Top 100 Tools For Learning 2011

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011

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100 Top Tools

1. Twitter - micro-sharing site | 1 | 1 | 11 | 43= F O
2. YouTube - video-sharing tool | 2 | 3 | 18 | 22= F O
3. Google Docs – collaboration suite (incl Google Forms) | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 F O
4. Skype - instant messaging/VoIP tool | 6 | 11= | 4 | 3= F/P D
5. WordPress - blogging tool | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6=6= F O/D
6. Dropbox - file synching software | 13 | 71= | – | -F/P O/D
7. Prezi - presentation software | 12 | 28 | - | -F O
8. Moodle - course management system | 10 | 14= | 9 | 12= F/D
9. Slideshare - presentation sharing site | 5 | 7 | 20 | 31 F O
10. (Edu)Glogster - interactive poster tool | 25 | 55= | – | -F O
11. Wikipedia - collaborative encyclopaedia | 16 | 17 | 13 | 26= F O
12. Blogger/Blogspot - blogging tool | 14 | 14= | 10 | 9 F O
13. diigo - social annotation tool | 15 | 22= | 35= | 72= F O
14. Facebook - social network | 9 | 31= | 24 | 17= F O
15. Google Search - search engine | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 F O
16. Google Reader - RSS reader | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7= F O
17. Evernote - note-taking tool | 23 | 27 | – | 16= F D
18. Jing - screen capture tool | 17 | 20 | 26= | -F D
19. PowerPoint - presentation software | 21 | 13 | 8 | 5 P D
20. Gmail - web-based email service | 31 | 21 | 14 | 7= F O
21. LinkedIn - prof social network | 30 | 38= | 30= | 31= F O
22. Edmodo - edu social networking site | 46 | 88 | – | - F O
23. Wikispaces - wiki tool | 17 | 29 | 19 | 15 F/P O
24. Delicious - social bookmarking tool | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 F O
25. Voicethread - collaborative slideshows | 19 | 19 | 23 | – F/P O
26. Google+ - social network - F O Highest placed new tool
27. Animoto - videos from images | 28 | 31= | - | -F O
28. Camtasia- screencasting tool | 27 | 26 | 26= | 50= P D
29. Audacity- sound editor/recorder | 24 | 9= | 12 | 11 F D
30. TED Talks - inspirational videos F O New

31- 65

31. Yammer - private microsharing platform | 68 | 71= | – | - F/P O
32. Google Earth - virtual globe | 41 | 43= | 40=| 40= F D
33. Scoopit - curation software – F O New
34. PBWorks - wiki tool | 33 | 34 | 35= | 43= F/P O
35. Google Apps - branded app suite | 34 | 38= | 68= | -F/P O
36. flickr - photo sharing site | 20 | 18 | 15 | 16 F O
37. Tweetdeck - Twitter client | 37 | 43= | - | -F D
38. Google Maps - online maps | 58 | 67 | 34 | 36= F O
39. Wordle - word cloud generator | 22 | 30 | - | – F O
40. Voki- speaking avatar creator | 75 | - | – | - F O
41. Symbaloo - Internet portal/dashboard F O New
42. Word - word processing software | 60 | 36= | 22 | 10 P D
43. Google Sites - wiki/website tool | 39= | 71= | 59= | - F O
44. iPad and apps - New
45. Google Chrome- web browser | 44 | 55= | – | -F D
46. Articulate– e-learning software | 43 | 24 | 25 | 22= P D
47. Snagit - screen capture tool | 42 | 25 | 21 | 26= P D
48. Adobe Captivate - demo/scenario tools | 38 | 22= | 30= | 17= P D
49. Vimeo - video sharing site | 70 | – | - | -F O
50. Geogebra - maths software for schools – F D New
51. Screenr - screencasting tool | 58 | 55= | – | – F O
52. Mindmeister - mindmapping software | 73= | 55= | 42= | - P D
53. Picasa - photo organiser | 46 | 63 | - | 57= F D
54. Wallwisher - online noticeboard | -26 | - | - | -F O
55. iPhone/iPod Touch and apps | 39 | 31= | 50= | 43=
56. Scribd - document sharing tool | 54 | 71=| 83= | 50= F O
57. Ning - private social networking plat form | 31 | 11= | 16 | 31= P O
58. eFront - course management system F/P D/O New
59. Adobe Connect - web conferencing tool | 61 | 41= | 66= | 72= P O
60. Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate - web conferencing | 35 | 43= | 50= | 50= P O
61. OpenOffice - office suite | 61 | 71= | 41= | 31= F D
62. Storybird - collaborative storytelling | 71 | – | – | -F O
63. Knol - share what you know – F O New
64. LiveBinders - 3-ring binder for the web | 61 | – | – | – F O
65. Sharepoint - intranet platform | 75= | 50= | – | -P D

66-100

In this the bottom 1/3rd of the list, there are a lot of tied places.

