Classroom Toolkit

If you wanted to see a bunch of links – then you really need to get into social bookmarking. All the links to stuff I’ve found of interest are in my del.icio.us account.

Here are a list of tools that students have/will have/should have to live in the digital world.

 Top Student Resources

1. http://www.wordpress.com - get your own blog here

2. http://www.bloglines.com – manage the blogs you read here – without graphics, just the raw text content as it happens (RSS feeder). Its like a funnel. You might be reading 20 Blogs or 20 MySpace etc., sites. It’s hard to visit them all. With this, each time one of the sites you are watching has a new post or page, then it is highlighted in your BLOGLINES page. So now you can watch all of the stuff you are interested in in one spot. It sends you RAW text of the post and then you can link to that site. It slashes the time you need to spend moving about the internet, and brings all their stuff to you.

3. http://www.photobucket.com – upload your images and video files for free

4. http://www.pbwiki.com – quick and dirty publishing – handy for sharing notes with a mass of people on the fly – I use it for class notes all the time – great.

5. http://www.flickr.com – more free image hosting

6. http://www.vixy.net - convert FLV (YouTube etc) to AVIs online for FREE.

7. http://www.slideshare.net – never loose a presentation again

8. http://www.mynoteit.com – good for students who just want to make simple class notes and share them without being a ‘blogger’.

9. http://creativecommons.org - COPYRIGHT info that students need to know

10. http://www.zoho.com - like office, but free, online and without the after taste.

11. http://www.vodpod.com – search for online videos (YouTube, MySpace, Google etc). Create an account, keep them for yourself, or link them to you BLOG.

Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!)

2 Responses to “Classroom Toolkit”

  1.   Nicole, on June 25th, 2007 at 9:05 am Said:

    Hi Dean

    Congrats on your blog – a great place to host your resources and share ideas and tools with other teachers and your students too

    I love ZOHO too. ZOHO SHOW also allows you to host slide shows and embed them in your blog. ZOHO WRITE is better than GOOGLE DOCS because it can display images and tables imported from an existing doc.

    My latest “must have” which you may like to add to your tools suite is “MINDOMO” – a full featured Mindmapping and project planning tool. Files you create can be shared and developed collaboratively online.

    Check it out at
    http://www.mindomo.com

    Good luck with your blog
    Nicole;)

  2.   Chuck, on February 17th, 2008 at 12:12 pm Said:

    Hi Dean — I’m thinking you should post Ustream.TV as one of your Student Tools – Must Haves

    Thanks

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