Engaging Tools
If you want to teach kids something, the first thing you have to do
is get their attention. Bill Gates
Engaging tools from the Net:
Architect Studio: www.architectstudio3d.org
Art activities: www.nga.gov/kids/zone/
Aviary photo, music, audio: http://www.aviary.com
Block Man avatar: http://reasonablyclever.com/mini/flash/minifig.swf
Class Tools games: www.classtools.net
Free sounds: http://www.freesound.org/
Gadgets for webpages: http://wigflip.com/ http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/foryourpage/index.html
GIS Sim and activities: http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/giszone.html
Home Styler: www.homestyler.com
JamStudio Music: www.jamstudio.com
Khan Academy: www.khanacademy.org
Kerpoof: www.kerpoof.com
Mosaizer: http://www.mosaizer.com/
Music: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
Music from Brainy Betty: http://www.brainybetty.com/
NFB Kids: http://nfbkids.ca
Nussbaum: http://www.mrnussbaum.com
Paint program: http://www.sumopaint.com/home/
Tuxpaint; http://tuxpaint.org
Piccy photo editing: http://ipiccy.com
Piclits: www.piclits.com
Prezi presentations: http://prezi.com
QR codes: http://qrickit.com
Read Write Think: www.readwritethink.org
Schooltube: www.schooltube.com Teachertube: www.teachertube.com
Shape Collage: http://www.shapecollage.com/
Small Blue Printer: www.smallblueprinter.com
Spelling Bee: http://www.spellingbeethegame.com/
Storymaker: http://carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/storymaker.swf
Super Hero: http://cpbherofactory.com/
Tagxedo word clouds: http://www.tagxedo.com
Thinkfinity: http://www.thinkfinity.org/student-interactives
Virtual frog: http://dissect.froguts.com
Virtual surgeries, simple machines: www.edheads.org
Voki’s: www.voki.com
Wondersay banners: www.wondersay.com
Wordle: www.wordle.net
Microsoft freebies:
Create a Microsoft Partners in Learning login @ http://www.pil-network.com/
Resources www.microsoft.com/learning/
Mouse Mischief: http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/en-us/default.aspx
AutoCollage and SongSmith: download through the Partners in Learning
PhotoSynth: http://photosynth.net
Kodu: http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu.aspx
Learning Essentials for Educators/Students: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Movie Maker & Office OneNote are included with Office
And even more...
History for Middle School: http://www.historyforkids.org/
Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/
Math: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
Educational Videos: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/default.aspx
Google Lit Trips: http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html
Animations, Videos, Photos, Primary Docs, from EdGov: http://www.free.ed.gov/
Blender 3D rendering: www.blender.org
If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do.
If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow…
go to the cutting edge of your
competence.
Whenever you don’t quite know what you are doing, know you’re growing.
M. Hunter