Technologies

=Tech Tools for Creativity =

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- Create dynamic, non-linear presentations (similar to Prezi) with this flash-based tool

- Upload photos, select your music, and then it will turn them into videos

- Photo effects

- Create badges, billboards, CD covers, collages, cubes, jigsaw puzzles, magazine covers, mosaics, movie posters, trading cards, and more

- Take any image, add a mouth to it, record something for it to say, and watch it become a moving conversationalist!

 - Create free photobooks from copyright-safe Flickr images and a template

- Record a short video w/ a webcam, select a card design, share via URL or Twitter

- "Write" on online videos by adding pop-up speech bubbles and effects, then save and play

[|Create Your Scenario] - Generates simple playscripts - especially good for elementary

- Collaborative whiteboard

- Make coloring books and other interesting things from photos, save as JPEGs and use as illustrations for assignments or worksheets

- Collaborative social community (a la Facebook) for students and teachers in educational settings media type="youtube" key="TzPHQr1ONaA?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

- Flash drawing editor

 - Upload photos, record a message, and share

- Create diagrams, graphic organizers

- Free, multimedia poster-maker. Set up student accounts for educational use.
 *  [|All About Me Project (Spanish)] Note that students can include their own voices!
 * [|Spanish Vida Sana Project]
 * [|Spanish 3 Instructions]
 * [|Joan Miró]
 * [|Pablo Picasso]
 *  [|Les freres lumieres (French)]
 *  [|Linguistics Poster (University Level)] Glogster can be useful for helping university students prepare research for poster sessions at conferences

- Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
 * [|Chinese III Dating Story]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Episode 1 Scene 2: La tourmente]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Mi rutina]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Revolution Francaise]
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- Free, online, collaborative suite of office tools (forms, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing) - Collaborative software (games, playback, threaded conversations, whiteboard)

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;"> - An online community similar to Twitter, but designed for use in education - - Dress up photos with interesting frames and your own captions, then save and share

- Create your own, digital magazines

- Create newsletters with photos from templates and host up to 10 online for free at any given time

- Create and share photo scrapbooks online (you can also print them)

- Create motivational posters by adding your own photos and text

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|My Brochure Maker] - Brochures

- Create collaborative timelines with text, photos, and videos. You can also choose a type of album, answer questions, and it will generate it for you

- Create your own comic strips

- Create dynamic, non-linear presentations and concept maps


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 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Las comidas de España]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Bienvenida a la ciudad de Memphis]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Mi viaje a Utah]

- Type in text, it generates a tag cloud you can print on t-shirts

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;"> - Allows threaded brainstorming

- Students can select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate their own, original stories. Diacritical marks must be cut and pasted in (via Word, for example)

- Collaborative video editing

- Put your own text on a Post-it note image

- Make tag (word) clouds in different shapes

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;"> - Upload your text (or the URL of your blog) to make tag clouds in all sorts of very detailed shapes

- Make flash movies for free

- Free audio/video editing software you can download and use to make mashups

- Click, record, share

- Photo stories that allow audio voiceovers and audio comments
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 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Voicethread Project Sample in Spanish]

- Speaking avatars
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 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Voki poèmes]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Voki Project] - Helpful example of project directions for Spanish
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Voki Project Samples] - In Spanish

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Wallwisher] - Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall"

- Free, online website creation

- Create mini, animated videos (or greeting cards) from stock elements
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Camila y Gozo] - Sample conversation between 2 roommates made in Xtranormal (in Spanish)

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Wikispaces - Make your own wiki!

