Free Teacher Resources Technology Moment December 13, 2010

Spelling City –  Create spelling lists, learn spelling words, play spelling games, give spelling tests  Teachers can register for FREE and store lists on the site for students and parents to use  Includes teacher resources and video FAQs

Spelling City –  Teach Me, Play a Game, and Test Me options to optimize student learning  Check Me – view correct/incorrect answers, retake test, print reports  Teachers create username and password and start using the site.

Planet eBook –  Classic literature for download as free eBooks.  All books are in the public domain and FREE  Download, print, distribute on CDs, etc

Silly Books –  Animated world of free reading, writing, & learning for kids  Books, music, games, & puzzles  Students can enter contests and submit their own stories for publication

Starfall –  A learning to read site  Four Steps: 1. ABCs 2. Learn to Read 3. It’s Fun to Read 4. I’m Reading

Fur.ly -  List your web pages into one web page with a drop-down list to display a page from the list  How to use…  List each url  Click go  Displays one short url  Share the list with others  Why use…  Allows you to control or direct students to a select group of web sites for a project or research  Sample:

Aviary -  Apps for editing images, music, etc….  Phoenix - similar to Photoshop only FREE  How to use…  Sign up for a free account  Log-in  Only requirements: Flash and web browser  Create!  Can use filters, layers, etc.  Sample Project  Go to LOC and find an image  Copy image location  Go back to Aviary and paste url of image  Phoenix grabs image puts it in Aviary; can label parts; do whatever you want to the image  When finished, save/export to laptop to be used in other apps

Voicethread –  Register/Sign-in to Voicethread  Create a voicethread  Upload a document, image, video  Share with others  Comment via  Telephone  Computer microphone  Recorded with web camera  Text  Upload an audio comment  Demo:

Prezi -  Alternative to PowerPoint only on-line  Strengths –  On-line  Allows for collaboration  See whole presentation at once  Click on show to advance through the slides  Easy to create; insert shapes, pictures, can make a path, change colors  Easy to add to presentation; (use prezi wheel to rotate, enlarge, shrink, etc.)  Can download prezi or Embed on a web page  Can have 10 presentations max  Need to set up a free account

Questions…  Laura –  Lois –  Recording of this tech moment may be found at