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"Are you looking for ways to integration technology in your lesson plans and courses that provide for an engaging experience for you and your students? Fans of instructional technology know that it can be fun and inviting, and engaged students are far more likely to be learning."
Beth Dichter's insight:
What are the engaging techniques? Below are five. More are in the post and many have links to specific tools (many of which are free) that will help you. * Interactive Collaboration * Active Learning * Student Created Presentations * Embedding Questions in Videos * Digital Maker Spaces Learn much more by clicking though to the post. 
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These Fun, Free Web Applications Make it Quick and Easy to Create Cool Learning Content (Watch out Though, Other Teachers Will be Banging Down Your Door Looking
Beth Dichter's insight:
Five resources are shared in this post, with explanations about how to use them in your classroom. All have free versions available. * LessonPaths (http://www.lessonpaths.com/) allows you to put together groups of web resources and other digital resources in one location. (This was called MentorMob.) * Blendspace (https://www.blendspace.com/schools) is similar to LessonPaths but with a different look to it. Check them both out to see which fits your needs. * Geddit (http://letsgeddit.com/) provides a space where you can ask questions and students can respond using most any digital device that can access the Internet. * TED-Ed (http://letsgeddit.com/) is a resource that provides lessons that include a video, questions, resources and a discussion forum and allow you to flip any lesson you find. Additional videos are added frequently. * Powtoon (http://www.powtoon.com) allows you to create videos using templates. It is a little more complex to learn and you will be limited to five minute videos unless you subscribe. There is an educational version available. Have fun exploring these tools and creating content to engage your students!
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
March 23, 2014 11:14 PM
This list of webistes offers suggestions for sites with tools to help teachers to create interactive learning environment from surveys, to lessons, to making short videos. Super helpful escpecially since there's both free and paid versions available. You can have teaching tools on a zero or low budget.#education#technology.
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Welcome to a post that examines an amazing free collections of educational digital interactive programs and apps. You are sure to find something that will fit your classroom in the very near future...
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Michael Gorman shares 15 tools located at ReadWriteThink that work with Language Art classes, providing short descriptions. An additional 42 tools that are available on the website that focus on Language Arts (although some of them would work with other courses, such as the Timeline, Venn Diagram, K-W-L Chart, and ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool, so teachers across the curriculum may want to also check them out. In addition ReadWriteThink has 8 mobile apps (and seven work on iOS and Android, 1 in iOS only). These apps include three focused on poetry: Acrostic, Diamante and Themes Poems as well as Alphabet Organizer, Trading Cards, Venn Diagram, Timeline and Word Mover. If you have not checked out ReadWriteThink is it worth checking it out. To go directly to ReadWriteThink: www.readwritethink.org
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"Rewordify is a free site that was developed by a special education teacher and former computer programmer for the purpose of helping students read complex passages. At its most basic level Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Here is a tool you might want to try with students whom have difficulty reading complex passages. Rewordify rephrases passages (simply cut and paste text into a "yellow box" or type directly into it). Users may select setting so they only see the "easier version" (although they may see the more difficult words as they mouse over the word) or have this option in reverse. You may also enter in a website and have them rewordify the site. There is much additional information on the site including a teacher and student demo. The site is free, and also works on tablet and smartphones. As we move to more informational text and more complex (think Common Core) this site may be quite valuable for many students.
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"This popular resource provides 115 pages of free applications and resources and insights into how educators are using them in today's classrooms! ...provides an introduction and easy access to many of the wonderful free applications and resources available on the Internet for teachers to use in and out of the classroom as part of the instructional and administrative process."
Beth Dichter's insight:
A number of new sections are in this updated eBook, including information on MOOCs, resources for flipped classrooms, teaching with cell/smart phones, iPads, social networking/social media, and much more. If you are a subscriber to their email list you received an email with the link. If you are not a subscriber go this site and sign up (the sign up box is to the right of the post) and you will be able to download a copy.
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Are you looking for a tool that you can put in the hands of your studnents tha twill provide them with tools to help them learn? If so, check out The Freedom Stick. A free downloadable package of software that comes to you from Michigan's Integrated Technology Support. For information and links to many other resources check out this post!
