Piece of Cake Technology

You will find links to some helpful, creative sites that you might find ways to use in an interactive classroom. As with most interactive social media, there may be content that is not suitable for direct instruction with students. That does not mean that useful content can’t be found there and utilized.

FACEinHOLE
This website allows the user to place a picture of a face within a previously published picture.

Xtranormal.com
If you can type, you can make a 3D animated movie. Very Easy and Kid Friendly (although you still have to monitor content).

http://www.voki.com/
This site allows you to create a virtual avatar to speak your personalized message.

http://www.meez.com/
Also a virtual avatar creation site.

http://blabberize.com/
Upload a picture and make it talk.

http://screenr.com/
Create Screencasts on the fly for twitter.

http://www.lifeblob.com/
An interactive timeline blogging site.

http://www.slideshare.net/
Upload and share Powerpoint Presentations, Word documents and Adobe pdf portfolios.

http://www.google.com
A site that works as a personal homepage. It allows the user to set interactive and personal data to show on the screen using “gadgets”, rss feeds and other cool stuff.

http://www.wordle.net/create
A site to create beautiful word clouds. Use caution with kids. Content often unreliable.

http://www.gradefix.com/
This a student homework organizer.

http://www.mynoteit.com/
Interactive student note taking/sharing tool.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. A good list of online manipulatiaves

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