Engaging Students with FREE Web ToolsKay BeamsLakeland Leading EDGE

No Experts in THIS room!• Keep an open mind• Trial and error• Don’t be afraid to fail!!!• If you do something good…Share with others… we all need

encouragement and support!

Collaboration• www.Scrumblr.ca• Whiteboard type site.• Invite others to join• Best with small groups (2-3)

Collaboration• www.bubbl.us• Create ‘webs’ for mapping• Org chart like• Perfect for brainstorming ideas• Not interactive

Collaboration• www.Scribblar.com• Story map idea• Use for diagramming or space planning• Invite others to join via email!

• www.scriblink.com• www.Twiddla.com

Collaboration• GOOGLE APPS!• Docs• Spreadsheets• Forms

Productivity• www.Manymoon.com• Google Docs

Writing & Literacy• www.storybird.com• Students can publish their own writing with illustrations

• www.edublog.com• Create a blog that students can view and respond• Create a place for daily conversation starters

• www.blogger.com• Another blog tool

• www.Wix.com• Very nice website builder• Easy and immediately functional

Filesharing• www.dropbox.com• Save docs, photos, links to the cloud• Give others access to specific folders• Earn more free storage space by getting others to use dropbox!• Use online, desktop, phone app

• Google docs (of course!)• www.Evernote.com

Tools to Download (FREE)• TrackAx • (new version is not free )• www.trakax.com• But I have the old installer you can put of a flash drive!

• Jing • (www.techsmith.com/jing.html)• Capture screen recording!

• Camstudio• www.camstudio.org• Another screen capture program

• Gimp• The best Photoshop knock-off, ever!

But wait… There’s MORE?• www.go2web20.net• http://web2012.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.cfm• http://www.slideshare.net/arfontana1/web-20-tools-for-ela-c

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