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2 | Directions: Search through this list of digital tools to find the right one for the job. Sort the tools by category by selecting "Sort sheet A-Z" under the triangle pull down on each column header. Don't see a tool you use? Add it at the bottom! | Digital Toolkit | |||||||||
3 | Researching | Planning | Collaborating | Producing | Broadcasting | Taking Action | Tool | Description | Platform | Examples | Comments |
4 | x | x | GoogleAlerts | Alerts: Automated email updates to specified news and information on the web. | Cloud | ||||||
5 | x | Alice | Animation Production: Create 3D animations. | Mac + PC | |||||||
6 | x | x | x | Sketchup | Animation Production: Create 3D models of buildings, structures, objects, etc. Create video fly-through video clips. | Mac + PC | |||||
7 | x | x | GoAnimate | Animation Production: Create animated videos quickly and easily, then share them with the world. | Cloud | ||||||
8 | x | Blabberize | Animation Production: Make images talk. | Cloud | |||||||
9 | x | Google App Engine | App Production: Design and create Apps for Android Phones. | Cloud | |||||||
10 | x | ipadio | Audio Production: Broadcast from any mobile to the internet live. | Cloud + App | |||||||
11 | x | x | x | Audioboo | Audio Production: mobile & web platform that allows you to record and share audio with the world. | Cloud + App | |||||
12 | X | X | X | Voxer | Audio Production: Mobile messaging for teams. Send voice recordings with text and photos to groups. | App | |||||
13 | x | GarageBand | Audio Production: Music and podcast creator. | Mac | |||||||
14 | x | Free Play Music | Audio Production: Music database for post production. | Cloud | |||||||
15 | x | Audacity | Audio Production: Open-source sound editor. | Mac + PC | |||||||
16 | x | x | Voice Memo | Audio Production: Record and share audio on your Apple mobile. | App | ||||||
17 | x | x | x | x | x | Soundcloud | Audio Production: Record, upload and share audiocasts. | Cloud | |||
18 | x | x | Jamendo | Audio Production: Search, share, download Creative Commons music. | Cloud | ||||||
19 | x | Find Sounds | Audio Production: Sound effects resource. | Cloud | |||||||
20 | x | Freesound.org | Audio Production: Sound effects resource. | Cloud | |||||||
21 | x | Soundsnap | Audio Production: Sound effects resource. | Cloud | Not free. | ||||||
22 | x | Soungle | Audio Production: Sound effects resource. | Cloud | |||||||
23 | x | x | Vocaroo | Audio Production: Vocaroo is an easy, free service that teachers and students can use to create audio recordings for use in slide shows or in blogs and websites. | Cloud | ||||||
24 | x | x | Aurasma | Augmented Reality: Create and experience AR with your phone or tablet. | Cloud + App | ||||||
25 | x | Loogix | Avatar Creator: Create animated avatars with rotations, painting, recursion radial blur and blur. | Cloud | |||||||
26 | x | x | Voki | Avatar Creator: Create personalized speaking avatars to embed in any website. | Cloud | ||||||
27 | x | Monatgraph | Avatar Creator: Make and share your photo mash-ups. | Cloud | |||||||
28 | x | Build Your Wild Self | Avatar Creator: Start with a human self, then add your favorite animal parts to make a hybrid. | Cloud | |||||||
29 | x | Hero Factory | Avatar Creator: Style and personalise your own superhero. | Cloud | |||||||
30 | x | FunnyWow | Avatar Creator: Turn yourself into a superstar with special photo effect templates. | Cloud | |||||||
31 | x | x | x | x | x | Tumblr | Blog |Social Network: Image-based blogging. | Cloud + App | |||
32 | x | x | x | x | Blogger | Blog: a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. | Cloud | ||||
33 | x | x | Anchor | Blog: Anchor is a free blogging platform that prides itself on being ultra basic and easy to use while also having the ability to be totally extensible – you can add as many custom fields to any post or page. You can write in either Markdown or HTML. If you want to work on customizing themes you’ll need to know a little bit of JavaScript or HTML/CSS, which may be a drawback for some. | Cloud + App | ||||||
34 | x | x | EduBlog | Blog: Edublogs is specifically designed with students and teachers in mind, and they are, in fact, powered by WordPress. It is free to sign up, and the blogs have a subdomain of edublogs.org, though you can also customize your own URL if you choose. Free or paid. | Cloud | ||||||
