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[|Jotform.com]. . . Website for creating electronic forms. Best of all, data can be collected and imported to Excel. This site allows you to be much more paperless and “green.” ~ [|Qik.com]. . . Website that allows you to share live video. (Teachers, if you assign your class a project that requires them to interview people, they can use their phones to record and then use qik.com to store and playback the interviews for their project almost immediately.) ~ [|Wolframalpha.com]. . . Computational knowledge engine [Example given: 3x + 2, enter your birth date, enter your name, Burger King Whopper, AAPL Stock Look-UP.] Also does data comparison. ~ [|Xtranormal.com]. . . You are able to animate movies by typing text, picking characters and camera angles. ~ [|Toondoo.com]. . . Easily make comic strips about a variety of topics. Cartoon characters are easy to edit and the gallery has a vast amount of pictures and backgrounds to choose from. ~ [|Glympse.com]. . . Geographic location sharing with your smart phone. Useful for parents!!! (New York Times rated it as one of the top 10 must have iPhone applications!) ~ [|Posterous.com]. . . From any email address (Gmail has largest capacity to send attachments), send Posterous PowerPoint attachments, Word docs, music, etc, and it will create a free webpage with all your content. ~ [|Live.com]. . . Can open any version of Word, PowerPoint, etc. Has a sky drive (25 GB free) to save per account and internet TV useful for showing clips. See my previous free technology site recommendations here: [|Technology Tools to Try] Share on Facebook **You might also like:**  **LinkWithin** Tags: [|educational technology], [|igenteration], [|postaday2011]
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How Schools Need to Respond
Watch typical teens or preteens at home, and you will see them constantly switching between their laptop, cell phone, television, MP3 player, and video game console with apparent ease. In school, we require them to unitask by listening to the teacher, completing worksheets, writing with pen and paper, or engaging in other solitary activities. There are better ways of teaching our students. Of course, using technology to enhance education doesn't mean that we should move classes totally online. Students need face-to-face social interaction, especially in the primary and middle school grades. It doesn't mean that teachers should simply assign work on computers and let students find their own way. It doesn't mean providing technology in the classroom for technology's sake. Interactive whiteboards and desktop computers often sit unused by teachers who did not want them and who were not trained to use them. Nor should teachers feel responsible for finding educational technologies to use in their classrooms. Teachers are required to teach specific content. The point is not to "teach with technology" but to use technology to convey content more powerfully and efficiently. Teachers can access an enormous amount of curriculum content online in a variety of formats, including audio and video pieces that can help bring the material to life for students. These materials are often free. Helpful sites include
 * DiscoveryEducation's Lesson Plan Library ([]).
 * Teachers Helping Teachers ([|www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html]).
 * TeachersFirst.com ([|www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm]).
 * Thinkfinity ([|www.thinkfinity.org/lesson-plans]).

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