Summer+Toolkit

Friday Institute "BootCamp" and Cary Academy media type="custom" key="23096230" :

1. linoit []
 * To work with words—word sorts, categorizing, etc.
 * As a classroom bulletin board—putting up assignments, class announcements, links that are of interest, pictures from class or from projects, etc.
 * As a virtual word wall—putting up the words for chapters and allowing students to add meanings, pictures, videos, etc. to add meaning to words.
 * As a unit discussion area
 * To me the best part of this is that the students are anonymous when they post. That shy student in the back feels comfortable posting.

2. Common Sense Media []
 * A great resource for digital literacy and citizenship classroom curriculum
 * Digital Passport for 3 - 5 curriculum on digital citizenship.
 * Videos that teach about the Digital World

3. Symbaloo []
 * Symbaloo is a customizable start page tool that lets you add all of your most important links in a format that is easy to use.
 * The user’s webmix appears as sleek buttons with icons or logos
 * Prettier that livebinder because it show the logo for the page saved

4. Awesome Screenshot []
 * Capture, Annotate, Share
 * Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share.

5. Skitch []
 * Another annotate, edit and share tool.

6. Crocodoc []
 * Easy document embedding using HTML5
 * Converts Microsoft office & PDF documents to HTML5

7.Weebly []
 * Use Weebly to create web site.
 * Easy to navigate.
 * Students can use Weebly to design web sites for class projects.

8.Screencast-O-Matic []
 * Is a free, web-based tool that allows you to record your voice along with whatever's happening on your computer screen.
 * It is ideal for showing students how to do something specific, such as creating a citation.
 * Since it is free and doesn't require any downloading, you can also have students use Screencast-O-Matic to compose their own projects.

9. Animate []
 * This animation tool allows users to build short animated scenes.
 * Then publish them to e-mails or social networking sites.
 * There is a large variety of different themes and characters to choose from to generate creative variety.

10. Wall Wisher []
 * Free
 * Students are able to post their ideas to a large board.... digitally
 * Seriously, 105 Uses: [|http://seanbanville.com/2010/06/26/wallwisher-105-classroom-ideas]/

**From Free Technology for Teachers here are a few digital timelines. Try them out and share which you like best.**
[|Dipity]  is a great timeline creation tool that allows users to incorporate text, images, and videos into each entry on their timeline. Like most good web tools, [|Dipity] has a collaboration option and has multiple options for sharing your timelines publicly or privately. Each entry to a [|Dipity]  timeline can include multiple types of media which allows users to add more detail and information than can be included in a traditional timeline. If you want to import Tweets and other social media messages, you can do that too on Dipity. Dipity will work on your iPad.

myHistro  is a timeline builder and map creation tool rolled into one nice package. On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a timeline about a theme or event in history. Each event that you place on your timeline can be geolocated using Google Maps. myHistro timelines can be created online or you can use the free iPad app to create events on your timeline.

I like [|XTimeline]  because I find it to be a great service that is very accessible to high school students. Using [|XTimeline] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> students can collaborate, just as they would when making a wiki, to build a multimedia timeline. Timelines built using <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|XTimeline] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> can include text, images, and video. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|XTimeline] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> will accept dates in A.D./B.C. format.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|TimeGlider] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> offers some nicer layout features compared to XTimeline, but is not quite as intuitive to use as XTimeline. The layout features that I like about <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|TimeGlider] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> is the ability to stagger or indent events below each other in a sequence. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|TimeGlider] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> also makes it easy to display the relative importance of an event by increasing its size in comparison to other events on the timeline. Like XTimeline, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[| TimeGlider] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> accepts dates in A.D./B.C. format.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|Time Toast] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> is easy to learn to use. To add events to a timeline simply click on the inconspicuous "add an event" button and a simple event box pops up in which you can enter enter text, place a link, or add a picture. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|Time Toast] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;"> does not have the more advanced editing options that XTimeline and TimeGlider offer. What it offers instead is ease of use which makes it a suitable choice for students in elementary school or middle school.