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Engaging Students with FREE Web Tools Kay Beams Lakeland Leading EDGE

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Engaging Students with FREE Web ToolsKay BeamsLakeland Leading EDGE

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No Experts in THIS room!• Keep an open mind• Trial and error• Don’t be afraid to fail!!!• If you do something good…Share with others… we all need

encouragement and support!

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Collaboration• www.Scrumblr.ca• Whiteboard type site.• Invite others to join• Best with small groups (2-3)

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Collaboration• www.bubbl.us• Create ‘webs’ for mapping• Org chart like• Perfect for brainstorming ideas• Not interactive

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Collaboration• www.Scribblar.com• Story map idea• Use for diagramming or space planning• Invite others to join via email!

• www.scriblink.com• www.Twiddla.com

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Collaboration• GOOGLE APPS!• Docs• Spreadsheets• Forms

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Productivity• www.Manymoon.com• Google Docs

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Writing & Literacy• www.storybird.com• Students can publish their own writing with illustrations

• www.edublog.com• Create a blog that students can view and respond• Create a place for daily conversation starters

• www.blogger.com• Another blog tool

• www.Wix.com• Very nice website builder• Easy and immediately functional

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Filesharing• www.dropbox.com• Save docs, photos, links to the cloud• Give others access to specific folders• Earn more free storage space by getting others to use dropbox!• Use online, desktop, phone app

• Google docs (of course!)• www.Evernote.com

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Tools to Download (FREE)• TrackAx • (new version is not free )• www.trakax.com• But I have the old installer you can put of a flash drive!

• Jing • (www.techsmith.com/jing.html)• Capture screen recording!

• Camstudio• www.camstudio.org• Another screen capture program

• Gimp• The best Photoshop knock-off, ever!

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But wait… There’s MORE?• www.go2web20.net• http://web2012.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.cfm• http://www.slideshare.net/arfontana1/web-20-tools-for-ela-c

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