Professional Lerning Community PLC

Cutting Edge Really Cool Stuff:
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No grade level in Schools, take a look!

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Great Tools for web based teachers: Hope you have a lot of time on your hand.

  www.blabberize.com (Making fun stuff to make class more interesting.)

www.google.com (I love Gmail,  google sites, docs and reader is also great.)

www.wetpaint.com (Create a web page about anything you like)

   www.wikispaces.com

  www.voicethreads.com (Speak to the nation, let your voice be heard)

  www.twitter.com  (Great way to start a personal learning community)

www.zoomerang.com (Creating web based surveys)

jeopardylabs.com (Create your own Jeopardy games.)

  www.enotes.com (Educational resource for millions of teacher and students.  Blogs, guides and Lesson plans.)

  www.sliderocket.com (Presentations on the web)

www.crickweb.co.uk (Educational interactive resources)
  www.edmodo.com (Like facebook but for educators and students)

www.kerpoof.com (Site for children through a suite of activities that are enriching)

www.edumacnation.com (Site dedicated to sharing news, information, and tutorials related to Apple products.)

www.glogster.com/  (Share your creativity with friends, create a glog today.  Like an electronic poster.)

portableapps.com (PC applications when and where you need them.)

www.twine.com (Collect content and connect with people who share your interests.)

www.ning.com  (Create your own social network)  Awesome!

www.diigo.com  (Don't just bookmark! Highlight the web! Add sticky notes too!)

qik.com  (Qik enables you to share your moments live with your friends, family and the world—right from your mobile phone!)

http://www.testdesigner.com/ (Printable tests and worksheets made easy)

www.wimba.com (Present a topic online, ask guest to come on listen live)

www.angellearning.com (Learning management suite)

   www.toondoo.com  (Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss)

  www.goodreads.com (Find, share good books with friends, even form your own club.)

  www.onlinecharttool.com  (Yes, create charts to use)

  http://prezi.com/  (Let's you create zooming presentations)

   www.befunky.com  (Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click)

scribblar.com   (Onine collaberation tool)

   http://www.jingproject.com/  (Screen capture, record video of your screen actions, and more.)

   http://gamequarium.org/ (Learning game for anybody)

  http://classtools.net/ (Tools to use during class, timers, random name picker, etc.)

   http://www.surveymonkey.com  (Make your own Survey to use in class)

  http://preezo.com/  (Online presentation tools)

www.epals.com  (Largest global community of connected classrooms


Open Source Programs:


Open Source for Mac:
www.opensourcemac.org
www.freesmug.org

www.blender.org
www.alice.org
http://sketchup.google.com
scratch.mit.edu (Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art)
www.gimp.org (Software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)
www.scribus.net  (Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout)



Twitter Tools:

http://is.gd (Shorten your URL for use in twitter.)
http://twitpic.com (
http://hootsuite.com  (With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.)



For principals and Administration:

www.principalspage.com



Internet Safety:

http://internetawareness.wikispaces.com/ (Nice Wiki on safety.)



RSS feeds Information:

www.changedetection.com  (Provides page change monitoring and notification services to internet users worldwide via email.)

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