Sunday, February 14, 2010

Tools for the Classroom & Administrative Productivity

Week Three

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions
that shape your life.
~ Mike DeWine


Glasscubes allows users to upload, edit and share documents online in secure workspaces. Combining key document management features, Glasscubes also contains project management features such as task management, online discussions and shared calendars. It's very simple to use which means that if you roll it out to a team, the whole organization or external companies, you will be working better together in moments, without any training. And because it is web based, with no downloads required, it is available from any location and is even usable on smartphones.
http://www.glasscubes.com


Doris - Productivity Tool that helps you Get Things Done
Doris allows you to better focus on the essentials. Offload all the things you need to remember onto your Doris account and free up your mental RAM. Simplify your life, get things done, and never forget that important task again.
http://beta.dorisapp.com/


kSolo - Sing, Record - Send to Friends
kSolo.com is dedicated to providing you with the ultimate online karaoke singing experience. The site is the first Web based sing along application to allow users to sing, record, and playback personalized renditions of their favorite songs.
http://ksolo.com



FitnessJournal - Your Fitness Success Starts Right Now
Fitness Journal offers a complete exercise log for people who wish to improve their fitness level, athletes who are looking to set a new personal record, and people who just want to lose a few pounds. It's accounting software for the body that is designed to help you stay motivated and reach your health and fitness goals.
http://fitnessjournal.com


Slideserve:Taking your PowerPoint Presentations Online-
SlideServe has an easy way to upload and share PowerPoint presentations with the world. Embed the presentations to social networking sites, blogs, and friends.
http://slideserve.com




FFont - Free Fonts Donwload
FFonts is one of the very best font resources with literally thousands of fonts available for download. Mainly high quality fonts that may easily be used in professional designs. The site is simple to use and provides a good overview of the available font.
http://www.1001freefonts.com/



Plan fm - Your Plans Everywhere
Plan.fm is your social utility for collecting the plans you make on other sites and organizing them into a single source that you can access from anywhere.
http://oneforty.com/item/plan-fm



Wetoku - Bring Talkingheads Experience to your Viewers
With Wetoku, bloggers can bring the talking heads experience to their viewers. There is no software to install. Bloggers can use webcams to meet someone interesting, record the interview, and embed the video right away.
http://wetoku.com/



Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.
http://www.storybird.com


Kobo - eReading: Anytime, Anyplace
Free eBooks for iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Pre - Millions of free classic books, news and magazines, new york times best sellers, globe and mail bestsellers, eReading anytime, anyplace, online and on your mobile phone.
http://www.kobobooks.com/


CeeVee - Quick & Painless Resume Management
CeeVee is an online tool that simplified the building and maintaining a CV/Resume online.
http://ceevee.com


TubeRadio.fm is a web application that looks & feels like a music player where users can quickly find, listen to, build, and share playlists of their favorite artists' music. Since TubeRadio based on the music library of Youtbue, it makes it easy to find just about any song.
http://tuberadio.fm



Sprouter - A Microblog for Entrepreneurs
''What are you working on?'' Connect with other innovators to network, share ideas and collaborate. Solicit real-time feedback and benefit from previous discussions. Discover relevant events in your local area and post your own.
http://sprouter.com



Game Classroom is the next generation of homework help!
We scoured the web for the best and most trustworthy educational games with the single goal of providing students, parents and teachers with the best interactive homework help the web has to offer!
http://www.gameclassroom.com/





3 comments:

Thad Henry said...

Connie,

I recognize of few of your web 2.0 tools. I really want to look more into gameclassroom.com. There are so many cool tools out there. The fitness journal, slideserve and free fonts also interests me. If you enjoy listening to music on-line another great web 2.0 tool that is really neat is pandora.com. You can pick a genre or artist and it will play that style and you can delete songs that you don't prefer so that it can "learn" your playlist style. It's pretty neat. It may be similar to the tuberadio that you have listed.

hilts50 said...

Hi Connie,

I too would like to check out gameclassroom.com. It seems students can't get enough of online flash games. I hope to find some that will peak their interest. Thanks for the heads up.

Bill

Tony B said...

Connie, I appreciate the fact that your list differs substantially from some of the classroom based teachers. You seems to incorporate more management and productivity tools. The only resource I would omit from the Web 2.0 tools is the fonts resource. Not sure if that one has made the leap into the social Web.

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