My Pinterest Addiction and Other Technological Vices
Animoto—create an online video using pictures and videos uploaded from facebook,
instagram, flickr, picassa and other sources. www.animoto.com Here is an example a friend
made about a birthday celebration at work
http://animoto.com/play/yyDr6lvKQYzmzA50IHEgYg
Apps Gone Free—daily listing of apps that are free for that day or for a very brief period of
time. www.appsgonefree.com
Doodle—a group scheduling site allows the people you invite to indicate the dates/times they
can attend so you can see at a glance when most people can attend. www.doodle.com
Dropbox—Save and access documents and photos to Dropbox from mobile locations. Can
also share items with others. www.dropbox.com
edX—MOOC (Massive Open Online Classes) offered from different universities, many of which
are offered for free. www.edx.com An example is Ideas of the Twentieth Century offered by
the University of Texas https://www.edx.org/course/utaustin/ut-2-01x/ideas-twentiethcentury/661
Freegal Music—Available through participating libraries that allow patrons five free
downloads per week. www.freegalmusic.com
Glogster/Glogster Edu—Create an electronic scrapbook page with graphics and pictures with
the ability to link to websites and music. There is a basic version and one for educators. There
is a basic free version and optional upgrades. http://stewartmc.edu.glogster.com/myjourney/ is an example of a personal glog I made to introduce myself to students at the
beginning of a class. The students create a personal glog to learn the program, after which
they research an educational topic and create a glog to present what they learn.
http://earoll.edu.glogster.com/importance-of-reading-to-young-children/
Learnist—http://learni.st/users/marciamarcia/boards/2754-learningnext This links to one of
my boards on Learnist, which is a cross between Pinterest and Wikipedia. The board links to
86 technology sites with a description of each.
Motivational blog— by Ann Voscamp, author of One Thousand Gifts and free app to collect
photographs of gifts http://www.aholyexperience.com/
Pandora—Free music on the net with periodic commercials; can update for a fee to a
commercial-free environment. Can select pre-made stations (ike 4th of July music, Summer
Music) or design your own (Laura Story station). www.pandora.com
Pinterest—An organization system of online bulletin boards. Users can pin information from
the web or from other pinners. www.pinterest.com Board recommended to me recently
for tips on technology is http://pinterest.com/esheninger/web-2-0-tools-for-educators/
Polleverywhere—allows you to create polls and users respond via text message. Results
displayed in graphic form. Use in classrooms for formative assessment.
www.polleverywhere.com
Prezi— www.prezi.com
Punchbowl—create online invitations and track responses at www.punchbowl Can be linked
to social networks.
QR codes—Create and follow codes to retrieve information from websites.
www.classtools.net/QR/ and Qrafter app
Quizlet— This website enables you to create flash cards or access cards already created. This
is an example of flash cards created for the PRAXIS 2 CIA test.
http://quizlet.com/13529695/praxis-ii-0014-flash-cards/
Weebly— Create webpages and blogs on this free site. I used this to create my professional
portfolio for our faculty evaluation procedure.
http://marciasprofessionalportfolio.weebly.com/index.html
Wordle—This site allows you to create a poster with the words you enter. The size of the
words is determined by the frequency of entries. www.wordle.com
Zite—Create an electronic personalized magazine on topics of your choice. www.zite.com
Evernote—
Khan Academy---www.khanacademy.org