Tools
for Teachers.
Spezify.
This
tool is a web based tool that takes search results from different media
formats. With all these different media formats can be arranged on a desktop in
a collage to fit the user’s visual needs. These different media formats include
definitions, images,
Flickr photos, quotes, wikipedia articles. This tool in a classroom will be
very helpfully in researching different things from science to art. Then
there’s the fact that you can rearrange the collage to fit the student’s visual
needs.
SchoolWAX
TV
This tool is to help anyone can
find educational videos on the web. This tool gives people a safe place to
watch and find these educational videos that enrich and promote learning. This
tool helps students who need just a little more help with their school work. In
a class setting this is a great research tool for student. It also is a good
source for other teachers to get videos from.
Questionaut
This tool is a game in which
student have to go thru worlds using skills in math, english, and science all
to recover your friends hats. This tool not only makes learning math, english,
and science it also help with motor skills. It story and game is a great way
for students to learn skills. In a classroom this would be a perfect for down
time in a classroom. This also helps with students keeping their skill sharp.
Pencil
This is software that lets you
create traditional hand-drawn animation with windows, Mac, and Linux. This
software allows the user to draw and sketch out pictures then turn them into an
animation of your choosing. It uses a bitmap and vector graphics to help with
drawing out your cartoon. This in a classroom would be a fun lesson to teach kids
early animation techniques. This also would help with drawing lessons to help
review basic drawing lessons.
Haikuls
This tool is to help teachers keep
up with their lessons, grades, assessments, and scores though a gradebook tool.
This rolls all these things and puts them in one place. Along with a lesson
creator where you can put articles, images, audio, and videos in for your class
to use. This in a classroom would be a very helpful tool for teachers to use.
Not only do you have a lesson plan creator you can keep track of so many other
things.
Search
Crystal
This is a search engine the takes
results from multiply search engine and puts them in one place. This tool lets
you compare different search engines. It also lets you remix and share the
results you hind with multiply social site. This in a classroom would be
perfect for research. It gives the student multiply results from multiply
search engines.
Montage
This web based tool it a tool
that makes creating a photo album fun and easy. You get to pick a topic, add
content, get information for photo from a variety sources, and share it online
with other people. It’s a creative tool that almost anyone can use. This makes
it a awesome tool for art teachers trying to teach their kids about portfolio’s.
It also makes it ten times easier for kids to learn how to make portfolios.
Comicbrush
This tool let’s you make your
very own comic using a collection of comic backgrounds, characters and props
with photos of your friends, neighborhood or college. You can add speech
balloons, text, and your own artwork and more, after this you can then publish
it on Comicbrush. This in a classroom this is a fun assignment that can teach
kids about comic and how comics works. This also helps them with composition in
figuring out where to put things.
Colourlovers
This tool you can monitor and
influences color trend in the world. This tool lets you keep up to date on
color to and you can check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit
news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. This is a
cool tool that will open your eyes to the wonderful world of color. In an Art
classroom this will teach students not only how colors work. But also show
student how colors work.
PreZentit
This tool is a tool to help you
make presentations for public or private use. With this you presentation has its
own web address and can be shared thru downloading. This allows for your
presentation to be viewed offline as well as online. This tool in classroom not
only makes making a presentation easy. But it offers a way to view it offline
if the Internet is down.
And there you have it ten tools that all new and up and come teachers can use!!!!!
