Tech+Tools

Here's a useful website to check out for curriculum mapping resources:
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Tech Tools

35 Top Tech Tools
> Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends > Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech > Free application to brainstorm online > The micro blogging service that many love or hate. > Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging. > Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint > An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose) > Make beautiful videos from images in a snap > Make your images talk…that’s right. > Create your own website or blog, very easy to use > Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print > Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions! > Easily record and share audio > The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system > Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites! > Popular social bookmarking site > View anywhere in the world anytime > Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text > Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful > Easily make your own flash-based website > Despite a new cost-based membership program, Ning allows you to have your own social network > Web-based word processor > Innovative way to organize your web visits > One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web > Virtually publish your book and sell it > Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice > Create animations using this simple website > Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash! > Create and share stories, games, art, etc. > Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all > Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images > Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn > Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others
 * Glogster
 * Edmodo
 * Bubbl.us
 * Twitter
 * WordPress
 * Prezi
 * Wallwisher
 * Animoto
 * Blabberize
 * Weebly
 * Flickr
 * Slideshare
 * Audioboo
 * VoiceThread
 * [|GoogleDocs]
 * GoogleSites
 * Diigo
 * GoogleEarth
 * Wordle
 * Wikis
 * Wix
 * [|Ning]
 * Primarypad
 * Spicy Nodes
 * Delicious
 * Myebook
 * Voki
 * DoInk
 * Warning Sign Generator
 * Scratch
 * Kerpoof
 * Tagxedo
 * SmartKiddies
 * Bitstrips

Site Review: FREE FREE offers resources from dozens of agencies including the CDC, CIA, Department of Justice, Department of Education, FBI, FDA, FTC, IRS and all branches of the military, to name just a few. The site runs the gamut in terms of resource type. Often displayed via a sister site, resources here include everything from traditional lesson plans and activity ideas to printables and templates.
 * Site URL:** Free.Ed.gov
 * Content**: Here, teachers can find hundreds of classroom resources from dozens of government agencies.
 * Design**: It’s a product of the federal government, so you know a certain level of funding went into its creation. Those dollars have paid off with an efficient, yet elegant and minimalistic, site. The primary means of navigation appears in a small content block on the left side of the page. From here, a user can gain access to just about every area of the site. Rather than inundate the user with enormous lists of content links, FREE provides a small sampling of content pieces as sub-category headers.
 * Review**: Conceived in 1997 in response to a memo from then-President Bill Clinton, FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) was launched a year later. Today the site boasts well over 15,000 federally supported teaching and learning resources, with new content added regularly.
 * Bottom Line**: For a considerable list of classroom resources from agencies such as the CIA and CDC, look no further than FREE.