Below is a list of online resources that can be used to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations others are just for fun. Once you locate the app make sure to provide the web link as well as a description explaining what the tool is used for. Begin by adding a label to categorize the app as: a collaboration tool, a presentation tool, or just a "cool tool" something fun. Also offer a suggestion as to what grade levels or curriculum focus it might be best suiter for. Provide examples, use images or even embed a video when possible. I have started the list but there are many more so if you know of others please add them to the list.
Do your app research --> type the info into a word processor file --> when READY select EDIT for this page --> copy and paste the information in --> and SAVE. DO NOT work directly in the wiki editor for this task or leave the editor of this page open.
Awayfind http://www.awayfind.com/ This is an application to send you SMS message if you receive an urgent message in your inbox and are not around to pick it up.
Notemesh http://www.notemesh.com/?a=home This tool is for college students. The idea is for students to be able to share their notes. It is a wiki for class notes. The goal is that everyone will work together to create a set of lecture notes that everyone will check and use to study
Zoho www.zoho.com
This site is an email host, has collaboration tools (wiki, project portals, collaborative documents) as well as presentation tools (word processor, spread sheet, planner). This also has business productivity tools – invoicing, human resource document tracking, as well as many other options. This is a MONSTER of a free site – and all docs and info used is free, and stored online. Definitely a useful site to know of, regardless of the reason (good for collaboration tools and presentation tools).
Poll Daddy Set up an online survey in minutes and start collecting responses in real-time! www.polldaddy.com The best way to find out what an important group of people think is to ask them. Conduct your staff, user and customer surveys with Polldaddy to get a better handle on how well you're serving them. Our robust online survey software feeds the data you collect into powerful reporting systems to help you make the most informed decisions you can.
http://www.empressr.com/Learn.aspx Free storytelling tool that allows you to create, manage and share rich media presentations online. Upload your video, images a Empressr is the first free online storytelling nd audio to get started creating cool slideshows.
TUMBLR LINK TO WEBSITE: http://www.tumblr.com/ Tumblr is one of the newest forms of blogging and is quickly growing in popularity. Tumblr has a simplified user interface, allowing users to upload simply by clicking on a button for text, picture, video, etc. Like other social media sites, on Tumblr users can ‘follow’ other users. Following someone puts their posts on the dashboard, allowing the user to quickly read updates without having to visit other blogs.
http://thinkfold.com/ Using ThinkFold, your workgroup can: Interact in a shared outline, Add text, images and files,Rearrange your ideas on the fly ,See changes being made, in real-time!
Edmodo www.edmodo.com
A free 2.0 social networking site for students and teachers in a secure environment.
Allows teachers to create groups, manage calendars, share files, assignments and grades with their students.
Website: ProjectSpaces Link to Website: http://www.projectspaces.com/ Collaboration Tool: This is an online workplace that provides the tools for team work, committees, partnerships, and other ways to make online communication with people better and easier to use. It helps coordinate task, meeting, and activities. It is a blog that helps communicate better and helps eliminate emails. It is a powerful tool when managing files, folders and notifications.
Website: Writeboard Link to Website: http://writeboard.com/ Collaboration To: Writeboard are web-text documents that help people communicate better by writing, sharing, revising and comparing information through different documents. It is very useful when losing or overwriting other people’s ideas (like is happening in our class right now). It is very helpful, especially for teachers, students, authors and bloggers. You can collaborate through copies.
TIMEGLIDER Create, share, and publish interactive timelines, value for history, genealogy and project planning. You can zoom in different parts. You need to sign in. http://timeglider.com/
PRESENTATION TOOLS
EasyBib www.easybib.com A free automatic bibliography and citation maker for students that formats their work in MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian styles.
Sliderocket www.sliderocket.com
A platform that not only allows you to share a presentation, it allows collaboration and feedback in real time. If you are giving a presentation to a virtual audience, it also allows for participants to ask questions during the presentation, etc.
http://www.dabbleboard.com/ Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!
Edmodo www.edmodo.com
A free 2.0 social networking site for students and teachers in a secure environment.
Allows teachers to create groups, manage calendars, share files, assignments and grades with their students.
Mindmeister – This is a website that allows people to “visualize” their thinking by creating mindmaps. It would be good for students of all ages since almost every student engages in this type of process and has been taught how to create these maps but with pen and paper.mindmeister.com
Slideboom http://www.slideboom.com This is a free tool. The idea is for you to be able to share power point presentations. You can embed presentation into your blogs. You can also discuss presentations with other people.
http://prezentit.com/ Prezentit is a website that lets you create, edit, and show online presentations easily and without downloading or installing anything.
