2013+Tech+Meeting+-+Web+Resources

Below is the list of web resources that were shared as part of a technology coordinators meeting.

February 2014

 * ColAR
 * Website - @http://colarapp.com
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/colar-mix-3d-coloring-book-app/id650645305?mt=8
 * Print, color and then see your drawing in beautifully hand-animated 3D worlds.
 * There are sample coloring pages than can be downloaded from the website for free. Additional pages can also be purchased.
 * Too Noisy App
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/too-noisy-lite/id499844023?mt=8
 * Anyone who has attempted to keep the noise levels under control will appreciate this simple, fun and engaging app.
 * SAS Data Notebook
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sas-data-notebook/id555351275?mt=8
 * Bring the traditional 3-ring binder to the iPad by using this app from the SAS Institute.
 * SAS Flash Cards
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sas-flash-cards/id364784968?mt=8
 * The ability to easily create, learn and share flash cards for the iPad. This app is created by the SAS Institute.

January 2014

 * LearnZillion Student App
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learnzillion-for-students/id627486931?mt=8
 * LearnZillion has a student app that students can use to log onto the website to access their assignments.
 * This app will only work with a student logon. It will not work for a username designated as a teacher.
 * MyScript MathPad
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-mathpad-handwriting/id674996719?mt=8
 * This app allows you to handwrite your equations or mathematical expressions on your screen and then have them rendered into a digital equivalent for sharing as an image. This image can then be incorporated into document and other projects the student or teacher is working on.
 * goREACT!
 * Website - @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goreact/id649585694?mt=8
 * With goREACT, you can become a virtual chemist. Initiate nearly 300 virtual chemical reactions by dragging elements into the reaction area. Amazing images and video illustrations will then demonstrate what the molecules create. You can also select alternate views of the Periodic Table to discover different aspects of the element's chemical properties. The "Featured Reaction" menu guides you through themed sets of chemical reactions related to particular applications such as beauty products, cars or the environment.

November 2013

 * Success Certificates
 * Website - @http://www.successcertificates.com
 * The best free printable award certificates.
 * Ideal for Schools and Sports clubs.
 * Graphic Organizers
 * Website - @http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer
 * Help students classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use these graphic organizers to structure writing projects to help problem solving, decision making, studing, planning research and brainstorming.
 * NEWSELA
 * Website -@http://newsela.com
 * This new website provides daily current event articles written specifically for K-12 students. Each day the site add three (3) new articles to their collection.
 * Collections include War & Peace, Science, Kids, Money, Law, Health, and Arts.
 * For each article, there are versions written at different Lexile levels. With just a few clicks, a teacher can provide the same story leveled for students of different reading ability.
 * You will need a userid and password (which is free) to use the full capabilities of this site.

October 2013

 * NCTM Interactive Activities
 * Website - http://www.nctm.org/eexamples
 * Interactive activities developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) as part of the web project Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Information is found in four (4) grade bands (PK-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12). Included in these activities are student tasks, discussions for teachers and questions for reflection.
 * Spark Notes
 * Website - http://www.sparknotes.com
 * SparkNote Guides contain thorough summaries and insightful critical analyses in more than 500 guides for English literature and Shakespeare. A vast number of these guides are also available for history, math, biology, and other subject areas. Most guides include quick quizzes. While you are on the site explore the No Fear Shakespeare are which provides side by side translation of Shakespeare in plain English or the Test Prep or video sections.
 * Learn It In 5
 * Website - @http://learnitin5.com
 * A powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century digital classroom.

September 2013

 * Graphite
 * Website - @http://www.graphite.org
 * Launched by Common Sense Media, the nonprofit known by parents, teachers and librarians for its high-quality; nonpartisan reviews and its Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum, the Graphite platform helps teachers make sense of an exponentially evolving number of digital learning tools. The goal is to objectively and transparently rate and review educational technologies and to guide busy teachers to the best websites, games, apps and digital curricula that will augment their teaching and relieve the time-consuming burden of searching, sorting and sifting. A team of professional educators, early childhood development experts, doctorates in education and teachers with hands-on classroom expertise rate each website, game and app based on a detailed rubric that scores each product on 15 dimensions. Each product is also tagged for subject, skill and grade band and mapped to Common Core and other state standards. The site is not only free, it's also ad free.
 * Readability
 * Website - @http://www.readability.com
 * Readability is a free web and mobile app with a simple purpose to deliver a great reading experience. It turns virtually any web page into a clean, comfortable reading view. You can also sync articles for reading later as you surf around the web. Readability works on your web browser, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone, giving you the flexibility to read anytime or anywhere. Readability bookmarkets allow you to add Read Now, Read Later and Send to Kindle capability to Internet Explorer.

