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Free Teacher Resources
Technology MomentDecember 13, 2010
Spelling City – www.spellingcity.com
Create spelling lists, learn spelling words, play spelling games, give spelling tests
Teachers can register for FREE and store lists on the site for students and parents to use
Includes teacher resources and video FAQs
Spelling City – www.spellingcity.com Teach Me, Play a Game, and
Test Me options to optimize student learning
Check Me – view correct/incorrect answers, retake test, print reports
Teachers create username and password and start using the site.
Planet eBook – www.planetebook.com
Classic literature for download as free eBooks. All books are in the public domain and FREE
Download, print, distribute on CDs, etc
Silly Books – www.sillybooks.net
Animated world of free reading, writing, & learning for kids
Books, music, games, & puzzles
Students can enter contests and submit their own stories for publication
Starfall – www.starfall.com
A learning to read site
Four Steps:
1. ABCs
2. Learn to Read
3. It’s Fun to Read
4. I’m Reading
Fur.ly - http://fur.ly List your web pages into one web page with a drop-
down list to display a page from the list
How to use… List each url
Click go
Displays one short url
Share the list with others
Why use… Allows you to control or direct students to a select group
of web sites for a project or research
Sample: http://fur.ly/3r17
Aviary - http://aviary.com Apps for editing images, music, etc….
Phoenix - similar to Photoshop only FREE
How to use…
Sign up for a free account
Log-in
Only requirements: Flash and web browser
Create!
Can use filters, layers, etc.
Sample Project
Go to LOC and find an image
Copy image location
Go back to Aviary and paste url of image
Phoenix grabs image puts it in Aviary; can label parts; do whatever you want to the image
When finished, save/export to laptop to be used in other apps
Voicethread – http://voicethread.com
Register/Sign-in to Voicethread
Create a voicethread Upload a document, image, video
Share with others
Comment via Telephone
Computer microphone
Recorded with web camera
Text
Upload an audio comment
Demo: https://voicethread.com/#u161223.b409.i848804
Prezi - http://prezi.com Alternative to PowerPoint only on-line
Strengths – On-line
Allows for collaboration
See whole presentation at once
Click on show to advance through the slides
Easy to create; insert shapes, pictures, can make a path, change colors
Easy to add to presentation; (use prezi wheel to rotate, enlarge, shrink, etc.)
Can download prezi or Embed on a web page
Can have 10 presentations max
Need to set up a free account
Questions… Laura – [email protected]
Lois – [email protected]
Recording of this tech moment may be found at http://prodev.site.esu9.org/tech-topics