66. iTunes and iTunesU - music/podcast player/site | 51 | 41= | 28 | 26= F/P D
67. Mahara - e-portfolio platform F D New
68. lino - online stickies F O New
69. Outlook - email client | 95 | 67= | 38= | 17= P D
69. Posterous - blogging software | 36 | 55= | – | -F O
69. Storify - makes stories using social media F O New
69. Udutu - collaborative course authoring tool | 95 | 64= | – | - F/P O
73. Hootsuite - social media dashboard | 74= | – | – | – F D
74. BigBlueButton - web conferencing F O New
74. Edublogs - educational blogging tool | 48 | 49 | 59= | 72= F O
74. Etherpad + clones - real-time text collab | 50 | 71= | – | -F O
74. iGoogle - personalised start page | 44 | 16 | 17 | 17= F O
74. iMovie - Video editing software | 95 | 88= | 66= | -P D
74. Khan Academy - learning platform F O New
74. SurveyMonkey - survey tool | 48= | 88= | 54= | -F/P O
81. Excel - spreadsheet software | – | 50= | 27 P D
82. Google Calendar - online calendar | 53 | 50= | 29 | 36= F O
82. Kindle - ebook reader New
82. Poll Everywhere - instant audience feedback F/P O/D New
82. Quizlet - flash card and study games website F O New
82. Screencast-0-matic - online screen recorder F O New
82. TeacherTube - edu video sharing site | 90 | 64= | 80= | 57= F O
82. Zotero - collect/manage research | 57 | – | 66= | 72= F O
89. Blackboard - course management system | 68 | – | – | -P D
90. Android phones and apps | 85 | - | - | -
90. bubblus - collaborative mind mapping tool | 89 | 55= | 83= | - F O
90. Buddypress - social networking software F D New
90. Composica - social e-learning authoring system P D New
90. Adobe Flash - animation authoring | 81= | 38= | 38= | 43= P D
90. Fuze meeting - web conferencing P O New
90. Netvibes - personal start page | 61 | 55= | 37 | 26= F O
90. Paper.li - daily digest of tweets F O New
90. ReadItLater - save pages for later F O New
90. Weebly - website/blog software F O New
100. OneNote - personal information manager | 85= | – | 66= | - P D

Evolution Of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 to Web 3.0

Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

WEb 2.0

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.

The Quote of the Day

The Quote of the Day

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein

How Do You Find Quizlet?

A Useful Link for Teachers

A few weeks ago You Tube announced their commitment to education by moving a lot of their educational content to a separate domain, http://youtube.com/education. This allows schools and districts to, depending on their filtering, unblock the videos found there for use in the classroom. It's been open for a while now and reaction has been positive. New content gets added daily and the site continues to grow.
Watch, Know and Learn With @WatchKnowLearn

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Итоговая аттестация за курс начальной школы по английскому языку

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web 2.0 tools for ESL/EFL teaching (how to become web literate)

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Some Ideas From EVO-2012

Web 2.0 Tools For Teachers edDominators.com Website Launched

James Brauer 

The past few weeks, I’ve been working on a new project that blends together my various professional and personal passions, while helping other educators. I am an avid social media user, well-versed in topics of education (which is why I wanted to become an (education blogger), and am fortunate to possess knowledge on digital marketing and search engine optimization topics (which most other educators are not aware of SEO).

As a result, I have built a new online-magazine formatted website that is geared toward teachers, principals, professors, and edupreneurs that need more information about how to effectively integrate social media management and ensure their websites gain the traffic they deserve.

My magazine has been named — edDominators.

Why “edDominators?”

Well, there is great buzz on the internet about how/why educators should participate in personal learning networks (PLN) and use social media for their professional or personal goals.  This all sounds great, except the vast majority of educators don’t have a clue how to a.) build effective blogs, websites, and/or online businesses or b.) they don’t gain the traffic, followers, subscribers, and readers they deserve.  Therefore, it’s important that I create a community of educators that can learn the necessary strategies, tips, and “secrets,” to help us DOMINATE the Edusphere.

In addition to the basic content about social media tools and web 2.0 tools for teachers, the edDominators readers will be exposed to various website reviews and case studies of the educators who are literally “dominating” the edusphere.  No point in “reinventing” the wheel.  Let’s take a look at what’s working, how it’s working, and why it’s working–so we can integrate these practices into our online ventures.

I’ve done some market research, all of which suggests there is a tremendous market demand for this type of information with an extremely-low supply.  Sounds like a GREAT fit, if you ask me!

You are warmly invited, and frankly totally encouraged, to visit the new website and community that is being built as you read this.  Thanks for your participation and interaction, well in advance. http://edDominators.com

Here’s the link to our YouTube video: http://youtu.be/s1LrzeyrBa8

The success of edDominators.com is completely contingent on the success of your blog, website, or online business! 

