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GENERAL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES FOR ALL
FreeTech4Teachers - award winning blog - you can subscribe to updates through an RSS feed.

Common Craft - videos from a variety of topics: technology, green, money and society. These videos are simple, yet easy for studentsj (and adults) to understand.

Tony Vincent

Stumble Upon - Discover the best of the web....according to your preferences.

Pinterest - Pictures of just about anything/everything. Great way to waste a lot of time, finding a lot of neat ideas!!

BOOK INFORMATION
QR Codes for Book Trailers

List of Various Free eBook sources

Kent District Library - What's Next? - great resource for finding the next book in a series

TECHNOLOGY
Wall Wisher - Students can write on *sticky notes* and post on wall. Say more with less. Check understanding. Authentic display of information learned.

Wordle- From the Wordle website: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Hints: 1. Copy and paste from a word document. 2. A ~ between two words will keep those words together. 3. In the advanced mode putting a **:** and then a number behind the word will increase the size of the word in your Wordle word cloud.

Screenr - web based screen recorder. Click the record button, capture the screen and voice, then share!! Free and super easy!!

Xtranormal - Create avatar videos. Here's an example: Parent Teacher Conference

Glogster

Voki

sources to create fake Facebook profiles - Good for student creation of historical figures or biographies.

DOCUMENT STORAGE
Drop Box- drop files and pictures into drop box, download free smartphone app!!

LESSON PLANS
Thinkfinity- lesson plans and games on thousands of topics

Tildee - create, share or locate tutorials. Easy to use...

FREE EDUCATIONAL VIDEO SITES
Some sites might have quite a bit of advertising

Academic Earth.org

Bright Storm

EduTube.org

Free Science Lectures

Futures Channel

History.com

Khan Academy.org

Math a Tube

Next Vista.org

Pop Tech.org

Schools Tube

Science Tube

School Tube

Science Hack

Teachers Domain.org

Teacher Tube

Video Placement Worldwide

WatchKnow.org

You Tube EDU

Search Information

 * Using a search engine effectively **:

Narrow searches by placing filetype: after the topic being searched. The most common are:
 * filetype:pdf – results will be only pdf files
 * filetype:ppt – results will be only powerpoint presentations
 * filetype:doc – results will be only documents
 * filetype:xls – results will be only spreadsheets

**Boolean search** - use of either narrows or broadens your search by using the words: //**and, or**// and //**not**// - and (narrows search by combining terms and retrieving documents that contain those specific words. ex.: teenagers and sleep) - or (broadens search, useful when common misspellings occur ex.: liberal **or** democrat) and - not (narrows search by excluding certain terms. ex.: cancer **not** lung)

More on Boolean Searches

Note: not all search engines support Boolean search terms