Hot New Technology Tools

Beth Malapanes

bmalapan@amphi.com

CDO Library 696-5711

Video

Google Video (Blocked so use Zamzar to convert)

http://video.google.com/?hl=en&tab=iv

Teacher Tube

http://www.teachertube.com/

Windows Movie Maker

Comes with Windows XP and Vista

Make professional looking videos with still photos

Zamzar.com

http://www.zamzar.com

Online file converter

Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ?

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing voice and sounds

Voicethreadhttp://voicethread.com/

Pictures with voice added, no special software needed, just a microphone

Example:

http://voicethread.com/#q+grandparents.b3763.i30523

Peggy’s works http://www.amphi.com/~technology/techtalks/online/dec07/bestpract.htm#article1

Tumblr.com

http://www.tumblr.com

Extremely easy place to post text, images, audio, and sound

http://bmalapan.tumblr.com

Photos

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/

Flickr is a photo sharing site where you can post your photos and tag them so others can find them

Other Photo Sites

Photo storing and sharingPhotobucket http://photobucket.com/Picnik http://www.picnik.com/Picture Trail http://www.picturetrail.com/Tabblo http://www.tabblo.com/studioRock You http://www.rockyou.com/ Slide showsBubbleshare http://www.bubbleshare.com/ Slide showsSlideroll http://www.slideroll.com/ Slide showsSlide.com http://www.slide.com/ Slide shows

Clustrmaps.com

http://www.clustrmaps.com/

See at a glance where your site's visitors are located

Check out the map at the bottom of Amphi’s interactive whiteboard page

Bubbl.us

http://bubbl.us/

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online

Bibme

http://www.bibme.org/

The best free bibliography maker

For educators http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Gmail - Offer email to your faculty, students and staff with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser (chat can easily be disabled for the whole school if you don't want students to be able to IM with their accounts).

Google Talk - Teachers and students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free -- anytime, anywhere in the world. Imagine the possibilities for people collaborating on projects from different locations.

Google Calendar - Everyone can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others. You can even publish the school calendar on your website to let families know about events like back-to-school nights, homecoming and vacation days.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets - Students and teachers can create documents and spreadsheets and then collaborate with each other in real-time right inside a web browser window.

Google Page Creator - Create and publish web pages for your domain quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get web design tool. No technical expertise required.

Jott.comGet More Done

Create To Do Lists and Reminders

Send E-mail and Text Messages

Message groups in one call

... all with just your voice

MediaMax

http://www.mediamax.com/

Free online storage up to 25 GB

Tinyurl.com

TinyURL.com

Making long URLs usable! More than 50 million of them. Over 1.1 billion hits/month

Wikispaces.com

Wikispaces for teachers

http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K

Wikis can be used for collaborative writing projects; group work management; online reference guides and manuals; and electronic portfolios

My wiki class

Skrbl

http://www.skrbl.com/

Online interactive whiteboard that can be created and shared

Writeboard.com

My writeboard http://123.writeboard.com/398e639c50f4cc87a

Letterpop.com

http://letterpop.com/

Lets you create newsletters, flyers, announcements, etc, all within a browser

Scrapblog

http://www.scrapblog.com/

Create online scrapbooks that can be

shared online, printed, or burned to DVD

More cool stuff

NECC 2007 Links

http://amphinecc.wikispaces.com/