Hanley

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Neal Topp, Bob Goeman, Paul Clark, & Denny Hanley
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

TodaysMeet gives you an isolated room where you can see only what you need to see, and your audience doesn't need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together.
    

CanvasDropr is a sharing network that encourages you and your friends to share and work on own images and videos in a real-time manner. The center of the CanvasDropr idea is to work and collaborate on a so-called "Canvas." The canvas can be shared by an unlimited amount of people, and changes made in the canvas are updated real-time in every user’s canvas. Users can easily drag and drop new images directly from their desktop onto the canvas.

Pixlr Editor is a free online photo editor with a professional touch. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration needed. 

E.ggTimer.com is a simple, easy-to-use online countdown timer, or egg timer. Just set a time and bookmark it for repeated use. You can also create a count down to a specific date or time.

Ujam helps make your music. Be heard. UJAM is a free online music-making application that allows anyone to create professional sounding songs easily and quickly.

Google Fusion Tables allows users to create data forms to collect data then graphically display this data in a geo-based google map. Study distracted drivers at various intersections around a city and then determine the most dangerous or safest intersections.

http://howtosmile.org
How to Smile is a searchable database of all Museums of science and technology.  The participating institutions put hands on stem curriculum online that teachers can use.  It is pretty cool.  It can be used if you need a quick activity for a field trip.  There is also a free corresponding iphone/droid app for how to smile.
65 Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources is a site designed to direct teachers of all grade levels and content areas to utilize their Interactive White Boards in powerful and easy ways. The site is broken down into the following categories.1. General Teacher Resources for Interactive Whiteboards, 2. Interactive Whiteboard Games & Activities, 3. More Unique, Cool Whiteboard Resources Students Love, 4. Science Websites for Your Interactive Whiteboard, 5. Interactive Whiteboard Activities to Teach Music, 6. Basic Reading & Modern Foreign Language IWB Resources.

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

MrNussbaum.com was developed with the idea that crucial concepts, themes, ideas, and fact sets taught in the classroom can be enhanced over the internet through interactivity. Furthermore, for teachers to have a reliable k -8 internet site to use in the computer lab or in the classroom, that likely covers one or many themes currently being taught. MrNussbaum.com offers dozens of interactive games specifically designed to pinpoint one or several essential concepts taught in elementary years, and dozens of research themes designed to make the process of gathering information interactive and enjoyable.
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Neal W. Topp, Ph.D. -- June 2012
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Please add your favorite website in the comment section.  Thank You
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The transcript from the NETA presentation backchannel is pasted below. Thank you for your contributions.


10FreeNETA

voki.com (60 sec. avatar presentation) voxopop.com (spoken blog, use with class)
Just found out about instagrok last week...great for student research
Edmodo.com. Great for social media in the classroom
Glogster is fun for kids...there is a cost but easy for teacher to set up student accounts and manage. Only 20$ for 30+ students. For making
ninjawords.com Quick dictionary
Mindmeister. Concept mapping tool. I use 4 online st portfolios
Instagrok..love the visual search results
Does TeachHub work for Mobi Boards?
tagxedo.com (similar to Wordle...but better!)
Wordfoto app is one that kids like!
Noteflight..music
Piston.com for creating comic authors
TimeToast for creating timelines
Popplet (mental mapping tool)