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Tools and Apps: What, Why, When, and How Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum Tools and Apps: What, Why, When, and How Please take our survey hp://nyurl.com/cdwnvpe Agenda • Introduc3on • Seng the Stage • Research, Surveys and Polls • Tools and Apps • Resources Setting the Stage • Schools are moving rapidly to official 1:1 • Students are moving unofficially to 24/7 connec3vity • Opportunity to use interest & access to teach! • Teachers are eagerly seeking tools to help Research and Surveys Project RED Report 2012 • 63% of students are using digital resources for learning daily or weekly. Speak Up Survey 2012 • 20% of district administrators regularly use Twi/er to communicate. • 40% of teachers and 50% of principals use online professional learning communies. • 74% of educators say digital content increases student engagement • 50% of educators say it helps to personalize instruc3on Pew Internet Project’s 2011 teen survey • 77% of teens have a cell phone But…. Informal Polls The State of BYOD • 2011 Students must keep personal devices (Eg. cell or smart phones) off at school. - 59% • 2012 Leng students bring their own devices offers real advantages that go beyond the cost-savings. - 73% The State of One to One 2012 • Times may be tough but we are commi/ed to growing our 1:1 programs. - 52% • We are using alternate approaches (Eg. smaller devices and/or BYOD). - 30% Tools and Apps • We use a combinaon of tradi3onal tools and online apps. - 50% • We are s3ll licensing the so^ware and don’t use anything else. - 25% NOTE: Approximate # of respondents per ques3on is only 50. Tools and Apps Tagzedo Animations, Comics, 3D, and Drawing Animasher Domo AcapelaTV FluxTime Alice Go!Animate DRAWING Blender Make Beliefs Comix Cacoo Bitstrips Cartoonster PhotoSynth Canvas3c ComicMaster ClayAnimator SmashMash.tv Photo Draw.to Comic Master Sketchup FlockDraw Doink Stripgenerator ImaginaonCubed Dvolver Zimmer Twins Audio and Video Editing Audio Expert Animoto Camstudio DotSUb Jamendo Jaycut KickYoutube Masher Pixorial Safeshare.tv Stupeflix UJAM Blogging and Texting BLOGGING TEXTING Audioboo Class Parrot iPadio Remind 101 Remind 101 Podomac Cal.ly Class Pager Posterous gText Tumblr Kikutext Vocaroo SendHub Collaboration Convore LetsCrate Drop.io LunaPic Piratepad Dropmocks PrimaryPad EdiStorm Sync.in FolfingStory Scribblar Forums Titanpad Kadoo TypeWith.me LucidChart VoiceThread Linoit Wallwisher Creativity FontDeMusic BitStrips DigitalFilms BlogBooker GeoGreeng Bookr GeekChart ComicBrush Glogster Calameo Grabbabeast Colla-O-Write Kerpoof Capzies HearWho ePals MakeBeliefComics Games, Quizzes and Activities 25-in-1 Educaonal Games ABCya BrainPop Featured Movie Feel Electric Feel Electric Gnowledge Feel Electric Hot Potatoes Jclic PBSKids SmartBoard Games (K-6) Sharendipity quiz Revolu3on BrainPop Tutpup SecretBuilders (K-9) Google Tools Google Alerts Google Image Swirl Google Art Project Google Insights Google News Google Books Google Reader Google Earth Google Building Maker Google Sky Google Docs Google Scholar Google Earth Google Sites Google for Educators Google Talk Google Finance Google Translate Google Trends Google Video Infographics Aviary Phoenix Creately Google Public Data Explorer Stat Silk Tagzedo Visual.ly Language Arts and Writing Alphabet Match Jungle (primary) PDF Creator Babbel Preposi3on Builder BigUniverse (K-8) Open Office DoingText Rainbow Sentences Explain Everything Scribus FormatPixel Storybird Talking Tom Languages Online Storybuilder Li/leBirdTales Lingro Talking Tom ListenandWrite Tagul LetThemSingitForYou Tagxedo My Book Tree TypeIt MyStoryMaker Word Lens MythsandLegends Wri3ng Fun Explain Everything Mee3ngWords Yudu Language Learning Salsa Spanish Language Learning Babbel Lingro Languages Online Wri3ng Fun TypeIt Learning Management Systems • ATutor • Canvas • Dokeos • Docebo • Claroline Math 3Dvinci Flash Card Creator Algebasics Interac3ve Simulaons for Animals with Math Math and Science Balance Interac3ves Archimy Interac3ve Arcademic Skill Library Applets Bankaroo Introducing Integers (6-8) BuilderCalc3D Java Math & Science Applets Brianias3c Maths (upper Johnnie's Math Page primary) Kids Counng Canvas3c Lure of the Labyrinth Chart Gizmo Math Balance Chart Tool Math.com Math Balance Concord Consorium CrickWeb More Math MathsNet (K-12) Math Ninja Calcoolate Math Forum Create a Graph MathNet Number Cruncher Online Conversion P183 Graphing Calculator Math Playground NumberNut Math Ref Free P183 Graphing Calculator MathTV SqoolTools MathFacts (K-6) MathVids Teaching Time Mathway Teaching Tables Mobile Stats Calcr