Tech+Toolbox

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
[] Education Tools list

[] Education Projects

**Multimedia creation tools**
1. Animoto - Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom. Free for educators with some limitations. 2. Glogster Edu - Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has hundreds of thousands registered users. 3. Jing Project 3. Wix 4. Voki 5. Toondoo 6. Vocaroo 7. Capzles (or Xtimeline) 8. Tikatok 9. Imagination Cubed 10. Dvolver Movie Maker or Xtranormal 11. VoiceThread 12. Aviary 13. [|Blaberize] 14. [|Pikikids] 15. [|TubeChop] 16. [|Prezi]

=**Tools to Connect You and Your Students**= 1. Ning 2. Skype 3. Google Docs/Etherpad or TypeWithMe 4. wikis (wikispaces; pbworks; wetpaint) 5. Diigo 6. blogs (Blogger; Edublogs; Word Press) 7. VoiceThread 8. Flickr 9. TeacherTube 10. Edmodo 11. Buzzword 12. Twiddla 13. Wallwisher 14. Bubbl.us 15. [|Slideshare]

**Examples of Connected Educator Networks**
1. Global Education Collaborative 2. ePals Global Community 3. iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) 4. Global SchoolNet 5. Flat Classrooms educational network 6. Classroom 2.0 7. De Orilla a Orilla (iEARN) 8. eTwinning (Europe)

**Examples of Connected Classrooms**
1. Flat Classrom Project 2. Great Debate of 2008 3. Middle East blog 4. Student News Action Network 5. Global Dreamers 6. Digiteens 7. Extreme Biology blog 8. Thousand and One Flat World Tales 9. Mathlincs 10. Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger 11. Books Go Global! 12. Kim Cofini Sample Projects