35 | x | x | Pen.io | Blog: Pen.io is a free service that allows you to create blog posts without signing up for an account. You can create a page that has a unique URL, but you don’t have to register a specific domain or pay for site hosting. It is super easy to use. | Cloud | ||||||
36 | x | x | Wardrobe | Blog: Wardrobe describes itself as a “minimal blogging application’ that attempts to simplify blogging by minimizing the back end ‘stuff’ so that you can focus on the meat and potatoes of blogging – the writing. You download the open source software from GitHub, install it, and go! It offers a number of convenience options such as tagging and scheduling posts. | Cloud + App | ||||||
37 | x | x | Kid Blog | Blogging: Closed blogging for a class. Social network similar to blog, twittier. | Cloud | ||||||
38 | x | x | Diigo | Bookmarking: Organize and share links. | Cloud | ||||||
39 | x | x | x | Google Bookmarks | Bookmarking: Save and share links. | Cloud | deprecated | ||||
40 | x | Clinton Global Intiative University | Civic Engagement: A community of young leaders who don't just discuss the world's challenges - they take real, concrete steps toward solving them. | Cloud | |||||||
41 | x | Change.org | Civic Engagement: Change.org is the web's leading platform for social change, empowering anyone, anywhere to start petitions that make a difference. | Cloud | |||||||
42 | x | x | Petition Site | Civic Engagement: Create an online petition. | Cloud | ||||||
43 | x | x | SeeClickFix | Civic Engagement: Report neighborhoods issues to local government and see them get fixed. | Cloud | ||||||
44 | x | Do Something | Civic Engagement: Website that inspires, empowers and celebrates a generation of doers (25 and under). | Cloud | |||||||
45 | x | x | FilesAnywhere | Cloud Storage: File storage to have access to your data anytime, anywhere. | Cloud | ||||||
46 | x | Photosmith | Cloud Storage: Move your photos between your camera, your iPad, and your Lightroom catalog. | App | |||||||
47 | x | x | Yousendit | Cloud Storage: Sharing large files. | Cloud | ||||||
48 | x | x | Qik | Cloud Storage: Storage and share videos. | Cloud | ||||||
49 | x | x | x | Dropbox | Cloud Storage: Store and share files up to 2GB. | Cloud | |||||
50 | x | x | x | 4Shared | Cloud Storage: Store and share files, video, music, photo, book. | Cloud | |||||
51 | x | x | x | x | Picasa | Cloud Storage: Store and share photos. | Cloud | ||||
52 | x | x | x | x | Vimeo | Cloud Storage: Store and share videos for embedding. | Cloud | ||||
53 | x | x | x | x | Viddler | Cloud Storage: Store and share videos. | Cloud | ||||
54 | x | x | x | x | Photobucket | Cloud Storage: Store, create, share photos and videos. | Cloud | ||||
55 | x | x | SkyDrive | Cloud Storage: Store, share and edit files. | Cloud | ||||||
56 | x | x | x | Likify | Code Generator: A Facebook "Like" tool QR Code generator | Cloud | |||||
57 | x | x | x | x | Microsoft Tag | Code Generator: Design and create Microsoft Tag codes. | Cloud + App | Shutting down by 2014 | |||
58 | x | x | x | DELIVR | Code Generator: Design, create and manage QR codes. | Cloud | |||||
59 | x | x | x | AppInventor | CODING: AppInventor is a platform where students can have access to a wide variety of resources to help them learn about programming and Android apps creation. No prior knowledge of programming is required to start using AppInventor. David Wolber, professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco, provides courses and tutorials explaining how to use the platform to create apps.”With step-by-step video screencasts, Wolber starts with the basics then leads you through the development of successively more complex apps, teaching you programming concepts as you go.” | Cloud | |||||
60 | x | Make Belief Comix | Comic Creator: Create your own world of comic strips. | Cloud | |||||||
61 | x | Comic Strip Creator | Comic Creator: Create and export comic strips in jpg format. | Cloud | |||||||
62 | x | x | ReadWriteThink | Comic Creator: Create and share comic strips. | Cloud | ||||||
63 | x | x | Strip Creator | Comic Creator: Create and share comic strips. | Cloud | ||||||
64 | x | Pixton | Comic Creator: Create and share comics. Ed version allows voice over. | Cloud | |||||||
65 | x | ToonDoo | Comic Creator: Create your own comic strips and comic books. | Cloud | |||||||
