Applications

Animoto: http://animoto.com Unlimited digital storytelling for teachers and students; produce music videos with your photos.
Audacity: Free, open-source software for recording your voice, editing or mixing music.
Big Huge Labs: http://bighugelabs.com/  Have fun with your digital photos. Create motivational posters, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, calendars, frames…
Bridges:  http://bridges.com  Helps students explore career and education options.
CreativeCommons: http://creativecommons.org  Use this site for students to locate pictures online; be sure to have students check mark search for pictures that can be modified, etc. Sites searches Yahoo, Google and Flickr.
Discovery Streaming:  http://www.unitedstreaming.com  Passcode: A370-170E
Access to videos in a variety of subject areas; create quizzes and explore lessons
eBooks: Many self contained audiobooks are available.
 

Programs

edClass: Engage students in effective and meaningful technology integration activities.
Flickr:http://flickr.com Flickr is one of the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
Futures Channel: http://www.thefutureschannel.com/ Connects learning to the real world; real math and science videos
Gaggle:http://www.gaggle.net All students will have a monitored account and email; allows teachers to download lessons; create a message board, chat or blog; allows students to upload their assignments to a safe place
GIMP: Free, open source software similar to Photoshop that allows photo retouching, image composition, animations, painting and image authoring.
Google Earth: Explore vast regions of the earth, space, and sea; track and share paths, use Google Lit Trips or create your own trip and much more.
Google Docs: Word Doc, spreadsheets, presentations can all be created in this program, students and teacher can collaborate with peer editing, shared writing; spreadsheets offer collaboration in data analysis; create a collaborative newspaper; can be accessed any Inspiration-Graphic organizers that include thinking maps, concept maps, idea maps, webs, etc. 120+ cross curricular templates
 

Tools

Microsoft Office:

• Word: create trading cards, postcards, or brochures .
• PowerPoint:  create a Jeopardy game or presentation;
• Excel:  record data and combine with graphs;
• Publisher: create a brochure, newsletter, etc.

Moviemaker: Create digital videos using pictures, video clips, music and much more-a little more advanced.
pd21:http://www.pd21.com/  Online technology staff development focused on integration. Ask for a login
Photostory 3: Allows students to create a digital story by using pictures, text, voice, music, etc. Narrated projects, book trailers, multimedia made easy.
Puzzlemaker:  http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/   Create puzzles online for classroom use.
Thinkfinity: http://thinkfinity.org  Free lesson plans and educational resources for teachers, parents and students.
Timeliner• Visually take gathered information and create a timeline, sequence or cycle
VoiceThreads:  http://voicethread.com  Voice thread is a powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents and videos.
Wordle:  http://www.wordle.net  Generates word clouds that provide prominence to words used in the text.
 

Databases

(Online books , magazines, journals, newspapers, multimedia, etc.)

Gale Databases: Contains reference books, magazines, newspapers, peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and multimedia material.
Password: lonestar
World Book Encyclopedia: Offers the encyclopedia, dictionary, information on Texas, and an atlas of the world. Content includes pictures, videos, sounds along with links to reputable web sites.
User name: gpisd
Password: prairie
Encyclopedia Britannica: Offers a variety of current online encyclopedia articles along with reputable web sites, pictures, etc.
User name: 057910005
Password: learn
Ebsco Databases: Provides a variety information through books, magazines, etc.
User name: ns077937
Password: password