Image Detective

Image Detective is a fun site that teachers can use as a writing prompt for students. This site displays historical images and is excellent for those brainstorming questions such as: who, what, why, when, etc.

I highly recommend this site to get the creative juices flowing for exploring pictures and building writing comprehension skills. Click here for more info.



For another more detailed review check out Alexandra Francisco's excellent blog.

Best of the Web V. VI

Best of the Web V. VI is now online and available as a free resource to whoever can use it. This slide show is a collection sites/applications for "techies".

Best of the Web V. VI

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VidMe

VidMe is a site I learned about from Richard Byrne's excellent blog, that is ideal for sharing videos w/ anyone. The reason for this is VidMe lets users share any video privately by controlling who sees what, and who can download what. This would be ideal for education especially when having to worry about CIPA compliance.



Give VidMe a try by clicking here!!

Bounce

Bounce is a site similar to the app Little Snapper for grabbing screen shots, commenting, and then sharing them w/ others.



Click here to give Bounce a try.

Thanks to Free Technology 4 Teachers for the heads up.

Stroome

Stroome is a site I just learned about from Larry Ferlazzo's wonderful blog. Stroome is an online video editor simiar to iMovie or Jaycut. This is an excellent site that lets a user upload and edit, video, images, or audio. As w/ most video editors clips can be edited and transitions/effects can be added.



I highly recommend checking out Stroome by clicking here!!

Aviary Education

Aviary just released an educational instance for their online tools. This is great when wanting to create a safe/private area for students to work in. Aviary has an excellent suite of tools for allowing students to create/edit, music (Roc), audio (Myna) , images, etc. It kind of reminds me of an online version of Apple's iLife suite.



Click here to request a beta invite for this great online application!!

Thanks to iLearn Technology for alerting me to this wonderful site.

MeeGenuis

MeeGenuis is a great site for younger students that will either read a book to student while highlighting the text or can be personalized to change the story up (similar in the way mad libs work). There is quite a collection of children books on here for teachers to like.

I highly recommend checking out MeeGenuis especially those in the K-2 age group.

Thanks to Zarco English for the tip!!