Technology for the 21st Century

http://www.pandora.com/ free music

http://sketch.odopod.com/ autoplay sketch slideshow

http://blabberize.com/ blabberize

http://www.xtranormal.com/xtranormal

http://www.voki.com/ consider showing a voki you created as a focus to a future lesson……. or to explain something within your lesson - or - better yet - have your students create their own voki talking about something they have recently learned (science concept, social studies information, book commercial, etc.)

www.dropbox.com store data in cybespace - free account

http://www.wordle.net/ make a visual of the main idea of a passage

http://www.tagxedo.com/make a visual of the main idea of a passage - in a selected shape

http://www.jigzone.com/ upload photos (or use photos on this website) and make them into a virtual puzzle

http://sites.google.com/site/trainprocomputing/ Promethean Board help – instructional handouts - interactive websites (can also be used with a mouse if you don’t have a smart board – other’s flipcharts

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=nav.1147 brief how-to videos for various skills on the Promethean board

http://www.polleverywhere.com/ students can answer questions via their cell phone

http://www.prezi.com/ totally free presentation program

http://animoto.com/ make fancy videos quick, easy

http://www.yodio.com/ Do you yodio???

http://www.mathtrain.tv/index.php Mathtrain.tv

http://delicious.com/ social bookmarking – always have your bookmarks with you – on any computer

http://www.todaysmeet.com/ backchannel website – like instant messaging – but within a confined – invitation only group……

http://www.funnelbrain.com/ Flashcards, study teams you create via online social networking, quizzes - search data base or make your own - view online or print


Sites with Flipcharts or Interactives Correlated to the TEKS and/or TAKS Objectives:
TEA Interactive TAKS Study Guides - On the right side of the screen, select the grade level, subject area and interactive

TAKS Vocabulary Flipchart - Sign in to Promethean Planet to download the Flipchart

SailOn Subject Area Interactives - Interactive sites correlated to TEKS created by 7 districts in the Houston area

Peer for Environmental Education and Rural Health (PEER - A&M-College Station) - Lesson plans corrlated to TEKS - search by subject and/or grade level

Round Rock ISD - Focuses on grades 3 and 5 Science and Math (links to the Flipcharts are in the left column)


Simulation Websites:
http://www.techtrekers.com/sim.htm
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
http://www.edinformatics.com/kids_teens/kt_math.htm
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000592.shtml
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
http://www.learningscience.org/
http://ginaotto.com/math.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/math_manipulatives.html


For purchase:
http://wordtoons.com/make vocabulary words into cartoons for help remember them easily

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