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 * ===Web Tool=== || ===Description=== || ===Use=== ||
 * voicethread || Voicethread is a collaborative slide show tool that allows users to discuss images using a microphone or a web cam. || Voicethread is a great way to have a group give a presentation without having to meet face-to-face or stand in front of the class to present. ||
 * skype || Skype is a Voice over IP application that allows you to make free "phone calls" to other skype users. || Using Skype is a great way to have a guest speaker talk to your classroom. Most classrooms don't have a phone in the classroom, and with shrinking budgets access to long distance phone calls is limited. Skype is a way to call anyone free in the classroom. ||
 * jing || Jing is a screen capture program. || Using Jing in the classroom is a great way to demonstrate how to do something to students. Instead of taking a lot of time in the classroom showing the students how to insert images into Powerpoint for example. You can now show the students once in class, and then make a Jing presentation available to the students for review if they need additional help with that. ||
 * notemesh || Notemesh allows students in the same class to share notes with each other. || Not all students take the same notes. One student in the class might have missed a particular step in the Math problem and they are not sure how that step was accomplished. With the students using notemesh, they are able to share their notes in one easy place. Now the student that missed the step on the problem, can now see another students' notes that includes the missed step. ||
 * notefish || Notefish is a website that allows you to take notes on any other webpage and store them all in one place. || If you are giving your students a research paper, you could have all of your students do their research using notefish. That way you can take a look at their notes, what webpages they used and how the students came to their conclusion when writing the research paper. ||
 * onlinecharttool || Onlinecharttool is an online resource for creating graphs and charts to share with anyone. || If you want your students to include a pie chart in their blog on a particular assignment, how will the students do this. Of course Excel is a great tool to create charts, but do the students know how to set up the data in Excel to do this? How will the students share this on their blog, because that isn't the easiest task. Onlinecharttool would be a great tool for the students to use. The pie chart is easier to create in this tool than Excel, and is a lot easier for the students to share their chart on their blog. ||
 * screentoaster || Screentoaster is a screen capture program. || Much like Jing, Screentoaster is a screen capture program that will allow you to capture your screen to give a demonstration once to the students for review as many times as they need. The difference in screentoaster and jing is that you are limited to a 5 minute recording and the file formats between the two programs. ||
 * quizlet || Quizlet is a website that allows you to create flash cards. || Quizlet is a great tool for creating and sharing flash cards. The flash cards could be created individually by each student in the class or cooperatively by all students together. Flash cards are a great way to study and learn vocabulary terms in a course. ||
 * lucidchart || Lucidcarts is a collaborative tool for creating flow-charts. || Lucidcharts would be a great tool for any computer programming class. In computer programming flow-charts are very important to understanding the logic behind the scenes of what the program is doing. By using a tool like lucidcharts you can see the flow-chart the students are using for their program. You as the teacher could then see where any syntax errors could occur before the student does any coding ||
 * bubbl.us || Bubbl.us is a mind mapping tool useful for brainstorming. || Anytime in your classroom brainstorming is needed, use bubbl.us. Bubble.us is a great tool for creating mind maps and assisting with brainstorming by organizing the data. Since it is a web tool and can be saved, students in the classroom can access the mind map at anytime. If the brainstorming and mind map are done using a chalkboard, once you are done and the board is erased, the material is gone forever. using the Bubbl.us tool it can still be accessed and reviewed later. ||
 * animoto || Animoto is an application that creates movies from images and sound clips. || Animoto is an easy way to create a movie from images and sound clips. Something similar could be created in PowerPoint for instance, however, it is not a simple task to have a sound clip last for multiple slides. So instead of showing the step for having the sound clip expand multiple slides, have the students use animoto. The students upload the pictures, choose some music, or upload their own music, and animoto will create the movie for the students. ||
 * gcalc || Gcalc is a graphing calculator application. || There are many graphing calculators out there, and most of them are pretty expensive. By using this application in your classroom you can save your students some money. You can also guarantee that everyone is using the same calculator so teaching the steps becomes easier because neither you nor the students need to know different steps for different models of calculators. Also, if a students happens to leave their calculator in their locker they cannot do their howework, not so when using gcalc (provided the student has internet at home). ||
 * studystack || Studystack is a flash card tool. || Studystack is a tool like quizlet to create flash cards for the students to use to better learn vocabulary or other important information in a class. ||
 * google docs || Google Docs is a collaborative tool for working on documents. || If the students are giving a group presentation, they can use google docs to collaborate on a document instead of having all of the students email "their part" to another student that is in charge of combining all of the documents into one. Now the students can use google docs to do that. ||
 * chatzy || Chatzy is a free chat room tool. || If you organize your class into groups and assign a project for the group to do, a chatzy chat room is a great communication tool for the students to use. With using a chatzy chat room, you give the students in the groups a way to communicate with each other without having to find a date and time to meet face-to-face. A chat room is a great synchronous tool for allowing the students to talk in real time from wherever they are. You as the instructor can also limit who has access to each room. ||