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.

World War II Simulations

Play the game as a 'Senior Officer Escort'. In charge of the destroyers and corvettes tasked with defending the increasingly important convoys, you will need to learn about the tactics you can use to outwit German U-boats, and discover the strengths and weaknesses of both friend and foe. To play, click HERE.

Castle Vox is a simultaneous-turns team-based world conquest game, based on the best features of classic strategy boardgames like Axis & Allies and Diplomacy. Capture all the enemy team's Castles to win!

The game is located HERE.

This interactive timeline allows students to choose a course of action in the events leading up to World War II.  

The timeline is located HERE.

Did you know you can make a screen recording of your lecture and write on the screen, even if not using powerpoint?!? First of all, you can use Quicktime to record your screen. Open quicktime and select, "record screen." This will open a small record button, hit record when ready. To write on the screen, I use Omnidazzle. Omnidazzle can be downloaded HERE. Omnidazzle is simply to use. Use the configuration window to make shortcuts for the pen and for clearing the screen (erase.) I use "option 1" for pen and "option c" for clear. Quicktime videos can then be imported into youtube. Very Slick!

Did you know you can add questions to youtube videos?

Below is a link to a video on evolution, that I inserted questions into.  The process is available on youtube, but it is not supported by youtube.  Here is a tutorial on how to add this feature.

Mindmeister is a website or app for Chrome that allows students to build concept or mind maps and easily insert pictures from the web.  It is the best app of its kind out there.  Free account allows students to construct up to 3 mind maps.  To visit the website, click HERE.

Chemistry/BioCem Ideas and Sims

3-D simulation of molecules available HERE.

Simulations involving BioChem available HERE.

Interactive Periodic Table available HERE.

Online Science Activities including car crash, surgeries, stem cells

Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.  www.edheads.org

Websites to make comic books, cartoons, and a place to collaborate.

Checked out the following websites:

A way to organize student projects and allow them to collaborate

Website that allows you to make animated cartoons

Make comic strips or books

Want to create a more animated presentation?  Want to be the cool teacher on the block?  Then you should try PowToon.  Powtoon does have a modest learning curve. I played around with it for a couple of hours and created a presentation you can watch above.  If you would like to watch tutorials on how to use Powtoon, you can see them HERE.

Evolution Activities

Who Wants to Live a Million Years

Evolution Interactive Video/Quiz....good for intro into evolution

PhET Natural Selection Simulation....simulation involving rabbits and natural selection, lab worksheets available for download.

ACT Science Test Prep

Location of websites that offer free ACT prep questions.

4Tests.com has practice ACT, SAT, CLEP, AP Bio, AP Chem, etc.

http://www.actstudent.org/testprep/  has practice tests including a online and PDF version

http://www.mhpracticeplus.com/tests/ACT2012/ACT.html is an online test

Education Portal....Entire online Science Courses!!!!

I located this website that offers entire videos courses in science! For example, they have a Biology 101 course that includes over 220 video lessons.  The videos alo include online quizzes.  Very Cool....Click HERE

How to Read and Interpret Graphs

Resources located on the internet to read and interpret graphs.

Read and Interpret Graph Interactive 1

Read and Interpret Science Data

Estuary Science-Real Data on Lake Superior water quality

Significant Figures Worksheets | Printable Significant Figures Worksheets

I was looking for resources on significant digits this morning, and found this website that has printable worksheets with answers.  Significant Figures Worksheets | Printable Significant Figures Worksheets

Curriculum 21 Clearinghouse

A group of us attending a conference by Heidi Hayes, whose focus is on integrating technology and education.  She maintains a website that is a host to many ideas and links to websites.  The links are located on what she calls a "Clearinghouse."  You can access this by clicking HERE!  Hover the mouse over "All Resources" or use the search bar.

Padlet

(www.padlet.com)  Padlet is an app that allows you to create online posters.  You have the ability to include documents, powerpoint presentations, pdfs, images, video links, etc.  A sample padlet on DNA Replication can be seen at here

Tiki-Toki....Timeline creation tool

Tiki-Tki http://www.tiki-toki.com/ is an online tool that lets you create great looking timelines.  I made a partial timeline of the cars I have owned.  Check it out at this LINK!