Weebly...create your own website for FREE!!!

www.weebly.com is a website that allows you to create your own personalized webpage.  It is SUPER EASY to use.....most items are drag and drop.  It took me about 30 minutes to create a website for myself.  The only negative about weebly is it can be slow to load images/pages.

Students could create their own website using there name or a nickname.  They could use it to post links and pictures of projects they are working on in class.

To view the web page I created, click HERE!

Tech Ideas from TIES

www.weebly.com - students can create their own website.

http://www.thinglink.com/

http://voicethread.com/

www.animoto.com lets you create videos from photos.  There is a free version for teachers...but it is hard to find

educreations is an online teaching tool

infogram is an online app that allows students to easily create graphical representations of data

www.edublogs.org is an educational blogging site

http://www.pechakucha.org/ allows students to create a presentation of 20 slides that last 20 seconds

www.lucidchart.com allows students to make flowcharts/mindmaps

http://www.meograph.com/

google maps tour builder beta

NG Map Maker

This map maker allows you to look at data maps of the world, including environmental science topics.

Very easy to use.  Access this map maker HERE.

Online Ideas for Social Studies

Located at http://www.mission-us.org/  This website has 3 interactive games about the Revolutionary War, Slavery and Native American life.  Complete with teachers guides.

Located at http://www.ustream.tv/explore/all  This website has live news feeds from all over the world, great for current events.

The DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA is located at http://dp.la/  This website contains thousands of historical images from around the U.S.  I typed in St. Paul, MN and a picture of a streetcar from 1951 popped up.

NEWSLEA is located at http://newsela.com/  and contains recent newspaper articles.  This service is free but you will have to register after accessing 4 articles.

iCivics is located at http://www.icivics.org/  Founded and led by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics provides students with the tools they need for active participation and democratic action, and teachers with the materials and support to achieve this. Our free resources include print-and-go lesson plans, award-winning games, and digital interactives.

Websites for making cartoons/animations

www.pixton.com is an online cartoon making tool that allows students to make cartoon characters and tell stories. It also allows the importing of images.  It does have a free trial option.  Cost varies, for example....to allow 15 students access for 2 months costs $18.

LanSchool

http://www.lanschool.com/lanschool is software designed to monitor students computers, lock or allow programs, project student screens, poll students, show teacher screen, etc.  There is a free lite version that allows viewing student screens only.  I have contacted the company and will download the software and try it out.  More to follow.  Watch the video below to get an idea of what LanSchool is.

Venn Diagram Creator

I found a nice website to easily create Venn Diagrams.  You can access the site by clicking HERE.