Shelfari’s members can see what books are popular in their trusted circles of friends. They can influence peers by rating and discussing books online. They can participate in online book groups to further explore literature and share ideas. Moreover they can interact with and learn from authors
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Virtual Bookshelves
Do you want your kids to build virtual bookshelves to express themselves to their friends and to the world. Do you want them to discover and learn from people with similar reading tastes? Shelfari introduces readers to the global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and the whole world. Shelfari is a gathering place for authors, aspiring authors, publishers, and readers, and has many tools and features to help groups connect with each other in a fun and engaging way.
Shelfari’s members can see what books are popular in their trusted circles of friends. They can influence peers by rating and discussing books online. They can participate in online book groups to further explore literature and share ideas. Moreover they can interact with and learn from authors
Shelfari’s members can see what books are popular in their trusted circles of friends. They can influence peers by rating and discussing books online. They can participate in online book groups to further explore literature and share ideas. Moreover they can interact with and learn from authors
Voice Conferencing
If you are looking for a tool for voice conferencing try BigBlueButton which enables universities and colleges to deliver a high quality learning experience to remote students. The Web Participants window lets you see all the users logged into the current session. Any user can raise their hand to get the attention of the presenter.The Voice window shows all the users that are currently connected to the voice conference bridge, either by calling in directly or using the built-in voice over IP client. You can also eject participants from the voice conference by clicking on their name and then clicking the eject button.
There are three user roles in BigBlueButton: viewer, presenter, and moderator. The viewer who are the students have no authority within the conference; their primary role is to view the presentation as well as chat amongst other participants. The presenter has all the same capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading slide presentations, and sharing their desktop. The presenter can share their video by clicking the Start Camera icon. The moderator has all the capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop.
There are three user roles in BigBlueButton: viewer, presenter, and moderator. The viewer who are the students have no authority within the conference; their primary role is to view the presentation as well as chat amongst other participants. The presenter has all the same capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading slide presentations, and sharing their desktop. The presenter can share their video by clicking the Start Camera icon. The moderator has all the capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop.
eBook Lending and Borrowing
When your kids read for enjoyment they not only expand their vocabularies but also learn more about the world. By reading how characters responds to situations they gain more insights on how certain situation appear to other people with other point of view. So if you want to encourage your kids reading you can let them try ebookfling.
With ebookfling, they can swap unlimited ebooks with thousands of readers nationwide. They can choose from the hottest New York Times Bestsellers, timeless classics and even rare, eclectic titles, textbooks and tech manuals. They can list any eBook they own, they can send to the requesting borrower and earn credits for each successful fling, they can spend one credit to borrow any book which you can read for 14 days after that the eBook dissapears and return to the owner. Even if they don't own one they can borrow for $1.99.
Online Group Communication Tool
Whether you are a youth fellowship organizer, a girl scout or boy scout troop leader, a sport's coach or a PTA leader, Qlubb, a web-based group utility will help you connect easily, share and get stuff done. With Qlubb's online sign-up sheets and self manged rosters, you can involve more parents, coordinate volunteer efforts for school events like Field Day as a PTA leader; or schedule practices as a sports coach. As a youth fellowship leader you can organize weekly meetings and special events with Qlubb's task reminders and online RSVP. As a girl scout and boyscout troop leaders you can use Qlubb to organize overnight camps and outings.
Qlubb provides an easy to use private and secure website that anyone in the group, including members with limited technical skills can immediately participate. Even though any member can easily edit pages, only members with the right password can participate so your messages, photos, content are all safe and secure. What's more the public page only lists item (events, photos, members, etc.) that are marked as public. Members can help keep the public site fresh and alive with new content. All members can oversee the content of the site to ensure appropriate information is being made public. Qlubb's easy to use event-based group calendar supports ongoing, one-time and recurring events such as basketball or foot ball practice, girl scout or boy scout outings. With its automatic event and task reminders every member of the group knows what's going on. Since event details can be modified by any member, someone may add items on what to bring while another may provide information on the agenda while another user might provide directions.
With Qlubb's shared to do list and sign up sheets, division of labor among the group is easy as any member can easily create, modify, assign a signup sheet of tasks. Members can sign up for task items during their preferred times and they don’t need to go to a physical location to sign up.Moreover, anyone with an assigned task will receive friendly reminders for the event an task. What's more with Qlubb's self manged roster, the member list is self-updating that members are automatically added when they log in for the first time. Member profile information is not required.
Qlubb has automatic task and event reminders. Task and event reminders are sent to members via email (if desired).You can customized when reminders are sent such as the day or week before an even. Reminders can also be sent only to members such as people who have RSVP’d or who have task assignments. Events can optionally have an invitation sent and RSVP’s tracked. When creating an event, the event planner can opt to send out an invitation to everybody in the group. There is an up-to-the-minute guest count totals
On top of that, Qlubb offers photosharing with slideshows so members can share photos by event or by general group as well as comment on individual and/or event photos. Qlubb also offers up to 50 MB free space for file sharing. Anyone in the Qlubb group can download and upload files like fundraising flyer or permission slip. Files can be attached to events and specific dates for easy access so no need to search through a long list of files. With Qlubb your group would also have a secured group e-mail with no spam since only members can send/receive emails.
Qlubb brings all aspects of group interaction to one simple and intuitive place. With event calendaring, sign-up sheets, photo sharing, member rosters, file sharing, task reminder service, and bulletin boards, Qlubb provides all the functions needed to easily and actively participate within a group.
Qlubb provides an easy to use private and secure website that anyone in the group, including members with limited technical skills can immediately participate. Even though any member can easily edit pages, only members with the right password can participate so your messages, photos, content are all safe and secure. What's more the public page only lists item (events, photos, members, etc.) that are marked as public. Members can help keep the public site fresh and alive with new content. All members can oversee the content of the site to ensure appropriate information is being made public. Qlubb's easy to use event-based group calendar supports ongoing, one-time and recurring events such as basketball or foot ball practice, girl scout or boy scout outings. With its automatic event and task reminders every member of the group knows what's going on. Since event details can be modified by any member, someone may add items on what to bring while another may provide information on the agenda while another user might provide directions.
