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Bruce Wayne B–Receda, CA–one of our newest members on the forum–thanks for posting!
http://www.thinkquest.org/
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students (ages 9-19) work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes. Diverse teams and globally relevant themes are encouraged. Competition is still open until mid-April.
http://litesum.com/
Searches wikipedia and gives you instant wiki summaries. Don’t have to go to the whole wiki page, get a summary to see if that’s what you’re looking for or click to view the wikipedia entry. Created by Jake Jarvis, a freshman in HIGH SCHOOL. Brilliant kid. See more at http://jakejarvis.com/.
http://tuxpaint.org
Open Source drawing program. Free. Let’s kids be creative and draw. FREEware! Simple interface, cross platform. Stamps, paintbrushes, etc. Can also import pictures or draw from scratch. Includes other languages. Thank you Connie from KISD for the link!
http://word.sc/
Word Source – a social DICTIONARY. Cool for kids! Get to the word by adding it to the end of the url (i.e. http://word.sc/pelican). Thesaurus and fun stuff like tagging a word, hangman, or jumble. You can upload pictures to represent the words in the dictionary. Can also cite words to cite word source properly as a reference.
http://teachersteachingteachers.org
Cool concept–it’s exactly the type of social network that we’ve been talking about. Four teachers–Paul Allison, Lee Baber, Susan Ettenheim, and Thomas Locke–are mainly responsible for this blog, podcast, and webcast. They say, “We have two purposes: developing teacher knowledge and leadership in our own schools and districts and putting this knowledge and leadership to work to improve student online reading and writing through the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts and webcasts.”
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Mar 3, 2007 - 08:03:44Tech Chicks,
Your show is fantastic. Thank you for all of the great links. I am sharing them with my colleagues at professional development seminars that I conduct. I chipped in because I think you are providing such a great service to teachers and I want to help out. I hope others do the same.
Wow, thanks, Wayne! We called your Bruce on our podcast, by the way. You signed an email “Wayne” but I think we went by the name in the header. Ooops! Sorry about that!
Anyway, thanks so much for all of your positive feedback! We really do work hard to produce these but feeling like someone gets something from it makes it worth it!
Great list! I hadn’t heard of litesum – I will be looking at that more. sorry I didn’t get to meet you at TCEA. I wonder how many other great tools are out there created by students. That’s something I think I will try to look at more closely!
Dee–would love to hear if you find any other “student-created” tools…I’m not sure if there’s much out there, but I think there could be if students were given the tools and the opportunity!
Hi Helen and Anna – just wanted to thank you for the mention. I really appreciated the kind words and, of course, the plug. ;) Love the podcast & keep up the great work!