Live Binder

From Free Technology for Teachers: "Live Binder is a free online service that allows you to create online binders of webpages, images, and documents. Live Binders displays your collected content in a tabbed, book-like format. You can create binders for as many topics as you like. Adding content to your Live Binder can be done by manually typing in the url of a webpage, upload files from your computer to your Live Binder, or add content through the Live Binders browser add-ons for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer." This site is a great way to  group resources for a class research project or for a department.


Example: Tools for World Languages

Chronicle of the Revolution

The Chronicle of Revolution: A site created by PBS.org for their Liberty! series. On the site, students can explore timelines, read newspaper accounts (within each newspaper account are links to further reading about important people and places mentioned in the articles), and play the trivia game. 

Econ Ed

From Free Technology for Teachers: "Econ Ed Link hosts hundreds of lesson plans and interactive games for teaching students about a wide range of topics in economics. Teachers can search the lesson plan index by grade level, concept, standard, or length of lesson (one class period vs. multiple class periods). Most of the lessons attempt to provide "real world" context."

Frozen Planet

From Free Technology for Teachers: "Frozen Planet: Explore the Polar Regions features an interactive display through which you can view the history of polar exploration and the science of the polar regions. The interactive display is created through the use of the Google Earth browser plug-in and a timeline. You can click along the timeline to see and read placemarks on Google Earth. You can browse through and click on a list of important places in both polar regions. For further investigation and analysis of the polar regions you can activate a number of Google Earth layers within the Frozen Planet display. The display also includes videos about each region although the playlist for the Antarctic region is much longer than the playlist for the Arctic region."


(Computers do need the Google Earth plug-in)

Screenr

Screenr: Screen capture program that allows the user to capture what they are doing on their computer in a video to share with others. 


For an example on Glogster, click here

Prezi

Prezi: Tired of Power Point? Prezi is a great alternative presentation tool that 'zooms'! Great for teaching a lesson or for collaborative students projects (Prezis can be co-edited).

Library Orientation Prezi:

RJ Library Orientation 2011 on Prezi

Wikispaces

Wikispaces - Start a Wiki for your class or for a specific project. What is a wiki? A wiki is a website created by one person, but where many people can add content and collaborate. For example, a teacher can post a discussion question to their Wiki and students can log on in class or from home to add to the discussion. Students can create Wikis for group projects, students can create Wikis to do lab reports, history classes can create a Wiki around one historic event or time period, and more!