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Following is a list of sites that are available for teachers to evaluate and/or purchase. I am not personally recommending any of these titles, but have just collected them so you can try them out! Be sure to check out my Icing on the Cake page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers and learners.
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Advanced Survey
...a free, basic, online survey creation tool
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Assign-A-Day
...a free, online calendaring site that can be used to post school, activity, or class calendars |
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ePrintableCalendars
...easy-to-print out caldendars by month or year, in various sizes
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Exercises, Quizzes, Tests
...hundreds of links to online exercises, quizzes, and test makers as well as as well as a subject-arranged list of links to assessment tools
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Game-O-Matic
...a suite of wizards to create simple Web-based activities for language learning and practice |
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Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
...a collection of many online tools for teaching and learning |
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Teacher Tools
...an extensive overview with support materials to help teachers better use the "typical" classroom technology toolset
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Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant
...a free, well-done, Web-based classroom environment giving teachers and students a secure forum to collaborate and share ideas
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Puzzlemaker
...create word searches, cryptograms, math squares, and other types of puzzles to use with your lessons |
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QuizCenter
...this site allows you create and correct online quizzes without requiring any knowledge of HTML and automatically posts them on a server so they may be used by students |
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Zoomerang
...a online survey creator that allows 20 questions and 100 responses for free
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Following is a list of no-cost Web 2.0 sites that are available for teachers to evaluate. Many of these tools are on the open Internet, so look at them carefully before using with your students! Be sure to check out my Shedding Light on Web 2.0 page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers and learners.
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Aggregator: Bloglines
...a great aggregator for skimming the titles of blog posts from many different blogs
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Aggregator: NetVibes
...an easy-to-use Web-based aggregator which allows you to collect all of your RSS feed on a single Web page
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Aggregator: Pageflakes
...a Web-based aggregator that allows you to create a page for you and a page for students, and includes "flakes" to add in, such as a calculator
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Blog: Blogger
...one of the best online blog-creation sites; easy to use, privacy features now built-in, and it works well
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Blog: Class Blogmeister
...a blog site set up specifically for educators and students with many privacy controls built-in
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Blog: edublogs
...free blog-hosting site for educators and students of all ages
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Database: Zoho Creator
...an online database application that can be used for surveys, inventories, data collection, and much more
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Podcast: Podcasting Tools
...a well-done overview of the process of creating a podcast
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Podcast: VoiceThread
...online voice recording that you can attach to pictures and store online
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Shedding Light on Web 2.0
...my presentation support site with links to information and Web 2.0 tools
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Social Networking: del.icio.us
...save your bookmarks online, share with viewers, and search, via tags, others' links
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Social Networking: Flickr
...a social networking site for photographs; a great source of material for students to access
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Social Networking: FURL
...an online Web page storage site which allows users to save their personal favorite sites in an online archive and also search, via tags, the archives of others
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Social Networking: twitter.com
...an application allowing you to instantly post and receive short messages called "tweets"
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Social Networking: Ning.com
...a site which allows you to create your own social network; consider using a private social network with your students
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Synchronous Collaborative Environments: WiZiQ
...a "a virtual classroom application that is fully equipped with 2-way audio, text chat, whiteboard, PowerPoint and PDF document sharing capabilities"
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Synchronous Collaborative Environments: Yugma
...a "free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and ideas using any application or software"
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Wiki: jottit
...an easy-to-use wiki site that allows you to create a classroom wiki that is only accessible to students who have the password and students do not need an email address to sign-up
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Wiki: Wikispaces
...create a public, online wiki for free; great for class collaboration
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Wiki: Writeboard
...a place to create shareable, Web-based text documents
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