Best+Teacher+Tools

=Best Teacher Tech Tools for Busy Educators=

[|Best Teacher Tech Tools for Busy Educators.pdf]

Why recreate the wheel? Find the best teacher created PowerPoint presentations, games, educational clipart, and music. Learn to save your sites for easy sharing. Explore sites to create seating charts, jeopardy games, word searches, and more. Discover the best tools to share images including BigHugeLabs and PhotoPeach. These tools will save you time and help you to be a better teacher. Hang on for a fast survey of some great useful tools and website.

1. Utilize Time-Saving Shortcuts MS Office – and many other applications A. Big 4 – CTRL Z, X, C, V B. Extra 6 – CTRL P, S, N, B, I, U C. Format Painter D. CTRL + 2 or CTRL + 5 E. CTRL + SHIFT + > or < F. Instant Lines --- = _ G. Insert image from Online Windows A. Enter when YES is highlighted B. Alt F4 – Shut Down C. Alt + Tab D. Windows + L to go to login screen E. Windows + D to hide/show desktop <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">F. Folders - view by Details; organize by date, size, type <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">G. Task Bar – Quick Launch/Show Desktop <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">H. Right Mouse Click – Contextual <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">I. Send to USB Flash Drive <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Internet Explorer or MS Office <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Add Internet Explorer Icons to Desktop <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Drag icon from address bar onto desktop or into folder. The icon can be renamed and these can be organized into folders. They are only shortcuts and if they are no longer needed, can simply be deleted. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Resize Internet Explorer Zoom Levels <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">CTRL + mouse scroll wheel <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. Open link in new tab: CTRL + Click on link <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">D. Cycle through open tabs: CTRL + Tab

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Manage favorites – Delicious <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Delicious [|www.delicious.com] stores your bookmarks online, providing access from any computer and allowing you to add bookmarks from any computer. Instead of folders to organize your bookmarks or favorites, you use tags (key words) to identify your sites. Your collection is searchable by your tags. It’s social in that you can save sites for others Delicious users in your network and others can save sites for you. You can upload your current favorites or bookmarks to Delicious to get started. [|http://diigo.com] is an alternative to Delicious which offers many additional features. For beginners, Delicious is easier to use. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Common Craft – Social Bookmarking in Plain English <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Delicious User’s Guide (nice 4 page guide with screenshots) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. Wes Fryer’s A QuickStart Guide for del.icio.us social bookmarks (2 page) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. I wish YouTube wasn’t blocked – 1-Click YouTube Video Download, Format Factory <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Videos with educational value can sometimes be found only on YouTube. While you may find the video on: [|TeacherTube], [|SchoolTube], [|OurMedia], it may only be on YouTube. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Use [|Firefox] – explore video add-ons [|http://addons.mozilla.org] such as: [|Video Download Helper], [|1-Click YouTube Video Download], and [|Download YouTube Videos +] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. YouTube Downloader - [|http://youtubedownload.altervista.org] A stand alone application which requires a two step process; step 1 - download as MP4, step 2 – convert to .WMV <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">D. Online converters - [|www.zamzar.com] and [|www.mediaconverter.org] may run slow, have limits, or email you when finished. Video may be in .FLV format and require converting. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">E. Most YouTube videos are not only available in Flash (.FLV) but in MEG4 (MP4) format can easily be downloaded and played offline using the QuickTime Player. To download YouTube video in MP4 format you have a few options listed below. I recommend you convert the MP4 videos into .WMV or .AVI format for inserting into PowerPoint or playback using Windows Media Player. The free Format Factory application is a great choice for converting videos. [|www.formatoz.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">F. YouTube in Education handout (6 page .pdf) with step-by-step guide to doing the above. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">[|www.techforschools.com/handouts/youtubeineducation.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">G. MSNBC Videos, [|www.icue.com] Collections of NBC videos, photos and social sharing. Ideal for social studies. The sites embedded player makes them difficult to download.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Search Google and Google Squared <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Learn to use Google’s Advanced Search option and Image Search to find exactly what you need. Under File Type select: PowerPoint or PDF. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Also set date ranges to find the most up-to-date material. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. The image search can look for images of specific file types, such as only clipart. You can also turn on “Save Search” to use Strict Filtering. WARNING – Never do an image search projecting in front of students without first testing the search terms – and still be cautious. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">D. Google Squared [|www.google.com/squared] is a Google labs project. It creates a sortable matrix of information on a topic with links to the source. Columns can be added.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. Let other do the work <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Utah Education Network [|www.uen.org] This site provides a wealth of resources, including Student Interactives pages: [] where links are organized by curriculum area to Java, Flash, and Shockwave based interactive activities. A teacher can get lost exploring these activities. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Tools for Educators [|www.toolsforeducators.com] is a site with worksheets, cross word maker, word search, certificate creators and more. Super Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. Tools [|http://superteachertools.com] provides the tools that teachers love, such as the random name generator, and seating chart tool. Once a class list is created or uploaded, a teacher is assigned a number so their list may be used again and again. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">D. The 4Teacher site [|www.4teachers.org] provides a rich collection of different tools with RubiStar and TrackStar being two of the most popular. RubiStar allows users to create rubrics using predefined categories and text. TrackStar guide students using guided “tracks” with questions and links to websites. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">E. ThinkFinity, [|www.thinkfinity.org] the Verizon supported site provides links to partner sites including Xpeditions, ReadWriteThink, and Illuminations. Once you find a collection of resources, further refine your search by resource type. Try a search for “simple machines” and then narrow the search to just show only Interactives sites. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">F. Michigan Electronic Library’s Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE). Start at [|www.mel.org] and then navigate to MORE. Browse by content expectations or subject. Links are represented by a laptop icon.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">6. ZoomIt <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in;">ZoomIt is from Microsoft. [] and allows screen zooming, annotation and a built-in timer. Every teacher with a projector should use ZoomIt. It can be installed to launch on startup.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">7. Let Me Just Show You – Jing <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Create handouts with screenshots or record screen actions using <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Jing from [|www.jingproject.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Capture parts of the screen or up to 5 minutes of onscreen actions with audio. Saved tutorials are in Flash and may be posted to a website, emailed, or uploaded to TechSmith’s [|www.screencast.com] site.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">8. Guide Students –Weebly <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">[|www.weebly.com] is a “brain dead” easy way to create a website. Using drag and drop modules and more than 50 design templates, you add text, links, photos, and even documents. You pick the web site name which becomes a prefix to weebly.com, e.g. [|http://yourschoolname.weebly.com] Create a website in minutes. An alternative is Google Sites: [|http://sites.google.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Weebly Tutorial Site [|http://www.weeblytutorial.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Weebly Video Tutorial from Miracola’s Free is Good site <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">[|www.misd.net/fig/weebly/weebly.html]