With Qlubb's shared to do list and sign up sheets, division of labor among the group is easy as any member can easily create, modify, assign a signup sheet of tasks. Members can sign up for task items during their preferred times and they don’t need to go to a physical location to sign up.Moreover, anyone with an assigned task will receive friendly reminders for the event an task. What's more with Qlubb's self manged roster, the member list is self-updating that members are automatically added when they log in for the first time. Member profile information is not required.
Qlubb has automatic task and event reminders. Task and event reminders are sent to members via email (if desired).You can customized when reminders are sent such as the day or week before an even. Reminders can also be sent only to members such as people who have RSVP’d or who have task assignments. Events can optionally have an invitation sent and RSVP’s tracked. When creating an event, the event planner can opt to send out an invitation to everybody in the group. There is an up-to-the-minute guest count totals
On top of that, Qlubb offers photosharing with slideshows so members can share photos by event or by general group as well as comment on individual and/or event photos. Qlubb also offers up to 50 MB free space for file sharing. Anyone in the Qlubb group can download and upload files like fundraising flyer or permission slip. Files can be attached to events and specific dates for easy access so no need to search through a long list of files. With Qlubb your group would also have a secured group e-mail with no spam since only members can send/receive emails.
Qlubb brings all aspects of group interaction to one simple and intuitive place. With event calendaring, sign-up sheets, photo sharing, member rosters, file sharing, task reminder service, and bulletin boards, Qlubb provides all the functions needed to easily and actively participate within a group.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Impervious iPod Speaker Case
Are you worried that your kid would accidentally drop his expensive iPod and that would be the end of it? Do you want to protect your teen's iPod from water, dust, and crushing forces? Why not give him the Impervious iPod Speaker Case? The sturdy case protects an any-generation iPod while providing clear audio from its built-in speaker. It is constructed from polycarbonate covered with a shock-absorbing rubber shell on all four sides and corners. The case closes using two locking latches that keep both halves shut (and the o-ring sealed tight), making it 100% waterproof, even after being dropped or knocked. Its full-range, forward-firing 3-watt speaker provides crisp sound; with external volume control, good enough for use poolside, at the beach, or camping. An internal pouch secures an iPod; a built-in audio cable connects an iPod to the speaker inside the case. It remains fully buoyant up to its maximum load of 8 oz., so it can hold keys, credit cards, and IDs in addition to an iPod or any other MP3 player or smartphone. You need to buy three AA batteries which power the speaker for up to 30 hours.
The iPad Speaker Case
Do you want to protect your kid's iPad from dirt or such things? Do you think your teen will appreciate a extra speaker for his iPad? Try the iPad Speaker Case.
It has two built-in speakers that generate fuller, richer sound than the iPad's single speaker. The case's dual flat panel speakers face the user, projecting more direct tones than the iPad's side-mounted speaker. The case converts into a stand that holds an iPad in landscape orientation and it tilts to six different angles to provide optimal positioning for typing or watching a movie. The sleeve is made from durable synthetic leather that helps protect an iPad during travel while providing access to the headphone input, 30-pin connector, and volume buttons. The speaker case connects to an iPad with the included audio cable and all sound and playback commands are accessed using the iPad. Provides up to six hours of playback after a three-hour charge through the included USB cable.
The iPhone Slide Out Keyboard
Running out of gift ideas for your teen? If your kid already have the latest tech gadgets, why not consider giving him accessories for them. One such thing is the iPhone Slide Out Keyboard.
It is the iPhone case with a slide-out keyboard that provides more tactile typing than the iPhone's touchscreen. The physical keyboard pairs with the iPhone in seconds via Bluetooth and prevents the virtual keypad from appearing, doubling the size of the viewable screen. The landscape oriented QWERTY keyboard has a full row of numeric keys, arrow keys, and buttons that control the iPhone's Spotlight and home screen functions. The hard plastic case has a streamlined design that ensures it will remain unobtrusive in a pocket or in a hand and it leaves the camera lens, volume and power buttons, and access ports uncovered for instant accessibility. The keyboard's rechargeable battery lasts up to 45 days after a four-hour charge using the included USB cable.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Reading Level Calculator
Matching the appropriate books to students reading level is very important so kids or students experience success, rather than frustration. A struggling reader would likely read more for pleasure if the reading material is at the right level of difficulty. The more someone reads the better he will be at the task.
Sometimes you come across an interesting reading material that you think is worthy to be shared with your kids or students. However sometimes the readability level is not indicated. Do you want to know if the readability of a certain reading material suits the reading level of your kids or students? Try Readability index calculator Paste your sample text in the box. A longer text provides a more accurate measurement. Select measurement method and click 'calculate score' to see the score for your text. The result is displayed below the form.
Sometimes you come across an interesting reading material that you think is worthy to be shared with your kids or students. However sometimes the readability level is not indicated. Do you want to know if the readability of a certain reading material suits the reading level of your kids or students? Try Readability index calculator Paste your sample text in the box. A longer text provides a more accurate measurement. Select measurement method and click 'calculate score' to see the score for your text. The result is displayed below the form.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Education Management System
Are you looking for a free course and learning management system to manage your classes, coursework, grades and communications from a single location? Try RCampus. It's quick to setup, easy to use, secure and includes a number of high-quality, fully-integrated tools such as faculty and student websites and ePortfolios, learning modules and rubrics. that you can access anywhere, anytime.
With RCampus, you can build multiple free ePortfolios to track and showcase your work. Create learning portfolios for reflective assignments, teacher-student engagement, evaluation of SLOs, peer-review, authentic assessments and more. You can also create career ePortfolios that you can keep years after schools.
In addition, with RCampus, you can use rubrics to communicate expectations with students and to standardize assessment. The free rubrics building and assessment tool helps you build simple to complex rubrics effortlessly. What's more, the Click2GradeTM technology helps you grade students directly from the gradebook with just a few mouse clicks. Scores are calculated automatically and communicated with students in great details.
Moreover, with RCampus, you can build a complete, multi-page free website for yourself, your club or your academic group. All websites are packed with tools for online publishing, communication and collaboration, organization of content, and member management.
If your a student who needs academic help you can use RCampus, to find a tutor in your local area. If you're a teacher who is looking for a part-time job for additional income, you can post your profile as a tutor for free.
