Technology & Education

Free Web 2.0 and Online Resources (this page is no longer being updated)
Shortened link for this page: http://bit.ly/mrjontech
Increase the effectiveness of the resources below by incorporating them into your Moodle environment.  Full Moodle course based on the following resources available for download here. If your school does not use Moodle or you don't host it yourself, go to Key To School for Hosting.

Videos
  • TeacherTube
  • Animoto- Creates videos using images/text/music that users upload
  • Hulu-Embeddable videos of television/movies
  • School Tube-Educational substitute for YouTube
  • Snagfilms-Create your own virtual movie theater that allows you to embed videos
  • Kiss Youtube- Downloads videos from YouTube
  • Screencast-o-matic- Create and upload screencasts
  • Jing- Share Screenshots or record video of on-screen actions.
  • Video Ant- Video Annotation Tool-synchronize web-based video with time-line based text annotations.
Images
  • Aviary-It's like a free PhotoShop
  • Flame- Drawing program with interesting interface
  • Picnik- Edit photos online.  Grabs your photos from any number of online photosharing sites (including Facebook & MySpace).
  • Flickr & Picasa- Photo Sharing
  • Pixlr- Photo editing

Social Resources; Searching; Bookmarking
File Conversion

Word Processing/Text Resources
 Presentation Tools
  • VuVox- Create multi-media presentations.
  • Masher- lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos
  • Jing-Screenshots/videos/sharing
  • Yudu- Publish and share digital content
  • 280 Slides 
  • Student Project Poster- Students can post their content online.
  • Prezi-Flash based presentation with an easy to use editor. Presentations can be stored online or downloaded.  Education accounts available.
  • Stupeflix- similar to Animoto, but allows you to include video clips as well.
  • Memoov- create animated videos
  • TimeGlider-Allows users to create their own time-lines using web-links and files.

Comics & Storytelling

Audio Tools
  • Myna- Online audio mixer. Completely web-based which means your students can start a project on a school computer and finish it on their home computers.
  • SlideShare - Record audio tracks for presentations.
  • AudioOwl- Free Audio Books

Course Content
 Lesson Planning
  • The Differentiator- provides an interactive method of planning lessons using Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • Jeopardy Labs-allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint.  You can browse other Jeopardy projects if you don't have time to make your own.
  • Lingro- Allows students to paste a URL that makes the text of that page clickable so they can see word definitions.
Research Materials
  • MnKnows- (for residents of MN only; requires library card number) 
MnLINK-get library materials.
Electronic Library of MN (ELM)-Search databases for articles and books.
Minnesota Reflections- Search images related to MN history.
AskMN- Get real-time answers from a librarian.
Research Project Planner- Helps users plan out research projects step by step (includes handouts).
  • Museum of Online Museums- It sounds silly, but through the MoOM you can link to multiple online museums across the internets.
Webquests
Studying
Interactive/Animated Content

Content Sharing
  • MoodleShare-Share and discuss your Moodle content
  • Moodle Exchange- Discussion board on moodle.org where people discuss shared content (Requires an account).
Collaboration
  • Adobe Connect Now-Share your screen in a web conference.
  • DimDim-Web Meetings with chatroom; voice; shared desktop; whiteboard (there is also a Moodle plug-in here but you need a moodle.org account to view it.
  • Vokle- Host online events
  • WeTransfer- Allows for sharing of larger files too big for email (up to 2GB).

Last updated 03-16-2010



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