Recent Changes

haiku LMS Launches Classroom Website Creator
http://www.haikuls.com and http://www.myhaikuclass.com launched in December. This Learning Management System includes the easiest drag & drop CMS on the market and the Calendar / Assignments posting could not be more simple. It is either free or as little as five bucks a month and up depending on use. Try it out.

http://www.writely.com
http://spreadsheets.google.com
Goffice
Another online office suite. Slightly different to writely. You have a choice of templates with nice designs, borders etc. Pages at the moment can be uploaded or created as in word but saved as PDF. The presentation application hasn't been released to the public yet.
http://www.goffice.com
Vyew
What is Vyew? (copied from site)

It is very easy. All you need is a microphone. This site even provides intro and outro music for you. I advise you do some of your own editing using the free software Audacity first. Good luck on your podcasts!
Please come visit my podcast site at http://mrscaldwell0.podomatic.com/
Music Under the creative commons licence
for your podcasts http://podsafeaudio.com/
Thanks, here's another couple:
Odeo Studio http://studio.odeo.com/create/home although the playback doesn;t seem as clear as podomatic (could be my computer only)

on Teachingit
I've decided to take this thing a step further... what could be a better way to feed my web habit than working/playing with other teachers and trying out new webtools together before taking them intosharing the classroom. If you're like me then you probably register at least twice for every new, webtool you find, once as admin or teacher and once as student. You probably know the process, register, go to mail in order to confirm registration, change temporary password to your chosen password etc, time consuming and a nuisance. Often just finding a username that hasn't already been taken and that you can remember can be a seemingly endless chore. So here's what I propose: we use a collective username and password when we just want to try things out. We share our thoughts on the different tools that we test, we also share ideas of what can be done with those tools. If you feel like joining me in this venture, mail me at susan59@nana.co.il, write "teachingit" in the subject line and include the name and address of your school in the body of your message. In return I will forward you the teachingit password and other relevant information. To see a list of some of the sites and tools we are testing go to our wikispace http://teachingit.wikispaces.comweb.
http://teachingit.wikispaces.com
Avvenu: Collaborate with yourself!! In other words access your pc from anywhere else in the world...
Register, pick a username and password, download a very small program which runs in the background and as long as your computer is turned on and online you can access it from any other computer. I've tried it and it works! Excellent for very big files that are difficult to upload to the internet. You can also give someone else access to any chosen folder or folders on your pc for any amount of time that you specify, they don't even have to download the program.

So here's the thing...
I seem to be totally addicted to the internet - correction - addicted to looking for free tools on the internet that will be useful to me as a teacher.
office applications. So onOn this wiki
At best this will be useful to others, at worst .... I'll have a list of tools I've tried and which work for me.
If you'd like to contribute just mail me at susan59@nana.co.il and I'll add you to the community.
Join me on Teachingit
I've decided to take this thing a step further... what could be a better way to feed my web habit than working/playing with other teachers and trying out new webtools together before taking them into the classroom. If you're like me then you probably register at least twice for every new, webtool you find, once as admin or teacher and once as student. You probably know the process, register, go to mail in order to confirm registration, change temporary password to your chosen password etc, time consuming and a nuisance. Often just finding a username that hasn't already been taken and that you can remember can be a seemingly endless chore. So here's what I propose: we use a collective username and password when we just want to try things out. We share our thoughts on the different tools that we test, we also share ideas of what can be done with those tools. If you feel like joining me in this venture, mail me at susan59@nana.co.il, write "teachingit" in the subject line and include the name and address of your school in the body of your message. In return I will forward you the teachingit password and other relevant information. To see a list of some of the sites and tools we are testing go to our wikispace http://teachingit.wikispaces.com
Suziq
never say never

Join me on Teachingit
I've decided to take this thing a step further... what could be a better way to feed my web habit than working/playing with other teachers and trying out new webtools together before taking them into the classroom. If you're like me then you probably register at least twice for every new, webtool you find, once as admin or teacher and once as student. You probably know the process, register, go to mail in order to confirm registration, change temporary password to your chosen password etc, time consuming and a nuisance. Often just finding a username that hasn't already been taken and that you can remember can be a seemingly endless chore. So here's what I propose: we use a collective username and password when we just want to try things out. We share our thoughts on the different tools that we test, we also share ideas of what can be done with those tools. If you feel like joining me in this venture, mail me at susan59@nana.co.il, write "teachingit" in the subject line and include the name and address of your school in the body of your message. In return I will forward you the teachingit password and other relevant information. To see a list of some of the sites and tools we are testing go to our wikispace http://teachingit.wikispaces.com
Avvenu: Collaborate with yourself!! In other words access your pc from anywhere else in the world...
Register, pick a username and password, download a very small program which runs in the background and as long as your computer is turned on and online you can access it from any other computer. I've tried it and it works! Excellent for very big files that are difficult to upload to the internet. You can also give someone else access to any chosen folder or folders on your pc for any amount of time that you specify, they don't even have to download the program.

Online k12 classroomware. Build rostas, assignments, lessons, very attractive, however you need to take the time to acquaint yourself with the different areas and possibilities. Free account gives you 5 mega space.
http://www.beanarena.com
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Esnips
you get 21 giga storage
Now lets move on to the Esnips toolbar!! On the whole I hate extra toolbars a la Google, Yahoo and you name it - (it seems that every web site now has its own toolbar for you to download) However the Esnips toolbar is a great little asset which includes the following buttons:
access your esnips account

Build an online coursetaken from the site (I was too lazy to write this in my own words)
Sign up for free in under a minute. Your free account comes with a host of easy-to-use features so you can customize the look of your portal, build engaging courses, enroll students, and track how they're doing. You can even publish your course to the Courses Market, where the world comes to learn.
http://www.nuvvo.com
Beanarena
rostas, assignments, lessonslessons, very attractive, mega space.
http://www.beanarena.com
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Esnips
2 giga of storage space.
Now lets move on to the Esnips toolbar!! On the whole I hate extra toolbars a la Google, Yahoo and you name it - (it seems that every web site now has its own toolbar for you to download) However the Esnips toolbar is a great little asset which includes the following buttons:
access your esnips account
upload photos, videos and files to your account
and my personal favorite..... save a screen capture to your account, you even get to choose the size and shape of the screen capture, wonderful!
== http://www.esnips.com
Google - Writely - Spreadsheets
Two excellent tools from Google. If you haven't tried them yet I definitely suggest it. Writely is an online word processor and spreadsheets is, well, spreadsheets.... So what's special? You can share editing with others, eventually the finished pages can even be saved as html whereby you can add them to your web sites. I've been trying this out as a cms system and it works beautifully, enabling other contributers to edit certain sections of my website, without giving them admin access to the site itself.