Back to School with a Digital Toolbox
Back to school is a good time to commit to searching out tools online that students can really use to make learning more effective. These are the top 12 free tools that I use with teachers and students and they can be found year round on my public netvibes page.
Many of these tools help make learning more visual and offer the opportunity to create personalized meaning and connections. Once these learning artifacts are created, students often feel more ownership and instantly want to share. Mindtools.
Picnik
Edit images and photos online for free Picnik
Visu-words
Explore words and their associations, chack definition and pronunciations using a visu-words
Timetoast
Create interactive timelines, for novels, historic events, your life and share them on the web using timetoast
Imagination Cubed
Draw, write or solve on an interactive whiteboard that has an unique playback feature at imagination cubed
Tiddlyspot
Use a wiki-to-go to save notes and links for each subject at tiddlyspot
Jing
Screencast a concept, solution or key topic to aid understanding by downloading Jing
The Big Picture
Stay on top of a project or organize a complete curriculum using The Big Picture
Etherpad
Collaborate with others to create a document or flesh out an idea using Etherpad
The Awesome Highlighter
Signup and use The Awesome Highlighter, which lets you highlight webpages and share them with others.
Dropio
Share and move files from home to school and back using Dropio (you may never need that flash drive again)
Text 2 MindMap
Gain control and organize all those ideas for your essay with Text 2 Mind Map
Save & Share
Don’t forget to create a space online where you can save all of these useful tools at Delicious. Did I mention that all of these are FREE!
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