Present by: Latasha Smart, TMT

North District Middle School

Tools for Productivity

• 4teachers.org• Easy Test Maker• Teachers Pay Teachers

The Cool Stuff

• Voki• Cool Text• Video Keeper

It’s Cool but It’s the Law

• CopyrightImages

Music

You, Me, and WikiNorth District Middle School Collaboration

4teachers.org

• QuizstarA Web-based quiz maker that enables you to create, administer and automatically grade your

quizzes online! 

• TrackstarA free online interface that helps teachers organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons

called "Tracks."

• RubistarA free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

• Teacher TackleboxLinks to help integrate technology into the classroom

Helps integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. Using this site teachers are able to locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. 

Easy Test Maker

A free online test generator to help you create your tests. You can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. 

Teachers Pay Teachers

An online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original downloadable educational materials, hard goods and used educational resources.

Voki

An application that lets you create personalized avatars to use on your wikis, blogs, or websites

Ms. Smart’s Voki

Cool Text

A FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work.  

Video Keeper

A website which enables you to download any video from a website which you normally would not be able to do

It can be used to embed videos in PowerPoint presentations, electronic whiteboard lessons, etc.

It is particular useful when an internet connection is not available.

Copyright

• What is Public Domain?The public domain is a range of materials which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property". The public domain is most often discussed in contrast to works whose use is restricted by copyright

• What is Fair Use?"Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use

for scholarship or review."

Images

• Images:

Copyrighted images may not be used without the owner's permission. There are many websites that offer 'Copyright Friendly' images, clipart, and photos:

www.pdclipart.orgwww.worldbookonline.comwww.wikipedia.orgWikimedia CommonsSchool Discovery Education

Music

'Fair Use" allows you to use 30 seconds or 10% of a song (whichever is shorter) ~ ANY song, even copyrighted songs!

Wiki

A wiki is a web site that lets you become a participant:  you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection.

A wiki is continuously “under revision.” It is a living collaboration whose purpose is the sharing of the creative process and product by many.

The word "wiki" comes from Hawaiian language, meaning "quick" or "fast."