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Animoto
used for digital stories and presenting special
class/ school events on the website.
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Voicethread used in many ways across the
curriculum to present thoughtful work and allow
reaction from the community.
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Wikispaces - teachers use these for delivery
of lessons and components through with pages
linked off the classroom websites.
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Students use wikis
to collaborate on types of presentations of new
knowledge following research.
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Blogger
and Word
Press - Student blogs allow reflection and
posting of thoughts on literature as well as
artistic additions of their own.
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Twitter
- at this point it is being used primarily as a
teacher tool to expand PLNs, and learn more
about available 2.0 tools.
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Wordle
- what can I say - so many ways to use across
the curriculum. I like to have kids import their
original writing of many types. Also great for
creating maps of review vocab words following a
particular unit in science of social studies.
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DropBox
is a tool that helps teacher and students alike
work from home on larger pieces of work they
start at school. Group work can use this tool to
gather and view collaborative additions.
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I think the browser
extensions deserve mention as well - ShareThis
allows easy sharing of websites via the browser.
Download Helper is great for getting YouTube
videos onto your computer.
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Audacity
or soon, Myna for podcasting will be one of our
favorites, although we use GarageBand as a
standard for Podcasting
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Google
Docs allows our kids and teachers to share
documents for joint projects, but also allows
kids to continue work at home and then get it
from school the next day again. No more lost
papers or troubles at home with printers that
don't have ink!
