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presentation by Lee Colbert - Her website: sites.google.com/site/edtechlearning FREE TOOLS!!!

• Mind Mapping - http://www.mywebspiration.com/ - Made by the same people who created Inspiration, but it's free. You can transfer things you've created in Inspiration so that your students can work on them at home (for free). You can link documents you've already created on the web to your mind map. They can link to videos, pictures, docs, etc.
• Writing Prompts - http://www.plinky.com/ - Every day they provide a new prompt (like a question or a challenge), and everyone gets a chance to answer. You post your response on the site for others to read (but you don't have to post). It's simple to add photos, maps, playlists and more. You can easily share your Plinky answers on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and most major blogging services. You can follow people. The prompts can be automatically emailed to you daily.
• Vocabulary, Poetry, Character Analysis, etc. - http://wigflip.com/automotivator/ - it uses images and words to create a poster. They can use the pictures already on the site or load their own. They add text and can save it, print it out, or order it from the site. This is also great for creating posters to motivate students - we could use images of our own school, students, parents, faculty, etc. and combine them with words that target our students/parents/staff/environment/issues/etc to inspire our community. It helps to personalize those motivational posters you see everywhere.
• Digital Storytelling (Problem Solving, Role Playing, Vocabulary, Biographies, Sequence) - http://www.xtranormal.com/ - make 3D movies for free...if you can type it, you can create it :-) You can upload videos to YouTube and then download or embed into wikis, powerpoints, etc. from there.
• Download a video from YouTube - http://www.zamzar.com/ it will also convert music, documents, etc. Almost any document you can think of could be converted.
• Online Polls - http://www.polleverywhere.com/ - 1) Ask your audience a question 2) They answer using SMS text messages, Twitter, or the web 3) Results update live in your web browser or PowerPoint. The free version limits your poll to 30 responses, but you can erase those responses and start again. You could have students, parents, faculty members, etc. respond to your polls.
• Collaborative Lists - http://tadalist.com/ - You can create lists and share them. You can even allow students, parents, etc. to edit and add to the list. You (or they) can check things off the list as you go.
• Photo Novels - http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/index.php - Allows you to create comic strips using flickr. You search images and add speak bubbles.
• Social Bookmarking - http://delicious.com/ - Create student accounts and they can link to you and one another to do collaborative work. http://www.diigo.com/ is even better because they have educator accounts where you can create student accounts where it doesn't require student email addresses. You can also highlight, search, and use post-it notes in diigo.
• Literary Family Tree - http://www.family-mingle.com/ - creates family trees using pictures. They can also upload pictures/drawings/sketches of "characters"and add information to them like background information on character, quotes, key characteristics, motives, etc.
• Voicethread - http://voicethread.com/#home - capture students voices to comment, do storytelling...you can even email it to others so they can comment on it too. You can comment on video, mark things on the screen, etc. You can share with entire groups or individuals. You can export and allow others to download it. You can allow others to make a copy. You can create templates for your students. NOTE: Let people view it, let people comment, moderate, and don't show it on browse. This is SOOOO cool. Teachers or students could use this to showcase their work (and then share with peers, parents, faculty, etc.). It could be used to combine the audio and visual to have a virtual discussion where the voices of the people contributing can be heard, not just read.
• Book Club - online book club where you can read books, comment, get a group of cohorts reading together, upload your own stuff, and friend others.