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Budd:e Cybersecurity Education - Commonwealth of Australia
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): cyberbullying (23), internet safety (67)
In the Classroom
Create a classroom account and share activities on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Create a link on classroom computers or in the computer lab for students to use on their own using the demo component of the site or by logging in with a classroom-created account. Share a link to this site with parents through your classroom website or newsletter as a resource for teaching Internet awareness and safety.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Rich Chart Live - Blue Pacific Software
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): charts and graphs (129), data (92)
In the Classroom
Create colorful and interactive charts on the fly at anytime by using this website. Display the website on your interactive whiteboard (or projector). Watch charts change by using different inputs and customization options. Challenge students to predict and draw what charts will look like before changes are applied. Use the site to compare and contrast different ways to present information and discuss styles that work best in different situations. Create a class wiki and embed different examples of charts with explanations of how the chart was created. Have student use the discussion on the wiki to explain what the chart tells them. Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries - check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through.Edge Features:
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Hello Slide - 2012 HelloSlide
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): digital storytelling (40), slides (24)
In the Classroom
Add extra spice to your own presentations or your students' presentations with audio! Reach auditory as well as visual learners with all your presentations. Use in world language classes or for ELL/ESL or non-reader students. Incorporate into presentations in all subject areas. Challenge students to use this tool to create their own audio presentations. Use as a morning message or incorporate in your blog.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
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Edublog - Edulogs.org
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): blogs (51)
In the Classroom
Save this site as a favorite for all of your blogging needs. Find very informative instructions on blogging, and follow the student blogging challenge lesson plans. Peruse through the various subjects and discover how other teachers use blogging in their classrooms. Using the given PDFs on blogging start up, parent guidelines, incorporating into subject areas, and adapt to make them suitable for you. Look at a variety of examples to help devise your own unique style to meet your students' needs.Edge Features:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
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Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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NetSmartzKids - National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Grades
K to 8tag(s): computers (20), internet safety (67)
In the Classroom
Use this site to reinforce and teach Internet safety rules. Ask students to complete a quiz on Internet safety before allowing computer access. Provide those who pass with NetSmartz UYN club cards provided on the site to use as a "computer driving license." This is a great site to share on your class wiki, blog, or website for families to peruse together.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Grovo - Video Training and Online Learning - Andy Dunn & Ben Lerer
Grades
K to 12tag(s): tutorials (42)
In the Classroom
This site is a great professional resource for teachers at all grade levels. Share tutorials on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) in upper elementary to high school when introducing websites or using them for classroom projects. Make this site available as a reference for students (and parents!). You might want to create a class account for quick access. As a practical experience in informational writing, have students use these as a model to create their own online "tours" to explain their own favorite websites or those used in class using Screenjelly (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AskKids.com - Ask.com
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): search engines (41)
In the Classroom
Introduce AskKids on your interactive whiteboard or projector, showing the different options available. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. They can learn how to use a search engine, and how to ask questions to get the best results, by looking at this site with guidance from an adult. Post a link to AskKids.com on your webpage for easy access for students and parents. Make AskKids the home page on classroom computers for easy access.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Skloog - Skloog, LLC
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
This resource is best used as a teacher sharing tool for sharing links, RSS feeds, and other resources for students to use on specific projects or as general course links. Use this site to share with other professionals, team members, or parents. Use the categories to save bookmarks for different units you have in your classroom. Make your Skloog page the homepage for your computer, too.Consider having a category for student use for webquests, tools you want them to use, and creative commons images, music, etc. Also, create a category where students update with suggestions from class members. Use different colored alphabet tiles on a Skloog for younger, non-reader students. For example, give each subject its own distinctive color. They will also recognize logos well before they read!
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Flash Classroom - Kristine Kopelke
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use the demos included on the site when teaching students how to create Flash items or as inspiration for what other students have created. Create a link on classroom computers to flash interactives on the site for practice with math and reading skills. Create your own Flash activities to correspond with current topics in your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mugeda - mugeda.com
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): animation (38), comics and cartoons (51)
In the Classroom
Bring along Mugeda in your bag of tricks to capture and intrigue all of your students. Use Mugeda to illustrate class content, support debate, persuade, and entertain. The possibilities are endless! Add the creations to your website to share with your community. Use on school news programs to add student content without cost, and make information available for all levels of student abilities. Create commercials for your content or to convey information. In history classes go back in time to envision popular opinion that made history happen. Use during campaigns to promote your side of the debate. Science fairs will never be the same. Highlight projects to create anticipation. Send messages to students using the embedded tool. This programming tool has applications in all subject areas. Gifted students, ELL/ESL students, and remedial students will be captivated by this high interest way of expressing themselves.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Box - Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): writing (292)
In the Classroom
Use for any work students may wish to collaborate on. They can easily make documents public or private and share with others through the tabs in the Account Settings. Though not a complete back up of all your documents, Box can be used to collaborate and to finish work easily when on different computers. Any item you can work with using Word can be used with Box. Teams of teachers can also use this download to save tests, share activities, and more.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
Requires download/installation of software
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ChronoZoom - Microsoft Research
Grades
8 to 12The site's creators freely admit that they don't really know where the project will lead, and what technologies might emerge that will help them create more content for the site. There are some caveats for using the site. First, the site assumes a particular theory of the creation of the universe, and the timeline of its existence. Second, the site can lend itself to aimless "mousing," or the temptation to simply click and move the mouse to see how the site will react, with no attention to the content at all.
tag(s): charts and graphs (129), evolution (89), timelines (35)
In the Classroom
This is a big idea, still in its early stages. Obviously it has usefulness as a way of visually demonstrating the sheer immensity of time, and the relative insignificance of human existence in comparison. You could use this site as an intro to any history or geology class simply to generate BIG questions that students want to know. Consider asking gifted students, or students interested in technology applications to imagine what the site COULD be. How would they create a visual overview of--forever? How can one prioritize what matters? But on an interactive whiteboard--WOW! If you, as current students seem to be, are comfortable with imagining the world as a series of hyperlinks rather than a linear march, this site has limitless potential.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Woopid Video Tutorials - Brandon S. Kane
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Show videos on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) to your students before using specific software such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Bridge. Or use them as examples of informational writing. Choose one piece of technology (such as Internet Explorer) and assign students different videos to view, then have students share their learning with classmates using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here or a screencasting tool such as Screenr, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dib Dab Doo and Dilly too... A smarter safer way to search the Internet - Dibdabdoo.com
Grades
K to 7tag(s): alphabet (56), animals (166), animation (38), clip art (6), colors (36), comics and cartoons (51), cooking (24), crafts (25), creative writing (67), cross cultural understanding (38), cultures (62), dance (17), dinosaurs (32), disabilities (14), diseases (35), drawing (58), fitness (38), flags (19), folktales (59), geometric shapes (42), grammar (169), homework (34), insects (46), journalism (20), measurement (103), museums (30), mysteries (19), numbers (137), nutrition (102), oceans (106), operations (66), origami (10), painting (54), photography (96), poetry (169), psychology (28), rainforests (9), religions (27), search engines (41), seasons (21), sign language (5), social networking (50), spelling (124), sports (55), trivia (10), vocabulary (251), weather (150)
In the Classroom
Help students learn about narrowing and refining research by demonstrating this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard. As you start a project, take the time to SHOW how to use this tool to save time and find appropriate resources. Allow students to explore this site on their own finding relevant information from the various topics. If time permits, have students research a specific topic and create a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Internet Safety: Rules of the Road for Kids - Common Sense Media
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): cyberbullying (23), internet safety (67)
In the Classroom
Share this link on your class web page and/or in a parent newsletter to help parents learn about Internet safety. Use the videos to help students learn how to be safe online. Share the videos on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use the information to run a parent information night.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pora Ora: The Online 3D Educational Game for Children - Caped Koala Studios
Grades
K to 6tag(s): continents (29), counting (87), equations (73), geometric shapes (42), keyboarding (19), landforms (29), landmarks (14), numbers (137), operations (66), preK (99), problem solving (123), puzzles (146), sequencing (23), spelling (124), vocabulary (251), vocabulary development (41)
In the Classroom
Create accounts for each student or one class account for students to work on skills together. Demonstrate the site using your interactive whiteboard (or projector) to show students how to create their avatar, find games, view quests, and more. Share this site with families using your class webpage, wiki, blog, or newsletter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NetFamilyNews - Anne Collier
Grades
K to 12tag(s): cyberbullying (23), internet safety (67)
In the Classroom
Include this site on your class web page for parents as a reference to help them deal with technology issues at home. If you do not have a web-page consider sending a newsletter home. If you are doing an Internet safety lesson with your class, parents can reinforce the lesson at home with information and ideas from NetFamilyNews. Have students make a poster with rules that help them stay safe when using technology such as the Internet and cell phones. Students can take this poster home, share it with parents and add rules for use at home. The poster can be displayed by the computer or in students' bedrooms.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Quintura for Kids - Quintura.com
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): search engines (41)
In the Classroom
Introduce the Quick Tour on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Stop the tour at some points to make students aware of certain features. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Younger students can benefit from using this site because it does feature links to student versions of popular informational websites. Consider using this site to to create a word cloud search for a project assignment. Embed the results on your webpage for easy access by students and parents.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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DUsharew - DuLeaf FZE
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Eliminate file sharing challenges during projects with penpals or people from other schools anywhere in the world. Group work can continue at home through file sharing and instant chat. With younger students, record reading running records to save to each student's disk. Use for data notebooks to share on your school's server. Save the best science fair projects, poetry readings, and musical presentations. Be sure to review copyright information with your class before using this service.Edge Features:
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Zac Browser - People CD
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Ask your tech department to Install this on your classroom computer if you have students with special needs such as autism. Provide this link to parents who may benefit from the browser. Note that this download is Windows only at this time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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