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Tools for School

Audio and ebook Downloads
Books Should Be Free
Tucson Pima Public Library - use your own library card or talk to Ms. Dooley to get help with a download. Overdrive and OneClickDigital
Download instructions appended below.

Avatars
Create an Avatar with tektek
Copyright Free Avatar Makers from Joyce Valenza's site
Portrait Avatar Maker - haven't tried this one yet
Voki - an avatar that speaks, not good for Voicethread

Book Sharing Sites
GoodReads - Start a list of what you've read with or without a personal review. Add friends that can be notified when you've added to your list. Create a private or public book discussion blog.
Shelfari
LibraryThing - Put your own books in a library. Connects you to others with similar tastes in literature for recommendations. Allows you to write reviews, set up private groups...

Cartoon Makers
Make Beliefs Comix
ToonDoo

Citations

Diane Hacker - use Humanities for MLA format

Owl Purdue - MLA guides

Data
How to Choose the Best Chart for Your Data
Google Fusion - Share and discuss your data online

Facebook look alikes
Fakebook lots of advertisements.
My Fakewall somewhat inconsistent, crashes, but always comes back up.
PowerPoint template that approximates Facebook is appended below.

Fair Use
Fair Use and Transformativeness

Flickr- a picture sharing site and so much more.
The Arizona Memory Project on Flickr

Jing - downloadable software that makes it possible to broadcast short movies with sound of what you are doing on the computer.

Flashcards
Studyblue - flashcards for your phone

Google
Brochure template - trifold - print only pages 1,3, two sided-doc

Images
Flickr's Creative Common's Search
Flickr: The Commons - access to some of the world's famous photography archives.
Getty Images
Google Life (magazine) Photo Archive 1750 - 1980
Public Domain Sherpa - finding and using public domain photographs
TinEye - reverse image search for ownership
Wylio - searches Creative Commons photos

Mindmapping
Bubbl.us
Webspiration - the web version of Inspiration

Newspapers
Google News - searchable, foreign language editions (directions for changing language)
Historic - Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers

Notetaking on the Web
Evernote

Online Posters
Glogster - an online poster. Now with educational features and privacy options.
ScrapBlog - scrapbook page with pictures or video.
Sproutbuilder - similar to glogster

Polling
Poll Everywhere - allows students to use their cell phones and register a vote on a PowerPoint.
Poll Daddy
Survey Monkey

Photo Tools
Big Huge Labs - makes badges, magazine covers, trading cards and so much more
Flickr - creative commons, and for the S. S. Teachers, Flickr - the Library of Congress Photostream.
Picnik - collages and so much more. Edit photos the easy way, online, in your browser.
Picasa 3

Presentations
Infographics portal - how to from Kathy Schrock
Visual.ly
PowerPoint with authorSTREAM - blog post

Using Multi-Media in Prezi on Prezi
Scoop it - be the curator of your own topic.
SlideShare
Voicethread - not completely free, a class is $60.00. At the high school level a teachers classes could be 150 kids or more.

Primary and Secondary Sources

Social Bookmarking - Video
Diigo - has student and educator accounts

Timelines
Tiki-Toki
Timeglider

Twitter
10 Things Teachers Should Know to Get Started With Twitter

Video Tools
Kickyoutube.com-While at the youtube video that you want to save, insert kick into the URL just before the words youtube. It will take you to another page with a choice of formats for saving the video to your computer or ipod. Choose MP4 on the bar, click go. Right click and save target as, to your desktop or H drive.
ClipConverter.cc
Zamzar - converts stuff from one format to another.

Word Clouds
tagxedo
Wordle - creates word clouds from text, pasted in or brought over from a blog. Frequently have to download the latest version of Java. Use the snipping tool in Microsoft programs to copy and paste the wordle into a word document or Paint to convert it to a jpg.

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