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

Having access to your blog from everywhere.

Leave Your Work At Work

As I begin with the building of my blog I’ve quickly found out that I can blog with every device I own.  I mean from my phone, ipad, and even my computer.  Even if its not my computer as long as I have access to the internet I can update my blog.  So what does this mean?  It means when you experience something unique you can blog about it instantaneous.  No longer do you have to write down notes so you can remember what you want to share. 

Obviously there comes a time and place to leave your work at work so monitor it appropriately.  There is nothing more frightening than when your family gets mad cause you can’t put down your phone.

CyberBully

This is a video I had made for middle school students to talk about cyber bully.

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