Communication+Tools

wordle.com Presenting ideas/words in an artistic manner highlighting important words or texts. Melissa

Add any technology tools that you have tried or explored that enhance communication: Feel free to add a link, describe an idea or post a question to another person below.

Glogster.com Free for educators and students to create and express with pictures, sound and video. Melissa We also looked at glogster in our CTM and I know Laurie Hartnett uses it for social studies projects at Mystic Middle School

Skype.... It can be used to instant message and video conference. A great tool to communicate with those out of area.

From Elisa...I use email all the time with my AP students, corresponding as well as sending and receiving assignments. If a student writes with a question I forward the question and my response to the whole class.

I use google sites for all my classes to post documents, links, HW and notes for my students. It is nice to be able to access it from any computer. - Yolanda

In my Day 1 CTM we spent some time working with classroom/teacher wiki spaces. We also looked at a few sights for manipulating text. [] http://tagcrowd.com/ (Other sites similar to tagcrowd can be found by doing a google search on "tag clouds") -Tim Smith

I have used Google groups for a few functions in the past, but I think I may try using google wave next year if AP chemistry runs. - Lisa Allen

I am trying out animoto. Looks like a fun way to make videos for various kinds of presentations. -Alice