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Free Shared Whiteboard thanks to Twiddla

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Prewriting Activity with The Interactive Trading Card Creator

The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their search, literacy, and categorization skills as they learn about about popular culture texts or realia. This interactive tool allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.  This could be used as …

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term.ly for Vocabulary Building Activities

term.ly provides concise definitions as well as a quick link bar to other web resources to locate elaborations of input terms.

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Free Teacher Technology Course Launches today!

An updated version of Digital Materials Production Tools is now hosted on Freemoodle.org and is available to anyone who wishes to learn to use free and web-based tools to develop learning opportunities for their students.   This course introduces instructors to use simple tools and techniques used by their educational technology savvy peers to produce …

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What is SCORM?

I must’ve been asked this question twenty times at a teachers conference last week.  I guess educational technologists deal with SCORM everyday so they are and I am guilty of using it in spaces where it is still not a common term. SCORM is a set of  standards for creating  eLearning events such as quizzes …

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Quick Development Tools for educators is ready

In preparation for the workshop at TESL Ontario, the Quick Development Tools page has been updated.  This includes adding resources, revising links and adding lessons to assist teachers who require more support for these tools. Resources are free and online.   The tool box includes tools for your creativity and editing purposes in six genres: Visual …

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Slideshare, a tool for ubiquitous media access is a part of the Quick Development Toolbox

SlideShare will also be presented this Friday at TESL Ontario as a tool for instructors using technology at the Quick Development Tools workshop. The concept of hosting teaching notes, videos, audio clips and PowerPoints on SlideShare is a means of freeing the media so that it can be used in any venue with an Internet …

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Quick, free online HTML editing with QuackIt!

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Use Quackit, the online HTML editor,  to create HTML snippets or even whole HTML pages for your class website, blog or even to enhance Moodle courseware.  

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Free online Spelling Checker

I was not looking to add the to Quick Development Toolbox but I was on a friend’s computer that only had NotePad and I needed to check some spelling.  A quick search on the web reveal a wealth of these but most have membership or free trial limits.  I tried out the Free Online Spell …

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ImageChef when making images quick when fun is the main factor!

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Image chef is a “cool” resource that allows students to easily create all types of images for use in their projects or assignments at school.  Students open a free account and then are able to create the following: Wanted Poster, text on candy hearts, wet cement, license plates, cards, traffic signs and much more.  Image …

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