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Wall Wisher - Students can write on *sticky notes* and post on wall. Say more with less. Check understanding. Authentic display of information learned.

Common Craft - videos from a variety of topics: technology, green, money and society. These videos are simple, yet easy for studentsj (and adults) to understand.

Wordle- From the Wordle website: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Hints: 1. Copy and paste from a word document. 2. A ~ between two words will keep those words together. 3. In the advanced mode putting a **:** and then a number behind the word will increase the size of the word in your Wordle word cloud.

Screenr - web based screen recorder. Click the record button, capture the screen and voice, then share!! Free and super easy!!

Info on TinEye

Xtranormal - Create avatar videos. Here's an example: Parent Teacher Conference

Drop Box- drop files and pictures into drop box, download free smartphone app!!

Thinkfinity- lesson plans and games on thousands of topics

Tony Vincent

Glogster

[|Edmondo] - Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Student

[|LIve Binders] - LiveBinders - your 3-ring binder for the Web
 * Collect your resources
 * Organize them neatly and easily
 * Make an Impression

Search Information
 * Using a search engine effectively **:

Narrow searches by placing filetype: after the topic being searched. The most common are:
 * filetype:pdf – results will be only pdf files
 * filetype:ppt – results will be only powerpoint presentations
 * filetype:doc – results will be only documents
 * filetype:xls – results will be only spreadsheets

**Boolean search** - use of either narrows or broadens your search by using the words: //**and, or**// and //**not**// - and (narrows search by combining terms and retrieving documents that contain those specific words. ex.: teenagers and sleep) - or (broadens search, useful when common misspellings occur ex.: liberal **or** democrat) and - not (narrows search by excluding certain terms. ex.: cancer **not** lung)

More on Boolean Searches

Note: not all search engines support Boolean search terms

Stumble Upon - Discover the best of the web....according to your preferences.