Speed Demos:
Here is a list of handy websites and tools that may help you use technology in your classroom.
- mashpedia.com - a multimedia encyclopedia - Find videos, images, Wikipedia articles, Twitter posts, new articles, blog posts, websites, books, etc. on topics you search.
- paper.li - Create a newspaper from a hashtag. - "paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7!"
- glogster - "Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video." - Here is an example of Glogster used by the Springfield library: springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com
- Sharaholic.com - Add a button for your browser to send links to any service. You can turn services on and off as desired. - "1-click posting to 100+ services from any webpage You'll have all your favorite social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services at your fingertips. With Shareaholic you'll be able to share any page, anytime, with services you already love like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Mail, WordPress, and lots more!"
- exchange.smarttech.com - ideas for teachers using SMART boards/SMART software - "Find lesson plans for your SMART board and connect with teachers."
- express.smarttech.com - SMART Notebook Express - "View, save, and interact with SMART Notebook files online at no charge."
- Yolinkeducation.com - free downloadable plugin - "yolink finds and organizes your search results for you, then takes them directly to Google Docs or your favorite social networking site so you can create."
- SweetSearch.com - a Search Engine for Students that searches only 35,000 curated sites - Yolink is integrated into SweetSearch.
- SweetSearch4Me.com - the new K-8 version of SweetSearch
- letmegooglethatforyou.com
- tinyurl.com - Shorten long URLs to make them easier to share.
- longurl.org - Find out what a shortened URL points to.
- hugeURL.com - when you need a really long URL
- readitlaterlist.com - collects web pages, blogs, etc. in a list for you to read later
- jumpcut - "Jumpcut is an application that provides 'clipboard buffering' — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history."
- textexpander - "TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images."
- edmodo.com - Create a private social network - a place to post things for your class, a place to discuss topics, etc. - Edmodo looks like Facebook, but it is specifically designed for your classroom.
- http://sverigesradio.se/p1/SRc/sing/ - "Let them sing it for you." - When you type in any text, this program takes excerpts from popular songs creating a collage of artists singing what you typed.
- techhead.org - Find the lowest prices on Microsoft and Adobe products for k12/higher ed.
- google.com/squared - Get the results of your Google search in a table format.
- When using wordle, put a ~ between each word instead of a space and it will keep your words in the order in which you type them.
- http://bingle.nu - Search Bing and Google at the same time and compare the results.
