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January 4, 2012

Morning presentation

• todaysmeet.com/clearlake
• Scott’s slides (pptx)
• My landing page for parents and educators [VISIT THIS PAGE!]

Tools, tools, tools

Backchanneling

• todaysmeet.com/clearlake
• todaysmeet.com/mobiledevices
• PrimaryPad, Sync.in
• Google Docs
• Twitter: Introduction to hashtags, New York Times 1, New York Times 2, Monica Rankin
• Chatzy
• Wallwisher
• See also CoverItLive, Google jockeying
• Ideas for ways to use backchannels in class

More student interaction tools

• Tricider: How can we get more PBL into our classrooms?, Ideas for using Tricider with students
• Intervue: How digital is your classroom?
• See also Google Moderator, Socrative, Keek, Using cell phones for learning, mobile learning reflections

Student content curation

• Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
• Storify: Wordle resources
• See also Wikispaces, WetPaint, LiveBinders

Student content creation

• Blogs: Caitlin, Class Blogmeister, WordPress, Blogger, Edublogs
• Present.me: Ancient Rome, Garr Reynolds
• Screencasting: Khan Academy, Screencast-o-matic, Screenr, Jing, iPad apps
• See also Slideshare, YouTube QuickCapture, VoiceThread, Mind42, bubbl.us, Glogster, Animoto, xtranormal, dotSUB, Flickr, BlogTalkRadio, Weebly, Google Sites
• Get more ideas at FreeTech4Teachers and Tools for Learners