Resources

Important resources for creating your student teaching portfolio as well as useful websites.

Illinois Professional Teaching Standards

[|Common Core Standards]; Math Standards

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Tools gathered from CI 335 Education Technology Course

Google Search: [ @http://www.google.com/ ] Bing: [ @http://www.bing.com/ ] Yahoo: [ @http://www.yahoo.com/ ] Google for Educators: [ @http://www.google.com/educators ] Evernote: [ @http://www.evernote.com/ ]
 * Information Tools/Resources **

Google Reader: [ @http://www.google.com/reader ] Bloglines: [ @http://www.bloglines.com/ ] iGoogle: [ @http://www.google.com/i ] Netvibes [ @http://www.netvibes.com/ ]
 * RSS Tools/Resources **

WordPress: [ @http://www.wordpress.com/ ] Blogger: [ @http://www.blogger.com/ ] Posterous: [ @http://www.posterous.com/ ]
 * Blog Tools/Resources **

Twitter: [ @http://www.twitter.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Edmodo: [ @http://www.edmodo.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Tumblr: [ @http://www.tumblr.com/ ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Microblog Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Wikispaces: [ http://www.wikispaces.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">PBworks: [ @http://www.pbworks.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Google Sites: [ @http://www.google.com/sites ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Wiki Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Delicious: [ @http://www.delicious.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Diigo: [ @http://www.diigo.com/ ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Social Bookmarking Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Google Docs: [ @http://docs.google.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Zoho: [ @http://www.zoho.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Scribd: [ @http://www.scribd.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Slideshare: [ @http://www.slideshare.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Prezi: [ @http://www.prezi.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Bubbl.us [ @http://www.bubbl.us/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">MindMeister: [ @http://www.mindmeister.com/ ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Document/Presentation Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Elluminate [ @http://www.elluminate.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Dimdim [ @http://www.dimdim.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Wiziq [ @http://www.wiziq.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Acrobat.com [ @http://www.acrobat.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">SecondLife [ @http://www.secondlife.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Chatzy [ @http://www.chatzy.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Tokbox [ @http://www.tokbox.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Tinychat [ @http://www.tinychat.com/ ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Synchronous/Collaboration Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Facebook: [ @http://www.facebook.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Ning: [ @http://www.ning.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Elgg: [ @http://www.elgg.org/ ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Social Networking Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Dropbox [ @http://www.dropbox.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Drop.io [ @http://www.drop.io/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Senduit [ @http://www.senduit.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Wallwisher [ @http://www.wallwisher.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Wiffiti: [ @http://wiffiti.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Survey Monkey [ @http://www.surveymonkey.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Poll Everywhere [ @http://www.polleverywhere.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">bit.ly [ @http://www.bit.ly/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Zotero [ @http://www.zotero.org/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Toondo [ @http://www.toondoo.com/ ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Other Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: small;">For an annotated list describing these tools in greater depth, please see the following Google Doc: <span style="color: #003c7d; font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1NldGVEBUmwe7gsi4cyhvyZ9jRkjsA0YygV52s7hv3nI&hl=en&authkey=COu7xrML

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Pictures: Picnik [ picnik.com ], Photoshop.com [ photoshop.com ], Wordle [ wordle.net ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Audio: AudioPal [ www.audiopal.com ], Vocaroo [ vocaroo.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Video: JayCut [ jaycut.com ], Xtranormal [ xtranormal.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Multimedia: Animoto [ animoto.com ], Glogster [ glogster.com ], VoiceThread [ voicethread.com ], Storybird [ storybird.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Jing: [ jingproject.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Screenr: [ screenr.com ]

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Documents: See above <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Websites: Weebly [ weebly.com ], Yola [ yola.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Pictures: Picnik [ picnik.com ], Photoshop.com [ photoshop.com ], Wordle [ wordle.net ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Audio: AudioPal [ www.audiopal.com ], Vocaroo [ vocaroo.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Video: JayCut [ jaycut.com ], Xtranormal [ xtranormal.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Multimedia: Animoto [ animoto.com ], Glogster [ glogster.com ], VoiceThread [ voicethread.com ], Storybird [ storybird.com ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Complete list of Media Creation Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Plus check out Aviary [ aviary.com ]

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Zamzar [ zamzar.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Media Convert [ media-convert.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">KeepVid [ keepvid.com ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Media Conversion Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Documents: Scribd [ scribd.com ], Docstoc [ docstoc.com ], SlideShare [ slideshare.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Pictures: Flickr [ flickr.com ], Google Images [ images.google.com ], be funky [ @http://www.befunky.com/ ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Audio: Education Podcast Network [ epnweb.org ], EdTechTalk [ www.edtechtalk.com ], PodBean [ www.podbean.com ] <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Video: YouTube [ youtube.com ], TeacherTube [ teachertube.com ], Academic Earth [ academicearth.com ], TED [ ted.com ]
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Screencasting Tools/Resources **
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Media Sharing Tools/Resources **

<span style="font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;">Plus check out Creative Commons [ @http://creativecommons.org/ ]