Technology

= TECHNOLOGY, WEB 2.O, SOCIAL NETWORKING =

**HERE'S A LIST OF FREE INTERNET RESOURCES THAT YOU CAN USE IN YOUR CLASSROOM:**

35 Top Tech Tools
> Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends > Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech > Free application to brainstorm online > The micro blogging service that many love or hate. > Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging. > Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint > An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose) > Make beautiful videos from images in a snap > Make your images talk…that’s right. > Create your own website or blog, very easy to use > Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print > Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions! > Easily record and share audio > The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system > Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites! > Popular social bookmarking site > View anywhere in the world anytime > Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text > Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful > Easily make your own flash-based website > Despite a new cost-based membership program, Ning allows you to have your own social network > Web-based word processor > Innovative way to organize your web visits > One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web > Virtually publish your book and sell it > Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice > Create animations using this simple website > Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash! > Create and share stories, games, art, etc. > Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all > Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images > Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn > Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others
 * Glogster
 * Edmodo
 * Bubbl.us
 * Twitter
 * WordPress
 * Prezi
 * Wallwisher
 * Animoto
 * Blabberize
 * Weebly
 * Flickr
 * Slideshare
 * Audioboo
 * VoiceThread
 * [|GoogleDocs]
 * GoogleSites
 * Diigo
 * GoogleEarth
 * Wordle
 * Wikis
 * Wix
 * [|Ning]
 * Primarypad
 * Spicy Nodes
 * Delicious
 * Myebook
 * Voki
 * DoInk
 * Warning Sign Generator
 * Scratch
 * Kerpoof
 * Tagxedo
 * SmartKiddies
 * Bitstrips

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This Education Week Report discusses the push to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics __#|education__:
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These PowerPoint presentations offer a way to focus students' attention and __#|help__ them prepare for the day's lesson. They include two sets of famous quotations and two sets of trivia. The content can be changed to be relevant to the subject being taught. It can also serve as a preview or review of the day's vocabulary, key points or key individuals:

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PowerPoint has become the most common format for presenting information in an engaging visual way. Sometimes it's overused. This PDF describes just that circumstance:

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= Electronic Whiteboards Engage Learners Articles: =

[|A Clean Slate: Interactive Whiteboard Makes Lessons Snazzy] (Edutopia) [|Ten Ways To Get Smart With SMARTBoard] (Tech & Learning) [|Talking about Interactive Whiteboards: Differences and Similarities Between England and America] (Tech & Learning) [|Board Certified] (T.H.E. Journal)

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[|netTrekker] - a __#|FREE__ resource for __#|education__ in PA [|SMART education consultant] resource page The Amphitheater School's Whiteboard Wiki - Resources Page [|Teachers Love SMARTBoards] [|Garnet Valley SD (PA)] - has built a list of sites they have found to be useful [|These interactives from England] may be used with whiteboards

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[|SMART-Education] (requires __#|registration__) [|PROMETHEAN Planet - Education Resources] (requires __#|registration__)

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Webquest Maker and Ideas: [] Creating Rubrics: [] Project Based Learning: [] Project Based Learning: [] Using blogs in the classroom: [] Using wikis in the classroom: [] Three dimensional, animated PowerPoint presentations: __[|www.prezi.com]__ Add speech to a photo in your presentations: [|www.blabberize.com] Create a beautiful word __#|cloud__: [|www.wordle.net] 360° photographs: [] [] [] Poster yourself: [|www.glogster.com]