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SuperHero Toolz That Will Make You Coolz Presenters: Jim Gilreath & Hailey Horning 1. edshelf Find the right educational tools for your needs. A discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning. 2. Screencast-O-Matic One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE! 3. MyStorybook MyStorybook is a digital storytelling web tool that allows students to create their very own story from scratch. With this tool, students can: Create their own storyline Draw pictures Insert photos or other illustrations Publish and view stories in the public gallery 4. Word Tamer Word tamer is a digital storytelling web tool that takes students on an interactive carnival journey through creative storytelling. As students progress through the journey, they are exposed to thrilling videos and activities that teach the process of developing 5. Newseum Digital Classroom Newseum Digital Classroom is a is a cross-disciplinary resource that helps reinforce historical and governmental concepts through the use of: Interactive timelines Downloadable lesson plans and modules Archival videos lessons and guides Primary source documents (newspaper, photos, etc.) 6. LibrAdventures LibrAdventures is a web tool that allows students to utilize Google Maps to see the places and events that influenced famous authors and their works. LibrAdventures can be explored by selecting a name, location, or event in the drop-down menu of the homepage. Various place mark icons are pinned on the map for students to explore, which allows them to make connections between place and stories. 7. Google World Wonders Google World Wonders is a web tool that allows users to get closer than ever to historical sites by taking them on a virtual field trip. This tool includes unique features such as: Street view technology 3D models providing virtual exploration in and around ancient sites Informational videos relating to each site Photographs 8. Booktrack Booktrack is an online soundtrack platform that allows users to further immerse themselves into digital text by incorporating an array of multimedia to accompany their reading. Users select the text they would like to enhance and just add whatever audio they like from a selection of over 20,000 tracks. 9. Max’s Math Adventures Max’s Math Adventure is a web tool featured with math and language arts activities designed for students in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The activities are designed to challenge students to solve math problems, while using clues embedded in rhymes. Choose from a variety of skills: Shapes Linear measurement Addition Fractions Subtraction Size comparison Number patterns Concrete multiplication 10. Whyville Whyville is an online educational gaming community that challenges young students in a multitude of areas. What is unique about this particular educational gaming community is the virtual world aspect, where students can earn virtual money and use it to start their own virtual business and learn about a variety of economic functions. 11. Glean Glean is a web tool designed to make searching for educational video lessons much easier. In this tool, teachers can post videos on lesson plans on various educational topics for students to search for and watch. Over 15,000 video lessons plans to choose from Personalized learning profile to match students and teachers based on: -pace -teaching style -grade level Students can pose questions for teachers to answer Videos comply with educational standards 12. Powtoon Powtoon is a web tool that allows users to create animated presentations by importing images, music, and voice overs. Powtoon also includes a drag and drop feature where users can drag images into their presentation and manipulate them to comply with the context of their presentations. 13. Gliffy Gliffy is a web tool that allows users to create professional-looking charts and diagrams with ease. With a wide selection of shapes, arrows, and icons, there is no limit to designing a well put together infographic. 14. Visme Visme is a web tool that allows users to generate their thoughts and ideas into engaging visuals using a simple drag and drop feature. Users can choose from a wide range of motion text or image templates. Presentations Animations Infographics Banner Ads 15. Bitstrips Bitstrips is a web tool that allows users to animate themselves and create avatars by adjusting their physical characteristics and accessories. They can then place their avatars in comic book settings and create and share their own comic strip. 16. NASA Kid’s Club NASA Kid’s Club is a unique web tool that provides information about math and space science in the form of interactive space missions. Students can complete these interactive missions and stimulate further interest in space by receiving real time updates 17. Photosynth A Microsoft web application that takes your photos, mashes them together and recreates a 3D scene out of them that anyone can view and move around in. It is a powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D. You can share your creations with your friends on Facebook, or embed them in your own blog or Web site. 18. Poll Everywhere Poll everywhere is a web tool that allows users to generate questions for an audience and the audience can respond via text. Web generated SMS number Customizable colors, fonts and graphics Usable in Powerpoint or Keynote for live results Participant anonymity 19. Custom Sign Generator The Custom Sign Generator is a collection of HUNDREDS of fake sign and image generators. Create your own “For Dummies” book cover, ketchup bottle label, church sign, and so on. Some generators work better than others. For example, I tried to create my own “Hello My Name Is” nametag, but the text I entered– “Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”–would not fit. Inconceivable! 20. Animoto Animoto makes it easy to create professional-quality videos on your computer and mobile device. Teaching Tools 3D Projects Alice – Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment Blender - Excellent open source 3D content creation suite SketchUp – A desktop application from Google that allows teachers or students to create and share stunning 3D models from coffee pots to skyscrapers Animation and Comic Strips Blabberize – Animate pictures to make people, animals or objects talk Comic master - A free web application that allows you to easily create comics (graphic novels) online. DoInk – Allows you to create and share animations (free with paid extras) Make Beliefs Comix - Create comic strips online Stripgenerator - A web 2.0 cartoon strip generator Toondoo – Create your own comic characters and comic strips. (free for basic features only) Voki - Allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile and in email messages. Great for teaching languages. Zimmer Twins - A website devoted to children and creative storytelling. Children can create and share their own animated stories Audio Editing Tools Audacity – Excellent audio software to record or install sounds to your computer (microphone needed) and edit them afterwards. Also great for editing or mixing songs Audio Expert - A free and simple online audio editor, file converter and sound recorder. Jamendo - A community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music or download other artists UJAM- UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music and share it with friends Bookmarking and Online Collaboration Delicious – Access your book-marks from any computer and share them with colleagues, students or friends Diigo – Collect, organize and share with diigo. Bookmark, highlight text and images, add sticky notes to webpages Padlet – Possibly the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world Pinterest – An online pin board. Organise and share things you love PrimaryPad - Work collaborately online via a web 2.0 word processing Sync.in - A web 2.0 based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time Titanpad – Lets people work on one document simultaneously. Good for collaborative teaching and learning tasks Desktop Publishing Tools Open Office - The leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases PDFCreator - Open source desktop application that creates PDFs from any Windows program Scribus – An open source desktop publishing application that lets you to create professional documents and page lay-outs and then exports them into PDF format Zoho - A comprehensive suite of online web applications that includes a word processor, spreadsheets, a presentation tool, a wiki editor, an e-mail client, online storage, quiz maker and too many other features to mention Games, Quizzes and Educational Activities ABCya – Online educational games aimed at primary school levels Gnowledge - an education platform where everyone can create, publish, share and take tests, exercises and assignments Hot Potatoes – Six applications that allows you to create interactive multiple-choice, short- answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web JClic – A desktop application that creates interactive exercises and multimedia educational activities using Java Quizlet - Create and share flashcards with your own terms and definitions. Excellent for language learners or to help students revise material