It’s a true win-win partnership!

http://jamesbrauer.com/web-2-0-tools-for-teachers-eddominators-com-website-launched/

Can You Find 16 Qualities Of A Good Teacher?

The article will help you to find them

Sixteen Qualities Of A Good Teacher

by Doug Eikermann

Photo by Moving Mountains Trust

Good teachers are rare, and few people, including school administrators who hire teachers, know what it takes to be one. Although some of the qualities of good teachers are subtle, many of them are identifiable. Here is a list of sixteen traits that excellent teachers have in common:

1. Knowledge of the subject matter

You can’t teach what you don’t know. All teachers need not be experts in their fields, but possessing knowledge is important. Teachers must continue building their understandings of their subjects throughout their careers.

2. Patience

No teacher should be expected to have much patience with individuals whose lack of discipline, immaturity, or indolence interrupts the work of other students. Patience with students who are trying to learn, however, is part and parcel of the teaching profession. Impatience with sincere students is an indication of the teacher’s own shortcomings.

3. Intellectual curiosity

All good teachers are intellectually curious and naturally driven by their interests in keeping abreast of changes in their fields.

4. Confidence

Good teachers are confident in their abilities to sense where students are in the learning process and in their students’ abilities to learn material that is presented in a logical and graduated fashion.

5. Compassion

Talented teachers are able to work with students with varying levels of maturity and knowledge. A college professor I know once made the following statement about his experience as a teacher: “Each year teaching is more challenging for me, because I grow a year older and the students stay the same age. The widening age gap forces me to stretch in order to reach them.”

6. Achievement

Experienced teachers have clear thoughts on what their students should know at the end of the term, and they understand what they must do along the way in order to reach those goals.

7. Planning

Teachers must have plans and stick to them. This goes deeper than rigidly following a course syllabus. Effective teachers sense when students need more time to absorb the material and, within limitations, are willing to give it to them.

8. Awareness

Teachers in elementary and secondary schools must have eyes in the backs of their heads. They need to be aware of everything that happens in their classrooms and in adjacent hallways. Teachers who are awake are able to stop nonsense before it starts and keep students on track.

9. Mentorship

Teachers often serve as mentors to their students. The desire to influence students positively is a core motivation of many teachers when they enter the teaching profession.

10. Maturity

In no profession is maturity more important than in teaching. Students experience emotional ups and downs, and insightful teachers are able to sense the changes and respond to them appropriately. Teachers must be pillars, consistently encouraging students to grow as human beings and to develop academically.

11. Community involvement

Maintaining good community relations is part of being a teacher, and teachers’ contact with parents, administrators, and community leaders enhances their effectiveness in the classroom.

12. Organization

One-on-one tutoring is easy compared to leading a classroom of students in a single direction. Teachers must be able to manage students’ multiple personalities and organize their subject matters so that a maximum number of students benefits from their presentations.

13. Vision

Teaching encompasses far more than passing information from teachers to students. Teachers should be illuminators who provide their students not only with interesting and useful material, but also with visions of where they might end up if they learn well.

14. Context

Every subject has a context, and teachers are responsible for providing it to their students. Since no one learns in a vacuum, teachers must show their students how the information they are learning might be used or might lead to the development of some other useful skill.

15. Mission

Perhaps the most important thing teachers communicate to students and to the community is a sense of satisfaction with their choice of teaching as their life mission. Teaching at its highest level is a calling, and good teachers feel it to their cores.

16. Enthusiasm

Excellent teachers never lose enthusiasm for their profession. They might become temporarily burdened by administrative hassles or isolated problems, but their underlying engagement with their work is unwavering. Students feel this energy, and teachers who project it are much more successful than those who do not.
These are the salient qualities of excellent teachers. If I’ve missed something, please feel free to add your thoughts in the comment box below.

Teacher Tools

 