TUSD Interac3ve Math Portal Visual Math Learning (4-8) e-Tutor Graphing Calculator Web 2.0 Math Symbols Drawing Applicaons Mind Mapping Freemind Gliffy Mindomo Mindmeister Slatebox Spicynodes Spider Scribe Xmind Online Storage and Sharing 4Shared iSendr Box.net Minus DivShare Picasa Web Albums Pinterest Dropbox Scribd Embedit.in Sxy Evernote Sugarsync Flipsnack Photo Editing Aviary Photovisi BeFunky Picasa Big Huge Labs Picnik Block Posters Picture2Life Gimp Pixer ImageChef Prealoadr Paint Sumo Paint Presentation and Slideshows 280 Slides Ahead Myplick Amap OneTrueMedia AuthorSTREAM PhotoPeach BigHugeLabs Photo Story 3 BubbleSnaps Scratch Capzles Screenr Empressr Screentoaster Fotobabble Slideshare Glogster Smilebox Vuvox Productivity AwespmeHighlighter About2Findot EasyBib Alphabe3zer EasyTestMaker Bit.ly Bibme EditGrid Blackboard Mobile Learn Essay Grader Canvas3c EverNote Citebite Exploratree CarryOutText EasygoingSurvey CopyScape ExamBuilder Cram FillanyPDF Creave Commons Search Flashcard Machine ClassMarker FluidSurveys ImageLoop DecideAlready Grapholite Iclippy DocsPal HotPotatoes Jing eClicker iSpeech Match Game Memory EditGrid • ≈ Productivity cont’d JustPasteIt JogtheWeb Joint.me.a Jabberwacky Kaywa Memidex Museum Box MindMeister My Award Maker qR Codes Symbaloo TagGalaxy Youconvert Zamzar Science GENERAL ANATOMY EcoKids Get Body Smart (8-12) Experience Math and Science with Inner Learning Online (9-12) Inside the Brain - Gizmos (3-12) An Interac3ve Tour (6-12) Exploratorium The Heart: An Online Exploraon. (4/5-12) * Google Earth Neuroscience for Kids (K-8 Kine3c City (3-8) Science & Nature’s Mind & Body (6-12) MyExperiment (6-12) FreezeRay (4-12) Human Body Lesson Plans from Discovery.com Skoool Science NetLinks (K-12 Nervous System - Anatomy & Physiology from St. Louis Science Center Web Site (K-12) The Yuckiest Site on the Get Body Smart (need Flash Player) Internet. (K-8) Virtual Body (K-12) The Interac3ve Library Applets Virtual Brain Tour (6-12) Virtual Dissec3ons, Labs and Field Trips (9-12) Science cont’d ASTRONOMY & SPACE BIOLOGY Amazing Space. (6-12) American Meteorological Society - Biology 4 Kids. (3-8) DataStreme Juncon. (K-12) www.biology4kids.com Celesa The Biology Project. (9-12) Cosmic Zoom. (5-12) HubbleSite (4/5-12) Biology Simulaons Mars Quest Online (3-8) BioInterac3ve Lab. (9-12) Star Walk Cells Alive. (4/5-12) Stellarium (4-12) FreezeRay (4-12) Virtual Solar System. (4/5-12) Virtual Space Tours from Space.com The Interac3ve Library Applets Kids’ Space Sites The Visible Human Project. (9-12) Celesa KidsAstronomy. (K-8) Space Place (1-6) More Science CHEMISTRY Chem Buddy (9-12) Chem4Kids. (4-8) FreezeRay (4-12) PHYSICS The Interac3ve Library Applets Fear of Physics (K-12) Moleecules Periodic Table of Comic Books (5-12) FreezeRay (4-12) ph Meter The Interac3ve Library Applets Web-based High School Chemistry My Physics Lab Simulaons PhET (Physics Educaon EARTH SCIENCE Technology) (9-12) Earth Cams for Kids World of Teaching (K-12) The Interac3ve Library Applets Journey North - A Global Study of Wildlife and Seasonal Migraon (6-12) Seasons Interac3ve. (4-8) INTERACTIVE Windows to the Universe (K-12) Social Networking 99 Chats Edmodo Mahara Ning Sclipo Tinychat Twiducate Udemy Voxopop WiZiq Yammer Social Studies 3-D weather & geography Center on Congress Stack the States; Stack the Countries iCivics Today in History Borderlines Geography Docs Teach * Center on Congress TIMELINE MAKERS European Virtual Museum The Center on Congress at Indiana University 10 US History Google Earth Tours Who Am I? A History Mystery Timeglider Timetoast Surveys and Polls 99 Polls Blogpoll Polldaddy PollEverywhere Tricider Survey Monkey Videos and Video Sharing 5min Life Videopedia Commoncra EmbedPlus Jing mailVU PBS Kids Video Present.me TeacherTube TED Talks In this presentaon, Mr. Seward discusses how America played a major role in Tubechop rebuilding Europe and Japan post World War II, how America established itself as Vimeo a major superpower on the world stage, and how American transi3oned from a war3me to a peace3me economy. This discussion is approximately 15 minutes. Youtube/edu h/p://present.me/view/10216-the-cold-war-part-1 Whiteboards Whiteboards Board800 CoSketch DabbleBoard FreezeRay Resources • Web 2.0: How to for Educators – Chapter 1 online in ISTE handouts • Digital Learning Environments – www.guide2digitallearning.com • Teaching history clearinghouse – www.teachinghistory.org • American Library Associaon - www.ala.org • Safe Kids - www.safekids.com Thank You Gwen Solomon - [email protected] Lynne Schrum - [email protected] Please take our survey hp://nyurl.com/cdwnvpe .