Workshop+September+23,+2012

Below are links to sites and resources that we'll explore in this workshop.


 * 1) **Today's Meet:** -- live backchannel chatting
 * 2) **Poll Everywhere** -- quick polls to check for student understanding
 * 3) **Google Docs** -- **Forms** in Google Docs provide a powerful, simple to use tool for conducting surveys, doing event sign-up, or gathering other kinds of information - Take this survey: @http://tinyurl.com/A5web20 Results available here
 * 4) **URL Shorteners**- Give you a simple way to make long, complicated URLs easy to share
 * 5) **tinyurl.com**
 * 6) **tiny.cc**
 * 7) **goo.gl**
 * 8) Here's a link to more shorteners: tinyurl.com/A5shorteners
 * 9) **Image Manipulators**
 * 10) **Photofunia** - lots of very sophisticated Photoshop-like effects, easy to apply
 * 11) **BigHugeLabs** - another site for applying effects. This one also has end products you can make like posters and magazine covers.
 * 12) Two others: AnyMaking & PicFull
 * 13) **Quizlet** - a very powerful flashcard production site.
 * 14) **LiveBinder**easy way to collect and share sets of website links Sample LiveBinder
 * 15) **Presentation Tools**
 * 16) **Prezi** - A very cool, completely different alternative to PowerPoint Sample Prezi
 * 17) **Glogster** - a tool for creating multimedia posters online Sample Glog Sample 2
 * 18) **Voicethread** - slide shows with social commenting and more Sample Voicethread
 * 19) **Wikispaces** - a great program for creating a wiki - a collaborative online document.
 * 20) **Discovery Education's Web 2.0 Tool Roundup**

(Right click to download)
 * Here are some pictures you can use in experimenting with the Image Manipulators**