Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Copyright/Creative Commons | Posted on July 30, 2011
Explaining Creative Commons LIcensing can be a difficult task for teachers or students. This short video explains it all. Found on Tom Barrett’s blog EdTe.Ch.
Explaining Creative Commons LIcensing can be a difficult task for teachers or students. This short video explains it all. Found on Tom Barrett’s blog EdTe.Ch.
The deal is simple…To get Cram for Mac or Cram for iPhone free you must download a copy of Goop on August 2nd, 2011. When you download Goop (intro price of $0.99), simply email us your receipt and we will send you over a promo code for a free copy of Cram for Mac (usually $24.99) or Cram iPhone/iPod touch (usually $3.99).
You can only have one for free, so don’t get greedy guys! There is no limit to how many people can receive this deal on August 2, 2011, so make sure you let your friends know.
CRAM is a flash card app that helps you study for quizzes and tests. It lets you turn your study materials into multiple choice practice tests and digital flash cards.
Knowledge Adventure.Com is yet another learning games site for kids. Great for summer refreshers!
Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today’s elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they’re free. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more? You’ve come to the right place!
4Kids.org is a team of educators, writers, technology specialists and students that produces weekly articles and links demonstrating how online learning can be a safe, fun and adventurous activity.
VUVOX is an easy to use production and instant sharing service that allows you to mix, create and blend your personal media – video, photos and music into rich personal expressions.
It allows you to almost instantly record and embed video in blog posts such as this one.
Kids LIke Blogs.Org has everything you ever wanted to know about blogging in the classroom. The author is a teacher using blogging in his elementary school.
How to Set Up iTunes Account without a Credit Card
Tony Vincent, in his blog Learning in Hand, has a short and sweet description of how teachers can set up an iTunes account without putting in their credit cards.
16 Tips to Take Your iPhone to the Next Level is an interesting article in The New York Times that give new and veteran iPhone users tips to enhance your productivity.
Free Math Help.Com is a site students, parents, teachers can go for math help and addresses all levels from Pre-K to calculus. Best part – it’s free.
ISTE Unplugged is held during and as a part of the International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE ) June 27th – 29th. It is three days of presentations where anyone attending ISTE can sign up to present, held on-site in its own live audience area with a Promethean whiteboard, a microphone, and amplified sound (you need to bring your own presentation computer). Special note to presenters representing commercial companies: this is not a venue for direct promotion of your commercial product.
Common Core Standards App is now available on iTunes and it’s free. Great tool for those school systems who have adopted or moving toward Common Core Standards.
12 iPad Apps for Storytelling from “Apps in Education” blog has a nice collection of resources for teachers using iPads in the classroom.
Image Base Photos are categorized, searchable, and a great tool for students to use in web design and project based learning.
Photos 8 is another site with a large number of royalty free photos that can be used in presentations and web publishing.
Minigroup is a completely private platform that lets you share the right stuff with the right people, without intrusion from strangers, friends-of-friends, or search engines, all from a single account. Use custom identities to share appropriate personal information with various groups.
Tildee.Com is a web site where you can search to find tutorials or how tos on many technology applications. And, you can also create and easily upload our own tutorial videos to share with others.
Automatoon is completely web based and free. There’s no fussy authoring software to install (or pay for!) and you can effortlessly share your animations online. You can also easily export your animations and embed them in your own websites, all for free! Automatoon is the easiest animation tool ever created.
PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.