Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Technology lessons and activities


  
Internet Safety
NetSmartzKids - provides interactive Internet safety instruction
Quia - Quia Web is one of the world's most popular educational technology Web sites. It pioneered the "create-your-own" concept, giving instructors the ability to create customized educational software online, built around their own course materials and made available to students over the Web.
Quizlet - The end of flashcards!
Fact Flippers - Vicki Blackwell
SAIL On - Subject Area Interactive Lessons Online
TechnoSpud Projects - Technology Projects in the classroom - Technospud is a website for teachers created by a teacher who wants EVERYONE to be using Technology and wants EVERYONE to bring fun back into teaching.
Online Projects - Vicki Blackwell
ThinkQuest - ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes.
The OOPS Virtual Field Trip Page - Take a field trip without ever having to leave the classroom!
WebQuests - Vicki Blackwell
Scavenger Hunts - Vicki Blackwell
Virtual Field Trips - Vicki Blackwell
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
Internet 4 Classrooms - Links for K-12 Teachers - Helping teachers use the internet effectively
4Teachers Family of Tools
Expand your curriculum with our timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels.
The Big Deal Book of Technnology - Check out the free e-newsletter. With publications twice a month, it is well-researched and written by seasoned curriculum specialists. The e-newsletter provides a wealth of ways to build school and classroom resources. Common article topics include "Grants and Other Funding Opportunities", "Awards, Competitions, and Other Winning Opportunities", "Free and Inexpensive Resources", "Technology Solutions", and "Professional Development".
ReadPlease - Text-to-Speech Converter
Find Sounds - Search the internet for sounds
WayBack Machine - Archived Webpages
ePals - The ePals Internet learning community is now offering its e-mailing, blogging, and literacy products free to classrooms!
Digital Wish - Teachers can make their technology wishes public and tell their story so that anyone can make a donation to their classroom's cart.
Freeze Screen Video Capture - Records screen actvities and sounds as standard .avi video files
Read Write Think - Student Materials
FreeWebs - Create a free website!
Shrinkster - Shorten those long URL's!
Teacher's Pet - Create flashcards, word/sentence jumbles, crossword puzzles, cloze activities, bingo cards, quizzes, antonym/synonym questions, punctuation/word remover, and so much more! This awesome download runs through Microsoft Word! Try it out! :o)
Birthday Alarm - Birthday Alarm was started in 2001 to provide a simple way for people to remember birthdays. The original idea for the website was simple...remind people of birthdays. You can add all of your friends' and families' birthdays into your account and Birthday Alarm sends you an email to remind you of their special day!
All Teacher Websites - Google for Teachers
SEN Teacher - Free printables
Edublogs - Blogging for teachers and students, made easy
Tikatok is where kids channel their imagination into stories – and publish those stories into
books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.
Zamzar - Free online file conversion
Format Factory - Free media file format converter
Soundsnap - Sound effects and loops
Online Document Storage
Skylive
Google Docs
Prezentit - Create, share, and show presentations online
ClassTools.net - Create interactive flash tools and games
TeacherLED - InteractiveWhiteboard Resources for Teachers
Sound Jay - Free sound effects
Soungle - Royalty Free Sound Effects
Tagxedo - Make word clouds with style!
GCast - the world's easiest way to create your own podcast channel
TeacherTube - YouTube for Teachers!
Search for videos online for FREE! Includes professional development videos as well as skill based videos for students!
Kodak Gallery - Post classroom pictures online...Parents can even order prints for themselves!
Flickr -Another online photo gallery
Digital Camera Hints - Vicki Blackwell
Voicethread - A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish.
Adobe Photoshop Express - Online Photo Editer
Animoto - Customize short videos online
Block Posters - Create any size wall poster from any size image...for free! Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed.
Picasa - Free photo editing and photo management software through Google
Edublogs.tv...the video hosting site dedicated to education
Speechable is a free photo service that lets you easily upload and add speech bubbles to them!
Mixbook - Create photo books from your digital photos
Picnik - Online photo editor
BeFunky - Photo effects with one click
Multicolr Search Lab - Search for pictures on Flickr by color
PICSLICE - Slice and Crop Pictures
Pete's PowerPoint Station - Free K-12 PowerPoint Presentations on every topic imaginable!
PowerPoint Resources- from Mrs. Caro's classroom website
Comic Life - Be the Hero You Are!
Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos... and more!
The easy-to-use interface integrates seamlessly with your photo collection. Drag in your pictures, captions, Lettering text (‘ka-blam!') and speech balloons and your work is done!
You can even use your webcam within Comic Life to make a comic on the spot!
Fast..ZZooooommmm
Comic Life gives you fun and professional templates for instant, impressive, photo layouts. Tweak your creations to your hearts desire!

Inspiration - Vicki Blackwell
Timeliner in the Classroom - Vicki Blackwell
Microsoft Word - Vicki Blackwell
Excel Tips and Tricks - Vicki Blackwell
Kidspiration & Kid Pix 3 - Vicki Blackwell
Kidpiration - Vicki Blackwell
PowerPoint Pointers - Vicki Blackwell
Classroom Connect - Classroom Connect is an award-winning provider of professional development programs and online instructional materials for K-12 education.
Connected University - Connected University's online courses and resources will help you acquire basic technology skills, integrate technology into your daily lesson plans, and teach your students the skills they will need to succeed. Sign up for a free two-week preview.
Digital Workshops for Teachers - Complete professional development online with 30 workshops from the Panhandle Area Eduacational Consortium.There are also helpful instructions for receiving course credit.
TechnospudProjects Ning - Join this online community for free and discuss how to use technology in the classroom with other teachers around the globe!
They Are Never Too Young to Learn - How are you using technology in the classroom? There are some great ideas, shared by PreK-3rd Grade teachers, on this wiki! Check back often to see if anything new was added, or add your own ideas!
Yahoo! for Teachers - A peer-to-peer teachers network for creating, modifying and sharing standards-based curriculum
Ed-Tech Ninja...Ed-Tech Ninja is home of the Tech Ninja. The purpose of this site is to help teachers connect and use technology in their classroom. This site will include tips and tricks as well as practical resources that can be used in the classroom. All of it free!

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