Tech Tools

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Teach yourself a variety of tech tools
          CSLA's Teen Learning 2.0   
          Marie Slim's student Smackdown
          Mrs. Stanley's complete HOT Tech Tools list  


CLICK here to see the video: Sierra Technology

Animation 
          Goanimate: Make your own animated videos       
          Xtranormal  animated videos  
Avatars
          Bitstrips Avatar Maker  
          Build your wild self 
          ClayYourself 
          Doppel Me
          Dream Avatar: great for K-8 students   
          FaceYourManga
          Hero Factory
          MadMen Yourself
          Manga Avatar
          Voki: free speaking avatar
          Yahoo avatar
          Zwinky: cartoon yourself   
Cell Phone
          Poll Everywhere: free way to create classroom phone voting activities  
Create Comics
          Bitstrips
        Chogger: create comics
          Comic Creator  
          MakeBeliefsComix     
Google tools
          blogger: Create great sites quickly and easily   
                Get great blogger templates  
Image generators (picture tools)   
          30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media    
          Best Sites for Public Domain Images and Sound for Student Projects       
          Create a cool banner with geoGreeting     
          Comic Strip Generator: add funny speech bubbles to pictures   
          Creative Commons pictures (from Marie Slim's student Smackdown
          Digital Goonies: free photos/videos links    
          Glitter-graphics     
          Images for your Projects, from Joan McCall   
          Image Generators: many links for amazing things to do with pictures 
          Open Clip Art Library    
          Pictures in the public domain   
          Wylio: creative commons pictures 
Presentation tools  
          Glogster EDU, and student examples. Glogpedia examples.
                (View these glogster videos at home) 
          Livebinders: create organized text and picture online reports    
          Prezi can be used for Prezi-tations. Sample teacher task. Sample student project.
Sound resources
          Absolute Sound Effects Archive   
          Audacity: free online sound editing
          FilesTube: song lyrics     
          Freeplay music    
          Howjsay: online pronunciation of words
          Jamendo: free music, excellent for student projects!
          Mrs. McCall's music resources for projects     
          Music     
          Music sources for projects, from Joan McCall    
          Sound effects
          More sound effects    
Social Networking and communicating    
          KidBlog: safe and simple blogging  
Typing links:
          Crazy Kids Typing
          Dance Mat Typing
          Keyboarding Games
          Peter's Online Typing Course
Video and Animated Movies 
          Screencast-O-Matic: easy to create student video projects  
          Xtranormal, and student examples, from Marie Slim    
Web authoring (create your own site!)   
          8 Tips For Blogging With Students    
          Kidblog: safe and simple blogs for students 
          Pikluk: Safe Internet and email for kids     
Writing tools
          Storybird
          Student Publishing    
          Zooburst -3D pop-ups   
          Create word clouds: Wordle (patterns),   Tagxedo (Shapes) 


                           You can open this Glogster from home if you click HERE.