Sqworl

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Sqworl is a great free web 2.0 tool that allows anyone to make a links page and the link itself is a picture of the web page, totally cool if you have emerging readers in your life, they'll be able to successfully navigate the web-links to find something they can do, all on their own.

Hers is my Fun-Edu-Techy sites SQWORL LINK

Here's what's on my Sqworl Page.

All KISD teacher have a login for this one stop shop. All kinds of media content, super helpful in the classroom. Nettrekker is changing their name to Knovation, kind of a more all inclusive digitized name, don't you think!
 * __Nettrekker__**

__**Timtoast**__ I love this site. It is super easy to use, free and teacher can elect a historian for their class and have the student log in each day and catalog what the class learns. To expand, you could have a historian for each subject, and thus, a timeline for each subject and catalog your year. Share it with parents, students, other teachers, just love this tool. Create one for your own family!!! Lots of possibilities.

__**ZAMZAR**__ An ABSOLUTE MUST!!!! Zamzar is a great conversion tool. Super great awesome fantabulous wonderfulness tool. I love it and use it all the time. If you have a video you want to convert to a local file lets say from YouTube or something, it can turn it in to a file locally on your machine. So if you want to Trek out on to the playground to show your video, or somewhere else where there is no wireless, OR if you have filtering issues, such as YouTube is not allowed, then you can convert it to a file at home and bring it to school and show. ALWAY PRE-VIEW anything you plan to show to a class. No one wants to slime little children, let alone a whole class-full.

Well this site speaks for itself. Drop in a bunch of photos, choose a layout and it will make a super cool slideshow for you, apply for the educator account.
 * __Animoto__**

__**Wallwisher**__ Need another wall in your life. This wall is for sticky notes only. Create a wall for your class, have students log on and put sticky notes about, lessons, main ideas, class parties, whatever you want to get sticky about. Get sticky with it!! HA HA HA!

Lots of possibilities! Basically make your own digital book. Upload your artwork, record your voice, slaps it together in a book and lets you share it out.
 * __Little Bird Tales__**

__**iPiccy**__ This is new to me, but it is basically an online photo editor, that's it in a nutshell.

__**Quizlet**__ Online flash cards.

Basically these two do the same thing. Take a word passage, article, a bunch of words and it will put them in to a shape of your choosing, usually making the words that are the most common the bigger words in the shape, try it, it's free and fun.
 * __Wordle and Tagzedo__**

__**Voki**__ This is also new to me and OHHHHH how much time we can waste on computers. Not saying that Voki is a waste of time!!! Basically you can create your own avitar and dress it, bling it, tell it what to say and how to say it. So cool, love this site!