Slideboom – This is a website that allows various users who have created PowerPoints to share those PowerPoints with others. In other words, these PPs become web-ready and people can add feedback and comment on them. It also allows access to those PPs that have been added to the website. This website can be used in middle-school and can go all the way through high school. http://www.slideboom.com/
http://www.sliderocket.com/ Sliderocket is different from Power Point since it can be viewed publicly (can be published)using a variety of links and has an "analytics" tab that lets you see stats of what people who viewed your presentation had to say.
http://tinyurl.com/ Appapplication for making huge URL’s small. I think you could just use a hyperlink instead of this website.
Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/
Diagram software to create great looking drawings
Take complex information and organize it visually with simple drag and drop ease. Create process flow diagrams, org charts, floor plans, business processes, network diagrams, technical drawings, website wireframes, and more.
Improve Innovation, Clarity, and Decision Making
If you and your colleagues could see the same idea more quickly, could improve on it together, had the clarity to make accurate, rapid decisions... what could you accomplish? Communicating visually gets you to results faster. Robust Tools and Unique Collaboration Capabilities Built for the demands of more intense users, only Gliffy Premium makes it this easy to create, share, and collaborate visually with colleagues, vendors, clients, and organizations.
Create a Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
Explains and illustrates the different types, and provides a step-by-step guide to creating examples for downloading and printing.
How to create a graph with Exce
ANIMOTO
Make videos from your images, videoclips and music. You need to sign in http://animoto.com/
Just for Fun Tools
www.gimp.org GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Wordle http://www.wordle.net It is a toy to create word clouds with the text you want.
Create your own poster.www.glogster.com Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. No matter if it is colorful, sexy or emo. Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself.
Blabberize www.blabberize.com Upload a picture to this site, click on the picture to choose where the mouth is, then record on this site to make the picture talk (with your microphone). If a person does not have a microphone, you can upload an MP3 file to then add to the picture to make them “talk”.
http://www.screencast.com/A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot; whereas screenshot is a picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on a computer screen, enhanced with audio narration.
Scratch www.scratch.com Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch can be used in many different settings: schools, museums, community centers, and homes. It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects with their parents or older siblings, and college students use Scratch in some introductory computer science classes.
Voki http://www.voki.com/ Voki allows you to create your own speaking Avatar to place on blogs, profiles, and email.
COLOURlovers Link to Website: http://www.colourlovers.com/ Just for Fun: This website is a colorful and fun page o visit when you are looking for colors, palettes, and patterns. It has different themes and trends that work as a guide when choosing the most appropriate selection for you. Like the website says, “All in the spirit of love.” It is full of color and great ideas.
VISUWORDS
Online dictionary available wherever there’s an internet connection, great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. No membership required http://www.visuwords.com/
The “cool”est calculator in the web, definitely. This is useful for conversion from any unit (distance/length, speed, temperature, weight, volume, area, and currency), as well as competes more complicated computations – for example, 10*(3+4). I sent an email to the creator to add Costa Rican colones to the list, however, since it seems Central America was overlooked in the currency list.
Online Apps and Collaboration Tools
Below is a list of online resources that can be used to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations others are just for fun. Once you locate the app make sure to provide the web link as well as a description explaining what the tool is used for. Begin by adding a label to categorize the app as: a collaboration tool, a presentation tool, or just a "cool tool" something fun. Also offer a suggestion as to what grade levels or curriculum focus it might be best suiter for. Provide examples, use images or even embed a video when possible. I have started the list but there are many more so if you know of others please add them to the list.
Do your app research --> type the info into a word processor file --> when READY select EDIT for this page --> copy and paste the information in --> and SAVE. DO NOT work directly in the wiki editor for this task or leave the editor of this page open.
2 Slideshare
3 Animoto
4 Etherpad
5 Wetpaint
6 Projectspaces
7 Instant Presenter
9 Edmodo
10 Dabbleboard
11 MindMeister
12 Empressr
13 Sliderocket
14 PreZentit
16 30boxes
17 Blabberize
18 Gliffy
19 TimeGlider
20 PollDaddy
21 Weebly
23 Voki
24 Semantic Web
25 Sliderocket
26 PreZentit
27 Slideboom
28 Audacity
30 Scratch
31 Wordle
32 bubbl.us
33 Calcoolate
34 Create a Graph
35 Visuwords
37 Tumblr
38 COLOURlovers
39 Digg
40 TinyURL
41 EasyBib
42 ScreenCast
44 Nicenet
45 ThinkFold
46 AwayFind
47 NoteMesh
48 WiZiQ
49 SchoolBinder
Communication Tools
This site is an email host, has collaboration tools (wiki, project portals, collaborative documents) as well as presentation tools (word processor, spread sheet, planner). This also has business productivity tools – invoicing, human resource document tracking, as well as many other options. This is a MONSTER of a free site – and all docs and info used is free, and stored online. Definitely a useful site to know of, regardless of the reason (good for collaboration tools and presentation tools).
