Sites+for+all+Teachers

Animations
[|www.goanimate.com]

Business, Family & Consumer Science, Health & PE, Vocational & Technical
http://integratedacademics.wikispaces.com/Home+-+Integrated+Academics+Wiki

Career Resources
http://www.zolio.com/ Online resume builder. It allows for many different types of media and has a sharing feature as well. I plan on using it with our tech writing seniors. Really cool site.

Change a pdf to a word document
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Collaboration with other schools through video conferencing
[] [|http://www.cilc.org] "Once you are in this site, you select Content for Students and then Content Provider Programs. This will allow you to search our a topic for a conference/event or a specific provider. What we like about this site is that once you have done a basic seach, you can then refine your search by price. We love the fact that FREE is one of the options to search for. We have been very successful finding quality, educational providers at no cost to the students or the district." http://magpi.net/resources.html

__A link to many sites, some of which may not be free:__
[] For more information on collaboration within CFF: http://cffbootcampvf.wikispaces.com/Wednesday >>Go to the 2:00PM session: Collaborating in 21st Century Education

Concept Mapping
All are free and can collaborate: [] [] [] [] http://agapejen.glogster.com/Concept-Mapping/

Cooperative Learning
http://www.co-operation.org/

Games/ Puzzles that are interactive and free!
[] http://tigertown.wikispaces.com/Games [] __ http://cffbootcamp2008.wikispaces.com/Games __ __ [] __ http://home.comcast.net/~techteach/FLA/index.html

Google Docs
[] [|Google Tutor] Technology how to....Google, Moodle, Ning, iTunes

Graphic Organizers
Find out all about them and ideas to use in a classroom: http://ltcy701.wikispaces.com/

Lesson Ideas/ plans..
Integrate your subject with technology and other subjects: http://integratedacademics.wikispaces.com/Home+-+Integrated+Academics+Wiki http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/07/100-unbelievably-useful-reference-sites-youve-never-heard-of/ http://thinkfinity.org/ http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+ResourcesShare lesson plans with other teachers or put your on the internet: Curriki __ [] __ is a great site for just that. It's free and teachers can create content and groups, join groups and share. Lesson Plans on the Web: http://integratedacademics.wikispaces.com/Lesson+Plans+On+The+Web http://classroomearth.org/ Content lesson plans and grant opportunities

Digital storytelling:
Tell a story [|Voice thread] lets you bring in pictures, powerpoints, add voice (costs $10/month or yearly fee for 100 students) 50 story tools

Create books online
[|Mixbook] Creating Videos online http://www.flowgram.com/

[|Pixton comics]
[|Toondoo] a comic strip site that doesn't require an actual email address - you can use @example.com [|Make Belief comix] - can't save comics [|Comic Life - 30 day free trial] teachers can make cartoons or show cartoons: [|10 sites to make cartoons] [|Super basic cartoon making]

[|www.bitstrips.com] __-__ students need email addresses to use this.

Funds for a classroom project
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Moodle
[] [|How to use moodle]

News
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PSSA Practice
[][] http://www.caiu.org/resources/schools/curriculum/math-benchmark.aspx __ [] __

Power point games
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Notetaking:
[] A free site and download to use for notetaking. It allows you to cut web based info and sync it to various computers. it gives a date, time and url stamp to the info for Work Cited. It also allows to tagging notes to keep info organized.

Quotes
Looking for some cool Quotes to add to your next presentation? __ [] __

Photostory - add pictures, movements, transitions, voice and music
Free download from Microsoft for your home computer: [] http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/Photo+Story+3 Rubric to grade photostory: [] Directions (How To Guide for using the program). __ http://nbcelemtechcoach.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling __ The Photostory How To Guide is near the bottom - __ http://nbcelemtechcoach.wikispaces.com/Photostory __

Research for Students
veropedia - verified articles from Wikipedia.It's being overhauled with a new interface right now. __ http://www.veropedia.org/ __ http://schools-wikipedia.org/ It is the school-friendly, "hand-checked, non-commercial" Wikipedia.

Resources
http://qr.customguide.com/

Rubrics:
A rubric for rating the technology usage: [] & http://www.infosourcelearning.com/News/News.aspx?id=38 Bernajean Porter has great scoring kinds for all types of digital media on her Digitales website, here is the link. __ http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php __
 * RubiStar** is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.: []

SAT Prep
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Slide share to Power point:
If you use Slideshare for your PPT presentations there is a ribbon you put into PPT 2007 to make the process of uploading easier. Check it out here: []

Story Tools:
Alan Levine has a great wiki that discusses over 50 tools (he tells the same story using each of them) to tell a story. It may help you and your teacher decide which is the most suitable to use. __ http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools __

Survey sites
surveymokey.com [|Zoomerang] 30 questions free

http://mvhscff.wetpaint.com/page/Online+Resources

Videos for high schoolers
[] [|Discovery Education & United Streaming]

Text Readers - online
You can use it to hear typed text spoken with any one of 14 different accents using 14 different voices. It's amazing! [] [|**http://www.naturalreaders.com/**] [|**http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/**] [|**http://www.nextup.com/**] **[]**

Wikispaces:
[|Wikispaces for educators - FREE] [|PBS teacher activitiy packs & widgets] [|Brain Pop] about wikis and blogs Using wikispaces across the curriculum: __ http://integratedacademics.wikispaces.com/Home+-+Integrated+Academics+Wi __