May 2013

 * Print Friendly
 * Website - @http://www.printfriendly.com
 * Print Friendly is a nifty service that optimizes and formats web pages for a perfect print experience by removing unwanted ad, text, navigation information and images so the user can save both paper and ink when printing necessary documents. Besides being free and super easy to use, the best part of this application is that the also can be converted to a PDF and saved for later use.
 * Online Chart Tool
 * Website - @http://onlinecharttool.com
 * If you enjoy visually displaying data and/or creating charts and graphs but think that using Excel us overwhelming, then you are going to just love this online chart tool. This resource allows uses to easily design and share a wide variety of visual aids (line and bar graphs, pie charts and scatter plots).
 * Pulp-O-Mizer
 * Website - @http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html
 * Add a digital twist to a variety of fictional writing activities by using the Pulp-O-Mizer tool to generate amazing covers for stories, poems, projects, etc. Mimic the inexpensive publications that blanketed the newsstands in just about every popular fictional genre of the time by turning you students loose with this super cool tool. You can customize text fonts, backgrounds and images. These images can be saved to the computer and then used on blogs, wikis, or web sites.
 * Let Me Google That For You
 * Website - @http://www.lmgtfy.com
 * This site creates a animations showing how to google a particular keyword. The process is very easy, enter the keyword and click on the search button and get a link to the animation.

April 2013

 * Vavaroo
 * Website - @http://vocaroo.com/
 * Vacaroo is a shiny new service for sending a voice message across the web. A microphone will be needed in order to use this site. If you are sitting behind a firewall you will need to open TCP port 1935. This site does not provide permanent storage. If you need to keep a copy of the message you should download and save it to your computer. Currently playback will work on any device that supports HTML 5 but you are not able to records as yet on an iPhone or other devices that do not allow in browser microphone access.
 * Writing Fix
 * Website - @http://writingfix.com/WAC/RAFT.htm
 * This site allows you to build a RAFT assignment for your class.
 * Math Chimp
 * Website - @http://www.mathchimp.com/
 * Mathchimp.com is a dirctory of online math activities. All activities are aligned to the Common Core standards. The site caters to two main audiences. Parents and students looking for fun online math games, videos and worksheets and teachers looking for educational math activities organized by the common core standard.
 * Anneberg Learner
 * Website - @http://learner.org/
 * This resource is part of the Annenberg Foundation and provided multimedia resources to help teachers increase their expertise in their field and to assist them in improving their teaching methods. The professional development that is found here is for K-12 teachers. They also have an interactive activities page with over 400 items.

February 2013

 * ThingLink
 * Website - @http://www.thinglink.com/
 * ThingLink allows teachers to link videos, podcasts, websites, notes to any image. A basic (free) account provides teachers and students with the ability to store and tag 50 images at Thinglink.com.
 * Board 800
 * Website - @http://board800.com
 * An interactive multi-user (shared) whiteboard application used for tutoring, collaboration or brainstorming. This is an online replacement for the paintbrush application.
 * Writing Prompts
 * Website - @http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/
 * Writing Prompts is a Tumblr blog packed full of image-based prompts that can be incorporated into daily and/or creative writing activities. To date, there are 300+ thought provoking ideas in a variety of categories available to utilize with your students with additional prompts posted regularly.
 * Pic-Lits
 * Website - http://www.piclits.com/
 * A creative writing site that matches images with carefully selected keywords. The object is to put the right words in the right place in order to capture, story, and meaning of the picture.