If you are a student and your school does not have a book exchange program, with RCampus, you can also buy used textbooks directly from other students or post your used books at The Book Exchange Network (TBXN). There are no fees or commissions.
RCampus is a comprehensive Education Management System and a collaborative learning environment. If you're an educator, student and academic group you can use RCampus for free to do all your school-related work from building personal and group websites to managing your courses, ePortfolios, academic communities, and much more.
With RCampus, you can build multiple free ePortfolios to track and showcase your work. Create learning portfolios for reflective assignments, teacher-student engagement, evaluation of SLOs, peer-review, authentic assessments and more. You can also create career ePortfolios that you can keep years after schools.
In addition, with RCampus, you can use rubrics to communicate expectations with students and to standardize assessment. The free rubrics building and assessment tool helps you build simple to complex rubrics effortlessly. What's more, the Click2GradeTM technology helps you grade students directly from the gradebook with just a few mouse clicks. Scores are calculated automatically and communicated with students in great details.
Moreover, with RCampus, you can build a complete, multi-page free website for yourself, your club or your academic group. All websites are packed with tools for online publishing, communication and collaboration, organization of content, and member management.
If your a student who needs academic help you can use RCampus, to find a tutor in your local area. If you're a teacher who is looking for a part-time job for additional income, you can post your profile as a tutor for free.
If you are a student and your school does not have a book exchange program, with RCampus, you can also buy used textbooks directly from other students or post your used books at The Book Exchange Network (TBXN). There are no fees or commissions.
RCampus is a comprehensive Education Management System and a collaborative learning environment. If you're an educator, student and academic group you can use RCampus for free to do all your school-related work from building personal and group websites to managing your courses, ePortfolios, academic communities, and much more.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Online Reservation for Fine Dining
Do you like bringing your kids to other countries during school break? Want to expose them to other culture through fine dining? If you want to save time, instead of calling every restaurant in town to make a reservation when your command of the local language is limited why not try the OpenTable, a real-time online reservation network for fine dining. With OpenTable, you can make online reservations at 20,000 restaurants around the world, read restaurant reviews from diners, and earn points towards free meals. Awesome!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Online Gradebook
Want to lessen the paper you carry around from work to home and vice versa. Try Engrade, a free online gradebook for teachers including a free online grade book, free homework calendar, free student messaging, free attendance, and more.
As a class management system, Engrade allows you to build Wikis or Lessons. With the Gradebook, you can create your custom grading scale then easily enter student scores just like a spread sheet. With the homework calendar, you can easily post assignments, events, reminders, and lessons online. What's more you can engage students in online discussions and quickly answer homework questions. You can save time by giving students online quizzes that are automatically graded in your gradebook. As the admin you can instantly see student grades and attendance anywhere anytime, identifying the at risk students easier for you. Since you can also safely and privately message students and parents in a SPAM-free environment you can inform students and parents that they need more help, or they need to step-up. And since students and their parents can log-in 24/7 no more arguing with parents that it was a mistake, they can see for themselves their up-to-the-minute grades and information. You can choose the multiple choice or matching type of flash cards if you want to make remedial lessons using the online Flashcards that at-risk students can study either in class or at home.
iGradePlus offers a free subscription online gradebook to teachers. It provides teachers grade management, custom assignment categories, custom assessment categories among others. It allows teachers to record each student's score for each assignment. The class gradebook can be divided into multiple grading periods for the year and students' grades can be reported for individual assignments, for assignment categories, for grading periods and for the entire year.
MyGradesLite (free for iPhones or iPod touch) is a grades management app for students. With MyGradesLite students can keep tracks of their grades quickly. It calculates and displays grades for individual assignments as well as the average grade for each course.
As a class management system, Engrade allows you to build Wikis or Lessons. With the Gradebook, you can create your custom grading scale then easily enter student scores just like a spread sheet. With the homework calendar, you can easily post assignments, events, reminders, and lessons online. What's more you can engage students in online discussions and quickly answer homework questions. You can save time by giving students online quizzes that are automatically graded in your gradebook. As the admin you can instantly see student grades and attendance anywhere anytime, identifying the at risk students easier for you. Since you can also safely and privately message students and parents in a SPAM-free environment you can inform students and parents that they need more help, or they need to step-up. And since students and their parents can log-in 24/7 no more arguing with parents that it was a mistake, they can see for themselves their up-to-the-minute grades and information. You can choose the multiple choice or matching type of flash cards if you want to make remedial lessons using the online Flashcards that at-risk students can study either in class or at home.
iGradePlus offers a free subscription online gradebook to teachers. It provides teachers grade management, custom assignment categories, custom assessment categories among others. It allows teachers to record each student's score for each assignment. The class gradebook can be divided into multiple grading periods for the year and students' grades can be reported for individual assignments, for assignment categories, for grading periods and for the entire year.
MyGradesLite (free for iPhones or iPod touch) is a grades management app for students. With MyGradesLite students can keep tracks of their grades quickly. It calculates and displays grades for individual assignments as well as the average grade for each course.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Online Sign Up Sheets
If you are a parent who have lots of friends with children almost the same age group as yours, or your little darling is already in day care or preschool, you probably don't need to join Meetup to arrange play dates for him. You can use SignApp Now, a simple and easy way to create sign up sheets to organize play dates and birthday parties.With SignApp Now, you don't need to register just create a sign up sheet and email its unique link (URL) to everyone you'd like to sign up. They just need to visit the link and sign up. They don't need to register either.
If you're a teacher, you can also use SignApp Now for school club and groups if you are the after school teacher who organize these things or if you're the resource teacher you can use the online sign up sheet for professional development's training or seminars.
If you're a teacher, you can also use SignApp Now for school club and groups if you are the after school teacher who organize these things or if you're the resource teacher you can use the online sign up sheet for professional development's training or seminars.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Zip Code Lookup
Sometimes sending a surprise gift to family and friends can be a hazzle if you don't know the zip code. The U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup will get your package to its destination as long as you already know the city where you're sending it to.
Access online tools to verify addresses, calculate postage, and more.
