Usable Tech Tools for Students and Teachers
Create Graphic OrganizersCacoo.com is a FREE website that allows people to create graphic organizers, cool webs for planning essays, or just showing how certain ideas connect. This website has multiple options for creating graphic organizers and has templates for venns charts etc. Students can email the final project to the teacher, other students, or create a cacoo together!
Note-Taking on the WEB
Penzu.com is a great FREE site for online journaling. Students and teachers can create a notebook online and take notes in classes or do journal writing. It would also be a great place to do homework and be able to print it out from any computer that is connected to the web. More importanly, educators and students will find this invaluable for organization of materials and it keeps it forever so your not searching for notes!
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Creating ProjectsOn bighugelabs.com students can create many projects FREE. One project that is avalible to students and teachers is the TRADING CARD. Some examples of how it could be used are:
Creating VideosKids love to create videos and so do teachers! With Animoto.com students can create 30 second videos for FREE. They can upload pictures, videos, graphs, charts, tables,etc. to prove a theory, relate a summary of a story, show the history of a battle, demonstrate understanding of a difficult topic, and many other things.
Teachers can sign up in Animoto as a teacher and create unlimited length videos. You could record a lecture and embed it in an animoto, develop a lesson on photosynthesis or the water cycle, or simply create a photo essay of your summer vacation. Try a few Sites! I'll be adding to this as I find more great places for you to go to get your students involved in hands on education!
Questions?Email me if you need any help navigating any of these sites and I'll be happy to help. I'll even show your kids how to do it too! Just let me know.
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