beccablog, teacher-librarian » 2009 http://beccablog.edublogs.org Becca (Stith) Munson - A Teacher-Librarian Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:23:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Top Ten Tools http://beccablog.edublogs.org/2009/05/14/top-ten-tools/ http://beccablog.edublogs.org/2009/05/14/top-ten-tools/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 14:32:09 +0000 beccablog http://beccablog.edublogs.org/?p=124 1. iGoogle: A great place for all my feeds. For students, they can easily customize the page for their needs AND place our widgets on the page.
2. Twitter: I receive so much information from Twitter. New ways to get information into the hands of students by posting on our website too. twitter/bvwlibrary      twitter/beccamunson
3. Google Reader: Makes my life easier. Would like students to use it more – but we are getting there.
4. Audacity: Great for student projects. Free. Easy to use.
5. Edublogs: We have several blogs – for students and staff. BVWest Reads, BVW Productions, BeccaBlog, Jag Stacks
6. Delicious:  Keeps me sane as I organize my finds and research what other people are doing.   Next year, we are moving all our links for the library projects to delicious.
7. Voicethread:  A tool our teachers have really embraced especially our social studies teachers.   
8. Widgetbox:  Love this site to create widgets and apps for iGoogle and Facebook.  However, it is now fee-based.
9. Slideshare:  Collaborative.  Takes a powerpoint inside the walls of the school and makes it available to anyone, anywhere.  I think students get that…
10. Wikispaces:  Way to publish projects, easily collaborate with others.

Others to add:  Animoto, Toondoo, Wordle, iMovie, Voki, Ning

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