Tech+Grab+Bag

__**Ken**__

__Great Tech Resources__


 * 1) **Wordle**
 * 2) **Twiducate**--twitter for teachers. Can add students. Students can communicate with each other. More protected for students
 * 3) ex. twhistory.org
 * 4) **Animoto.com**--can make films from pictures. This is great. Showed example of a short film on Martin Luther King. There are resources as well--archived sets made for education.
 * 5) **Memorize.com**--helps kids get ready for tests; gives tables in which questions and answers can be entered.
 * 6) **Google Docs**--Great for group projects; share and collaborate, can share real time; shows who edits and at what time.
 * 7) **Google Phone**--can get a phone number; dedicated to parents or students to contact you. Translates the phone call to text, so you have physical evidence of the conversation. Also good for interviews?
 * 8) **Google Voice**--voice mails are translated to text.
 * 9) **Free technology for teachers**
 * 10) **Text Blaster**--enter kids cell phones into your computer and you can send one text and all the students receive them; great for sending information to all. Great also when we are on trips and have to contact all the students.
 * 11) **Google Presentations**--like power point, but more than one kid can work on it at one time.
 * 12) **Google Spreadsheets**
 * 13) **Google Drawing**--students can work together to organize information in other ways; charts; drawings. Take a template and put it on for students to click and fill (maps).
 * 14) **Prezi.com**--Power point presentation. Not linear. Zooms in and out for a great presentation.
 * John, this is cool for creating diagrams like you have been doing in my Tan class. Check it out!!
 * 1) **Teach-nology,com**--time line ,maker. Vertical and horizontal timelines.
 * 2) **ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm** --Poetry maker; Educational technology training
 * 3) **Firefox download helper**--Download; when you go to a site, you can download any video on the site.
 * 4) **Wikispaces**--great project: creating a textbook.
 * 5) **Voicethread**--must purchase for the students; upload an image and then comment on the images. Great for art critique (Katie?).
 * 6) **Learnboost.com**--Free software; gradebook, attendance. We have a FAWEB.
 * 7) **edu.glogster.com**-- Can create an account for the students; Free site. Like an online scrapbook. Can create a unique project. Really cool.
 * 8) **Scribd.com**--Publish documents on line.


 * e-mail: Kristi.stricker@cuchicago.edu**