Online+Tools

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013 Tool Kits:

http://buildingpdcapacitytoolkit.weebly.com/plan.html - Make sure you click on each tab, as there are several tech tools at each one!

Web 2.0 Tools for Exploration: http://region6pd.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Ten+Web+Tools+to+Interact+with+Your+Students

//Enhance your students' learning with these online tools that are free and easy to use!!// Find out where to locate the tool and how to use, watch a video demonstration, see if it's compatible with laptops or iPads, practice tasks with it, and discover ways to apply it in your classroom. These tools assist students with collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. Tools are set up to meet your comfort level with technology. RED is NOVICE, BLUE is INTERMEDIATE, GREEN is ADVANCED. To go straight to the NCDPI wiki: http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Web+2.0+Tools+for+Exploration.

The following tools are designed to help your students with **//COLLABORATION//**: VoiceThread allows users to create group conversations from anywhere in the world which are collected and shared. Users can also doodle while commenting as well as choose which comments are visible by using the moderation option. VoiceThreads can also be embedded on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. ||
 * __**TOOL**__ || __**WEBPAGE**__ || __**DESCRIPTION**__ ||
 * [|Tricider] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Tricider || With Tricider your team will make decisions faster without meetings or calls. Innovative solutions arise because everyone can contribute ideas and vote. Whether with friends or students: taking advantage of all the opinions and ideas to find the best solution has never been easier. ||
 * [|Lino] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Lino || If you are looking for a way to capture a brainstorm, ideas, opinions, or feedback from a variety of students or teachers, Lino may be the resource you need. With these online stickies, you can arrange and rearrange ideas, use color coding to distinguish topics, concepts, or ideas, and even post videos, links, and documents to share. ||
 * [|Poll Everywhere] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Poll+Everywhere || Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews. ||
 * [|Padlet] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Padlet || Padlet is an online graffiti wall where teachers and students can have discussions, share web links, post notices, collect feedback, or watch and share videos. Padlet accounts are free and you can make as many walls as you like. Students do not have to create an account to post on your walls. The notes you post can contain links, videos, images, and document files. ||
 * [|Dropbox] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Dropbox || Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones, and even the Dropbox website.Dropbox also makes it easy to share with others, whether you're a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte on your laptop, have no fear! You can relax knowing that Dropbox always has you covered, and none of your stuff will ever be lost. ||
 * [|Pinterest] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Pinterest || Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. Pinterest makes a great tool for collecting and sharing your best instructional resources. ||
 * [|Voicethread] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Voicethread || A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in five different ways:* Voice with a microphone
 * Voice with a telephone
 * Typing text
 * Audio files
 * Video (via a webcam).
 * [|Diigo] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Diigo || Diigo is a powerful online research tool and collaborative research platform that integrates several key technologies, including social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management and participatory learning in the 21st century. ||
 * [|Edmodo] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Edmodo || Edmodo is an online platform that allows teachers and students to stay connected and share resources. It is a safe and secure social networking and microblogging tool. ||
 * [|Wiggio] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Wiggio || Wiggio is the easiest free way to collaborate with groups of people. With Wiggio you can: * Host virtual meetings and online conference calls
 * Create to-do lists and assign tasks
 * Send email, text, and voice messages
 * Manage events with a shared calendar
 * Poll your group in real time
 * Upload and manage files in a shared folder ||

The following tools are designed to help your students with //**COMMUNICATION**//:


