TeachingTools

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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|4 Teachers.org] www.4teachers.org This site features Great tools: RubiStar, Poster Wizard, TrackStar, Calendar Creator, and Equity Builder. Consider using the Classroom Architect to design a better layout for your class. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Edutopia - Social Emotional Learning] www.edutopia.org/social-emotional-learning Lesson plans and videos on activities to integrate social emotional activities into content courses <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|KidTools and KidSkills] kidtools.missouri.edu/ Free!! The KidTools program includes template tools to assist children in self-management, problem solving, and making plans and control. KidSkills includes organizational and planning tools and a variety of learning strategies. [|A Different Place] www.adifferentplace.org/ Activities for students and teachers that differentiate instruction. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|4 2 Explore] www.42explore.com Many links for thematic instruction [|ToonDoo] www.toondoo.com and [|Teacher's guide]: toondooguide.wordpress.com/ create activities or have students create activities using comic strips (top)  <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Survey & Form Tools =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"> = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(160, 24, 24);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Intervention Central] www.interventioncentral.org/ Tools to address positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all students. Access to special tools like Okapi and Jackpot Survey Maker. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Wufoo]<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">  <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">wufoo.com “Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms.” There is a free version in addition to fee-based hosting services. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[|Survey Gizmo] [Four levels; the basic account is free] <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.surveygizmo.com/ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[|Poll Daddy] <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.polldaddy.com/ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "With your free account from Poll Daddy you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles." <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[|Free Online Surveys] <span class="wiki_link_ext">freeonlinesurveys.com/ (top) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"> <span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Quizzes and Tests <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(47, 35, 35);">[|ProProfs] <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.proprofs.com/ They offer free tools and resources. You can create and share quizzes, flashcards, bookmarking, blogs, discussion forums, wikis. [|QuizMaster] www.cybertrain.info/quizman/qmhome.html This is a free (donations requested) site where you can use existing quizzes or make your own. You can save the quizzes you make. You can also purchase a copy of the software to download and use offline. [|QuizFaber] <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.lucagalli.net/en/ This is a “freeware software for Windows that enables you to create multimedia quizzes as HTML documents… without any prior knowledge of HTML or JavaScript.” (top)  <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Classroom Activity Tools <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(26, 20, 20);">[|Hot Potatoes] <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot.php “The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.” [|Puzzle Maker]<span class="wiki_link_ext"> puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com "Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists" [|Quandry]<span class="wiki_link_ext"> www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php This is an “application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. [|Puzzlemaker] <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.puzzlemaker.com/ This is a “puzzle generation tool for teachers, students, and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword, and math puzzles using your word lists.” [|Word Search Generator]<span class="wiki_link_ext"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">www.netrover.com/~kingskid/wordsearch/wordsearch.htm <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 255);"> [|Internet Hunt Activities] created by Cindy O'Hora <span class="wiki_link_ext">homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.html [|Mrs. O’s Puzzles and Projects] <span class="wiki_link_ext">homepage.mac.com/cohora/puzzles.html [|Filamentality]<span class="wiki_link_ext"> www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/index.html “Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality". Support is built-in through Mentality Tips that guide you along the way to creating a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff.“ The types of tools are Treasure Hunt, Hotlist, Scrapbook, Subject Sampler, and WebQuest. [|Web 2.0 Teaching Tools] <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://web20teach.blogspot.com "This site lists Web 2.0 websites and web tools that have potential for use in college and university teaching." (top) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(26, 20, 20);"> Classroom Response System ==<span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(24, 17, 17);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(11, 10, 10);">    == <span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(24, 17, 17);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(118, 5, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(11, 10, 10);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Poll Everywhere] - live audience polling www.polleverywhere.com There is a free version for up to 30 audience members. The other prices are low and are based on the number of participants. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);">[|Numina II SRS] <span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);"><span class="wiki_link_ext">uncdub.net/Numina/SRS/ <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0);"> This is a “Web-based student response system that uses a combination of wireless networks, handheld computers, and a data projector to allow students to submit responses to questions posed by an instructor.” You can contact the developer at UNCWilmington for a free account on their server. (top)