Eric's and Harry's List of Top Tech Tools:
Project Management:
Significant Content:
Revision and Reflection:
Public Audience:
Instructional Videos - Technology that Supports PBL:
- Technology Resources Shared at EDIFIDE Convention 2013
- Tool, not the End: Tech Cautions
Project Management:
- Www.scrumy.com — Create jobs and tasks. Move sticky notes from "To Do, In Progress, Verify, and Done."
- Google Apps — Wordprocessing, spreadsheets, electronic slideshows, and a host of other tools that a Google Apps for Education account can get you.
- Edmodo.com — Class administration tool for sharing, collaborating, and communicating.
Significant Content:
- Edcanvas — A one-stop spot for videos, documents, links, and other electronic resources. Can also be used for public audience.
- Screencastomatic — An online Screen Capture tool that records what is occurring on your screen. Plug in a microphone and you can narrate along. Save the video to your computer or upload directly to YouTube.
- Interactive Whiteboards — Did you know that you can plug in a mic to your computer, narrate, and video record your lessons?
- PhotoStory (Windows) — A better photo slide show. Add music or narrate to the pictures at the touch of a button.
- YouTube — Lots of content and the 2nd most popular search engine!
Revision and Reflection:
- Google Docs — Easily share work, add comments, and see revision history.
- Google — Create a form that allows students to quickly give feedback and reflections that includes m/c, Likert scales, and other questions. Students would often rather complete a number of small questions than give a paragraph reflections.
- Twitter — Microblogging that allows you to categorize and #hashtag.
- TodaysMeet — A no-account-needed microblogging site. Teachers can set up a "room" for students to give short ideas and thoughts. The room is timed and will disappear after 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, etc.
- Linoit — A digital corkboard. You can post stickies, videos, docs, YouTube videos, and more.
- GMail — Use email for communication and collaboration.
- Blogger — Shared writing and direct online reflection.
- Audacity — Software for audio recordings. Some students prefer to give audio feedback. Students could record on their smartphone/iPod and import for editing in Audacity.
Public Audience:
- Blurb — Book publishing for books, photo books, scrapbooks, etc.
- MixBook — Book publishing for books, photo books, scrapbooks, etc.
- Shutterfly — Book publishing for books, photo books, scrapbooks, etc.
- YouTube — Share videos, presentations, etc.
- Powtoons — Animated presentation software.
Instructional Videos - Technology that Supports PBL: