Student Tools

Avatars

Copyright Friendly Avatar Makers - from Joyce Valenza 

Portrait Avatar Maker

TekTek

Books

Tech-It Take-it

Copy-right Friendly Music and Sound Portal- Joyce Valenza

Crossword Construction Kit

Curriculum Handbook & 9th grade Curriculum Handbook

Digital Storytelling

PhotoStory3 download

Tutorial for PhotoStory3 - includes a Collections library of resources

Pima County Regional Support Center - Digital Storytelling 

Voicethread

Copy-right Friendly Music and Sound Portal- Joyce Valenza

 

Encyclopedia

Google docs, spreadsheets and presentation - start with a google account.  Allows a group to

      work on a single project at the same time from different machines and locations.  The

      originator of the project invites everyone else.

Google Gears - an opensource software app that allows you to work Google apps offline and

      synchronize later when you connect.

Graphic Organizers

Concept Mapping  - explanation

Debate Organizer

Education Oasis

English Companion -lots of note taking organizers  - have his book Tools For Thought  371.3 BU

Essay Map - an interactive tool with introduction, three main ideas, each with 3 supporting details and a conclusion.  Limited space.

Michael Drake's Take on Graphic Organizers

Parkwise Schools - 22 pages of graphic organizers, in Adobe. 

Slideshow Plan in Word doc

Slideshow Planning Organizer 

Spanish Graphic Organizers

Speech Graphic Organizer

Speech Organizer

Storyboard graphic organizer for PowerPoint  (more detailed)

 

Images

Associated Press Multimedia Archives - must have a Pima County Public Library Card

Flickr's Free Use page

Flickr's Library of Congress Photostream

Flickrstorm - a way to search and gather pictures from flickr.  Saves them online.

     Using Flickrstorm - by David Jakes, lots of other great stuff at his web site.

Google Life Photo Archive

 

News Sources on the Web - search using intitle:tsunami  to get more specific articles

AlltheWeb News - Newspaper sources world wide, usually free for the last week of news.

Daypop.com - Searches 59,000 news sites and weblogs.  Add /archive/news to get news from 2002 - current.

Google News - Includes regional national and world.

InfoTrac Databases - Newspapers and Magazines on Sabino's database

Rocket News - includes newspapers, media and quality weblogs.

Search 22 - A meta search that searches the other news search tools like Google and Rocket.

Topix.net - Allows you to locate regional news and then by clicking on a story see how it was revised by another paper.

Photos see Images

Pima County Public Library - Databases -Newspapers

Posters Online

Glogster - incorporates music, video and images

PowerPoint

Directions for PowerPoint in #322 lab 

Directions for 2003 

Primary Sources Pathfinder - portal to everything primary source on the web - by Joyce Valenza

Printable Paper

Social Bookmarking

Del.icio.us - export all your current bookmarks to the web for access from home or school.

      Annotate them, tag them, share them, search your bookmarks or anyone on Del.icio.us

Furl

Technology

Free FLV Converter - converts Flash so it can be put on portable devices

CubedLabs - converts Youtube URL so you can post it on web sites or in PowerPoints.

Zamzar - takes youtube out of Flash and converts it a friendlier format

     How to use Zamzar

Templates

Brochure Directions - Publisher 2003 (All labs except 322)

Newspaper Template in Word

Resume Templates in Microsoft Word Office 2003

Timeline Widget - see the example at MIT

VoiceThread - there is an educational version.

Web Based Software

Google Docs and Spreadsheets  - free web based word processing and spreadsheet functions

SketchUp - modeling software developed for architects to design buildings.

 

Web 2.0 Tools

Wikis

pbwiki

wikispaces

 

Wordle - generates word clouds, based on the text you copy and paste in, or direct to it, from a blog.