PDF Reference Manual Search Engine
Are you trying to look for an eBook, or is your child trying to find an academic document for a presentation or research paper? Try Pdfgeni.com, a search engine for free PDF eBook and PDF manual for Business, Education,Finance, Inspirational, Novel, Religion, Social, Sports, Science, Technology, Holiday, Medical. No need to go into the attic or go through the boxes in your basement just go to Pdfgeni.com to look for the technical manual that you can't find anymore.
Progress Monitoring
With the budget crisis, school budgets are shrinking. But although schools have limited resources; teachers still need to be able to identify students for additional instructional supports and monitor the effectiveness of those supports regularly, making adjustments as needed. The following is a list of tools that schools can use to monitor students' progress.
easyCBM The regular easyCBM progress monitoring assessment system is available for free, for teachers to use world-wide.The easyCBM system has been engineered to provide high quality student progress monitoring while at the same time reducing teacher workload.The math assessments available on easyCBM are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Point Standards in Mathematics. In each grade, K - 8, you'll find a total of 30 progress monitoring measures: 10 aligned to each of the 3 main Focal Point standards for each grade level. However the teacher needs to create an account. After that Reading measures can be taken offline or online. Math measures can only be taken online. Security is not set very well, so you need to use pseudo names for your students to protect their privacy.
Curriculum Based Measurement for Early Literacy This site contains curriculum-based materials developed for the project (Letter Sound Fluency; Oral Reading Fluency) and includes normative data, examiner materials, and student materials.
Reading Center Progress Monitoring This site contains many resources for monitoring student progress in reading.
easyCBM The regular easyCBM progress monitoring assessment system is available for free, for teachers to use world-wide.The easyCBM system has been engineered to provide high quality student progress monitoring while at the same time reducing teacher workload.The math assessments available on easyCBM are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Point Standards in Mathematics. In each grade, K - 8, you'll find a total of 30 progress monitoring measures: 10 aligned to each of the 3 main Focal Point standards for each grade level. However the teacher needs to create an account. After that Reading measures can be taken offline or online. Math measures can only be taken online. Security is not set very well, so you need to use pseudo names for your students to protect their privacy.
Curriculum Based Measurement for Early Literacy This site contains curriculum-based materials developed for the project (Letter Sound Fluency; Oral Reading Fluency) and includes normative data, examiner materials, and student materials.
Reading Center Progress Monitoring This site contains many resources for monitoring student progress in reading.
Cheapest Local Gas Finder
Does the soaring gas prices affect your family budget, the number of times you take your kids out or the length of and frequency of family road trips? Then maybe you will be interested where you can find cheap gas prices so instead of just pulling into the closest service station you can go to the gas station that cost you less. Sometimes a small difference adds up.Try GasBuddy which lets you search for Gas Prices by city, state, zip code, with listings for all cities in the USA and Canada. Since GasBuddy is a community of users working together to update gas prices, for every gas price you reported, you’ll earn points towards prize give-away.
You can even have the GasBuddy App for your phone.
Video Editing
Do you chronicle your children's childhood through videos? Sometimes those perfect moments don't appear perfect in video, the background is not so perfect or there are unwanted noise in the background. If you're into family home movies, then try Pixorial, a free video sharing service making it easy to send, upload, edit, organize and share your videos. Whether your video was captured on your phone, web cam, film, digital or analog media, Pixorial’s web-based editing tools make it easy to trim, add titles, transitions and more to your video creations. you can broadcast your videos to several places – Facebook, your blog, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter and YouTube with just one click. You can also send your videos via email or DVD. With, Pixorial you can spend your time creating more fond memories, not editing them.
If you use vodcasting for your students, or produce video presentations of lessons, Pixorial is a great editing tool.
If you use vodcasting for your students, or produce video presentations of lessons, Pixorial is a great editing tool.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Video and Audio Streaming
Are you using podcasting to reproduce lessons for absent students or as a medium for students to present oral reports and assignments? Or do you podcasting to present school news as an alternative to student produced newspapers? Then you will love Livecage, a social networking website that allows video conferencing; broadcasting live video and audio content; posting video and audio on demand, pictures.
Livecage allows free video and audio streaming. The free online video conferencing enables up to 10 users to communicate from all over the world and up to 5 users for audio conferencing.
If you're a first time parent who likes sharing your baby's milestone, precious moments and funny videos to the equally excited grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends who dream of having children of their own or who also have children, wherever you happen to be, in the playground, in the park, museum, etc, then you might want to try Qik, a video sharing service, that lets you record and share the experience with your friends, family and your favorite social networks. Aside from the mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows you to stream live video from your cellphone to the internet, Qik gives you on the go with 2-way live Video Chats.
Livecage allows free video and audio streaming. The free online video conferencing enables up to 10 users to communicate from all over the world and up to 5 users for audio conferencing.
If you're a first time parent who likes sharing your baby's milestone, precious moments and funny videos to the equally excited grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends who dream of having children of their own or who also have children, wherever you happen to be, in the playground, in the park, museum, etc, then you might want to try Qik, a video sharing service, that lets you record and share the experience with your friends, family and your favorite social networks. Aside from the mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows you to stream live video from your cellphone to the internet, Qik gives you on the go with 2-way live Video Chats.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Online Binders
If you are a teacher LiveBinders will give you a great digital portfolio. With LiveBinders you can collect and organize your materials for a lesson or a theme. When your using an actual binder you are limited to the worksheets that you put inside the acetate sheets, but with LiveBinders, your 3-ring binder for the Web, you can have web pages, videos, pdf and images, so it is a more complete collection in just one place. Thus, you can share your digital binder easily. Using an online binder, you can use your limited storage space in the classroom for supplies and other stuff you don't want lying around. No need to cart heavy binders when your principal assign you to a different classroom for the next school year. What's more no need to worry that your co-teacher might forget to return your master copy of the worksheets you're sharing.
As a mother, you can use LiveBinders to collect and share recipes to other family members or other parents if you like cooking. If you like bringing your kids to different places during school vacation you can help them organize different travel digital portfolio where they can organize the pictures, videos and map of the places they have been. then guide them how to share them with their grandparents, aunts, and cousins.
