. Musipedia uses the 'Melodyhound' melody search engine. You can find and identify a tune even if the melody is all you know. You can play it on a piano keyboard, whistle it to the computer, simply tap the rhythm on the computer keyboard or use the Parsons code. You can base your search on melody (i.e., pitch and rhythm), melodic contour, or just rhythm.
Flash Card Finder
A flash card search engine. Enter your keywords, and Flash Card Flash will search the best flash card sites for the flash cards you want.
Pixton
Pixton is a highly flexible comic strip creator. You don't even need to know how to draw -- just click, drag, and create. Embed your comics in your blog to share with others. You can even use Pixton's simple animation features to bring your comics and characters to life. Pixton is accredited by SMART Technologies, and works quite well with an interactive whiteboard.
CueFlash
CueFlash is a web based flashcard system. Share, edit, work collaboratively, study, and discuss a deck online. CueFlash is nice, light, and fast.
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