Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Great Free Tools forTeachers

Free Technology for Teachers (www.freetech4teachers.com) which provides resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology and helps teachers to learn about new, free tools.
TodaysMeet (www.todaysmeet.com): TodatsMeet is a chat room in which students can ask questions and engage in discussion. Sometimes, some students feel uncomfortable to talk in the classroom or cannot express themselves, so this tool gives them the opportunity to talk and engage in a conversation.
Edmod (www.edmod.com): Edmodo provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices.  Teachers and students can store and share all forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more.
Textthemod( www.textthemod.com): TextTheMob is accessible to students through their cell phones. It allows students to send quick feedback or comment on the presenters, send appreciative shout outs to their peers, and ask live questions to teachers.
Hootcourse (www.hootcourse.com): A HootCourse is an online classroom. HootCourse uses a combination of the most popular social networks and blogging platforms to provide a new type of online classroom. By using HootCourse, a teacher can expand the conversation with students outside the classroom.
JayCut (www.jaycut.com): JayCut is a creation tool. It enables anyone, anywhere, with any mobile device, using any media to edit video on the web and finally publish the result to any device or website.

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