- TUMBLR LINK TO WEBSITE: http://www.tumblr.com/ Tumblr is one of the newest forms of blogging and is quickly growing in popularity. Tumblr has a simplified user interface, allowing users to upload simply by clicking on a button for text, picture, video, etc. Like other social media sites, on Tumblr users can ‘follow’ other users. Following someone puts their posts on the dashboard, allowing the user to quickly read updates without having to visit other blogs.
- http://thinkfold.com/ Using ThinkFold, your workgroup can: Interact in a shared outline, Add text, images and files,Rearrange your ideas on the fly ,See changes being made, in real-time!
- Edmodo www.edmodo.com
- Website: ProjectSpaces Link to Website: http://www.projectspaces.com/ Collaboration Tool: This is an online workplace that provides the tools for team work, committees, partnerships, and other ways to make online communication with people better and easier to use. It helps coordinate task, meeting, and activities. It is a blog that helps communicate better and helps eliminate emails. It is a powerful tool when managing files, folders and notifications.
- Website: Writeboard Link to Website: http://writeboard.com/ Collaboration To: Writeboard are web-text documents that help people communicate better by writing, sharing, revising and comparing information through different documents. It is very useful when losing or overwriting other people’s ideas (like is happening in our class right now). It is very helpful, especially for teachers, students, authors and bloggers. You can collaborate through copies.
- TIMEGLIDER Create, share, and publish interactive timelines, value for history, genealogy and project planning. You can zoom in different parts. You need to sign in. http://timeglider.com/
A free 2.0 social networking site for students and teachers in a secure environment.
Allows teachers to create groups, manage calendars, share files, assignments and grades with their students.
PRESENTATION TOOLS
A platform that not only allows you to share a presentation, it allows collaboration and feedback in real time. If you are giving a presentation to a virtual audience, it also allows for participants to ask questions during the presentation, etc.
A free 2.0 social networking site for students and teachers in a secure environment.
Allows teachers to create groups, manage calendars, share files, assignments and grades with their students.
http://www.slideboom.com/
SlideShare is the best way to share presentations, documents and professional videos.
Get a free account to upload and share. Or go PRO to get more.
Diagram software to create great looking drawings
Take complex information and organize it visually with simple drag and drop ease. Create process flow diagrams, org charts, floor plans, business processes, network diagrams, technical drawings, website wireframes, and more.
Improve Innovation, Clarity, and Decision Making
If you and your colleagues could see the same idea more quickly, could improve on it together, had the clarity to make accurate, rapid decisions... what could you accomplish? Communicating visually gets you to results faster. Robust Tools and Unique Collaboration Capabilities Built for the demands of more intense users, only Gliffy Premium makes it this easy to create, share, and collaborate visually with colleagues, vendors, clients, and organizations.
Explains and illustrates the different types, and provides a step-by-step guide to creating examples for downloading and printing.
How to create a graph with Exce
Make videos from your images, videoclips and music. You need to sign in
http://animoto.com/
Just for Fun Tools
- www.gimp.org GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
- Wordle http://www.wordle.net It is a toy to create word clouds with the text you want.
- Create your own poster.www.glogster.com Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. No matter if it is colorful, sexy or emo. Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself.
- Blabberize www.blabberize.com Upload a picture to this site, click on the picture to choose where the mouth is, then record on this site to make the picture talk (with your microphone). If a person does not have a microphone, you can upload an MP3 file to then add to the picture to make them “talk”.
- http://www.screencast.com/A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot; whereas screenshot is a picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on a computer screen, enhanced with audio narration.
- Scratch www.scratch.com Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. As young people create and share projects in Scratch, they develop important design and problem-solving skills, learning how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch can be used in many different settings: schools, museums, community centers, and homes. It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds, but younger children can work on Scratch projects with their parents or older siblings, and college students use Scratch in some introductory computer science classes.
- Voki http://www.voki.com/ Voki allows you to create your own speaking Avatar to place on blogs, profiles, and email.
- COLOURlovers Link to Website: http://www.colourlovers.com/ Just for Fun: This website is a colorful and fun page o visit when you are looking for colors, palettes, and patterns. It has different themes and trends that work as a guide when choosing the most appropriate selection for you. Like the website says, “All in the spirit of love.” It is full of color and great ideas.
- VISUWORDS
- Calcoolate www.calcoolate.com
The “cool”est calculator in the web, definitely. This is useful for conversion from any unit (distance/length, speed, temperature, weight, volume, area, and currency), as well as competes more complicated computations – for example, 10*(3+4). I sent an email to the creator to add Costa Rican colones to the list, however, since it seems Central America was overlooked in the currency list.Online dictionary available wherever there’s an internet connection, great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. No membership required
http://www.visuwords.com/