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
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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.
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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
Quiz Revolution – Easy way to make a multimedia quiz for your website or blog
Tutpup – Compete in fun, educational games against other kids from all over the World
Language Learning Tools
Babbel - Interactive online language courses to improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation skills
Languages Online -Resources for language teachers and students. Ready-made interactive language activities and programs for making your own interactive tasks
Lingro – A unique website that helps language learners read foreign web pages or documents and build their vocabulary at the same time.
TypeIt- Allows you type in text requiring foreign accented characters in a variety of languages using your keyboard and online accent keys. You can then email it to yourself or copy paste it into another document. Unfortunately Asian languages are not yet supported
Writing Fun – Explains the types of text commonly written in schools with printable organizers and examples showing text structures, grammatical features and publishing ideas
Instructional Videos and Video Sharing
Commoncraft – Simple three-minute videos to help educators introduce complex subjects
EmbedPlus – This website allows you to add extra controls to Youtube embedded videos such as slow motion, zooming, chapters and annotations
Jing -Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor. Excellent for creating video tutorials.
TeacherTube – YouTube but for educational purposes. This site is moderated so content is suitable for students.
TED - Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Tubechop – Allows you to cut YouTube videos and share only the section that interests you
Vimeo - A simple yet effective video sharing site
Youtube/edu - The world most popular online video sharing website sorted to show only videos from education institutions like universities and colleges. Mind Mapping
Bubbl.us – Create mind-maps either on your own or collaborating with others
Gliffy – Online diagram software. Create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans and technical drawings
Mindomo – Mind mapping software tool
Mindmeister - Another web application that allows you to create mind-maps
Spicynodes - Allows you to create mind maps or organizational charts with bits of information — such as text, links, photos, and other media — placed into “nodes,” which are then linked together. You can then embed them into websites, blogs and wikis
Xmind - A mind mapping desktop application
Other Stuff
Bit.ly – Shorten long web addresses, good for twitter users
Build your Wild Self – Crate human / animal hybrids. Good for descriptions.
Creative Commons Search - Find media and resources which you are legally free to use and share
Edjudo– Supporting web 2.0 tools, teaching, learning and technology in high school
My Award Maker - Create your own awards to hand out to your students
Storybird – Short art inspired, visual stories you can make, share, read and print
TagGalaxy – A simple, yet amazing web application that searches Flickr tags and displays the results in a creative way. Good for starting a topic and brainstorming on an electronic whiteboard
Youconvertit – Converts most file formats to any other file format including videos, documents, audio and images.
Zamzar – Online file conversions sent to your email
Photo Editing Tools Aviary – A suite of powerful online creation tools which allow you to create, edit and manipulate images
Big Huge Labs - Create puzzles, movie posters, magazine covers, calendars, badges and more from your photos.
Block Posters – Make full size posters from pictures in your computer
Canva Posters – Simple, drag-and-drop, design software
Gimp – An excellent open source, image manipulation tool. A good and free alternative to Photoshop.
ImageChef – Allow you to create custom images by combining text, symbols and photos using a variety of online templates
Paint – Free image and photo editing software for computers that run windows. Support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools
Photovisi - Online tool to create photo collages using templates
Picasa - Free photo editing software from Google. Download and install
Pixer – Edit your photos online using your browser
Prealoadr - Online tools to upload and optimize photos
Sumo Paint - A professional image editor and painting software in your browser
Presentation Tools and Slideshows
AuthorSTREAM – Allows you to publish and share your PowerPoint presentations as video
Capzles – Create rich multimedia storylines by combining your photos, videos, blogs and audio
Fotobabble – Add your voice to photos and customized slide-shows
PhotoPeach - Easy to use slideshows creator. Supports background music, captions and comments
Photo Story 3 – A windows desktop application that makes slideshows using your digital photos
Prezi - A web2.0 application that allows you to create stunning visual presentations by zooming in, out and around a large, flat canvas or workspace
Scratch – Create and share your own interactive stories, games, music and art Screenr - An online tool that allows you to record what’s happening on your screen and share it with others via twitter, blogs or embed it on your website. Great for online tutorials
Slideshare – Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations
Smilebox – Create e-cards, scrapbooks, slideshows, invitations, collages and photo albums from your photographs. More than 1000 customizable templates to choose from
Surveys and Polls
99 Polls – Create customized surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles
Blogpoll - Simple polling tool that can be embedded into any school website or classroom blog
Polldaddy - Create online surveys and polls (limited free account)
Tricider – Team decision making, brainstorming and collaborative solution web 2.0 tool
Survey Monkey - Create online surveys and polls with ease
Timelines
Timeglider – Allows you to create timelines which you can zoom in and out from and span from hours to centuries. Great for history or discussing your family tree
Timetoast – Create interactive time lines in minutes and share them on the web
Video Editing Tools
Animoto – Creates a quality slideshow from your uploaded photos and
Camstudio – A desktop application that allows you to record your computer screen
DotSUb – Upload a video and create your own subtitles. Good for language learners.
Masher - An online video editor that allows users to create by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos from their own uploads or from their large resource library
Stupeflix - Use templates to make creative online videos by combining your images, videos and audio