As a mother, you can use LiveBinders to collect and share recipes to other family members or other parents if you like cooking. If you like bringing your kids to different places during school vacation you can help them organize different travel digital portfolio where they can organize the pictures, videos and map of the places they have been. then guide them how to share them with their grandparents, aunts, and cousins.
Weather Reports
If you are concerned about your kids staying healthy, why not check the Weather Underground's Health Maps where you can check Air Quality, UV Index, and Flu maps. If you and your kids are into surfing and sailing you can check Marine Weather information on tides and waves from buoy data. By looking at the Severe Weather maps you can check if severe warnings and alerts are in your area, from regions under tornado warnings to areas of increased fire danger.You can also have satellite images of national and local cloud cover through the Satellite map.
Weather Underground provides weather information for worldwide locations, including current conditions, hourly forecasts, radar and satellite maps. So if you have a brother or other family members in a different part of the world just type in country in the Search box and you will have weather conditions by area in that country. If you want to dig deeper you can always click the city or area to see more like air pressure humidity, chance of precipitation and such things.
Weather Underground provides weather information for worldwide locations, including current conditions, hourly forecasts, radar and satellite maps. So if you have a brother or other family members in a different part of the world just type in country in the Search box and you will have weather conditions by area in that country. If you want to dig deeper you can always click the city or area to see more like air pressure humidity, chance of precipitation and such things.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Online Organizer
If your high school or college kid needs a little help in time management or has such a lot of extra curricular activities that he needs reminders on which paper is due, or when test are coming, Soshiku might be a useful tool for him. With Soshiku he will be able to keep track when his assignments are due since he get notified through email and/or text messaging when there's an upcoming assignment so he won't be caught unaware and unprepared for quizzes, test or project deadlines. He can also save notes, manage tasks, attach files with Soshiku, keeping his work in one place. Moreover, with Soshiku he can partner up with friends to collaborate, send messages, assign tasks, and share files.
Everyone needs to do their best of course but sometimes one's best is not good enough. If your child needs to remember exam results to aside from his to do lists, so he knows where to concentrate his efforts when there are multiple deadlines or test schedules, mySchoolog might prove valuable. mySchoolog is an online application where he can organize everything about his school life (to-dos, notes, grades, files and more). What's more he doesn't don't need to install mySchoolog, He can access your data everywhere, everytime. It's too easy from home, school and everywhere.
For a teacher or a busy Mom try Teuxdeux, a simple free, browser based to do app that syncs with its iPhone App when on the go. You can see tasks for the day and what you need to accomplish for the whole week. Aside from the week overview you can jump to a date in the future as well. With Teuxdeux you can check off, delete, or move tasks, edit existing tasks, as well as have automatic rollover of unchecked tasks. Tasks with no specific due date remain in a Someday bucket, so you can postpone some tasks without forgetting about them.
If you want to have whatever ideas and information you save to remember automatically categorized, Springpad will be very useful. With Springpad, you can take a note, create a task, and easily create shopping and packing lists, scan a product barcode and look up the book your friend mentioned. You can also share your stuff, set reminders and get alerts to relevant news, offers and deals. Aside from that, you can also save anything you want to remember on your phone or computer. Not only is everything you save automatically synced across your mobile devices and any browser, but Springpad also automatically add useful information and relevant offers, from reviews and price drops, product availability, deals of the day, news, to showtimes and reservations, useful links and other relevant offers for the things that matter to you. If you add the bookmarklet or install the Chrome extension, you can instantly save information you want to remember without leaving the site you're browsing
If your an elementary teacher and you want to make edible earth, or edible aquarium or edible garden soil for Earth Day with your students, link to the recipe so it will be save to your Springpad recipe collection, then when your ready to buy the ingredients click add to shopping list and all the ingredients will appear in your shopping list. Since the cost of the ingredients will be an out of pocket expense for you anyway why not use Springpad to look for coupons in the local supermarket near you.
When you're out, you can scan barcodes with the mobile apps; and Springpad willl identify what you're saving and enhance it with additional information If you come across something you want to look up later; just take a quick photo to save it to Springpad
Everyone needs to do their best of course but sometimes one's best is not good enough. If your child needs to remember exam results to aside from his to do lists, so he knows where to concentrate his efforts when there are multiple deadlines or test schedules, mySchoolog might prove valuable. mySchoolog is an online application where he can organize everything about his school life (to-dos, notes, grades, files and more). What's more he doesn't don't need to install mySchoolog, He can access your data everywhere, everytime. It's too easy from home, school and everywhere.
For a teacher or a busy Mom try Teuxdeux, a simple free, browser based to do app that syncs with its iPhone App when on the go. You can see tasks for the day and what you need to accomplish for the whole week. Aside from the week overview you can jump to a date in the future as well. With Teuxdeux you can check off, delete, or move tasks, edit existing tasks, as well as have automatic rollover of unchecked tasks. Tasks with no specific due date remain in a Someday bucket, so you can postpone some tasks without forgetting about them.
If you want to have whatever ideas and information you save to remember automatically categorized, Springpad will be very useful. With Springpad, you can take a note, create a task, and easily create shopping and packing lists, scan a product barcode and look up the book your friend mentioned. You can also share your stuff, set reminders and get alerts to relevant news, offers and deals. Aside from that, you can also save anything you want to remember on your phone or computer. Not only is everything you save automatically synced across your mobile devices and any browser, but Springpad also automatically add useful information and relevant offers, from reviews and price drops, product availability, deals of the day, news, to showtimes and reservations, useful links and other relevant offers for the things that matter to you. If you add the bookmarklet or install the Chrome extension, you can instantly save information you want to remember without leaving the site you're browsing
If your an elementary teacher and you want to make edible earth, or edible aquarium or edible garden soil for Earth Day with your students, link to the recipe so it will be save to your Springpad recipe collection, then when your ready to buy the ingredients click add to shopping list and all the ingredients will appear in your shopping list. Since the cost of the ingredients will be an out of pocket expense for you anyway why not use Springpad to look for coupons in the local supermarket near you.
When you're out, you can scan barcodes with the mobile apps; and Springpad willl identify what you're saving and enhance it with additional information If you come across something you want to look up later; just take a quick photo to save it to Springpad
Video Sharing Websites
If you are looking for school friendly sites where students and teachers can share video online, the following websites will be helpful.
