#1 – Livebinders
Ok, Livebinders is kind of amazing!!! So think about the binders you have in your classroom that hold all of your resources. It’s just like that, but web based!! You can access those resources from any computer, anywhere! You need to create an account, but it’s F-R-E-E! You can view other people’s binders as well!
#2 Class Pager
Have you ever been to a restaurant or a store and seen those signs that say “Text ‘blahblahblah’ to 55552 to receive coupon codes”? Well this is just like that!! You can give your parents a code to text to a number and then you can send them updates via text message! A good example of this would be to remind them of upcoming tests, parent conference reminders, school event reminders, etc. SO COOL, right? Check it out!
#3 Kerpoof
It is a bright, colorful website where you can create movies, cards, drawings, and little books/stories! This would be awesome to have students use this to create a drawing and/or picture to go with a story they wrote!
#4 Zooburst
“ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.” This is similar to Kerpoof, but it’s a tad bit more user friendly (in my opinion). So this would probably be great to use in primary classrooms. This is also available as an app so you can have it on you iPad!
#5 Symbaloo
It’s like all your bookmarks on one screen! It creates little “tiles” for you. You can also create different “webmixes”. You can have a “webmix” for math and bookmark all your favorite math sites there. You can create one for language arts, and have all of your favorite online language arts resources right there. You can also search for other people’s tiles and add them to your “webmix”. And they tiles are cute little icons, which is great if you are a visual person like me! It might sound a little confusing now, but go check out the website and play around on it and you will see what I’m talking about!! You MUST check this one out!! It’s amazing! Here is a symbaloo that I have posted on my library website:
