Categories: All - lms - anatomy - videos - quizzes

by Jacque Harris 7 years ago

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EDU-558 Web 2.0 Tools

A variety of educational tools and platforms are available to enhance learning in science and general classroom environments. For anatomy studies, "Get Body Smart" offers interactive text and illustrations to guide students through different body systems.

EDU-558 Web 2.0 Tools

EDU-558 Web 2.0 Tools

Language Arts/English

Read Write Think

Read Write Think provides interactives and videos at different grades levels. There are different language arts skills to choose from.

Writing Prompts

Writing prompts provides differnt prompts for writing that could be used in the classroom.


History

On This Day

On This Day provides events, birthday, historical events, and other types of events that happened on a certain date.


Scribble Maps

Scribble Maps is used to create maps.

NOVA Ancient Worlds

NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at history through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online.

Timetoast

This annotated timeline creator is great for getting students excited about history projects. Users add images and text to an interactive timeline they can share with others.

Math

Interatctive Math

Interactive Mathematics provide information on math concepts and interactive activities to practice those math concepts.


IXL

IXL provides real world problems and engaging activities in Math. Students master one level before advancing to the next level. IXL can be used for English, Science, and Social Studies.


Multidimensional Math

Multimedia Math provides interactive to show the different diminsions.

Desmos

This online graphing calculator generates a graph for any function entered into it's simple interface.

Geogebra

This versatile math tools is both a sharing platform for educators and interactive tool for students providing visual illustrations of complex math concepts.

Foreign Language

Literacy Center for World Languages

Students can learn English, Spanish,French, and German. Students can work at their own pace.

Babbel

Babbel has various foreign languages to choose from to learn. Students can work at their own pace. They can choose the beginner or advanced pace.


Duolingo

This tool has a selection of foreign language to learn. You can select how much time each day you want to spend learning the language.


Science

Gizmos

Gizmos provide interactive science lesson with virtual labs. There are assessments for the lessons.

NOVA Body & Brain Interactives

NOVA provides learners with an in depth look at the human body through images, text, videos, and interactives accessible online.

NOVA Absolute Zero

NOVA provides learners with a close-up look at the latest research in the science of cold through engaging interactives.

XVIVO

This tool provides learners with 3D animations, educational videos, medical illustrations, interactives of the microscopic world.

Get Body Smart

A great tool for anatomy, this tool provides students with interactive text and illustration walking students through various systems of the body.

Assessment/Review Games

Plickers

Teachers create quiz questions and students have a card to turn to correct answer that the teacher scans. Then teacher gets instant feedback.


Quia

Quia is used to create quizzes, educational games, surveys, and other educational activities.


Kahoot

Kahoot is used to create interactive quizzes, discussions, and surveys.


Classroom Platforms

Edmodo

Edmodo is a digital classroom where homework can be assigned, communitcate with parents and students, and much more. It supports Google and Microsoft.


Google Classroom

All the power of Google tools organized to serve you and your students. This simple LMS integrates with other Google services to make distribution of course content easy.

Canvas

One of the leading LMS's on the market, the Canvas SAAS is backed by the power of Amazon Web Services so students always have access and IT resources are not diverted to maintenance. Popular with K12 institutions, the easy to use platform is quickly outpacing competitors like Blackboard.

Presentation tools

Glogster

Glogster helps create multimedia interactive posters using audio, videos, images, and text.


Sliderocket

Sliderocket is a web-based application to create presentations by adding text, images, and videos. There is a free version and the upgraded version cost. Great tool to used for group collaboration and presentation.


Animoto

Animoto tool generates videos by selecting a theme, background, music, pictures, and texts. It is an easy tool to use.



Prezi

Prezi tool creates presentations. It is similar to an interactive white board. It has the feature to let you to import your existing PowerPoint presentations to change to a Prezi presentation.


Webconferencing

Zoom

Zoom is possibly the world's easiest to use video conference service. With screenshare, record, and control features, this tool can replace webconferencing and remote helpdesk tools for half the price of either!

Mikogo

Mikogo provides free screen sharing and video conferencing.


Collaborative Workspaces

Wikispaces

Wikispaces is used to create a classroom. It can be used to

Middlespot

This virtual workspace allows teams to all types of content, files, images, videos, and more all from a single webpage.

Image Tools

Lunapic

Lunapic offers much of the functionality of Photoshop for free.

Canva

Canvas is a fun, easy to use, free image tool that allows users to create new or edit existing images in a variety of sizes.

Video Tools

YouTube

YouTube is the world's largest and most popular video sharing service and can be leveraged as a powerful teaching tool.

Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic is a free, easy to use screencasting tool that's great for creating tutorials or other videos that capture both the screen and webcam.

Jumpcut

Audio Tools

VoiceThread

Voice thread adds audio recordings to images with a commenting feature allowing educators to engage in an asynchronous conversation.

Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editing cool that can be used for collaborative student projects.

Vocaroo

Vocaroo is a free, super easy to use audio recording tool that's great for foreign courses.