Age Requirements (COPPA/CIPA)
Article "Check the Fine Print" details age requirements for online resources.
Common Core Tech Integration Standards by Grade Level
Digital Resources
- Audacity LibGuide Everything you need to use Audacity at school or at home.
- Bookmarking: Delicious
- Bookmarking: Diigo
- Bookmarking: Portaportal
- Bookmarking: Symbaloo
- Class Blogmeister
- Class Blogmeister Instructions
- Edmodo Requires parent signature for students under age 18
- EDU Glogster Minimum age 13, requires parent signature
- Edublogs
- Google Drive formerly Google Docs
- Google Drive Forms excellent for polling
- Google Earth use for Google Lit Trips
- Jing requires download; use for screencasting
- Micropoll
- Picassa requires download; photos can be shared securely with a password
- Podcasting -- Apple: Ready. Set. Podcast. for MacBooks
- Podcasting: Learning in Hand
- Powtoons - See 11 ways to use Powtoon in your classroom
- Prezi Guides Click on the "Prezi Guides" tab.
- Skype [videoconference throughout the world] Skype can be used from a flash drive.
- ThingLink Awesome site to embed informational links and videos into selected points of an image.
- Thinkquest
- Vocab Ahead [vocabulary videos for SAT, ACT]
- VoiceThread minimum age 13
- Wallwisher Brainstorm, plan, discuss
- Wikispaces for Education This link is for teacher sign-up.
- Wikispaces Link for Students Find your classroom wiki.
- Zunal WebQuest Maker
Create Videos
- Animoto for Education Free Plus account for teacher, with up to 50 accounts for students
- Getting Started with Animoto for Education
How to Set Up Animoto Accounts for Students - Screencasting a trip through a city or important landmarks using Google Earth!
- Voki allow users to create “talking heads” with custom messages. (Example: create avatars of some historical characters and speak for them. Students can create them as responses to something learned.)
- Dvolver http://www.dvolver.com This site allows the user to pick a scene and characters then type in the dialogue to create your videos. Simple site with limited scenes and characters, but with some creativity students can create some great videos.
- Zimmertwins http://www.zimmertwins.com/ Like devolver this site allows students to create animated cartoons with written dialogue. Again, it has limited scenes and characters just like devolver. The quality of the final movies is quite good.
- Digital Films http://www.digitalfilms.com/ Like the two sites above, this site also creates animated cartoon movies with written text. I have not had any students use this one yet, but it seemed fairly simple to use when I took a quick look at it.
- Aniboom http://www.aniboom.com Aniboom allows users to create animated characters and create aniumated stories. This site is a little more complex than others listed here, but it can be used by Jr. High and High School students.
- Fluxtime http://www.fluxtime.com/animate.php Like Aniboom, this site creates animated cartoons and scenes; however, it does have a bit of a learning curve and may take students some time to learn how to use it.
- Animasher http://www.animasher.com/ This is a fun site that allows you to create a variety of different types of animated movies with real video and 2 dimensional pictures. This is lots of fun, and students can really get creative with this website. Students can even load their own video and images.
Screencasting
- Screencast-O-Matic No download required
- Screenr No download required
- Cam Studio Open source screencasting; download required
Student Writing Opportunities Online
- Basic Language Literacy - Online Opportunities for Young Writers from NoodleTools