Miscellaneous+Tools

Cool Tools for Schools Wiki that gives NUMEROUS tools to use in the classroom!!!

SlideShare Upload PowerPoint presentations as well as other documents. Here are the file extensions that are accepted: Great for us because it is dual platform!! In addition, presentations and documents can be embedded into other websites, blogs & wikis.
 * //Presentations//**: pdf, ppt, pps, pptx, ppsx, pot, potx (Powerpoint); odp (OpenOffice); key, zip (Apple Keynote)
 * //Documents//**: pdf, doc, docx, rtf, xls (MSOffice); odt, ods(OpenOffice); Apple iWork Pages

Triptico This is a free download. Once you download it, you operate it straight from your desktop (no internet connection required). It has many useful tools (and more are added all the time). There are many student selector tools to put students in a random order, to randomly select a student, or to put students into groups. There is also a timer and team/group scoreboards. There are other tools that I have not had the chance to explore yet. The most "well-known" tool is Word Magnets. You can put words on "magnets" and move them around. A Triptico user created a video that highlights some educational uses for the Word Magnets tool. There is also a blog available on the Triptico site (yes, you can subscribe to its RSS feed to get notified on updates automatically) that will offer updates on new resources, ideas shared by other users and the app creator. The app creator is a former teacher who is very involved. If you contact him with any suggestions or issues, he personally e-mails you back. :)

Poll Everywhere Poll your students anywhere using a computer/Internet connection or even their cell phones!!! :) "It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere." Sign up for an account, create a poll, and simply project your question for your students to see. You can select from a multiple choice question, a free text question (where they can submit any answer...if you are feeling brave...) or a goal poll.

Quicklyst Your students can create an outline through this website...helps students organize information into a traditionally formatted outline. Can use site without needing to create an account...but you can create an account to save your notes.

50 Web Applications for Teachers Specifically for teachers, there are 50 applications available on the web. I haven't checked on all of them...some are also listed on this wiki.

WordSift Enter a your text and this will allow you to work with the words in that text...organize the words, see what words occur most often, see images associated with those words, etc. demo videos are available on the site.

Project ELITE The projects list at the bottom left of the index list have some great web projects to complete with your students.

Intel Education Free teaching resources available from Intel...I haven't checked them out, but they look cool from the description...