January 2013

 * 20 Critical Vocabulary Terms for EdTech
 * Website - @http://www.edutechintegration.net/2012/12/20-critical-vocabulary-terms-for-edtech.html
 * Like the lingo of our students, teachers today need to be aware of the lingo used relating to education technology.
 * Best Alternatives to YouTube
 * Website - @http://edudemic.com/2012/12/best-alternatives-to-youtube/
 * Flisti
 * Website - @http://flisti.com/
 * Flisti is a free online polling tool that does not require a sign-up. Enter a question(s) and give voters the URL to go to the poll. Great for a fast assessment tool to check student understanding.
 * Google Search Literacy Lesson Plans
 * Website - @http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html
 * Google has created a series of lessons to help teachers guide their stuents to use web searches meaningfully in the their schoolwork. These search literacy lessons hels teachers meet the new Common Core State Standards and are grouped based on level of search expertise: Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. The "Google A Day" Challenge will help students put their search skills to the test as they use technology to discover the world around them. The challenges are organized into Culture, Geography, History and Science categories.

November 2012

 * Animoto - Educator Account
 * Website - @http://animoto.com/education
 * Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account (50 student accounts) for use in the classroom. This program is an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations.
 * EdCanvas
 * Website - @http://www.edcanvas.com
 * A free web tool that allows teachers to create multimedia - rich lessons and share them with their students. The lessons may include YouTube videos, slides, flies, text and images that you can download either from the web or from your computer. Accounts are free but in order to use this resource you must sign in. Students can also view these with their iPads.
 * American in Class (AIC) Lessons
 * Website - @http://americainclass.org/lessons/
 * From the National Humanities Center these lessons are tailored to meet the Common Core State Standards. The lessons present challenging primary resources in a classroom ready format, with background information and analytical strategies. They are also optimized for mobile devices.
 * Power My Learning
 * Website - @http://powermylearning.com
 * This free online platform for K-12 students, teachers and parents, developed by the national nonprofit organization CFY. CFY is a national education nonprofit that helps students in low-income communities, togeter with their teachers and familes, harness the power of digital learning to improve educational outcomes. This platform makes available the best-in-class digital learning activities to meet the full range of K-12 learning needs. Free registration is required.

October 2012

 * Vialogues
 * Website - @https://vialogues.com
 * Vialogues (which derives from "video dialogues") is an award-winning discussion platform that proves that videos are both powerful teaching resources and the ultimate conversation starters. Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic time-stamped discussions about videos. To get started, upload a video, grab one from YouTube, or choose one from the growing collection on the site. Once you've created a vialogue, you can encourage thoughtful conversations by posting questions, adding polls, and replying to comments. You can even embed a vialogue into your website, LMS or blog! Concerned about privacy issues? You can make you vialogues public (open to the world) or private (open to whomevr you invite to join).
 * Arkive
 * Website - @http://www.arkive.org
 * With the help of the world's best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists Arkive is creating an awe-inspiring record of life on Earth. Freely accessible to everyone and preserved for the benefit of future generations, ARKive is a truly invaluable resource for conservation, education and public awareness.
 * Study Ladder
 * Website - @https://www.studyladder.com
 * Studyladder was developed by school teachers for school teachers to provide all children with access to quality education. What began in 2001 in Australia with just 21 lessons has now been expanded and adapted for use in over 20 countries across the world. The program has thousands of video lessons, interactive games, worksheets and assessments covering all the fundamentals a student needs to acquire to feel confident to want to learn more. Studyladder offers a sequential learning program with videos, interactive activities, worksheets and assessments for reporting to teachers and to parents. All part of a complete learning program. Most importantly children like using Studyladder, receive instant feedback on what they need to learn, rewards and certificates for achievement, while parents and teachers receive information on progress. Studyladder gives you everything you need to ensure that your students enjoy learning.
 * Meet me at the Corner
 * Website - @http://meetmeatthecorner.org/
 * This website contains Virtual Field Trips for kids and allows you to meet fascinating people all over the world. New educational episodes are uploaded every two weeks and include links to fun websites and follow up questions. Also included is the Big Apple Book Club which contains video book reviews for kids by kids.

