Technology

These sites have smart board activities for geometry, number and operation concepts, functions and algebra, fractions, and statistics. Explore the many different applets. Included is an eThemes Resource for Geometry for Junior and High School.
 * Math SmartBoard Activities

Screencast-O-Matic Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows or Mac with no install for FREE!

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with **no software to install**. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds__ [|images, documents, and videos] __ and allows people to navigate slides and leave __ [|comments in 5 ways] __ - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). __ [|Share] __ a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can __ [|doodle] __ while commenting, use multiple __ [|identities] __, and pick which comments are shown through __ [|moderation] __. VoiceThreads can even be __ [|embedded] __ to show and receive comments on other websites and __ [|exported] __ to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slideshow that allows students to comment on images, documents, and video through text, video, and audio files. Teachers can set up groups and classes as well as moderate comments, embed to blogs, and export to audio files. It is an easy way to differentiate instruction while providing engaging choices to "show" learning, engage in conversation, and think openly and critically about content.
 * VoiceThread
 * Using VoiceThread

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They're curiously fun. Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. It is a fun, collaborative, storytelling website. Storybird was designed to allow children to work with parents and friends in creating art-inspired stories to share and save. It is also now a very popular tool to for use by teachers with their students around the globe. Users choose from art hosted on the site and build a story around those images that can then be shared with family and friends. Storybird encourages creativity and is a web tool that supports working collaboratively.
 * Storybird
 * Using Storybird

Using Wetoku Wetoku is a web service or Web 2.0 tool out of Korea that provides a simple platform for interviewing someone via the Internet. Collaborating globally is a must for our students and as result interviewing can be a challenge. Wetoku makes doing an interview as easy as filling out some basic information, creating an interview session and then sending the creative interview session’s URL to the interviewee. Once the recording is done, the interviewer can embed the copy of the URL into a blog or website. You will need a web-cam for this tool.
 * Wetoku

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">// Social networking sites like Google+ present powerful classroom opportunities, but they are also designed to create hierarchies. //
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Googe+: The Dark Side of the Circle

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Do you ever wonder why we still have faculty meetings? Do you ever walk away from a meeting feeling refreshed and energized about what you just heard? Do you approach these meetings with excitement and genuine wonderment?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Stop Meeting and Start Connecting

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For many people, Twitter conjures up the worst of the internet: disjointed, meaningless phrases, unrecognizable abbreviations, and endless drivel about where someone's getting their double mocha today.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How to Use Twitter to Grow Your PLN

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Real-time collaborative text-editor. No account required. Edits highlighted in authors color. Infinite undo history. Syntax highlighting for editing code. Every keystroke backed up.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">EtherPad

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wordle

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tactile tablets are about to change the way we learn, because they are so intuitive and because they eliminate the barriers between school and home, work and personal, play and study. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">eduPad’s mission is to provide a cross-platform solution that enables anyone with great educational content such as publishers, teachers and organizations to easily publish great e-learning apps without lengthy and expensive technology development.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">EduPad

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Welcome to eFolioMinnesota(tm), a Web-based portfolio designed to help you create a living showcase of your education, career, and personal achievements. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">All Minnesota residents; including students and educators affiliated with Minnesota schools and people working in the state of Minnesota, can use eFolioMinnesota to reach their career and education goals. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">eFolioMinnesota is a free resource for Minnesota residents, students, and workers provided by the Minnesota State Colleges and University system.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Efolio Minnesota

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">TeacherWeb® is the leading provider of template websites for teachers’ use in the classroom and administrators’ use in schools and districts. TeacherWeb® sites are completely customizable and easy-to-use! Educators can quickly create and continuously update personalized TeacherWeb® sites with the click of a mouse.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teacher Web

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">At Prezi, we're all about [|helping people understand each other better]. Presentations have not evolved much in the 50 years since the slide was invented, but Prezi is changing that. Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Prezi Presentations

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Virtual Apple ][ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Virtual Apple ][ is a site which will take you back to the 1980's through its collection of more than 1400 game disks online. Play and enjoy old Apple ][ (Apple2) and Apple IIgs games and other disks through your Internet web browser. You will find games like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers which many of you played as kids, as well as games like Tetris, Battle Chess, Leisure Suit Larry, Choplifter, Archon II and Kings Quest.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: justify;">All of the games in this archive fit into one of three categories; Freeware, Abandon Ware, or Public Domain. While there are currently over 1400 disk images archived on the web site, we still are adding more all the time..


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;">Middle School iPad Apps

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This page will house suggested iPad apps for Middle Schools. (**Primary Contact:** John Shoemaker john.shoemaker@palmbeachschools.org)