SchoolTube is a website dedicated to student video and media sharing for entertainment and classroom use. Videos on SchoolTube have been viewed by an approved moderator or SchoolTube staff member to ensure that they are "school friendly". Students and teachers can create their own SchoolTube Channel. Teachers can set up a channel to reflect their classroom, club, team or broadcast program. Students can set up a channel to keep track of their favorite videos and videos they have uploaded. Teachers and students can browse through the categories and channels or search by topic to find videos relevant to the lesson.
TeacherTube is a video sharing website designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training.
If you're a Mom who always have a cellphone ready or a video camera ready and follow your little darling and snap unforgettable moments or create videos of your little one often you can share them through Vimeo, a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. You can also use Vimeo, if your kid loves singing, you can create a music videos of him, you never know you might have a star in the making.
SchoolTube is a website dedicated to student video and media sharing for entertainment and classroom use. Videos on SchoolTube have been viewed by an approved moderator or SchoolTube staff member to ensure that they are "school friendly". Students and teachers can create their own SchoolTube Channel. Teachers can set up a channel to reflect their classroom, club, team or broadcast program. Students can set up a channel to keep track of their favorite videos and videos they have uploaded. Teachers and students can browse through the categories and channels or search by topic to find videos relevant to the lesson.
TeacherTube is a video sharing website designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed to aid teacher training.
If you're a Mom who always have a cellphone ready or a video camera ready and follow your little darling and snap unforgettable moments or create videos of your little one often you can share them through Vimeo, a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. You can also use Vimeo, if your kid loves singing, you can create a music videos of him, you never know you might have a star in the making.
Video Conferencing
If you are doing online teaching jobs or virtual tutoring, or virtual remediation session,video conferencing can be a great tool since it allows interaction between the you and your remote online students. It facilitates teaching and lets you interact with students located anywhere in the world.With video conferencing you can be available during lessons to your students so there are teacher student interactions taking place.
If you are looking for a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share, why not try Yugma? It offers interactive free web conferencing, online meetings and web collaboration services for Mac, Windows and Linux. Yugma is a web app that brings together desktop sharing, and web conferencing, instead of having to upload or email a file to the other people, you can just pull it up on your own desktop and show it to them. You have to use it with Skype though if you want a better audio.
If you are looking for a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share, why not try Yugma? It offers interactive free web conferencing, online meetings and web collaboration services for Mac, Windows and Linux. Yugma is a web app that brings together desktop sharing, and web conferencing, instead of having to upload or email a file to the other people, you can just pull it up on your own desktop and show it to them. You have to use it with Skype though if you want a better audio.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Rubrics Creator
Do you want to give your student a working guide in which to create and subsequently edit their work? Do you want to give them something to think about as to how their work will be evaluated? Want to make exemplary rubrics in a short amount of time? Try RubiStar! Once you registered you can save and edit rubrics online. You can access them from home, school, or on the road. What's more, registration and use of this tool is free.
Essay Writing Tool
If you want to help students in grades 5-12 write an online persuasive essay, use PersuadeStar, a free online application where aside from being able to assign an essay to your students you can also choose options such as an essay planning tool, student spelling feedback for them to use.
However, students must have a assignment code to use PersuadeStar to write and view their essays. This ensures that their work is available for you. You can give the code to your students after the assignment code is given to you when your create an assignment. This enables the students to properly register and start using PersuadeStar.
Student papers are only kept online for one month after the last modification. However students can download their work to a school or personal computer if they need to be saved for a longer time.
Electronic Dictionary
Do you want the handheld electronic tome of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary ever published in any form, try the Only Unabridged Electronic Dictionary.
About the size of a mousepad, this electronic dictionary is and far easier to use than the 12 1/2-lb., 4-inch thick, 2,662-page source. No need for heavy lifting or such thing! This complete reference includes words that you won't find in lesser electronic dictionaries with limited vocabularies. Patented phonetic spell correction allows you to enter words on the 64-key QWERTY keyboard as they sound (for example, typing "nolij" displays "knowledge"), enabling easy lookup. The 4" W x 3" H screen shows clear definitions, comprehensive etymology, and helpful word usage. It also includes guides to punctuation and style, a thesaurus, word games, and a one-year subscription to the online version of the dictionary.
Research Tool
If you want students to do research a little easier why not encourage them to use NoteStar? As an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers, with NoteStar they can assign topics to their group members, create sub-topics for research topics, take notes, easily track source information, and organize notes and sources to create printable notes and bibliography. With this kind of help in preparing their bibliography page they can put more effort on the actual project itself.
As a project based learning research tool, you as a teacher can use NoteStar to create, assign, and manage projects, You can also check sources for authenticity, track each group's progress, send messages to students help students organize their notes.
As a project based learning research tool, you as a teacher can use NoteStar to create, assign, and manage projects, You can also check sources for authenticity, track each group's progress, send messages to students help students organize their notes.
Anonymous Surfing
Are you concern about advertisers tracking your kids internet activity? Why not let them surf the Web privately and securely, by using Proxify, a web-based anonymous proxy service which hides your IP address. The encrypted connection prevents monitoring of your network traffic. Through Proxify, you can use websites but they cannot uniquely identify or track you. Unlike other proxies, there is no software to install or complicated instructions to follow. Just visit Proxify with your Web browser and enter a URL (website address) in the form provided. Once using Proxify, you can surf normally and forget that it is there, protecting you. Proxify will fetch and then modify each webpage that you visit so that all resources in it (such as links, images, and form submissions) point back through Proxify. Proxify will also filter out unsafe and undesirable webpage components such as popups, banner advertisements, and malicious JavaScript code. In this way, you are kept anonymous from every website that you visit.
The less exposure your kids have to ads online the less they would ask you to buy things for them. There is enough of that by just having them around other kids anyway, when they oh so casually mention that their friends is having a new iPad or whatever is the rage and you're supposed to take the hint of buying them one.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Screen Capture
If you regularly produce tutorials on computer skills or on how to use a program you might want to try Jing, the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video, from your computer to anywhere. Jing is free software you can use to make a narrated video (if you have a microphone) showing how to do something on a computer. It records your mouse, and everything you click on and show on your screen.
