Online+Resources

__Produce & Print__ (handouts, letters, etc)
LetterPop http://letterpop.com Excellent template-driven printable newsletters, etc. Casa Notes http://casanotes.4teachers.org Quickly create and customize notes to send home to parents or give to students. Teachers choose from templates and customize some of the content, choose a color scheme and add a graphic. Create a Graph @http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph A tool with a tutorial to input data and create just the right kind of graph to communicate information visually. EdHelper @http://www.edhelper.com/ Choose from a wide variety of ready-made and customizable worksheets covering a variety of subject areas. Flashcard Exchange http://flashcardexchange.com Create your own or use those in the "world's largest flashcard library" Puzzlemaker http://www.puzzlemaker.com Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your own word lists. Build your own maze or print specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics. Also try Equation Search, Word Merge Puzzle, Fallen Phrases, Letter Tiles, Cryptograms, Double Puzzle, Math Square, Number Blocks, Criss-Cross Puzzle, Hidden Message, Word Search, Mazes, and Mazed Things. Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org Create your own rubrics (scoring tools) for Oral Projects, Multimedia, Research & Writing, or Work Skills quickly and easily. This online tool, developed by the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium, makes developing rubrics a snap. Built-in features let you go back and edit or customize your rubrics, and gives you a URL so parents and students can view or print the rubrics anywhere. Teach-nology Tools http://teachers.teach-nology.com Generate your own award certificate, bingo cards, bus pass, bookmarks, behavior assessment, hall pass, lesson plans, parent-teacher conference plan, personal education plan, progress report, student learning contract, teacher’s weekly schedule, testing modification chart, time line, weekly progress report, crossword puzzles, graphic organizers, rubrics, word games, etc. Worksheet Generator @http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/ Create customized vocabulary or math worksheets or print out ready-made worksheets for a variety of subject areas. Big Huge Labs Motivational Posters @http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php Teach students to create posters, cards, puzzles, and more for classroom projects, notes, letters, or programs. Digital photography and the ability to use limited, yet powerful words to grab attention, can be used for various subjects at the 4-12 grade levels. Textorizer @http://textorizer.whatfettle.com/ This is fun. . . put in the URL of an image and your text, and the site combines the two. Toondoo http://toondoo.com A fun cartoon maker. It's amazing how difficult it is to condense a detailed message into a short cartoon. Wordle http://wordle.net Create a variety of word clouds to use in assessing student comprehension, for vocabulary, or just for conceptual images.

**__Produce & Post__**
Filamentality @http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil Create Hotlists, Treasure Hunts, WebQuests, Scrapbooks, and Subject Samplers through an interactive website that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering appropriate Internet resources, and turning Web resources into learning activities. Lesson Planner @http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/lessonplanner/ Create and store your lesson plans in your Custom Classroom account at Discovery School. Edit, print or download your lesson plan to your computer with a click of the mouse. Link to puzzles, worksheets and quizzes that you have created. 4Teachers Family of Tools http://4teachers.org A whole host of tools -- Rubistar, PBL Checklists, Classroom Architect, TrackStar, Web Poster Wizard, KidsVid Carmun http://www.carmun.com Provides tools that will make researching and writing your paper a lot less painful. 1. Bookmark URLs and save sources from anywhere online 2. Create bibliographies in seconds from new or old sources in any format!!! 3. Insert footnotes easily into your papers as you write 4. Ask and answer questions posted by other students and much more. It takes longer to read this than to join. Poll Everywhere http://polleverywhere.com Create a poll and ask your classes or friends to respond with a text. Google Earth: Image Overlays I'd like to show how students can create images with editing software, and then insert these into Google Earth as image overlays. These can be exported as KMZ files, and shared with each other or compiled into a single Google Earth database. Many instructional uses can be drawn from this functionality. [|Google Earth KML Gallery] Google for Educators: @http://www.google.com/educators/all_grades.html Imbee [] This is a great tool for creating your own secure social network for your students. Jog the Web [|http://jogtheweb.com] Create "guided tours" of websites you would like users to visit (similar to Trackstar). Loggel [|http://www.loggel.com] Create a "lifelog" for a variety of activities (literature study, timeline, digital story, etc.) Poll Everywhere This is a great site to use with cell phones in a classroom -- works much like clickers. [|http://polleverywhere.com] Read the Words http://www.readthewords.com Submit your text document and choose a digitized voice to read and save your text. Smilebox http://smilebox.com Want to make your next booktalk a bit more jazzy? Looking for a way to introduce the Sequoyah books to your students? See how Smilebox can help you create a fast and fun way to showcase your new books. Stixy [|http://stixy.com] Users can create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on their Stixyboards, organized in whatever way makes sense to them. Then they can share Stixyboards with friends, family, and colleagues. Survey Monkey @http://www.surveymonkey.com/ Use this tool to collection information quickly within the class or around your school. Find out the results within seconds! Forget counting paper ballots for your next Sequoyah Book Award voting...use Survey Monkey instead. Wiziq [|http://www.wiziq.com] WiZiQ is a web-based platform for anyone and everyone who wants to teach and learn live, online. Teachers and students use WiZiQ for its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, to create and share online educational content and tests, and to connect with persons having similar subject interests. xTmeline [|http://www.xtimeline.com] Online timeline tool for multimedia XtraNormal [|http://www.xtranormal.com] This site allows you to make a 3D movie with the text you type in as the audio and use their 3D characters. This would be great to use as a storyboarding activity! Quiz Center @http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html Create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Glogster http://glogster.com Create online posters with images, video, and music. This might be alternative to any "poster-type" assignment you might use -- book report, persuasive argument, etc. KeeBoo http://keeboo.com Create and publish an e-book that you can actually read by "flipping through." Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org Create your own rubrics (scoring tools) for Oral Projects, Multimedia, Research & Writing, or Work Skills quickly and easily. This online tool, developed by the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium, makes developing rubrics a snap. Built-in features let you go back and edit or customize your rubrics, and gives you a URL so parents and students can view or print the rubrics anywhere. Trackstar http://trackstar.4teachers.org TrackStar is an online interface that helps teachers organize and annotate websites into lessons. The list of resources can serve as a guided tour through a lesson using web resources and offers students an interactive quiz at the end of the lesson. Create your own online learning environment with one of the following tools: Brain Honey @http://brainhoney.com/ Digital Chalk @http://www.digitalchalk.com/ My iCourse http://myicourse.com SlideLive @http://slidelive.com/