Cool+Tools

=Cool Tools and More Resources=

Instead of reinventing the wheel here, we will provide links to the best tools we've found. Feel free to add sites that serve as a "clearinghouse" for the best of the best out there on the web.

Web Wonders This is a TCBOE wiki with loads of information about tools used by subject/area.

Educational Software This is the site we recommend above all others right now. Suzie Vespers from New Zealand has put together a wonderland for you to explore. She has done what we started in Web Wonders. We refer to her, since she's done it better.

Alabama Best Practices Center This is the organization that started it all for us in Talladega County. Check out this wiki to see what other schools in Alabama are doing and to learn about the statewide 21st Century Project.

Want to learn something new? Check out the links below!


 * [|Voki]
 * [|Blabberize]
 * [|Quizlet - Games and Quizzes - Help them study for tests]
 * Bitstrips - Comic Strips
 * Google Docs
 * Delicious
 * QlipBoard
 * Wordle
 * Build Your Wildself
 * Bubbleshare - Movies or Slideshow of Pictures
 * Spell with Flickr
 * Podcasting
 * Big Huge Labs - lots of cute stuff: magazine covers, badgemakers, trading cards, billboards,...
 * Flip
 * Mixbook
 * Animoto
 * Photostory - Movies or Slideshow of Pictures
 * Jing
 * [|CamStudio] - ceate tutorials
 * HyperCam
 * MovieMaker - Movies or Slideshow of Pictures
 * [|Scratch]
 * YorkPhoto
 * [|LiveStream] - broadcast your own channel
 * UStream
 * VoiceThread - Upload pictures or student work. Students can then record their voices and talk about their work. I sometimes use it to just show pictures or work. It would be a really long page if I put all the pictures going straight down.
 * Audacity
 * School Tube
 * [|Glogster]
 * [|Welcome to the Web] - teaches how to search the internet; includes worksheets to fill in as you go
 * [|National Gallery of Art for Kids] - create digital paintings
 * [|The Artist's Toolkit]- explore line, color, and balance
 * [|Mr. Picassohead] - create a painting similar to Picasso
 * [|Bomomo] - create abstract line paintings
 * [|Create a Graph]- create several different types of graphs: bar, line, pie, XY, area
 * [|Projects by Jen]- collaborative projects for working with other classes
 * [|Time Line Maker]- make a horizontal or vertical time line
 * [|MagMyPic] - Put a photograph on a magazine cover
 * [|One True Media]- mix video and pictures to make a movie/presentation
 * [|Skrbl]- interactive online whiteboard; may be used collaboratively
 * [|Digital Storyteller]- combine text and images to make a digital movie; make book trailers
 * [|Classroom Clipart]- free for teachers
 * [|Online Timers]- tons of different kinds
 * [|Tikatok] - publish your own books
 * [|PowerPoint games]- Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire