Sunday, September 11, 2011

Internet Tools

They are called WEB 2.0 tools. There is a site with a list of wonderful interactive tools teachers can use to make presentation fun and exciting.
Here are a few I reviewed:


WEB 2.0

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools


http://sites.google.com/

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2F&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2F&service=jotspot&passive=true&ul=1

Google sites is a wonderful place to build free web pages for school or for students. Once again, the word free is a wonderful word to use in the teaching profession. I currently have a Moodle site that I use to place all of my information on but this site is a wonderful share for teachers to use.




http://prezentit.com/

It is no longer available and they are working on a new version.





It is a site that takes videos, music, or pictures that you own and creates a video presentation.





Uses pictures and images and can create a moving slide show with music.





Can take any pdf that you have and basically make an online interactive flappable book.





It is like a giant canvas that a painter could work with to store pictures of his work and connect them all together into a slide show. Of course the pictures are like power point presentations slide with video, and music embedding capability.





It’s as simple as choosing a youtube video and shortening it for viewing. I download a lot from youtube so this tool is a great idea to shorten up or snip out the parts I need.
Most of the ones I reviewed are free and I always enjoy a free day of shopping on the internet. Take a look at these sites and tell me what you think.



                                    Thanks, Adam

2 comments:

  1. I really like the concept of taking out what I don't like and keeping what I like out of a youtube video. I didn't know that this could be done in an easy and quick fashion. I am going to check out the site Snip Snip and try shortening a youtube video.

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  2. Adam:

    You certainly reviewed many tools! I am trying to view more. I looked at Vuvox as you suggested. I watched the presentation called, Saving Donna's Brain. I thought it was well done. This may be good software for students to make presentations with when we do our earth science project. I get tired of seeing PowerPoint presenations every year! Jill

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