I am doing a blog about 10 cool tools for teachers Web 2.0 which teachers can use in their class rooms to help with their lessons. I will also state how I can use them in my class room.
1. Research tool (FindHow). This tool shows you how to do things. This site gives you access to trusted, reliable How-To content on internet. I can use this tool in my Language Arts class to help my students learn to do different projects. They can learn how to cite sources from the internet for an essay. They can also learn how to write a research outline.
2. Image Tools (Flickr). This tool can be used to upload photos. It can also help you organize and share your photos. This will be good to use in my Social Studies class. My students will be able to create an interesting story about different animals. They will be able to download photos and arrange them so that the photos can tell a story. They will also be able to share them with other class rooms or friends on the internet.
3. QUIZ AND POLL TOOLS. (Hot Potatoes). This tool has 6 applications which enable you to create intractive multiple-choice questions for quizes. It also lets you for short-answers, jumbled-sentence, crossword matching and gap-filled excercises. This tool will we good for both Social Studies and Language Art classes. The students can use this tool to help them to get ready for a test. I can also use this tool to improve their vocabulary. This tool can also be good to help them to decide which application would be easiest to do to make better grades.
4. DRAWING TOOLS (Worlde). This tool generate "Word Clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more than once. I can have my students use this to help them with their spelling and remembering different countries. I can have them use this to learn what the states are and their capitols. It can also benefit them in producing something for Show and Tell by giving them words to use in a book report.
5. MAPPING TOOLS (Mapskip). This tool explores the world through shared stories. It also uses pictures for all the places in our lives. I can use this tool in my Language Arts and Social Studies classes. I can have my students tell of all the places they have lived. I can have them tell of the places they have taken vacations. They can also use this tool to map out the places they would like to visit or live when they become adults.
6.ORGANIZER TOOLS.(Education place. This tool downloads pdf graphic organizers and is use to structure writing projects. It helps problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. I can use this tool to help my students to brainstorm projects involving events that are taking place in the world. I can have them use this tool also to help in problem solving a problem the class may be having. I can also use this to help them with their book reports and essays they have to write.
7. WIDGETS (Widgetbox). This tool helps you find thousands of wigets for your blog. It also helps you find widgets for your profile and webpage. I can use this in my class room to show my students what the weather will be by downloading the weather widget to my computer. I can use it also to help them put an widget so that they can locate different items we are researching. I can put a widget for "you tube" so that we can look at different videos that would be use for the class.
www.widgetbox.com
www.widgetbox.com
8.COLLABORATE TOOLS (INetwork). This tool can create any document using point-level formatting. This tool also indents, places margins, do back grounds and borders, gives you a choice of bullets, numbering, spellcheck, pictures and lets you share folders, documents, and pictures. I can use this tool to help my students when they are working on projects together. This will be a good tool for book reports, essays, and writing documents. This tool will also help with checking their spelling when they are writing.
9.PRESENTATION TOOLS (PreZentit). This tool create prensentations in a few clicks, whttp://prezentit.com/herever you are. This tool helps you work with your team on the same prensentation at the same time. It can be private or public and can be download and shown without being on internet. This is a tool that can be use by my students when they are working on a presentation to show before the class. They can work on it all at the same time. The presentations are webpages(HTML) so they could edit them manually. http://prezentit.com/
10. CREATIVITY (Whatzlearn)WZL. This is a tool that helps with interactive learning solution. It provides effective educational resouces. A great tool for students with learning difficulties and literacy difficulties. It is also a great resouce for students looking to work indepently to get ahead. I can use this to help my students who have problems I can use this tool to help my students who have learning difficulties. I can also let them work independly with this too.
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