 * __**TOOL**__ || __**WEBPAGE**__ || __**DESCRIPTION**__ ||
 * [|QR Codes] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/QR+Codes || A QR (Quick Response) code is a type of matrix code first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside of the auto industry due to its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background, and the information encoded can be made up of any kind of data. ||
 * [|Skype] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Skype || Skype is a free service that allows you to video chat or call other Skype users anywhere in the world. Skype also has additional features like instant messaging, screen share, and file transfer. ||
 * [|Today's Meet] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Today%27s+Meet || TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your students in realtime. Encourage students to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that informal formative feedback to tailor your lesson, sharpen your points, and address student needs. A brand new Today's Meet room can be set up in about 15 seconds. No username or password is required. It is completely free and easy. ||
 * [|Google Hangout] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Google+Hangout || Google+ Hangouts let you video chat with up to 9 people, face-to-face-to-face. Team collaboration gets better when you’re face to face. Hangouts offer a suite of productivity apps that let you share what’s on your screen, collaborate in Google Docs, view presentations and diagram together. To access these features, simply click the “Add app” button inside your hangout to browse and add new apps. ||
 * [|Symbaloo] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Symbaloo || Symbaloo is a grid of icons that link to various web addresses that you create, organize, and share. Use Symbaloo to organize and share the best of the web with your students. ||
 * [|Twitter] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Twitter || Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting. Simply find the accounts you find most compelling and follow the conversations. At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information called Tweets. Each Tweet is 140 characters long, but don’t let the small size fool you—you can discover a lot in a little space. You can see photos, videos, and conversations directly in Tweets to get the whole story at a glance, and all in one place. ||
 * [|Audacity] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Audacity || Audacity is a free program used to make podcasts. Podcasting is a medium that allows anyone to create audio files and post them to the Internet for others to download and listen to at any time. Podcasting has rapidly become a classroom tool. Podcasts are easy to make and share, making them a great resource for teachers. ||
 * [|Paper.li] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Paper.li || Paper.li is a free service that takes links from your tweets or the tweets from people you follow on Twitter and organizes them into a virtual paper for easy reading. Paper.li makes it incredibly simple to create your very own online news source! Read A Newspaper of Tweets? to learn more. You can even use Paper.li with Facebook. ||
 * [|Socrative] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Secretive || Socrative is a free online student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can receive instant formative assessment feedback! ||

The following tools are designed to help your students with ** //CRITICAL THINKING// ** : 10x10 is ever-changing, ever-growing, quietly observing the ways in which we live. It records our wars and crises, our triumphs and tragedies, our mistakes and milestones. When we make history, or at least the headlines, 10x10 takes note and remembers. ||
 * __**TOOL**__ || __**WEBPAGE**__ || __**DESCRIPTION**__ ||
 * [|Wordle] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Wordle || 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. ||
 * [|10x10] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/10x10 || 10x10™ is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.
 * [|Tagxedo] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Tagxedo || Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans, and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. Tagxedo, like Wordle, is a word cloud generator. This tool, however, allows the creator more options about how to organize the cloud. ||
 * [|Thinglink] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Thinglink || Thinglink is a free tool that allows you to take an image and turn it into an interactive graphic. Be creative and make your images come to life with music, video, text, and more! Every image contains a story and Thinglink helps you tell your stories. ||
 * [|Piktochart] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Piktochart || Piktochart is an online tool that allows you to create infographics. An infographic, also known as a data visualization, is a visual display of information through the use of graphics, color, and symbols. Infographics allow the viewer to "experience" the information on a variety of levels. In our 21st century world, we are accustomed to receiving information in small bytes. Infographics allow us to absorb information in this manner. ||
 * [|Easelly] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Easelly || Easel.ly is an online tool that allows you to create infographics. An infographic, also known as a data visualization, is a visual display of information through the use of graphics, color, and symbols. Infographics allow the viewer to "experience" the information on a variety of levels. In our 21st century world, we are accustomed to receiving information in small bytes. Infographics allow us to absorb information in this manner. ||

The following tools are designed to help your students with **//CREATIVITY//**:
 * __**TOOL**__ || __**WEBPAGE**__ || __**DESCRIPTION**__ ||
 * [|Smore] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Smore || Smore is one of the easiest platforms for online publishing. In just a matter of minutes, you can publish your online flyer and have your content out on the web. Just request access and wait for your confirmation E-mail. Once you are accepted, you can create sleek flyers and web content that is eye-catching, interesting, and easy to navigate. ||
 * [|Make Beliefs Comix] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Make+Beliefs+Comix || Make Beliefs Comix is an online multilingual comic strip maker. ||
 * [|Dipity] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Dipity || Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. ||
 * [|Animoto] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Animoto || Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life. Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom. Its powerful features can be used to create stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips, music and text. ||
 * [|Glogster] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Glogster || Glogster allows you to create online multimedia posters using text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments, and more. Students and teachers can use it to represent knowledge and skills visually and creatively. ||
 * [|Go Animate] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Go+Animate || Go! Animate is the fastest, easiest way to make a video! Use the Go! Animate video maker to create videos for free. ||
 * [|Prezi] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Prezi || Prezi is a tool to share ideas, present work, and persuade in an engaging and visual way. Prezi provides a fresh outlook on traditional slideshow presentations. The use of one big canvas and zoom function both allow for emphasis on small ideas as truly being part of the whole. Viewers can see the whole story on one page, unlike the many slides of a PowerPoint. Prezi allows the author to insert images, videos, and other media to enhance the presentation. ||
 * [|Voki] || http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Voki || Voki allows you to create personalized speaking avatars. ||