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My Top Ten Tech Tools Chrystalle Doyle Ashton Elementary [email protected]

My Top Ten Tech Tools Chrystalle Doyle Ashton Elementary [email protected]

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My Top Ten Tech Tools

Chrystalle DoyleAshton Elementary

[email protected]

• Most useful tool on the internet

• Register email address to use all the features

• Custom searches

• Safesearch

• Reading Level

• Translator

• Timeline

• Google Squared-makes it a spreadsheet

• Google Art Project

• Google Image Swirl

• Use this tool...

• To easily disperse documents, create assessment, and collect feedback

• Easy to share with your students

• Multiple levels of sharing options

• Documents are updated in real-time

• www.dropbox.com

• Use this tool...

• To receive and send large files to others

• Your files are backed-up, stored securely, and password-protected.

• 2GB of box space for free

• Dropbox works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.

• www.portaportal.com

• Online bookmarking tool

• Can be used to share lots of sites easily with students

• You can share any and all links

• Easy to make and use

My Fakewall.com

• www.myfakewall.com

• Facebook-like Format

• Must register to use

• Literary Characters, Historical Characters, Politicians, Artists, Musicians

• Use to teach Internet Safety too

• Free to use.

• Registration required to make a wall

• www.wetoku.com

• Video Interviewing

• Free Registration.

• No Downloading is necessary

• Just click link

• www.wordle.net

• Word Cloud Creator

• Classroom Rules

• Report Covers

• Analyzing Literature

• Vocabulary or Spelling Lists

• Word Wall Words

• Artwork for Holidays

Storybird- Collaborative Story-Telling

• www.storybird.com

• Free to register and use. Choose educator setup

• Privacy Settings available

• Publish to the web

• Simple to use

• Viewable on computer or mobile device

• Collaboration between students

• www.bibme.org

• Create, share, and download Bibliographies in all the major formats MLA, APA, Chicago, Turbian

• View Citation Guides- to learn how to do them manually

• Registration not required but it has more available to registered users

• Accesses Amazon, Yahoo, and other news databases

Animoto

• www.animoto.com

• The end of boring slideshows

• Sign up for educator account

• You get 50 users to also teach your class how to use it

• Must be renewed every 6 months

• Fun and easy!!!!

• Use this tool..

• To link to multiple websites with a single URL

• Easy to use - just add your URLs on the main page and click “go”

• Eliminates the need for multiple windows or tabs

• Free statistics of how many people have viewed your fur.ly