Teacher Tools

4 Teachers http://www.4teachers.org/ Website for locating lesson plans and ready-made technology activities for teachers to use in the classroom. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Create audio files for presentations and digital stories. Badge Maker http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php Create a badge in less than 30 seconds. Great idea for student of the week, teacher’s helper, etc Be Funky www.befunky.com Allows you to access your photos from various websites and apply special effects to them. Bubble Snaps http://www.bubblesnaps.com Add thought or speaking bubbles to your digital images. Busy Teacher’s Café http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/ K-6 resource site for busy teachers includes ideas, lesson and printables. Children’s Picture Book Database http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/ Resource for teachers to design literature-based thematic units using picture books. Cool Iris www.cooliris.com It’s just that…a cool way to catalog your images. Crappy Graphs! http://crappygraphs.com/ It's a website you can use to make very simple line graphs or venn diagrams. Nothing fancy about it. Create A Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx Online resource for creating various graphs (bar, pie, XY, line and area). Discovery Education Classroom Resources http://school.discoveryeducation.com/ Puzzlemaker, lesson plan library and more. Donor’s Choose www.donorschoose.org Teachers create an account and make a wish list. Donors search through the requests and choose the project they wish to support. It’s that easy. Education World http://www.education-world.com/ Variety of lesson plans and resources for all grade levels. Florida Center for Reading Research Activities http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/SCAindex.shtm Lesson plans and materials for student center activities addressing comprehension, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and fluency. Freeplay music www.freeplaymusic.com Free audio files to be used for digital storytelling. Fun Photo Box http://funphotobox.com/ Online photo editor with humorous effects. Graphic Organizers http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/subjects/graphicorganizers/ A wide selection of graphic organizers to enhance learning. Google Classroom, The http://www.thegoogleclassroom.com/ Overview of the many free tools offered by Google. Holiday Insights http://www.holidayinsights.com/ This day in history…bizarre celebrations…holidays around the world… I Love That Teaching Idea! http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com Creative, ready-to-use ideas for the classroom. iRubric http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm Free site of pre-made rubrics for all subjects/grade levels or create your own. Jamendo www.jamendo.com A community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Common licenses. Jam Studio www.jamstudio.com Create audio files for presentations and digital movies. Jing! http://www.jingproject.com/ Allows you to do three things: screen capture, record what is happening on your screen and instantly share it via email, IM or websites. Next Vista for Learning www.nextvista.org A free online library and teacher and student made videos to support the curriculum. Online Stopwatch http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ A variety of online timers including egg timers, a stopwatch and a bomb countdown. PBS Teachers www.pbs.org/teachers Lesson plans, multi-media files and more for all grade levels and subjects. Picnik http://www.picnik.com/ Edit photos online. Pics 4 Learning http://www.pics4learning.com/ A library of copyright-free images to use in presentations or digital movies. Pivot Stickfigure Generator http://www.snapfiles.com/GeT/sTiCkFiGuRe.html A downloadable application that allows you to easily create animated stickfigures. Primo PDF http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx Convert any printable file to PDF format. Power Point Games http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ Templates for “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?”, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Twenty Questions, Guess the Covered Word, Hollywood Squares and Concentration. Quizlet http://quizlet.com/ The end of flashcards, pre-made or make your own. Ring Clock http://www.cybersalt.org/images/stories/swf/clocks/ringclock.swf It’s just cool…a clock with a twist. Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Website for creating rubrics for all subjects. Simple Diagrams http://www.simplediagrams.com/home Desktop tool that helps you express yourself quickly and creatively. Smilebox http://www.smilebox.com/ Create slideshows, ecards, scrapbooks, photo albums or postcards with your own photos. SnipIt http://snipsnip.it/ Insert a youtube link and shorten the clip to your favorite part. Superkids http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/index.shtml Math worksheet creator. Tag Galazy www.taggalaxy.de A cool way to search for images on the Internet. Teacher Tube www.teachertube.com Like You Tube, but its content is created by and for teachers. Thinkfinity http://www.thinkfinity.org/ Free standards-based educational resources for all grade levels. Time Me www.timeme.com/ Online timer, virtual stopwatch. Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/ Changes long website addresses to a shorter version that is more practical for emailing. Zamzar www.zamzar.com Convert files to fit your format without needing to purchase software.

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GoAnimate

Just a great tool to make learning fun!
Here is my video on manners. I enjoyed making it.
Manners, manners

What is Glogster EDU

Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. 

Glogster EDU is so SIMPLE TO USE, that now over 7,000,000 people (including students as young as 4 years old) across the planet are reaping the benefits of this amazing system. Please review the critical features and benefits below and see what everyone is raving about. Glogster EDU is Yours!

Dear EFL Teachers of Langepas, Meet VOKI

Creating Speaking Avatars

http://www.voki.com

is an excellent tool to develop students' imagination and practise the English language.

Advantages:

• It is free and embeddable in blogs and wikis
• Registration is optional
• Stimulates imagination and creativity
• Young learners love it !

Disadvantages:

• Students may spend too much time on the avatar's design
• You may not record your voice properly
• Embedding avatars on blogs may be difficult for teachers and students with weak tech - skills

Possible Activities:

1- Introduce yourself, say what you did last weekend, say your plans for next holidays, etc.
2- Teacher asks questions about a given topic and Students write the answers in the section "comments" in Blogger .

I have used it with young learners and the results were very good. Let me show you some examples: http://n4icablaplata.blogspot.com/search/label/voki
http://n3-icab.blogspot.com/search/label/voki
http://n2-icab.blogspot.com/search/label/voki

Nevertheless, I highly recommend this tool. If you want to do something different at the computer room, read more about VOKI

If you click on the following LINK, you will find ready made lesson plans to use VOKI.