66 | x | ComicLife | Comic Creator: Program and app to create comic strips from your photos. | Cloud + App | |||||||
67 | x | x | x | Comicbook! | Comic Creator: Upload photos, add speech bubbles, and post finished product to facebook or twitter! | Cloud | |||||
68 | x | Symbaloo | Content Curation: Access your bookmarks. | Cloud | |||||||
69 | x | x | x | x | x | Scoop.it | Content Curation: Organize articles and publish magazines. | Cloud | |||
70 | x | x | Snip It | Content Curation: Organize articles and videos from around the web to build collections. | Cloud | ||||||
71 | x | x | x | x | Paper.li | Content Curation: publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. | Cloud | ||||
72 | x | Class Connect | Course Management: Build, organize, store, share your lesson plans. | Cloud | |||||||
73 | x | Lore | Course Management: Educational social network space. | Cloud | |||||||
74 | x | Sophia Educational SN | Curriculum | FLIP: Platform providing access to knowledge, help, instruction, standards-aligned content, and expertise. | Cloud | |||||||
75 | x | iCivics | Curriculum: A series of lesson plans and a game to help students learn about US politics and the Supreme Court. | Cloud | |||||||
76 | x | x | iTunes U | Curriculum: Access and upload educational materials from universities and other institutions around the world. | App | ||||||
77 | x | YouTube Education | Curriculum: Access educational videos on Youtube without being blocked. | Cloud | |||||||
78 | x | x | x | Google Education | Curriculum: Access to lesson plans, teaching activities. Google a day challenges offer opportunities to practice (apply) research skills. | Cloud | |||||
79 | x | x | TED Ed | Curriculum: Create and share a customized lesson around TED videos and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student. | Cloud | Article: What is Ted-Ed's role in today's classroom? | |||||
80 | x | Quizlet | Curriculum: Create flashcards. | Cloud | |||||||
81 | x | Cyber Bullying Toolkit for Educators | Curriculum: Cyberbullying toolkit to help you take an effective stand against cyberbullying in your classroom. | Cloud | |||||||
82 | x | DocsTeach | Curriculum: Interactive activities with primary source documents that promote historical thinking skills. | Cloud | |||||||
83 | x | Coursera | Curriculum: Learn at your own pace, work on your own schedule, test your knowledge. | Cloud | |||||||
84 | x | Google Lit Trips | Curriculum: Navigate through various pieces of literature with questioning, videos, images on Google Earth. | Cloud | |||||||
85 | x | Udacity | Curriculum: Online flipped classroom. | Cloud | |||||||
86 | x | 100 ways to use Facebook in your classroom | Curriculum: Strategies for using Facebook in the classroom. | Cloud | |||||||
87 | x | MITx | Curriculum: Watch lectures and take courses from MIT. | Cloud | |||||||
88 | x | Khan Academy | Curriculum: World-class education available to anyone anywhere. | Cloud | |||||||
89 | x | x | x | Ushahidi | Data Mapping: Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. | Cloud | |||||
90 | x | x | Crowdmap | Data Mapping: Visual crowd-sourced information from cellphones, web, news on a map or timeline. | Cloud | ||||||
91 | x | City Forward | Data Mapping: Visualize world city data and share in network. | Cloud | |||||||
92 | x | x | x | x | Survey Monkey | Data: Create and publish online surveys, view and share results. | Cloud | ||||
93 | x | Leappad | Device: tablet for educational games and apps | N/A | |||||||
94 | x | x | Meeting Minutes | Document production: Apple App that allows you to record the meeting while taking notes/minutes. | App | $4.99 | |||||
95 | x | x | x | Lulu | Document Production: Book publishing and global distribution system. | Cloud | |||||
96 | x | x | Issuu | Document Production: Collect, share and publish digital magazines. | Cloud | http://issuu.com/hildajunior/docs/1_st__hilda_s_-_robin__2_?mode=window&viewMode=singlePage | |||||
97 | x | x | Flipsnack | Document Production: Converts PDF files into flip books. | Cloud | ||||||
98 | x | Little Bird Tales | Document Production: Create a digital storybook using pictures, images, text and audio to share. | Cloud | |||||||
99 | x | Visual.ly | Document Production: Create infographics by importing data from Facebook and Twitter. | Cloud | |||||||
100 | x | Piktochart | Document Production: Create infographics to display data. | Cloud | |||||||