Snap Groups is new service that allows anyone to create private or public message groups. In Snap Groups you can create your own group in which to share short messages with other group members. Of most value to educators is …
Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps
Mind maps or graphic organizers can be invaluable tools for visual thinkers and visual learners. The process of creating a mind map can help students gain an overview perspective on complex, multifaceted concepts. Mind maps can also help students outline …
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious
This site provides a useful and very simple bookmarking service for Twitter. They follow your Twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains a URL, they add it to your delicious.com bookmarks. You can optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies …
EssayRater: Checks Essays for Plagiarism & Helps to Improve
EssayRater is a free web app that reviews, grades and checks essays for plagiarism, and helps you to improve them. This tool goes beyond the usual online proof-reading tools by checking your paper for the quality of word choice, sentence …
Lingt: Webtools for Language
Lingt helps people learn the massive number of vocabulary terms required for basic competency in a foreign language. We think the biggest problem with learning a new language is simply giving up, so we’ve built something that we think makes …
Forvo – All the Words in the World Pronounced
Forvo can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words. Forvo hosts hundreds of …
FollowUpThen: Free and Easy Email Reminder
Some people respond to emails on time and some don’t. If you’ve a friend or contact in the latter category it’s worth giving FollowUpThen a shot. You don’t need to sign up for an account to use the service, either: …
Teaching and technology: presentations and resources for educators
During the last six or so years I have created a number of ‘how-to’ documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might …
Crocodoc – Share and Mark-up Documents
Crocodoc is a simple service that allows users to quickly share and edit PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint files. Using Crocodoc does not require you to register for an account. To use Crocodoc just upload your file, select your marking …
Easy YouTube Caption Creator
If you are looking to quickly and correctly add captions to the videos you upload to YouTube, then Easy YouTube Caption Creator could come in handy. It makes the entire process of adding captions really simple and easy.
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/easy-youtube-caption-creator/…
Nuance PDF Reader – Read and Convert Your PDF Docs with This Cool Free App
A few PDF tools have succeeded in carving out some space from Adobe’s omnipresent software – the Adobe Reader. Is Adobe rueing the fact that they made the PDF document format open?
We wouldn’t know, but the openness has brought …
An Awesome Free Guide to Digital Storytelling
Silvia Tolisano, author of the excellent Langwitches blog, has an awesome free ebook about digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators is a 120 page guide to using digital storytelling tools in your classroom. The guide offers clear directions for …
Using Technology to Find Students
Using technology tools with high school students is always a good idea. Okay, maybe that statement is a bit bold, but let’s face the truth. High school students are more connected to online forums, Facebook accounts, and cell phones than …
Word It Out – Creating Word Clouds With More Options
Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the …
10 Outstanding Sites for Downloading Lesson Plans
The following websites will help you make your planning easier and more rewarding, find online resources more quickly and easily, and engage and inspire your students.
http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/25965/10-Outstanding-Sites-for-Downloading-Lesson-Plans…