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| A few Resources to make your class a paperless classroom:
Make your classroom reach beyond the walls of your school building: FunBrain offers some excellent educational activities.... you can also setup custom quizzes where you will be emailed the results! The quiz center site and QuizStar also offers the ability to create quizzes. The Quia site also offers the ability to do quizzes as well as numerous online games. Try our Norris Staff Challenge Game or a sample multiple choice quiz. (Developed on Quia.) A little more about Quia and FunBrain can be found here. Discovery schools' site offers some nice teacher tools and resources including their quiz lab. (Free online quizzing feature.) Eboard is an excellent way to setup an electronic bulletin board to keep students, parents and other informed. (If making your own web page scares you.... this is a great way to start.) Want to turn your class into a web class/distance learning classroom? Check out blackboard or HighWired.com Teach-ology offers a nice online calendar for posting your class activities and assignments. The calendars net site also offers some nice free calendar services. Conduct an email survey. This site is free and compiles the results anonymously and send you the results via email. Profiler is a great tool for surveying students (or staff) and view the results electronically. TrackStar is an interface that helps instructors organize and define URL's in a database. MyPlaceWare offers a free meeting service (For up to 5 people) to chat, share slide shows, etc... TriPod Online class builder allows you to get your classroom online for free. (Sign up and start building.) You can compare the free service to their other plans here. (There free service offers quite a bit for the price.) ESU5 has a nice page with online-quizzing resources and examples Interactive Polls for your website: Quia's new subscription service includes survery capabilities (Click here to take a sample Quia survey.) Or check out the sites below for free polls that can be added to your personal website / class page:
A few FrontPage education tool links: Global Presence offers some nice FrontPage add-ins including surveys, online course development, etc...
A few general general tool links: Gaggle net offers student email that you can filter and monitor. Make great crossword and other puzzles at Discovery's Puzzle Maker site. The AOL@Schools and Teach-ology offers everything from lesson plans to customizable pages.
Tips for Word and PowerPoint: Want to distribute a Word document and have hot links in the document? In word, highlight the text you want to hyperlink and then go to the insert menu and select hyperlink. Type in the URL of the web site and you are done. When you distribute the file to students and they click on the link...a web browser will open and take them to that site. Want to have a link to the web in your PowerPoint presentation? This is very similar to Word... highlight the text you want to hyperlink and then go to the insert menu and select hyperlink. Type in the URL of the web site and you are done. When you distribute the file to students and they click on the link...a web browser will open and take them to that site. Visit this page for information on publishing your PowerPoint as a web page. Visit this page on how to add narration to your PowerPoint.
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