AR Digital Sandbox
Free file depository for all public school teachers--place to upload all file types including YouTube videos that can be shared with all users, specified users or specific groups. http://adesandbox.arkansas.gov/LittleRockSD/ (username: first.lastname password: password until user changes it)
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hot fixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Citation Machine
Click the link below to use the Citation maker from Calvin College. You can enter your reference information in, and the cite maker will put it in proper order for you.
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
Compress Now
It could be helpful to reduce the weight of images, in order to use it on a website for example. The webpage will load faster, and it saves bandwidth. Or for example, just before sending an email you can compress image, or just before sharing it on a social network.
Crucial (Memory Scanner Tool)- Research PC Needs
Two ways to determinc a memory upgrade compatible with your computer. Crucial Memory Advisor™ tool for computers and motherboards. OR use the Crucial System Scanner Tool to find out what is already inside your system and get recommended upgrades. www.crucial.com
Del.icio.us- Bookmarking Service
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
Dropbox- File Sharing
Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website. www.dropbox.com
Need to convert file? Convert files online without having to download anything. This is the site from you... (avi, mpg, wmv) file. www.zamzar.com/
A site that has instrumental pieces that can be downloaded and added to podcasts, videos and other media file types.
Funny Times- Cartoon Playground
Choose from a cartoon gallery or make your own, add a background and objects- narrate your cartoon and make it your own. Then print screen your creation or publish it to their gallery to share with others.
www.funnytimes.com/playground/
Gaggle
Free student filtering email system. Secondary students and teachers in the LRSD have paid accounts. Email addresses will be (first.lastname###@students.lrsd.org) ###three digits of students=ID number ###three digits of teachers=PIN number www.gaggle.net
Glogster EDU is a unique academic resource for interactive and visual learning. It allows teachers and their students to make online multimedia documents with text, photos, videos, graphics, music and other multimedia in a secure virtual classroom. edu.glogster.com
Another online mind–mapping tool, MindMeister promotes free–flowing thought processes with its interactive map–making. www.mindmeister.com
One of the most effective ways to organize information and critically think is to visually draw out your thoughts. Mindmaps does just that — with its web–based mind mapping software. www.mindomo.com
Moodle is a virtual learning environment that is a free for educators — great for creating class websites. In addition, this application offers a haven for education–related events, forums, books, manuals and downloads. www.moodle.org
A website that you can search thousands of ringtones and download as an mp3 file to your PC or directly to your phone.
The blend of the name of famed artist Pablo Picasso and the phrase mi casa for "my house" and pictures is Picasa is great for creating visually–rich learning tools for students. www.picasa.google.com/
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html
Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.
It's visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.
SMART Board Resources- Free Downloads
If you're like a lot of teachers who have a SMARTBoard in your classroom, you may think that it's difficult to learn how to create your own lessons using the SMART Notebook software. www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/
Socrative is an online student/teacher response system that allows you to create questions, quizzes, and tests in a web format. You can set assessments to be instructor or student-paced. Get a free account at http://www.socrative.com/
Survey Monkey- Create Surveys
Online survey creation tool that allows you to invite users to respond and collect results instantly.www.surveymonkey.com/
Symbaloo, an ancient Greek verb that means 'gathering' does just that on this website. Educators from around the globe use our platform to create a collection of specific links for their students. Teachers are encouraged to create an aggregation of URLs related to subjects in homework assignments to aid with research or take-home projects. http://www.symbaloo.com/us/
VoiceThread is a collabration and sharing tool that allows users to have media-rich online discussions. The program will allow you to uplaod media and post voice, text, or video comments. Check out some examples at http://voicethread.com/?#q
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. www.voki.com
WallWisher- Create an On-line Bulletin Board
Online announcement board used to post announcements, wishes, conversation pieces, etc.
Wikis- Create Collaboration Tool
Pb Educational Wikis - ad free, educational wiki, great collaboration tool, easy to set-up wiki. pbwiki.com/education.wiki
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. www.wordle.net
http://healthsciencetechnology.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+Tools