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This is a list of 106 tools you may want to use to spark creativity. Along with the name of the website you will find the type of media, a short description, a link to the site, if a sign-in is needed and if a download of freeware is required. In some cases you may also find samples of media created from the site and a small number of sites also have tutorials. There is also a presentation, Free Tools for Digital Portfolios, that you may access at https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AedHDDYSOBbUZGM4dzcyNTlfNjRjbmh6a2NjdA.
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We all know that when it comes to consuming content, text alone no longer makes the cut. We are multi-sensory beings and the more we can plug into our senses to
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Who better than Visual.ly to share 7 online tools that will help you create visual, be they simple images, infographics or a mind map. This post shares the following tools: * Canva - a free tool * Pixlr - a free tool * PicMonkey - a free tool, but you may pay for additional tools * Quozio - free tool * Share As Image - a free tool, but will show a watermark; pay for no watermark * Skitch - free through Evernote * Coggle - free tool that allows you to create mind maps Visuals are a key part of learning. These seven tools provide a range of options that you may want to use when designing materials for your classes (or perhaps students would find use for them in your class).
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Richard Byrne shares two speech to text tools and three text to speech tools that are browser based in this post.
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are using Chrome and looking for a speech to text app Bryne suggests that you check out the Dictanote Speech Recognizer app, a free app and also Dictation.io. For text to speech he suggests three app. Speak It is for use with Chrome and will read most web pages. Announcify works with Chrome and also comes for the Android. Select and Speak work with Chrome and will read any text on a web page. Bryne explains each of the tools in his post. If you have students whom struggle with reading text to speech tools provide a way for them to work more independently online. For students whom may struggle with the writing process but whom speak cleary a speech to text tool may make an enormous difference in their ability to keep up with work.
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Finding an extensive list of webtools that do not require registration is not always easy to do, but this list by Nathan Hall fits the bill.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you looking for a list of webtools that do not require registration? If you make a point to check out this list, which has at least 25 categories ranging from QR codes to Surveys and Polls, Charts/Graphs to Word Clouds, Maps to Calculators and so many more. As you scroll down this lengthy list you may find something that meets your needs in an area you had not yet considered!
Gary Harwell's curator insight,
December 8, 2013 6:07 AM
No Registration huh......that means FREE and comes in under our budget of $0.23.
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Know about iTalc? Bubbl.us? Ribbon Hero? You should! Discover the latest in free software that's making a splash in classrooms.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Here are ten free tech tools you may want to check out for your classroom. They range from iTalc,which is a free lab management system, allowing you to see what students are viewing and limit access to sites to Storytelling Aice, a program that allows students to learn to program to Ribbon Hero 2, put out by Microsoft this is a game that helps you learn to navigate the ribbon. An additional seven tools are also shared.
Jennifer Kleiner's curator insight,
March 3, 2015 12:53 PM
Bubbl.us made this list and I think it can be a great educational tool! Mind mapping helps learners to organize information more clearly, and clearly organized content is essential to retaining information. There are other interesting tools here as well.
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Who knew there were so many tools to help you create screencasts (as in videos of what is happening on your screen) or annotate screen captures? Richard Byrne has done a great job with this post of 17 free tool that will help you "create screen capture videos and images."
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"Mind mapping. concept mapping, or brainstorming are three different names with almost the same meaning : collecting,organizing , and representing ideas, tasks, words, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea into a mind map diagram . Whichever kind of mapping you want to label it , web 2.0 has some free tools for you to help you perform it. I have meticulously compiled a list of some of the best free mapping tools for teachers and students to use."
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"Our new video series goes inside the classrooms of educators who use technology tools in their lessons every day. Learn from their challenges, celebrate their successes, and share their resources in every episode." Current episodes include: * Free or Low-Cost Technology Tools * Video Games and Programming in the Classroom * Storytelling with Digital Video Production (video coming in July; resources posted) Along with a video there are resource links to additional materials.
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Thx Beth Dichter!