04+TechTools

We will use this page to organize "Technology Tools" or virtual instructional resources. This can be in the form of webpages, blogs, whatever points us to interesting/helpful resources.
__**Blogs**__ [|Blogger] [|Free Technology for Teachers] (just what it says, with great links and ideas) [|Dangerously Irrelevant] (blog from the creator of Did You Know/Shift Happens) [|Students 2.0] (blog by students on their experiences with school and the Web 2.0 world)

[] (huge collection of neat Web2.0 tools) [|280 Slides] (Presentations made easy) [|Animoto for Education] (digital storytelling or presentation tool) [|ClusterMaps] (online mapping) [|Delicious] (social bookmarking) [|Diigo] (social bookmarking and website annotating) [|Edomo] (education version of Twitter-like microblogging) [|Fliggo](make your own YouTube site - get around our content "filter") [|Moodle] (open-source free course management system) [|Ning] (create your own social network or join one unique to your interests) [|Odeo] (Odeo makes it easy to find, play and enjoy the latest audio & video from around the web) [|OHS Science Teacher's site] (High School Science links of interest) [|PhotoStory] (Great for Student Projects) [|SketchCast] (Narrate your own drawings/writing) [|Skype] (Free calls, video calls and instant messaging over the internet) [|SlideShare](Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents ) [|SqoolTools] (course management system like Moodle) & [|initial info page] [|Twitter] (interesting news/update possibilities) [|VoiceThread] & [|ed.VoiceThread] (alternative/extension to PowerPoint :) [|Wordle] (great tool to explore word choice/patterns in text) [|Zamzar] (online file conversion tool for video, audio, documents, and images)
 * __Websites__**

[|Schoohoo] is a free online-alert system similar to ConnectEd.
 * __Free School-use resources__**

__**Free Hosting**__ [|Global Classroom] offers free hosting of [|Moodle] sites in virtual eClassrooms [|Ninehub] offers free hosting of Moodle, Wordpress (coming soon) and PhpBB (coming soon) [|KeyToSchool] offers free Moodle hosting

Oswego Staff Wiki (A collection of useful Web 2.0 tools teachers can use)
 * __Wikis__**

A collection of short videos focused on student technology
 * Videos**