Interactive+Learning

[|Sketchcast]. You can “draw” on a whiteboard and record an audio explanation at the same time. You’re given a url for your creation and/or you can embed it into a blog. Others can leave comments about your Sketchcast, too. It’s particularly good to demonstrate how to solve math problems.

[|VoiceThread]. You can upload pictures and create an audio narrative to go along with them. In addition, audio comments can be left by visitors. VoiceThread also provides a great deal to teachers by allowing them to get their premium services for free, including allowing them to create a zillion VoiceThreads for free. Happily, they’ve finally incorporated the feature of allowing you to include images off the web just by inserting its url.

[|Show Beyond]. This is similar to VoiceThread in allowing audio narration of slideshows, but doesn’t allow audio comments like VoiceThread. You can also add music and text.

[|CircaVie]. I think it’s the easiest online application for creating timelines and incorporating images. It can be used in any number of lessons.

[|Community Walk]. Students can put many sites on a google map with descriptions and images (which can be easily grabbed off the web). Students can use this to describe field trips, report on historical events, and do other mapping applications. There are a lot of these kinds of sites, but Community Walk to be the easiest to use.

[|Just Crosswords] lets students create their crossword puzzles that others can play online. [|Poll anywhere] allows students to view an online poll and enter their choices via textmessaging on their cellphone. Within the classroom it can replace the need for remote controls to poll students, given that each has a cell phone with text messaging capability. [|Snappoll] and [|Polljunkie]. Students can create a poll and have their peers answer it, and then write why they chose the question(s) and then a description and an analysis of the results (for example, asking what people think would be the worst natural disaster to experience). Snappoll is about as easy as it can be, but you can only ask one question. Poll Junkie is a little more complex, but you can ask multiple questions and students can also embed it on their webpage instead of just putting a link to their poll. It also offers a lot of other options .//[|Go To Quiz] seems to be very simple to use and allows you to create a poll, survey, or quiz.//

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