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=Ten (Free!) Tools You Can Use on Monday=

==**1. Twitter - most people know about, but how do we use it in the classroom? Here are some Twitter Tips for teachers. Why not have your students Twoogle instead of Google. **==

==**2. Polls Everywhere - no need for clickers when you can do the same thing with cell phones or Twitter. A similar tool with classroom potential is wiffiti. **==

==**3. Prezi - a great alternate to always using Powerpoint. Here is a quick start guide for teachers and students. Here is an example of a grade 9 student using it for the first time. **==

**8. Jing - simple way to take a snapshot of your screen or track your screen's action**
==**9.** Ted Talks- most people are familiar with Ted Talks, and have seen Sir Ken Robinson's presentaiton on creativity or one of the others that has been often highlighted for school leaders. You can find the [|Top 20 TED Talks] for busy school leaders and also find many of the TED Talks organized by teaching discipline [|here] ==

==**10. Some quick ones: Bibliography Maker, [|Pixlr - Photo Editing], Newsmap, bubbl.us, Wordle (guide for teachers)**==

Glogster: [] (use the /edu sub-folder for education-friendly environment); provides multiple student accounts Aviary.net: provides screen-capture capability with editing/annotating features. Example of use: [] Edublogs: provides class blogging capabilities in a managed environment. $30 for ca. 100 blogs: [] Chartle: new this past week ... generates high-quality charts of many sophisticated types: []
 * Additions mentioned by @petervogel (Twitter):**

Also worth a look: Three picture manipulation sites: [], [], [] (all student safe with no retention of uploaded images, at least according to TOS) LiveBinders: interesting way to store "sites" in a binder format that can then be shared with others: [] TagGalaxy: very interesting way to access Flickr content, students are captivated by this tool: []

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