Active LearningTechnology Tools!.ppt

* * Real-time encyclopedia that combines Wikipedia, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter. As a part of the same results page Mashpedia also returns collections of blog stories, news articles, general images from across the web, and books related to my topic. Great for current events. * Great to show problems on computer screen; send email link to users * * * * * * Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/get-started How would you use it? Free tool to record video using the camera on your laptop. . . Free tools for editing images… GIMP (similar to Photoshop) Picnik (online photo editing, make GIFs) Unfreez (make animated GIFs) /unfreez How would you use these? Free tools for audio editing… Audacity dSpeech (text to speech) / Free music: and / How would you use them? Free tools for making videos… Movie Maker (on PCs) iMovie (on Macs) Tutorials: (Audacity, Jamendo more) Bitly http://bit.ly/ Tiny URL / How would you use them? /currency/currency.htm http://bit.ly/c2u8Oh Free tools to shorten URLs . . Mashpedia / How would you use it? Free tool to get all the results of encyclopedia entries on one page… Free tool to troubleshoot computer problems… ShowMeWhat’sWrong / How would you use it? Free tool to get rid of clutter… Readability /experiments/readability/ How would you use it? /cgi-bin/cms/seoDepartment.cgi?browse=1id=33letter= Free tools to conduct surveys… Wiffitti / Poll Everywhere / How would you use them? Free tools to create websites… Google: Kompozer (for online web development, to create and edit HTML) iSpring (convert PPTs to web friendly versions) / How would you use them? More fun stuff… Put yourself and your students in the picture / Periodic Table of the Internet /miscellanea/archive/2007-06-23--periodic-table-of-the-internet.html Free Technology for Teachers / All My Faves / Free Office/Productivity software / Did you learn and share information on active learning technology tools? Did you get