Quick & Easy
Symbaloo - http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/quickeasy
I. Tagxedo - http://www.tagxedo.com/
· Free, no login required
· Create your word cloud, refine, then save as jpg or png or save to the web - link
Visit Gallery – Daily Tagxedo – Creator’s Blog
101 Ways to Use
II. Avatars
· My Avatar Editor – does not require an account
http://www.myavatareditor.com/
Check out the Guide and Blog links at the top
Save as .mae file, can load at anytime and bring back in
Can export as jpg or png to print or use in Smart Notebook files
Can change the color of the background
To take off the background - Export as png – uncheck background
Ideas:
-have students make avatar for IWB activities throughout the year
-write poem about themselves – All About Mii
-Create new character – write a story
-Create detailed description, exchange, see if other person can recreate your character
-Genetics lesson in biology
· Voki – requires account
Examples: introduce and assignment or student created avatar http://integratingcooltoolsncra.wikispaces.com/
On Debbie’s webpage - http://www.burke.k12.nc.us/technology/Kiracofe/Pages/voki.aspx
On Debbie’s Gaggle Blog - https://gaggle.net/gen?_template=/templates/gaggle/html/blog/blog.jsp&userId=13584034
New Voki Edu model – new teaching ideas, etc. http://www.voki.com/Voki_for_education.php
Check out the Teacher’s Corner
Audio 1-2 minutes in length
If you don’t have a headset – if can call your cell phone # and recording sounds fine
Allows typing – good for short blurps only
Offers accents
Ideas:
Introduce an assignment (Queen Elizabeth)
Foreign language – understand accents – speak in Spanish to students
Great for shy students to practice presenting
· Blabberize – requires an account
http://blabberize.com/
Upload a picture, record a sound to make it talk
III. QR Codes – short for Quick Response – 2-dimensional bar code that can be easily generated and then decoded with a smart phone or other device. When scanned/read, the QR code can activate the opening of a web page, dialing a phone number, sending an email or text message and more.
QR Codes are very common in Europe and Japan and can be found on posters, signs, magazines, menus and many other places
Choose the correct one for your phone - http://www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code-software/
** Blackberry’s have a reader under the Instant Messenger icon
I-nigma
Creating QR codes – find QR code generator
http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
http://goqr.me/
Follow the on-screen prompts to generate a code
Article – Exploring QR Codes - http://technosavvy.org/2010/09/03/exploring-qr-codes/#
101 Uses for QR Codes - http://blog.greattv.com/2010/06/101-uses-for-quick-response-qr-codes-creating-audience-engagement-with-the-next-killer-us-app/
QR Codes in Education Livebinder - http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit/51894
Ideas – Scavenger hunt around the school
Artwork in the hallway – QR code for more information
QR codes in back of library books – hold student book reports
IV. Corkboard.me - http://corkboard.me/simple
Does not require a login, unlimited space
Ideas:
Prepare wall "sticky notes" ahead of time from a story or video, have students sort/classify/sequence when finished on IWB
Have students leave a comment for consideration and review together
Class Suggestion Wall (plus/delta)
Put vocabulary words on a sticky note and see if students can create sentences with them (a la magnetic poetry)
Cool Sites
We Are Teachers – http://www.weareteachers.com/
Great online community for teachers – technology grants, tech in the classroom, rubrics
ThinkQuest - http://www.thinkquest.org/en/
Students creating inquiry projects for other students
Ages 9-19
Another category (K-12)
Khanacademy - http://www.khanacademy.org/
2,100 Math/Science Tutorial Videos
Can post as a parent resource
Can log in Google account and get points
Ck-12 Flexbooks - http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
Customizeable free digital textbooks – can rearrange order of topics
You can edit, add your own examples – get printed for your class
Current focus - Middle and high school math and science, but the site is growing to include K-12
ClassTools.net - http://classtools.net/
Free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams
- Random name pickers
o (floppy disc icon to save the names)
o Math Facts
o Vocabulary words
o 50 states/capitals
- Can embed in a webpage
SignApp Now - http://signappnow.com/
Simple way to create sign up sheets, no account required.
Create a sheet, email the url
Download in Excel format after the sign up period