Well, these tools may not be new to all of you, but quite a few were new to the DC Librarians, so I thought I would share this document. It's called "The Best of Teacher's Web Tools" and Med Kharbach put it together.(Thanks go to Rosanne Couston, a Librarian at WC for sharing this find!)In this well comprehensive guide are hundred of web tools that you could you in your classroom. Some of them you may be familiar with, especially if you are a FITT graduate: Animoto, Vimeo, Livebinder, Slideshare, Skype, Delicious and Diigo, Pinterest, Evernote and SpringPad. (I LOVE Springpad on my iPad!) The author has a great Pinterest page!
There are many others - OverStream for adding subtitles to videos, 5 PicLits - which I think would be great for an ESL class, Screen Draw for writing over a webpage in Firefox (can save as an image), WebNotes is similar to Screen Draw and it works for PDFs (doesn't say it is browser specific) and many, many others. I could play with these for a week!
Playing around with some of the tools I did see that some required permissions/purchasing even for classroom use. The ones I found were in the Cartoon Resources section.
I would not recommend printing it, not just because it is long (95 pages!), but you would lose the ability to click on an icon and have it open up - much nicer than having to type in the URL! You can download it. (Maybe put it in Evernote or add it to your Delicious links?)
Also, if you want to see a Creative Commons license, go to the last page and look at the paragraph under "Reuse of this Book."
If you have any questions, feel free to stop by the library. I am sure the Faculty Resource Center could also help you out also.
If you find a tool that is really great - let us know! You can email me (tcstanley@pima.edu) or post a comment to this blog.
Have fun!
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