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|AFLTA Festival Wiki] - Publicize language festivals <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - A wiki-book by Gary Cziko Bishop Blogs <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chinese (Mandarin) - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - Not a very well developed text, but could be used for ideas <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Curriki - BrowseSearch] - Wiki designed for resource sharing that contains entries from multiple subject areas (365 entries for FL) DHS Espanol <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Deutsch 21] - Create curriculum projects across schools Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process Español 3: Wesley - Display individual student work <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Ecce Romani Wiki / German Exchange] - Organize exchange trips Flat Classroom Project - Develop transliteracy skills by engaging in the collaborative exploration of real-world issues through social technologies FL Teaching Wiki - Have students collaboratively develop and display content as a resource for others (higher ed) Flushing French Fun/Chinese - Plan lessons and keep an organized repository of resources Gramatica - Grammar lessons Intercultural-it-aus - Converse with students from the target culture and [|discuss cultural perspectives] using chat, discussion forums, or Skype International Collaborative Wiki - Jerusalem - Facilitate joint explorations of literature and culture (among students in Canada and Jerusalem in this case) KWR-Deutschwiki - Create galleries of student work that demonstrate the growth of students' language skills Learning Latin America Le français, le FLE, les TICE . . . - Comics in the target language LHSWLC: District Rubrics - Articulate curriculum across schools LHSWLC: Spanish Cover Sheets - Articulate curriculum across sections Loveland High School Professional Learning Communities Wiki Workspace - Facilitate professional learning communities Madame Krause's Wiki - Cultural video Madame Shackelford - Organize unit resources (L'Afrique Francophone) MadameSpace MIC USI français - Post assignment models Mon Espace NHS German - Post homework calendars <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Park School Languages Wiki] - Collaboratively brainstorm grant proposals <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Pormesfleurs Wiki] - Involve parents in reinforcing what their children are learning Tarea - Listening exercises and comprehension questions <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Toulouse Study Abroad Program] - Manage study abroad programs <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Vermont FL Teachers Tech Resources] - Participate in professional world language associations Waterford School Japanese - Post course syllabi, assignment instructions, and worksheets <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|We Are the World] - Develop interdisciplinary curriculum across grade levels [|Wikiaula] - Automatically notify students and parents any time a page is updated using the RSS feature of the page Wikitaller - Post copies of presentations or video clips showed during class > > > <span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> - Create free flash websites

> <span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> - Make your own tag (word) cloud media type="custom" key="7404891" (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Why Wordle?] )

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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps]

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Tech Tools for Personal Productivity =

- Create PDFs for free (download the program, the select print, change the printer to CutePDF, and voila!)

- Printable CEO Series contains printable tracking sheets to improve productivity

- Save your bookmarks (a.k.a. "favorites") online & then access them from any computer

- Same as Delicious, but on steroids (allows highlighting and archiving of webpages, social interaction, etc.)

- Propose a classroom project. Donors can donate to your cause.

- Design invitations and send them via e-mail. See who has RSVP'd

- Online fundraising. . . quickly create a webpage regarding the cause of your choice, send the link to associates, clients, family, and friends, and track your progress

- "Write" on the PDFs you save

- Online fundraising: Solicit pledges, people pay via credit card or Paypal, but accounts are not charged until at least $1,000 is raised. Project does not have to be service-oriented

- Make information come to you. Set up the alert and it searches the web and delivers updates to you

- Collaborate with other members of your department or school and easily share information without e-mail


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- Search for only scholarly articles - Free screencasting (requires free download)

- - Free file conversion from one format to another

- Set up meetings, see a grid of people's availability

- Online Stopwatch - Use this to monitor group work, to count down how much "English Break Time" is left, etc.

- Edit photos online for free

- You select the artist or genre and it generates a station that plays music similar to the style of the selected artist

- Search for songs, save them, and then make the playlist available to your students by giving them the direct link or embedding it into a wiki or website

- Quickly post a question and watch as the votes change while students text their answers to the poll. You can also download your poll as a PowerPoint slide to include in a presentation

- Make a "to do" list, it helps you prioritize your tasks through a series of forced choices

- Leave yourself a 60-second message. It transcribes it and sends the text and audio file to your e-mail and to your online account

- Edit existing rubrics or create your own

- Great PowerPoint tools for soliciting feedback from your audience (including several that integrate with Twitter)

- Upload documents to share with others

- Send Tab URLs - Send a list of links from open tabs to yourself or others in an e-mail message with this Firefox extension
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 * Send Tab URLs Firefox Extension ||

- Hold videoconferences with colleagues from around the world for free

- Upload ppt presentations to share with others (Example: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|STARTALK: Developing Teacher Leaders] )

- - Similar to Photoshop, but free & online

- Find copyright safe photos for free that you can use in student projects as well as published or web-based materials

- A great tool for keeping up with the latest developments in your chosen fields

- Upload up to 500MB of video, then bookmark particular segments within it or allow others to comment on it

Wikispaces - Use a wiki to remove writer's block--allows you to make continual changes to your text, to move things around, and to keep a constant outline of the various sections of your writing in view via the navigation bar. If you cut a section, but think you might want to use it later? No problem--just make a "parts pile" page, paste the deleted section in, and find it later. Also removes the "Word crashed and I lost everything" phenomenon. Everything you type is captured in the history (as long as you save frequently), and you can always revert to a previous version of the paper if you change your mind midstream. GREAT for collaborative authoring as well.

- Send large files to others using this service

- Free collaborative meeting software (requires download) - Download and convert YouTube videos

- Maintain an annotated, sharable research library with searchable, printable notes and reports