More+Tools+&+Resources


 * More Web 2.0 tools to explore on your own: **

[] || **Wordle** is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. 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. One thing about Wordle images: they cannot be saved. You must either print them immediately or take a screen shot and save them as a JPEG image. [] || **Tikatok** - This website is free to write books and read books that other kids wrote. There is a small fee if you want to buy a hardcover of your book. You can illustrate your own story by mailing in your illustrations or use the Tikatok gallery to find pictures others have submitted. || [] || Vocaroo – very easy podcast tool for primary students. You do not have to have an account to use this tool. Simply log into the site and start speaking. Students can immediately click on ‘listen’ to hear their recording. Then they can record again. If you want to keep the recordings then you will need to set up an account using your email address. The recordings stay on your account until you delete them. This way they can be imported onto a web site. Great tool for improving fluency. || [|http://xtranormal.com] || Make a movie with up to 2 actors (actors provided as cartoon-ish figures). This site allows you to type the dialog as text and the provided actors will convert the text to spoken word. || Image Loop || You need to set up an account, but students can all use the same login and password (you don’t need separate accounts). Make sure students name their slideshows – they get saved under your account so you can go to imageloop and view all your students’ work. Slideshows are easy to edit and easy to save and embed the code. || [] || Big Huge Labs – This site has many different activities to pick from, but the two best are the magazine covers and the trading cards. You will need to set up a free education account. You can then import the students and the web site will create individual log in cards for each student. Student will need to have their photos already saved, along with their paragraphs. Once they have completed their project they can save them. || [|http://yodio.com] || A talking photobook! Create a digital, talking photobook or talking slideshow. || [|http://mixbook.com] || A free online photobook that you can order "hard copies" of! || [] || Make your own photo strip! Choose your layout, upload your photos, add your speech bubbles and effects, then share. || [|http://poster.4teachers.org] || Web Worksheet Wizard and Project Poster have combined to make Web Poster Wizard. This FREE tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages. || [|http://glogster.com] || Create web-based, interactive "virtual" poster around a theme or topic. Upload videos, images and podcasts, create text boxes and/or link to other web 2.0 tools. || http://ed.voicethread.com || Create a slideshow of images or video and you and others can comment on each photo by text, audio or video. Embed into any webpage or send the link to others to view and comment. For step-by-step instructions on how to use Voicethread, click here: VOICETHREAD! || [|http://springnote.com] || This is a great online note-taking source that allows students to gather, organize, and process online information in a collaborative way. I like this source because it allows the teacher to see exactly where students have been for their source information and makes it virtually impossible for students to effectively plagiarize! || [|http://noodletools.com] || This is a great, EASY, online bibliography maker--and it's color coded. Take the frustration out of creating a bibliography for both you and your students. || [|www.widgetbox.com] [] [] || [|http://shrinkpictures.com] || Resize high pixel digital images with a few clicks of the mouse! || [|http://zamzar.com] || Free online file conversions. ||
 * ** Tool & Link ** || ** Description & Tips for use ** ||
 * ** Wordle **
 * How can I use Wordle in my classroom? **
 * All About Me or All About My Family
 * Character Traits/Analysis
 * Synonyms (for those over used words students use when writing)
 * Vocabulary/Terminology
 * Word Poetry
 * Parts of Speech, Rhyming Words, Descriptive Writing
 * Word Chunks: (i.e. –an pan, man, fan, etc.) ||
 * ** Tikatok **
 * ** Vocaroo **
 * ** Xtranormal **
 * ** Image Loop **
 * ** Big Huge Labs **
 * ** Yodio **
 * ** Mixbook **
 * ** Pikistrips **
 * ** Web Poster Wizard **
 * ** Glogster **
 * ** Voicethread **
 * ** Springnote **
 * ** Noodletools **
 * || ** More great resources: ** ||
 * ** Free widget websites: ** || Thousands of cool widgets you can put on your website.
 * ** Resize images **
 * ** Zamzar **