If you're teaching your class how to produce their first video project, you can create the tutorial first during your prep time then upload it on your class website or save it in the class network. During class you can show the video that you've made and be able to walk around monitoring kids or offering assistance where needed. What's good about using a video tutorial in class is you can use the video you created instead of teaching the same thing again and again, making your life a little easier and using your time more efficiently.
You can also use Jing personally when having an online conversations with family members who lives too far away for a face to face interaction. Jing lets you add visuals to your online conversations. Jing captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it
If you're teaching your class how to produce their first video project, you can create the tutorial first during your prep time then upload it on your class website or save it in the class network. During class you can show the video that you've made and be able to walk around monitoring kids or offering assistance where needed. What's good about using a video tutorial in class is you can use the video you created instead of teaching the same thing again and again, making your life a little easier and using your time more efficiently.
You can also use Jing personally when having an online conversations with family members who lives too far away for a face to face interaction. Jing lets you add visuals to your online conversations. Jing captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it
Friday, March 11, 2011
Audio Editor
Are you looking for an audio editor to customize the sound effects or take out the unwanted sounds from your child's online photo album? Do you want to record live audio for your projects with your students? Why not try Audacity, a free, easy-to-use open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Not only will you be able to record live audio, but you will also be able to convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. You can edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. You can also cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together as well as change the speed or pitch of a recording.
The GPS Homing Device
Do you have problem remembering where you park your car? Are you tired of waking up your sleeping baby every time you hit the panic button on your car keys so that you would locate your car? Or are you so over the fact that everyone who's paying attention knows you can't find your car? Why not try the GPS Homing Device? This is the simplest portable GPS locating device available, ideal for finding your car after shopping or your hotel after a day of touring in an unfamiliar city. Simply push a button to mark your current location and the device points the way back. Half the size of a cell phone, the compact receiver fits easily on a keychain, in a pocket, or in a purse. Unlike typical GPS units that are highly complex, this one only has two buttons: one for switching your compass mode, another for setting up to three starting points. It uses an advanced GPS receiver chipset that provides a high degree of accuracy--within five yards--in urban canyons or heavily forested environments thanks to its superior Time To First Fix for locating and locking onto satellite signals. It counts down the distance (in yards, miles, meters, or kilometers) as you approach your starting point and its self-calibrating digital compass displays your heading in degrees and indicates direction with an easy-to-read arrow. A backlight button illuminates the display for easy reading in low light conditions. It also remembers your waypoints when powered off.
The Wireless Page To TV Magnifier
Does your genetics predisposed you and your kids to eye strain or vision problems? Maybe the
The Wireless Page To TV Magnifier.
might help you. As easy to use as a computer mouse, this device scans written materials and sends them wirelessly to your television set in real time, magnifying them up to 28X for easy viewing of fine print. The wireless magnifier's bright 655 x 488 pixel handheld scanner picks up every detail of a picture or every letter of a word and transfers data to its base station (that plugs into your TV using the included RCA video cable) up to 15' away which then sends it to your television screen with a bright, easy-to-read 2 1/4" x 1 1/2" field of view.
The Wireless Page To TV Magnifier.
Customized Online News
Everyone has their own interests so if you only want to read about news that matter to you, try Topicfire which not only filters the news and only shows the most popular breaking news in real-time but also allws you to choose categories of interest and then fills the page with fresh, relevant content. If you're not interested at celebrity news and fashion news why do you have to stare at them? Just click the "+ Add Topics" on the left side of the page then click the "Follow" button next to the topic you are interested in. You can even type inside the "Filter" box whatever news you are interested at. If you choose to add to your topic this way, once you clicked the "Done" button news about that topic will be added to your topics. You have to login with facebook to save or load your topics though but since you regularly check facebook anyway so what's the big deal?!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Communication and Collaboration Tools
If you are looking for voice communication, video communication and small group meetings say for a tutorial, collaborating with other class in another school, or even presenting to a class online try the following:
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. It is an internet telephone and video calling service with screen-sharing. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free.
Google Video Chat allows users who have gmail accounts to connect with voice and video chat. The google voice and video chat plugin need to be downloaded and installed. Then the users need to log-in to their gmail, after restarting the browser. As they mouse over their friends name, a menu should appear to the right of the mouse showing the other person's name and options of what the user can do with him (like email, chat, video&more) Once the user select "Start video Chat"., the other user should see a chat window pop up with a video and hear ringing sound. Once he press the "Answer" both user can see each other and video chat.
iChat Included with Mac OS X, iChat is a rich instant messaging application that works with AIM or MobileMe account and makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using text and video, whether they’re on a Mac or a PC.
DimDim s a web conferencing tool. Let's you deliver synchronised live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing voice and video over the Internet.
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. It is an internet telephone and video calling service with screen-sharing. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free.
Google Video Chat allows users who have gmail accounts to connect with voice and video chat. The google voice and video chat plugin need to be downloaded and installed. Then the users need to log-in to their gmail, after restarting the browser. As they mouse over their friends name, a menu should appear to the right of the mouse showing the other person's name and options of what the user can do with him (like email, chat, video&more) Once the user select "Start video Chat"., the other user should see a chat window pop up with a video and hear ringing sound. Once he press the "Answer" both user can see each other and video chat.
iChat Included with Mac OS X, iChat is a rich instant messaging application that works with AIM or MobileMe account and makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using text and video, whether they’re on a Mac or a PC.
DimDim s a web conferencing tool. Let's you deliver synchronised live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing voice and video over the Internet.
World News At A Glance
Do you have your students report world events to practice their expressive skills? Then why not have them stare at the world news headlines at a glance? It will calm those introverted students who are not so comfortable at speaking in front of a group. Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News. It is news aggregator.
If members of your family are in different parts of the world and you and your kids are interested about what's happening to the country where other family members are, this is a great site to know.
If members of your family are in different parts of the world and you and your kids are interested about what's happening to the country where other family members are, this is a great site to know.
Learning Software
Are you looking for a learning software that would make your lesson more interesting, Try the following:
GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA. The graphics, algebra and tables are connected and fully dynamic. It has eEasy-to-use interface, yet many powerful feature. Is is an authoring tool to create interactive learning materials as web page. It is available in many languages for millions of users around the world.
GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA. The graphics, algebra and tables are connected and fully dynamic. It has eEasy-to-use interface, yet many powerful feature. Is is an authoring tool to create interactive learning materials as web page. It is available in many languages for millions of users around the world.
Virtual Learning Environment
Are you looking for a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for your students? If you want a way to deliver content to students and assess learning using assignments or quizzes, why not try Moodle, a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company. Moodle not only give you the best tools to manage and promote learning, it can supplement face-to-face courses (known as blended learning) or give you a platform to conduct fully online courses. It can be used for hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist. As a user you can add a file, links, as well as add engage interaction or Articulate Quizmaker output as a Scorm package. You can also embed vooki, prezi, voice thread and flash videos to make your course more interesting or appealing to students.
If you want to see a preview of a moodle learning environment, here is an orientation for a Moodle course that I created for a class last summer. Everything is still a learning experience for me so I admit that the my course design skills still needs a lot of improvement but I know I'll get there.
Another virtual learning environment is Sakai a learning management system, research collaboration system and ePortfolio solution developed by a community of academic institutions, commercial organization and individuals who work together to create an open academic environment. Here is an orientation on a course in the Sakai Learning environment.
There is also Desire2Learn a Learning management system (LMS) enterprise solution for online learning, web-based eLearning open software for K-12 schools, colleges, universities and other organizations.
If you want to see a preview of a moodle learning environment, here is an orientation for a Moodle course that I created for a class last summer. Everything is still a learning experience for me so I admit that the my course design skills still needs a lot of improvement but I know I'll get there.
Another virtual learning environment is Sakai a learning management system, research collaboration system and ePortfolio solution developed by a community of academic institutions, commercial organization and individuals who work together to create an open academic environment. Here is an orientation on a course in the Sakai Learning environment.
If you're looking a commercial virtual learning environment try Blackboard, a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Blackboard Inc. I used it for online and blended learning classes as a student and it lets the user attached a file, or an image and add MPEG/AVI content, Quicktime content, audio content and Flash/Shockwave content
There is also Desire2Learn a Learning management system (LMS) enterprise solution for online learning, web-based eLearning open software for K-12 schools, colleges, universities and other organizations.
Puzzle Maker
Puzzles can offer a fun break from the normal class activities. Puzzles responds to the needs of those who have dominant spatial intelligence in the classroom.
Puzzlemaker is free puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents from Discovery Education. You can create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzle, and more using your own word list.
Puzzle Maker - Lesson Corner - allows teachers to find or create their own free custom word search, scramble or crossword puzzles.
Free Online Puzzle Maker is a free online puzzle maker of word search puzzle and crossword puzzle
Free Crossword Puzzle Maker - Free instant online crossword puzzle maker--quickly make crossword puzzles using your words!
Puzzlemaker is free puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents from Discovery Education. You can create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzle, and more using your own word list.
Puzzle Maker - Lesson Corner - allows teachers to find or create their own free custom word search, scramble or crossword puzzles.
Free Online Puzzle Maker is a free online puzzle maker of word search puzzle and crossword puzzle
Free Crossword Puzzle Maker - Free instant online crossword puzzle maker--quickly make crossword puzzles using your words!
Quiz Maker
There are tons of ready made printable and interactive quizzes in the web but sometimes you want to customized your own quizzes to cover the level of difficulty suited to your class. Sometimes the topic covered by the ready made quizzes is too much for your students that's why every now and then you have to create your own quizzes.
QuizStar is a free, online quiz maker that allows you to manage your classes, assign quizzes, and generate reports of quiz scores and student performance. Not only can you create quizzes in multiple languages but you can also attach multimedia files to questions letting you make your questions more easy to understood since attaching a video presentation to a question will elicit more quality reaction from students. Aside from allowing students to complete and review from any Internet-connected computer as well as gives you access to the quizzes and the robust Report tools from work or home
Quiz Center - a free Quiz maker from Discovery Education that gives you five quiz options, short answer, essay, multiple choice, true-false, mixed type
EasyTestMaker The easy way to make all your tests! EasyTestMaker is a FREE online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill inthe blanks, short answer, etc.
Quibblo offers free online quizzes. You can make your own quiz for your blog, take fun quizzes, create fun surveys, polls & personality quizzes. Here is an example of a simple interest practice quiz that I created using Quibblo.
Google docs offers free quiz template that you can modify to suit your assessment needs. Here is an example of a google docs form that I created for a simple interest lesson.
The results of the students entries will go to my Google docs spreadsheet Simple Interest Quiz as shown below.
I used Vertical Lookup (VLOOKUP) and absolute cell reference to get students score. To learn how to use Vertical Lookup visit 10 Useful Google Spreadsheet Formulas You Must Know by Antonio Lupetti.
QuizStar is a free, online quiz maker that allows you to manage your classes, assign quizzes, and generate reports of quiz scores and student performance. Not only can you create quizzes in multiple languages but you can also attach multimedia files to questions letting you make your questions more easy to understood since attaching a video presentation to a question will elicit more quality reaction from students. Aside from allowing students to complete and review from any Internet-connected computer as well as gives you access to the quizzes and the robust Report tools from work or home
Quiz Center - a free Quiz maker from Discovery Education that gives you five quiz options, short answer, essay, multiple choice, true-false, mixed type
EasyTestMaker The easy way to make all your tests! EasyTestMaker is a FREE online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill inthe blanks, short answer, etc.
Quibblo offers free online quizzes. You can make your own quiz for your blog, take fun quizzes, create fun surveys, polls & personality quizzes. Here is an example of a simple interest practice quiz that I created using Quibblo.
Google docs offers free quiz template that you can modify to suit your assessment needs. Here is an example of a google docs form that I created for a simple interest lesson.
The results of the students entries will go to my Google docs spreadsheet Simple Interest Quiz as shown below.
I used Vertical Lookup (VLOOKUP) and absolute cell reference to get students score. To learn how to use Vertical Lookup visit 10 Useful Google Spreadsheet Formulas You Must Know by Antonio Lupetti.
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