Poll Anywhere

Use your cell phones as a student response center. 

Why use Poll Everywhere?

• Increase classroom participation and attentiveness
• Encourage risk-taking with anonymous student responses
• Elicit diverse opinions when there isn't a correct answer
• Expose social misconceptions
• Gauge student comprehension of material immediately
• Grab students with thought-provoking opening questions
• Allow students to provide instructor feedback
• Automate taking attendance
• Assess last night's reading with a quick quiz
• Strengthen retention
• Utilize its capabilities outside the classroom for professional development, student-run presentations, talent shows, battle of the bands, company presentations, student government, or community forums.

Poll Everywhere is free for classes with up to 32 students per section. Sign up now (K-12 or Higher Ed) or read on to learn why Poll Everywhere is great for educators

My Fake Wall

 My Fake Wall is a tool for creating a fake Facebook wall for a fictitious or historical character.  To create a Fake Wall you do need to register for a My Fake Wall account. Then you can upload images, write wall posts, even create “likes” and comments on fake posts.  Let us know what you’ve created.

Click here for My Fake Wall

Welcome to Tagxedo, tag cloud with styles

http://www.tagxedo.com/Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Web 2.0 and 21st Century Skills

https://sites.google.com/a/ccpsweb.org/web2-0/home  Needs ideas on how to incorporate 2`1st century skills into your classroom.  Check out the website! 

Using Movie Maker in the classroom

Movie Maker Training
http://docs.google.com/a/ccpsweb.org/present/edit?id=0Aas_9b0FynCWZGhxN2J4bXNfMTE5Zm05ZDJyZHg&hl=en

Click Start Presentation to view ppt.

Movie Maker is a great tool that students or teachers can use.  21st century Skills Creativity and Innovation.

Portaportal

Every time I email the staff with a link of an interesting website I also bookmark it on the school's portaportal website.  Check it out and get some great ideas!!  Remember most of the games can be used on your Promethean Boards

Guest Access: culpepermiddleschool

http://guest.portaportal.com/culpepermiddleschool

Voki

VOKI
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, websites, and email.

http://www.voki.com/

Examples of how Vokis can be used in education

Voki Handout!! Step by Step instructions

See me to get Culpeper Middle School's  Username and Password or create your own.