Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday, May 6, 2011
21 Free Web Tools for Educators
out this list!
#1 - Wallwisher
#2 - Self-grading Quizzes
#3 - Bitstrips for Schools
#4 - Classtools.net
#5 - Edmodo
#6 - DoInk
#7 - Kerpoof
#8 - Glogster
#9 - ToonDoo
#10 - Wordle
#11 - Skype
#12 - Animoto
#13 - VoiceThreads
#14 - PhotoFiltre
#15 - Livebinders
#16 - WeeBehave
#17 - DropBox
#18 - Jing
#19 - Audacity
#20 - LearnBoost
#21 - Wetoku
#1 - Wallwisher
#2 - Self-grading Quizzes
#3 - Bitstrips for Schools
#4 - Classtools.net
#5 - Edmodo
#6 - DoInk
#7 - Kerpoof
#8 - Glogster
#9 - ToonDoo
#10 - Wordle
#11 - Skype
#12 - Animoto
#13 - VoiceThreads
#14 - PhotoFiltre
#15 - Livebinders
#16 - WeeBehave
#17 - DropBox
#18 - Jing
#19 - Audacity
#20 - LearnBoost
#21 - Wetoku
Word Clouds
Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds
1. Wordle - Probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can then be edited w/ different fonts, colors, and layouts, and even shared w/ others online.
2. Tagxedo - A great way to make word clouds from sites, different social networks, and then change shape to meet your needs (ie, star).
3. Tagul - Similar to Tagxedo, a very easy to use site to create different shaped word clouds.
4. Worditout - A nice site for making word clouds by just copying/pasting text.
5. Word Sift - A excellent site for making word clouds and then editing them by altering the criteria in how it's created. Pictures are also generated to best represent your word cloud.
6. VocabGrabber - A wonderful site similar to Word Sift in making word clouds. However, the clouds generated are color coded for best displaying clouds.
7. Tag Galaxy - An innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format. A must see!!!
8. Tag Crowd - A simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.
9. Quintura - Is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.
10. TwitterSheep - A fun site that generates it results by keywords found in bios from a user's followers.
1. Wordle - Probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can then be edited w/ different fonts, colors, and layouts, and even shared w/ others online.
2. Tagxedo - A great way to make word clouds from sites, different social networks, and then change shape to meet your needs (ie, star).
3. Tagul - Similar to Tagxedo, a very easy to use site to create different shaped word clouds.
4. Worditout - A nice site for making word clouds by just copying/pasting text.
5. Word Sift - A excellent site for making word clouds and then editing them by altering the criteria in how it's created. Pictures are also generated to best represent your word cloud.
6. VocabGrabber - A wonderful site similar to Word Sift in making word clouds. However, the clouds generated are color coded for best displaying clouds.
7. Tag Galaxy - An innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format. A must see!!!
8. Tag Crowd - A simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.
9. Quintura - Is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.
10. TwitterSheep - A fun site that generates it results by keywords found in bios from a user's followers.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
10 Free Online Surveys
Funding is an issue for many administrators. Why not use open source and free web based tools whenever possible?
Here are 10 sites for creating surveys:
Struffa: Contests, polls that can be moderated before publishing
Rubpolis: Create a poll by dragging and dropping
Flisti: Share your poll in a social network such as Facebook or MySpace
Obsurvey: Survey that works like a wiki
Survey Monkey: Comprehensive online site for creating surveys
PollDaddy: Can be integrated into mobile devices
Vorbeo: Embeddable onto your website or blog
Text the Mob: Good for large audiences can be used with mobile devices
Insightify: Great for collaboration
Yarp: Good for simple surveys. Generates unique url.
Tech and Learning magazine September 2010 issue.
Here are 10 sites for creating surveys:
Struffa: Contests, polls that can be moderated before publishing
Rubpolis: Create a poll by dragging and dropping
Flisti: Share your poll in a social network such as Facebook or MySpace
Obsurvey: Survey that works like a wiki
Survey Monkey: Comprehensive online site for creating surveys
PollDaddy: Can be integrated into mobile devices
Vorbeo: Embeddable onto your website or blog
Text the Mob: Good for large audiences can be used with mobile devices
Insightify: Great for collaboration
Yarp: Good for simple surveys. Generates unique url.
Tech and Learning magazine September 2010 issue.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wifitti
Wifitti creates screens that allow you to display messages from many feeds, pulls info with specific tags and allows contributors to comment via text.
Monday, August 9, 2010
The Connected Principal
It is important for leaders, especially school principals, to share their knowledge around 21st Century learning and how to transform their schools into collaborative spaces that used technology integration as a seamless tool. George Couros, a 21st century principal, created a blog where principals can share best practices, trials and tribulations, technology integration and more. Take a look at the Connected Principal http://www.connectedprincipals.com/
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