Awesome+Tools!

Useful Links

 * 1) Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
 * 2) Cool Tools for Schools Wiki
 * 3) Digital Citizenship - Teaching students about safely using the Internet
 * 4) Support Educational Blogging Wiki (includes examples of teacher blogs)
 * 5) [|ALA Top Teaching and Learning Sites]
 * 6) [|Storybird-collaborative storytelling]
 * 7) Education Podcast Network - over 1000 different educational podcasts
 * 8) 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Educators
 * 9) Miss Training (Office 2K7) from Foxborough Public Schools

**Useful Web 2.0 Tools:**

 * 1) Tiny URL - Tools to share web links using shorter web addreses
 * 2) Zamzar- free file conversion
 * 3) Google Reader - RSS Reader
 * 4) VoiceThread - Tool for conversations around media
 * 5) Blabberize - Creating a talking picture (quite literally)
 * 6) Voki - Create a talking cartoon of yourself
 * 7) Prezi - Free 3-D presentation tool
 * 8) Photo Peach - Free slide shows to go!
 * 9) Glogster - Free online posters
 * 10) Wordle - generates word clouds from text provided
 * 11) Slideshare - Upload and share PowerPoint presentations and documents
 * 12) Delicious - Social bookmarking website
 * 13) Audio Boo - Mobile & web platform for podcasting and uploading audio to share
 * 14) ipadio - broadcast from any phone to the Internet live **(phone blogging = phlogging)**
 * 15) [|10 Other Word Cloud Generators] -this is a blog giving URL's for word cloud generators (Wordle and others)
 * 16) Dipity.com -- free digital timeline
 * 17) Xtranormal.com -- free text to video website
 * 18) Screentoaster.com -- free screen recording of your computer
 * 19) Onetruemedia.com -- create free videos using pictures and other multimedia

**Other Useful Resources:**

 * 1) Technorati - Search engine for Blogs
 * 2) ISTE NETS Standards (see left side menu for link to NETS for students vs. teachers)
 * 3) [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://introtoedtech.wikispaces.com/file/view/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.pdf"]] [|NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.pdf]
 * 4) RIDE Website including lesson plan template
 * 5) Lesson Plan Template from RIDE website --> [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://introtoedtech.wikispaces.com/file/view/LessonPlanTemplate.doc"]] [|LessonPlanTemplate.doc]

Useful Software:

 * 1) Jing Project - Free screen recording software
 * 2) Tech Smith - paid screen capturing and video editing software
 * 3) Camtasia Studio - screen capturing & video editing
 * 4) Snag It- screen capturing & picture editing
 * 5) Audacity - Free audio recording software
 * 6) [|ALA Top 25 Teaching]and [|Learning Sites]
 * 7) [|Shape Collage]
 * 8) [|Slide.com]- create cute slideshows free
 * 9) [|smilebox.com]--create free slideshow