Stretching Your Technology Dollar: Did You Say That Was Free?

Come explore some solutions for creative and collaborative tools to use with your students. There is no need for purchase order numbers with these tools. We will look at content area, integrated, classroom uses for Glogster, comic strip generators, Wordle and more. Take a tour of these three, easy-to-use, free educational tools and the resources provided, and be ready to integrate them in your lessons come Fall 2010.

Wordle - http://www.wordle.net

The Top 20 Uses for Wordle - http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-20-uses-for-wordle.html

46 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom - http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5

Top 10 Wordle Lessons for the Classroom - http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/58905.aspx

19 Word Cloud Resources, Tips and Tools - http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2010/02/14/12-word-cloud-resources-tips-tools/

Diigo Group - http://groups.diigo.com/group/wordle

Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/wordleusers?msg=subscribe

Some Alternative Sites

www.tagxedo.com/app.html

worditout.com

Make Beliefs Comix! - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Explaining science to students - http://scienceinschool.org/2010/issue14/web

Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers - 

http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/07/05/comics-in-the-classroom-100-tips-tools-and-resources-for-teachers/

Alternative Sites

http://pixton.com/home

http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon

yolink - http://yolink.com/education

yolink in the Classroom - http://yolink.com/education/pdf/yolink_in_the_classroom.pdf

A Teacher’s Guide to yolink - http://yolink.com/education/pdf/yolink_teacher_guide.pdf

Video Tutorials - http://yolink.com/education/videos/edu-videos.jsp

Sensitive Assignments call for Sensitive Searches - 

http://www.slideshare.net/yolinkeducation/lisa-thumann-the-holocaust-sensitive-topics-call-for-sensitive-searches

Glogster Edu - http://edu.glogster.com/

How To Guide - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqwv5cr_127g7nqc8fm

Glogster Rubric  -http://www.docstoc.com/docs/46993710/Glogster-Rubric

Samples:

Endangered Animals - http://computerteacher.edu.glogster.com/endangeredanimals/

Electromagnetic Spectrum - http://mchauvin.edu.glogster.com/electromagnetic-spectrum

Inspired By Images - April's Poems 2010 - http://mrhodgson.edu.glogster.com/aprils-poems-2010