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Below are the links we'll be using in the August 20, 2013 workshop. Each should open in a new window so you won't have to keep finding this page again.



Evaluation Resources
 * SAMR Model by Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D.
 * Apps in Education by SAMR Level
 * Bloomin’ Apps by Kathy Schrock
 * Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington

Live Feedback (Participation)
 * Web
 * Poll Everywhere
 * Today’s Meet (the room for the August 20th training)
 * Infuse Learning
 * Web & App
 * Socrative

Collaborative Writing Tools
 * Web
 * Google Docs
 * Primary Pad
 * Wikispaces
 * The Students' History
 * November Learning podcast: Building Legacay Within a Textbook (Garth Holman & Michael Pennington)
 * IdeaJam: Education Live Stream (students are featured from 16:50 to 38:20)
 * Link to the teachers' blog
 * Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki

Graphic Organizers/Diagrams
 * Web & App
 * Lino (App)
 * Mindmeister (iPad users - Mindmeister App)
 * App
 * Grafio Lite
 * Skitch (Syncs with Evernote)
 * Popplet Lite (read this blog post for examples)
 * Inspiration Maps Lite
 * SimpleMind+
 * Idea Sketch
 * PC
 * Bubbl.us
 * SpicyNodes
 * Mind42 (requires activation email)
 * Mindomo (requires activation email)
 * Exploratree (for designing then printing graphic organizers)
 * Creately
 * Cacoo.com

Image Tools
 * Word Clouds
 * Web
 * Wordsift
 * Word It Out
 * PC
 * Tagxedo (requires Microsoft Silverlight)
 * Web & App
 * Thinglink (App) - Make your images interactive
 * PC
 * Infogram - Make infographics
 * The Noun Project ([]) – Free icons for inforgraphics
 * Aviary - Photo editing

Storytelling
 * Web
 * Storybird
 * App
 * Toontastic
 * Sock Puppets
 * Animation Desk Lite
 * Haiku Deck
 * PC
 * Go Animate

Video Tools
 * Web & App
 * Animoto (App)
 * App
 * Pixntell (Edu version is $1.99)
 * Videolicious
 * PC
 * Wevideo
 * Screencasting
 * App
 * Educreations
 * ScreenChomp
 * ShowMe
 * PC
 * Jing
 * Screencast-O-Matic($15/year for editing capabilities)

Other “Stuff"
 * Fastest Tube - Download YouTube videos by adding a plug-in
 * Tube Chop - Allows you to clip a section of a YouTube video & provide link to the clipPrint What You Like - Allow you/student to choose exactly what you want to print from a web page
 * Productivity Tools
 * Dropbox ([]) - web and app
 * [Disclosure - if you use the link above to signup for your own free account, we both get 500MB additional space free]
 * Evernote ([]) – web and app
 * EduClipper - Pinterest for education

Content Resources Check out one of the resources that is closest to what you teach/support
 * TED - videos of inspiring "talks" made by visionary leaders in numerous fields
 * TED-Ed- model lessons that feature animated video, customizable
 * Khan Academy- most notable for math, but other topics included
 * Mathtrain.tv - middle school math (learn more about how Mathtrain started in a podcast)
 * Wolfram Alpha- math and comparative information (search engine)
 * Flipped Learning- secondary science
 * Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki - Educator created wiki to collaborate on great books for gifted kids

Blogs to Follow
 * Byrdseed Gifted ([|http://www.byrdseed.com][|/]) by Ian Byrd
 * Unwrapping the Gifted ([|http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted][|/]) by Tamara Fisher
 * Gifted Exchange ([|http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com][|/]) by Laura Vanderkam

Twitter
 * #gtchat- global conversation about gifted education, 6 pm CST (US) Fridays
 * Check out the handout for suggested folks to follow and articles on Twitter.

For the independent study folks:
 * Weebly- free web site creator
 * TED Talks- incredible source for videos by experts and innovators in a WIDE range of fields
 * RSA Animate- animated sketching that enhanced fascinating lectures
 * Library 2 Play: 23 Things- blog independent study on 23 web 2.0 tools
 * Livebinders - way to structure web research
 * 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story - tons of web 2.0 tools for digital storytelling and much more
 * Teach with Web 2.0 - another wiki filled with web 2.0 tools for teaching