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[|Pocket Mod--Build Your Own Low Tech PDA] Use this site to create your own mini-books, calendars, planning sheets. You can build an 8 page document using 1 sheet of paper! Some useful add-ins include: weekly planner, music staff, graphs, tables, lines, storyboards, conversion charts, formula charts, etc. It also has a graphic that shows you how to fold a mini-book. [|Free Digital Tools] These tools will enhance learning and engage students! =[|Next Vista For Learning]= =[|School Tube]= Check out these educational videos created by educators and students!

=Tech Tool Webinars= Want to improve your technology education? Check out one of these webinars that give step by step instructions on wonderful learning tools! Learn how to create movies, screencasts, and comics. Find out how to utilize a host of SD State Library electronic resources. Discover how to use survey tools, Achievement Series, 21st Century Literature Circles, and much more!

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=[|Top 25 Websites for Tech and Learning]= =[|SharePoint 101]= Check out this wonderful resource on the district's web page creator, Share Point. Created by Crystal Decker and Barb Steele, South Canyon teachers, it contains a wealth of information.

=Web Tools for Teaching= Check out this page by Central teacher, Geoff Sheehy, that details an assortment of digital tools for teaching!

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=Project Based Learning= This is a wiki that has listed sites recommended in the book, //Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real World Projects in the Digital Age// by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss. Check out this invaluable resource!

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This is a collaborative drawing site!

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=Welcome to the Future!= 21st Century technology tools are featured here on another educator's site.

=[|Enhancing Education Through Technology]= See what brain based research says about technology in educaton!

=[|Even Factories are Changing!]= This New York Times slide show shows the advanced skills now deemed necessary in a factory in Ohio.

=[|Technology Integration Matrix]= This is an invaluable tool to ensure you are utilizing digital tools effectively and not just for the sake of using technology.

=[|PDF to Word Converter]= If you've ever been frustraed that you can't edit a PDF file, this is the site for you!

=21st Century Tools= Here is a page full of links to useful digital tools!

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=[|Fill Any PDF]= This tool allows an individual to type in any PDF file! =[|Wealth of Technology Resources]= This is a great resource from Liz Bennet of Garretson High School. She presented at the TIE Conference and graciously shared her site!

=Digital Tools= There are an assortment of digital tools on this site. Check out the left hand margin for categories! =[|iCollaborate]= Collaborative project ideas for teachers can be found at this site. =[|Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows]= Photo Story is an easy tool to create video slide shows quickly. It is great to use with students.

=[|Photo Story How To's]= This site gives many tips on effective ways to use Photo Story.

=[|Blank Slide Colors for Photo Story]= When you need a blank slide to add text too, this site has your answer! Add these colored slides when you want text with no picture.

=[|Animoto]= This site creates video slide shows from photos. These can be made free of charge up to 30 seconds. For longer videos, it is possible to upgrade for a fee.

=[|Wordle]= Wordle is a wonderful discovery. You can use it to generate book covers, find out key words in reports, make fun class lists, etc. It is fun to play with (as you can see from the graphics on this page!) Here is one done after the TIE conference. media type="custom" key="5988213" align="center"

=[|47 Different Ideas for Ways to Use Wordle]= Here are an assortment of ways to apply Wordle in a classroom! (Thanks, Nan, for sharing this collaborative effort!)

=[|Tagxedo]= This site is similar to Wordle, but takes it a step beyond, incorporating shapes!

=[|Audacity]= This is a free audio program to make audio files. Some teachers use it to record individuals reading at the beginning and ending of the year. Others use it as a way as a writing conference with students, sending them the audio file via email. =[|Voice Thread]=

=[|Intel's Free Tools for Teachers]= This site has a wealth of //free// information for teachers. It includes such tools as visual ranking tool, assessment projects, seeing reason tool, showing evidence tool, and Intel professional development. Check it out!

=[|Zamzar]= Free online file conversion!

=[|Keep Vid]= Keep Vid is a way to download videos from You Tube. Just copy the URL of the movie you want to download, go to Keep Vid and post it into the URL box. Like magic, you can then download the video into a variety of formats and save it to your computer. No more worrying if you wll be available to access the video via the Internet!

=[|Quia]= This site is free and has a wealth of online game activities. For a fee you can create your own.

=[|Poll Everywhere]= Students can take polls by web voting through a link, texting with cell phones, and Up to 30 votes are free. Information can be converted into graphs, downloaded into slides, and shows responses. Select the type of poll you want, type your questions, save the poll, and the poll then goes live and ready to respond.

=[|Pete's Power Point Station]= Find a wealth of different power points on this site!

=[|Greta's Games]= Find games for a variety of topics and age levels on this link. =[|Xtranormal]= On this site, students create their own visual characters complete with background, movements, and facial expressions. They can type scripts, and act out what they have written. The created people can even speak in specific accents!

=PHOTOGRAPH FUN= =[|Behold]= Here is a site that will help teach children about copyright and images. Behold allows you to find photos that have no rights to infringe upon! =[|Free Photo Bank]= These photos are not subjected to copyright! If you use them, just give Free Photo Bank the credit they deserve.

=[|Showcase Your Photos]= As assortment of ideas of sharing your photos are here: collage walls, seven foot decals, and entire walls created with photos are some ideas here.

=[|Tiny URL]= This site will take long file names and convert them into smaller files that will be referenced in another way. =[|Edmodo]= Facebook for the classroom. =[|Partnership 21st Century Skills]=

=[|JOOPZ]= Send text messages to groups of parents (or any other group) en mass. The message will come from a website. You can send reminders to yourself as well.

=[|Good Reads]= Type the name or ISB number of a book you like to read. You can also keep a list of booksyou want to read. Students can build book racks of books they hae read! It creates a reading community via the web. =[|Ning]= Book Study Group

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==**SCIENCE LESSON Below is a minilesson conducted with my students during our earth science unit. They will be using laptops with a partner to further investigate plate tectonics and how they relate to earthquakes and volcanoes. Graphic organizers are being used to take notes.**==

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