Favorite Online Tools Part 3-1

     

     What a way to end the day.  It’s a new night, so I thought that I would highlight another online tool to use.   I know that everyone has their own favorite online tools that they like using.  There are so many out there that there are often ones that get forgotten about, or left out because there is not enough time during the day, so I thought that I would highlight some of the ones that are most useful in the classroom and other places. 

            So last night I introduced you to http://www.classtools.net/ .  Tonight I want to highlight one of my favorite resources on there.  Twister.  No, not the game, but a fake tweet generator.  http://www.classtools.net/twister/You plug in a person’s name, give them a nickname, pick a time (or date) and then you are able to make up your own date.  Now, it use the name you picked and find a picture from the internet that you use as your profile picture.  After first, this may not seem like a helpful tool, but using it for history projects.  Imagine using this to tweet our Caesar’s conquest of the Gaul’s from his point of view.  Students would really need to understand his point of view and events that happened to complete the project. 

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Favorite Online Tools Part 3-2

     

     What a way to end the day.  It’s a new night, so I thought that I would highlight another online tool to use.   I know that everyone has their own favorite online tools that they like using.  There are so many out there that there are often ones that get forgotten about, or left out because there is not enough time during the day, so I thought that I would highlight some of the ones that are most useful in the classroom and other places. 

So two nights ago I introduced you to http://www.classtools.net/ .  Tonight I want to highlight another one of my favorite resources on there.  Fakebook.  http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page .  Don’t worry, I didn’t spell it wrong.  Similar to the Twister http://www.classtools.net/twister/ it lets you create  a fact social network account, similar to a Facebook account.  Students see how much it looks like Facebook and they are immediately drawn to it, because it is not your average school activity, but something closer to what they would be doing at home. 

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Favorite Online Tools Part 3

   

       What a way to end the day.  It’s a new night, so I thought that I would highlight another online tool to use.   I know that everyone has their own favorite online tools that they like using.  There are so many out there that there are often ones that get forgotten about, or left out because there is not enough time during the day, so I thought that I would highlight some of the ones that are most useful in the classroom and other places. 

            So tonight’s tool is http://www.classtools.net/ .  Now I will be talking about two of my favorite tools on classtools.net the next two nights, but there are lots of cool resources on there.  They have a make your own arcade game generator.  There are lots of different resources they are constantly updating and adding new content.  Best of all FREE.  Check it out.

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Favorite Online Tools Part 2

    

       What a way to end the day.  It’s a new night, so I thought that I would highlight another online tool to use.   I know that everyone has their own favorite online tools that they like using.  There are so many out there that there are often ones that get forgotten about, or left out because there is not enough time during the day, so I thought that I would highlight some of the ones that are most useful in the classroom and other places. 

            Everyone knows that it is important for students to read.  Now with schedules how they are both parents working, having multiple jobs, I understand that you may not have time to read to your child, or teachers do not have the time to read to individual students.  That’s where this next tool comes in.  Today we are going to talk about  http://www.storylineonline.net/ .  Now they have a (somewhat small) selection of popular children’s picture book.  But the cool thing is that they have celebrities like Betty White and Robin Williams reading that stories to you.  Websites like this are never as good as reading in person and some kids don’t read with the website and just click around.  But its much better than not reading and its always fun to have your favorite celebrity reading just to you.

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Favorite Online Tools Part 1

     

     What a way to end the day I know that everyone has their own favorite online tools that they like using.  There are so many out there that there are often ones that get forgotten about, or left out because there is not enough time during the day, so I thought that I would highlight some of the ones that are most useful in the classroom and other places. 

            The first one I thought I would highlight is an online stopwatch.  When I first became a teacher I would use an egg timer, mini hourglasses, etc.  Then when I thought I was getting really high-tech I used my cell phone.  Those are all great, except for the fact that the students couldn’t really see what was going on.  I understand that you may not want the students to see, but I found the students would be up out of their seat looking to see how much time was left.  So introducing the online stopwatch http://www.online-stopwatch.com/.  Pull it up on the computer, project it to the front screen and off you go.  Not the most high tech tool out there, but it works and best of all free. 

            Did you even know you can by times they come all on a CD , something like $16 for it.  Is that expensive, no, but do I have better things to spend my money on?  Yes.  One of the best parts about the online stopwatch, it has a variety of times, so you are able to switch it up for the students.  If you have never used it before you may want to try the bomb timer.  

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