CDC_Webtoolreview

1) [|Toondoo.com] This is a website where you can create your own comic. I tried it for class and found that it can be quite fun, and its a good way to get engaged in the subject. This would be appropriate for all students who can read and write and like to try new things.

2) [|Jeopardy] This is a site where you build your own Jeopardy board for in class quizzes or just for a something different. If you don't want to make your own board, there are some already made that you can use for free. This website would be a good tool for 5th grade and up because students need to know how to play game, and how to interact with the website at the same time.

3) [|Voki] This website is to create your own avatar. This will be good for students fro 7th grade and up. Students get to create their own character, and have him talk too. This is good for getting your students familiar with the internet and how to use it.

4) [|Xtranormal] Xtranormal is a really cool and useful site where you can create your own cartoonish movie. It is fun to do and you don't even realize that you are experiencing a web 2.0 tool. This would be useful for younger students (k-6) to watch becaus who at that age doesn't like movies? it would also be good for students 7th grade and up to use for making their own presentations.

5) [|Blabberize] This website isn't really all that usefull for educational purposes, unless you are just looking for something different for once. You can use a picture of any face and make it talk. Students of all ages would appreciate it since you can use any picture that you want to.

6) [|Morgue] If you are a teacher who likes to use pictures in the classroom then this is the website for you. I have not had a topic that I couldn't find a god picture for yet. It can be used for all ages and for all subjets too!

7) [|...In Plain English] If there is something on line that you can't for the life of you figure out, then you should go to this website. It has a tutorial for almost anything that you can do on line, and it explains it using common language. 7th greaders an up could really benefit from this, as well as any teacher who is confused!

8) [|Word Masher] This website can be a good tool for high school students. For example, if I wanted to know the most common words for any given subject, I could put them into the masher and they would come back randomly and I could then show my students.

9) [|Zamzar] This is not only a good website for teachers, but a great tool to have for converting music, videos or anything else that was created on an older form of technology to something that is current. It is useful for all classroom settings because the students will not be using it much if at all, but they will be getting 100% of the bennefit.

10) [|Teacher Tube] This is a great substitute for teachers who work in a district like mine, where tools such as youtube.com are blocked because they are considered social sites. You can use it for all students no matter what grade level. You can find videos on almost every subject that you can think of.