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=Cool Tools for the Brave New Classroom!media type="custom" key="8015526" = =21st Century Technology: If you can imagine it, then chances are somebody else has created a way to do it....just go out and find it! = =I thought that a Wiki would be a good place to start sharing some of the great teacher sites we find out there on the Wild Wild Web!=

=Here is my 5 minute presentation done with Prezi, click through until you get to one of my all time favorite YouTube videos. Remember, YouTube is a wonderful resource in learning how to do almost anything!= =media type="custom" key="8056294"=

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=This is a pdf of everything on this Wiki and another 100 or so links!= ==

=Just a little terminolgy...= = [|**http://www.techterms.com/**] =

**__ Wiki: __** A wiki is a Web site that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own Web browser.
== **__ RSS: __** RSS (most commonly expanded as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. ... [|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS]  ==

=Some of My Favorite Cool Tools =


 * ==Name == || ==URL == || ==Description == ||
 * ==KidBlog == || ==@http://kidblog.org/home.php == || ==Blog == ||
 * ==WikiSpaces == || ==http://www.wikispaces.com/ == || ==Wiki == ||
 * ==Glogster == || ==[] == || ==Blog Poster == ||
 * ==Posterous == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@https://posterous.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Email Poster == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storybird == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://storybird.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Story Telling == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quizlet == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://quizlet.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quiz Maker == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wallwisher == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post Stickies == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Polleverywhere == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.polleverywhere.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Live Polling == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voicethread == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://voicethread.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collaboration == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.wordle.net/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Word Cloud == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tagexdo == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.tagxedo.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Word Cloud == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BubblUs == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@https://bubbl.us/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BrainStorm == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Zunal == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.zunal.com/index.php == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WebQuest Maker == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prezi == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://prezi.com/your/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presentation Maker == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Templates == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Education Games and Templates == ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Microsoft Education == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.educationlabs.com/ == || ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Varies == ||
 * ==**Blabberize**== || ==**[]**== || ==**Talking Heads**== ||
 * ==**Class Parrot**== || ==**[]**== || ==**Text Your Students**== ||
 * ===Big Huge Labs=== || ===**[]**=== || ===Lots of Fun Tools=== ||

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Websites with large numbers of COOL TOOL links: =

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** @http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php **
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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Email Work Around = ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Many education websites and tools allow student account creation without email accounts. If you run into one that requires student emails, here is a great work-around. == == <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sites that require students to have email accounts can be worked around by creating a Gmail Account in your name. Then simply add a +and the student name to yours, they do not receive any email at that address as it all goes to you because Gmail ignores anything that appears after the + Detailed Instructions : @https://sites.fcps.org/trt/node/215 @http://briancsmith.edublogs.org/2008/11/12/creating-edublog-student-accounts/ ==

=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fun Stuff from Microsoft Labs = =__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Mouse Mischief: __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> **Powerpoints are created with built in questions. Wireless mice can be used as to respond to the questions. Students can work as individuals or as part of a group.** = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">__World Wide Telescope:__ [] = =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Very cool sky viewer...read Microsoft's Description: Experience WorldWide Telescope - Immerse yourself in a seamless beautiful environment. WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery fromthe best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting [|places] in the sky. =

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=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Google Forms: __= ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google forms is a great way to gather information as it takes all the inputted data and drops it in a spreadsheet for you. This way you can manipulate the data to fit your needs. You can even use it to create a self correcting quiz...and did I mention that there are a tremendous number of existing templates out there so you never need to start from scratch. It is also a great way to gather information from families like emails and contact information. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**20 Question Quiz**
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=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Google Docs __= =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google Docs also have a lot of great templates and things are always being added. Here is a gradebook that does all your calculations and weights items as desired.Gradebook with Weighting = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here is a little video about using your Google Docs. = =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">media type="custom" key="8047406" =

=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Diigo __= =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diigo is a book marking application that stores your bookmarks in the cloud so you can access them from anywhere. You can follow people with like interests to see what they are bookmarking too. Additionally you can do some pretty nifty stuff beyond your basic bookmarking with their toolbar. This is a clip I embedded about the Diigo Toolbar which has some very nice features. If you would rather read about the toolbar at your leisure here's a link.... Diigo Toolbar Information=

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=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Interesting Ways __= =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tom Barrett is a gentleman with a lot, no a ton of interesting ideas about how to use Cool Tools in the classroom! See an example below and make sure to check out his Interesting Ways blog. =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">@http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/
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= **__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Help __** = =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Search Google: @http://www.google.com/help/features.html Google has a lot of tools to use to get answers to questions of all sorts. =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Search YouTube to see how to do just about anything, well actually anything!
=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Organize Your Ideas and Tools to Work Anywhere __= =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Docs: Create, collaborate and store your docs in the cloud
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">@http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html
=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">A Few of My Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts __= <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> CTRL+C (Copy) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">CTRL+X (Cut) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">CTRL+V (Paste) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">CTRL+Z (Undo) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">CTRL+F (Find a word on the page) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">DELETE (Delete) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">placing the item in the Recycle Bin) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">F2 key (Rename the selected item) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">SHIFT+ F7 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">Hold SHIFT while selecting first item and then last item to select everything in between <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">Hold CTRL while selecting times of choice that are not consecutive

=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Class Tools: Game Maker __= ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Practice the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|4 Tables] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">with one of the four flash games: ==