Noodletools

Noodletools  http://www.noodletools.com/ is one of the best values for schools out there.  They offer a free citation maker  that  produces correct citations. ( Some citation makers don't, alas).  Their subscription product has a wonderful notecard  module  that gives studnets a way to save their research and also make it their own.  Another great feature is the "sharing with teacher" whereby the teacher can make ongoing comments on a research project.

Glogster revisited

I have been using Glogster as a way to present pathfinders for student assignments. I like the customizable background

The edu version has a class management feature. I wish there was a mass uenroll and unenroll, but I like the resulting projects.

Memorize Now

I see so many students using flashcards to memorize. While reading Demo Girl , I came across an online flashcard maker I like, as it adds a little extra memorization tool. It deletes words from phrase to allow gradual a few clues, but still lets students think and memorize. It also has a first letter tool that just shows the first letter of the words to be memorized. I thought this would be useful for all those mnemonics people use to remember

http://www.memorizenow.com/



Classroom idea:
Have students enter the words, phrases concepts and start memorizing.

Going with Geography

Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers is a great blog to read. I get so many ideas and inspirations from his posts. He wrote about Geo Coded Art recently. I liked this tool for showing landscape paintings and the actual inspiration for them via Google maps
Classroom ideas:
1)A class studying a country could use this gathering of art and geography to personalize the study.

2) Create your own class database of Geo-coded studies. Chemistry classes doing element study could Geo-code the elements.

Google Earth ideas

Don't want to lose this great resource for using Google Earth
Thanks to Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers
Google Earth Across the Curriculum -

Vidinotes

Vidinotes http://www.vidinotes.com Gives you the tool to create a printable summary from your video

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day is once again my source for this tool.

So many times I will create a screencast of a web 2.0 tool, only to hear , "Can I have something in print?" With some more effort, this tool will transform any video into a print tutorial.

Classroom idea: Lesson on "The Main Idea". Have students use this tool on selected video clips, producing a visual and written synthesis of what was presented. .

Scribblar

Scribblar

Hmm - online whiteboards always seem like a good idea to me, but I have never been able to sell them.
I like this one because
1) it requires no sign -up and
2)it lets you take a snapshot of the page. Maybe this would work with math notes?