Welcome to the WHS Library's Tech Sampler Page!
Everything you see here was created with free web services and equipment available in the library. We hope these tools will help you spice up your lessons, give you ideas for projects that will engage your students' curiosity and creative energy, or just excite you about the fun things you can do with technology! All of these are easy to learn, and if you'd like to do one with a full class, we'll be glad to help with instruction. Please drop by the library any time and we'll get you started!
Weebly for Education
This website was built with a free, very easy-to-use service called Weebly. The education part of this site is really great for teachers because it will let you administer and password-protect student accounts. Consider Weebly for creating student portfolios, or for an alternative way of presenting information rather than a traditional paper or PowerPoint!
Animoto
Super easy, engaging, visual representations of information. Use it to introduce a topic, review a chapter, substitute for a Powerpoint, or help students study. This one presents photos students made during an assignment, to help them review afterward.
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WordleTurn text into a visual with one click. Use it to pre-teach, analyze themes and important concepts, or analyze student writing. Wordle generates "word clouds" based on word frequency, so the most important concepts are the biggest words.
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Prezi
Prezi is a great alternative to Powerpoint! Instead of slides, you put text, images, videos, or other objects on a canvas and move between them. Use this as a different kind of visual in lectures or student presentations. Prezi makes it easier to switch between topics during discussion or to answer student questions.
Goodreads Montage
Goodreads book cover widgets can be used to brighten up your classroom page, make interactive reading recommendations, or serve as a starting point for book reports.
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Creately
Make all kinds of charts and graphic organizers. They can be made online and filled in, like this one, or the structure can be made and printed off for students to fill in. Use for pre-writing, checks for understanding, study and review, organizational strategies, processing for memory storage...
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PBWorks Wiki
Use a wiki for all the students in your class to work together contributing information on a topic. They could make a "mini-wikipedia" on your subject area, or use this as a collaborative space for group projects.
Scribd
Scribd is a document hosting site that lets you make Powerpoints or other documents just like you normally do, then upload them into an embeddable web document like this one. Use it to post lecture notes on your School Fusion website, or for students to load their work onto a class wiki.
Yodio
Yodio creates fast, easy photo slideshows with audio you can record using any telephone.
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Google Maps
View Eiffel Tower in a larger map The satellite or street view in Google Maps is great for showing what faraway places look like. Pinpoint one location, then scroll around or zoom in and out to see the surroundings.
Glogster
Online "posters". Use for anything you would make with a regular poster, but this one is interactive when you add links! Click here to see this one full size.
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SchoolTubeSchoolTube, like TeacherTube, serves as a school-friendly alternative to YouTube for user-created videos. But unlike TeacherTube, students can create accounts and submit their own videos on SchoolTube. These sites are good ways to share your own video projects.
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PollDaddyPolls are a great way to make your webpage interactive and start learning conversations among students. Another good polling service on the web is PollEverywhere, which sets up polls that students can respond to by texting.
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