Student-Centered+Resources

These resources are websites students can use to demonstrate their understanding of a topic. Some of these are also excellent sites for educators to design more engaging projects, more exciting presentations, or facilitate discussion.

[|Glogster] or [|Edu-Glogster] This site enables students to create digital displays of information (like a digital poster) - they can group the information, share key ideas, images, videos, etc.

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[|Worldle] This site provides an opportunity for students to make interesting displays with a series of words.

[|Voice Thread] This is a collaborative, multi-media, cloud-based presentation that others can comment on in several different ways (voice recording, text, audio file, or video

[|Photostory 3] This is a free Microsoft download for software that students can use to create a podcast or documentary style video

[|Animoto] This site makes it extremely easy to upload photos, captions, and choose a song to create a quick video

[|Tiki-Toki] This site enables students to contribute to an interactive timeline

[|Blogspot] An easy to create, use, and maintain blog site [|Mrs. Hals' Traveling Classroom]

[|Edmodo] This is a space in which the teachers can set up a classroom environment to connect, collaborate, and share - students can do the same and help cultivate classroom discussion.

[|CamStudio] Free screen and audio recording software

Wikispaces This is an easy to use program to create a wiki to serve as a class website or a collaborative space for your students

[|Zunal] This site is a pretty easy to use web quest maker [|Japanese Occupation of Korea: 1910-1945]