Mind Mapping-Never Get Lost

Spiderscribe is one of the coolest mind mapping program I have found. You have the ability to input not just plain old text but some really neat and useful tools. You can input documents, location map, and even images. For those visual learners this is a great tool. You even have the ability collaborate with others. Oh and its FREE!

Check it out tell me what you think. http://www.spiderscribe.net/

Trying out Jotform

I came across this free form creating site and found it great to use. You can even upload files. Sweet! Try it out and let me know what you think.  www.jotform.com

Scrible New Tool

I came across another great tool for anyone, teacher or student.  Scrible is a new Bookmarklet tool with no downloading or installing anything.  Its even very versatile and virtually works with all browsers.  Why would you use such a tool? Below is a great example and I got it directly from Scrible’s site.  I couldn’t have explained it any better then they did.

research with scrible

• Highlight & Annotate Web Pages
• Tag, Filter & Easily Search Web Research
• Save, Share & Collaborate in the Cloud

scrible: collaborate on research with power & ease

• richly annotate web pages in multiple colors & styles
• save web research online & access it from anywhere
• use simple keywords to search full text of saved research
• use tags to quickly and easily organize research by topic
• easily share annotated web research with others via email
• new create project-specific digital research libraries
• new set permissions to selectively share libraries with others

The software has only been out since may 4th so don’t forget to try it out and give feedback.  I have only been playing with it for a day but two things I think are awesome. One is the legend feature where you can label different colors for different things. Second is the export feature (only available in IE so far).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check our this video of the founder:

Edmodo

What is Edmodo?  I came across this while surfing other blogs the

other night.  Edmodo

 

 is not a name of a famous

 

 Spanish singer nor is it a type of fruit it’s better.  How great would it be if you had an interactive environmental were you and your students could interact, learn, and be informed all in one place?  That’s what Edmodo does and more.

 

Edmodo is nothing new and has been around for a while and I hope its here to stay.  It has the interface that resembles facebook so students are comfortable and have knowledge on how it works.

“Edmodo is a free, secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts.

Edmodo provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices.  Teachers and students can store and share all forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more. There are also special institutional features for schools and districts that can be accessed for free by administrators.”

http://www.edmodo.com/

Check it out tell me what you think.  Leave a comment below and if you have any personal experience I would love to hear it, good or bad.  

Quick guide with the help of Edmodo.

Open publication - Free publishing - More edmodo