Presentation done by Richard Byrne March 8, 2013 at NCTIES. Bookmarked sites that follow in this list correspond to slides in his presentation. By searching his blog, you can usually find one or more posts Byrne has written about the tools linked below.
Presentation done by Richard Byrne March 8, 2012 at NCTIES. Bookmarked sites that follow in this list correspond to slides in his presentation. By searching his blog, you can usually find one or more posts Byrne has written about the tools linked below.
Classroom tools
"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
"Gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples... allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept...make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject."
If you can ignore the ads, lots of neat timing tools here. Scroll down for different options - metronome, egg timer, and many other clocks, alarms and timers. Any can be used full screen to minimize distractions of ads.
Online mindmapping/graphic organizer tool that lets you create online sticky notes, make connections between them, and share with others. App (free) and not free (more features) available for iPad.
Create flashcards online and find ones created by others.
Another word cloud creation tool that allows you to use shapes
Teacher and productivity tools
"Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for Google, iPad, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy." Kathy notes that in her diagrams she purposely did not use the familiar pyramid shape "to help clear up the misunderstanding that the levels are hierarchical and [that] the top levels only make up a tiny portion of the cognitive processes." Check out her alternative "cogs of cognition." Scroll to bottom for additional links and even a correlation between Bloom's levels and Pinterest.
After installing extension in Chrome, you can complete online forms by speaking your reply instead of typing it.
Store, organize, and share lesson plans and materials.
"Millions of resources for 5th-12th grade science, math and social science courses...Organize resources into collections or quizzes" to make available to students.
Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments - works with Google forms.
"a web and mobile app that saves web pages as PDF for reading later. Turn full pages into clean PDF with one click, including title, text, images, author, category, no ads, no navigation menu. And it’s Free."
"Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox. Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Now you can! Together with Dropbox you can set up a unique upload address with password protection. DROPitTOme is your one stop solution when an email is just not enough."
Search tools
Tools to assist with online research
"SweetSearch4Me searches only Web sites that our staff of research experts, librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved as high-quality content appropriate for young users. Only the best sites directed at elementary school students are included, and many of the results on the first page were created exclusively for kids."
Computational knowledge engine - "Enter what you want to calculate or know about. Wolfram|Alpha ...will do its best to interpret your input and generate results for you."
"Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand."
Social tools