It's future is not clear. http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet
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Tod Baker"The following tools are all free and simple to use. This means there’s no cost, nothing to download, no CDs, no manuals and no training. The best of these also do not require users to have email, registration or log ins."
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Add Sticky NoteThe tool I recommend they use is http://etherpad.com/.
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Add Sticky NoteSave thousands per classroom by ditching the Interactive Whiteboard and projector cart. I don’t suggest this because I think interactive whiteboards are a luxury, I suggest it, because I think teachers are more effective without the interactive whiteboard
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I agree but will attempt to confirm this with my co-teachers who use IWBs.
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Julie LindsayGreat blog post by Lisa Nielsen reminding me yet again that education does not need to be expensive and 'budget heavy'. Web 2.0 and a decent connection to the Internet along with wise choices for tools can transform a school.
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Debbie Johnsoner a question about the level of contribution from group
participants. It’s all right there. Finally, of course, since this is
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Haiyan Zhoufor beginning teaching innovatively: poll everywhere, Etherpad, Projector Only, video/audio conferencing, etc.
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Marcela Summerville"There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: 8 Free and Easy Ways to Begin Educating Innovatively"
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Tammy Thomasneed to have tattered instructional charts
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Janet Morrisonways to use online collaboration and innovative uses of technology for the classroom...think about for ME class
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Poll Everywhere is free for people who need to collect 30 or fewer responses per poll
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Etherpad allows students to write individually, in pairs, or in groups. It tracks by color who wrote what information. It has an area for chat, and a teacher can play back and observe the writing and revision process of their students.
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because each participants in put is color-coded there is never a question about the level of contribution from group participants
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live playback. This lets a teacher watch the students step by step writing and revision process including exactly which student contributed what and when
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Both Google Docs and Microsoft Word provide three indicators of the reading level of the document you're creating. They will each calculate for you the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and the Automatic Readability Index. In Google Docs you visit the tools menu and select the word count option. In MS Word, you click on the Microsoft Office button, then select Word Options, Click Proofing, make sure Check grammar with spelling is selected, under When correcting grammar in Word, select the Show readability statistics check box. Then open your document in word and run a spell check.
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This allows teachers and students to instantly see the difficulty level of their writing. Are they writing at a 2nd grade level or 12th grade?
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To find the reading level of professionally published material, teachers and students can visit Find A Book which allows users for free to type in any book and find the reading level of that book, or perhaps more powerful they can type in their reading level and interest and build a custom reading list on the subjects that interest the reader most.
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tinychat is a free service that provides text, audio, and video chat rooms. One of the benefits of Tinychat is that nobody involved needs special software to join in and you don’t need to register.
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You can have up to twelve people in a room with HQ video, protected by passwords and moderators, share your desktop with them, and your conferences can be recorded and embedded on your website.
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Kim CofinoThere is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: 8 Free and Easy Ways to Begin Educating Innovatively
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John TurnerLisa Nielsen
"8 Free and Easy Tools Innovative Educators Can Start Using Today"
Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com
Etherpad http://etherpad.com/
Reading Level Check in Word and Google Docs
Find A Book http://lexile.com/findabook/
Projector Only
IWBFAQ: What’s better - a projector with tablet PC or an IWB?
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The Tool: Reading Level Check in Word and Google Docs
Both Google Docs and Microsoft Word provide three indicators of the reading level of the document you're creating. They will each calculate for you the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and the Automatic Readability Index. -
This allows teachers and students to instantly see the difficulty level of their writing. Are they writing at a 2nd grade level or 12th grade?
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Skype, Tinychat, Oovoo, Dimdim, TokBox, Wiigo
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The Tool: ScreenJelly and Screentoaster
ScreenJelly and Screentoaster record your screen activity with your voice for FREE so you can spread it instantly in any format you'd like with one click of a mouse. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like. To start recording, click on the red button. No need to install or download anything! Teachers can use this to record short lessons or tutorials for their students, or better yet, let their students record the tutorials for each other. Screenjelly, which comes from the the team that created ScreenToaster, is touted as being the simplest two use and has a three-minute limit. ScreenToaster has a few more bells and whistles and no such limit.
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Jean Potterinteresting - free tools, "avoid" use of interactive whiteboard!!!
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tinychat is a free service that provides text, audio, and video chat rooms. One of the benefits of Tinychat is that nobody involved needs special software to join in and you don’t need to register.
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Screen capture recording enables teachers to create interactive course material that truly engages students.
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Teachers can use this to record short lessons or tutorials for their students, or better yet, let their students record the tutorials for each other. Screenjelly, which comes from the the team that created ScreenToaster, is touted as being the simplest two use and has a three-minute limit. ScreenToaster has a few more bells and whistles and no such limit.
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