September 2012

 * 6 Lesson Plans that put Ed Tech Front and Center
 * Website - @http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/09/6-lesson-plans-put-ed-tech-front-and-center
 * Classroom resources help educators make use of schools' investment in technology.
 * Integrating Technology in the Classroom: It takes more than just having computers
 * Website - @http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech146.shtml
 * Technology has become part of the educational process, but too often it is separate and not integrated into the learning experience. Today, Education World offers easy and painless ways to integrate technology into your daily routine. Included: Nineteen activties and nearly 50 Web sites.
 * NYPL Digital Gallery
 * Website - @http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
 * Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

May 2012

 * Learning Chocolate
 * Website - www.learningchocolate.com
 * This site is designed to help students memorize English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) or Spanish vocabulary in an easy and fun way. The exercises use pictures, sounds and games to make learning a new language as fun. To get started, choose your language preferences. Then choose any vocabulary topic link from the homepage to start learning new words. After reviewing the vocabulary, you can play up to 5 fun games to see what you memorized! The first 3 are matching games to help your memory. They will help you match the new word to its meaning with pictures or its pronunciation. The other 2 games help you learn to spell the new words so that you can read and write them in your new language, too.
 * Handwriting for Kids
 * Website - @http://www.handwritingforkids.com
 * Each lesson is featured on its own page, and kids are shown in simple steps how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences. Kids can trace uppercase and lowercase letters, and even blank sheets are provided for kids to practice more before their next lessons!
 * Eyewitness to History
 * Website - []
 * Contains an index of eyewitness accounts of hundreds of moments of history from ancient times to the 20th century. Includes audio, video and photos.
 * Science of Baseball
 * Website - @http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/index.html
 * Offers a way for kids to explore math and science with sports via the game of baseball.
 * SEN Teacher
 * Website - @http://www.senteacher.org/Home
 * Provides cost-free teaching and learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities. Can also be used for primary and elementary students.
 * iCivics
 * Website - @http://www.icivics.org/
 * Prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaging 21st century citizens. Teachers civic knowledge using 16 educational video games as well as vibrant teaching materials. The most comprehensive standards-aligned civics curriculum available freely on the web.

April 2012

 * NeoK12
 * Website - www.neok12.com
 * All lessons and videos on this website have been reviewed and screened by K-12 teachers and have been deemed appropriate to use within the classrooms. Also available on this website are Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching. Locating items on this site is easy since everything is divided by content area. This is an alternate resource for those schools that are blocking YouTube.
 * Watch Know Learn
 * Website - www.watchknowlearn.org/default.aspx
 * An index of over 33,000+ educational videos in a directory of over 3,000 categories. These videos are available without any registration or fees. These videos are pulled from a number of sources including TeacherTube, YouTube, Google Videos, National Geographic, eHow, HowCast, SchoolTube, Internet Archive, Slideboom, Hulu, Slideshare and Brightstorm. This is another alternative to YouTube.
 * Teaching Channel
 * Website - @https://www.teachingchannel.org
 * This video showcase is on both the Internet and TV. The videos are produced by a unique team of professionals and offer a wide range of subjects for grades K-12. The videos include information on alignment with Common Core State Standards and include supplemental materials for teachers to use in their own classrooms.
 * Common Sense Media
 * Website - www.commonsensemedia.org
 * Provides trustworthy information, education and tools. This site provides FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum. Items you will find on this site include Cyberbulling and Internet Safety resources.
 * ETT2012
 * Website - @http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teachingtechnology/
 * This website gives teachers help with integrating technology effectively. It provides a list of resources based on a specific learning goal. I want my students to.......
 * CITEd Learning Center
 * Website - @http://www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id=63
 * CITEd provides support through identification of best practices, innovative online technical assistance tools, professional development and communities of practive. CITEd is funded by the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs and is a cooperative effort of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), and the Education Department Center (EDC).
 * Do2Learn
 * Website - @http://www.do2learn.com/
 * Provides thousands of pages of social skills and behavioral regulation activities, communication cards, academic materials and transition guides for employment and life skills. The team of educational and clinical experts offers unique and evidence-based strategies that target the learning issues of individuals with special needs.