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">9. Pete’s PowerPoint Station, Blackwell’s Templates <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Pete’s PowerPoint Station: [|www.pppst.com] (check out templates & clipart) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Blackwell’s Teacher Templates [|www.vickiblackwell.com/ppttemplates.html] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. World of Teaching PowerPoints [|www.worldofteaching.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">D. Microsoft Templates and Clip Art [|http://office.microsoft.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">E. Discovery Schools Clipart []

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 22.5pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;">10. Picasa – Image editing and organization made easy <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Google’s Picas [|http://picasa.google.com] is a downloaded application which provides the tools to easily edit and manage your photo collection. Printing, enhancing, cropping, creating slideshows, and ordering photos only takes a few clicks. New features include face recognition to automatically find all photos based on a face.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 22.5pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;">11. PhotoPeach – digital storytelling made easy <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. PhotoPeach [|http://photopeach.com] is a free online site where you can create and share a digital slideshow with up to 30 images, music, text, and even a built-in quiz. It does not support narration unless added as an audio file. PhotoPeach is a nice alternative to the popular PhotoStory application. Free downloads with the premium account, only $3 a month.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">12. Keep Me Up To Date – iGoogle <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">iGoogle [] allows you to customize your Google page to hold your most important information. The Google search tool is still there, but the white area has now been replaced with modules you select. Modules can be rearranged and multiple pages can be created so personal information can be kept separate from work information. Modules may contact the latest news, RSS content from your favorite blog, or gadgets with the current weather forecasts or the word of the day. Principals use iGoogle to monitor teachers’ blogs. From [|www.google.com] click the upper right corner where it says iGoogle to login or create an account. Then start adding content. Switch back to the “Classic” view at anytime with a click. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Getting Started with iGoogle [] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 49.5pt; tabstops: list 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;">i. Subscribe to Educator’s Blogs - Search for blogs by content area at: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 1in; tabstops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. [|www.technorati.com], [|www.blog-search.com] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 49.5pt; tabstops: list 49.5pt; text-indent: -49.5pt;">ii. Go to a blog site and see what blogs the author is following in their blog roll: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 1in; tabstops: list 1.0in left 207.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. David Warlick’s blog, 2¢Worth, [] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 1in; tabstops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. School bloggers []

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;">13. Let’s Work Together – WikiSpaces <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 27pt; text-indent: -27pt;">Wikis may be the most important tool for educators to learn to use for student collaboration. Why use wikis? Wikis allow users to easily add text, links, images, and embed multimedia into wiki pages. Multiple users can work at the same time on different pages, and if a change needs to be made to something already created, anyone can use the history tab to go back to a previous version. Wikis can have some pages open for editing and other locked. Some wikis allow teachers to batch create accounts for students, bypassing the unique email requirement. When a teacher creates an account in WikiSpaces, they indicate it’s for K-12 educational use. An existing WikiSpaces user can easily start a new educational wiki at: [] For examples of wikis in education visit: http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">14. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 4.5pt; tabstops: 4.5pt .25in; text-indent: -13.5pt;">URL shortening <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: 4.5pt .25in list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Tools such as TinyURL [|http://tinyurl.com] and Bitly: [|http://bit.ly] have become popular for shortening long URLs. This allowed a site such as: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: 4.5pt .25in list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">[] to be shared as: []

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: .25in; text-indent: -27pt;">1515. Every picture tells a story - Photofunia <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: .25in; text-indent: -27pt;">[|http://photofunia.com] is a site where a user can add a photo to a specialized background, making it look like the photo or the person was a part of the photo. Starting with a passport like photo (close up of a face), the program locates the face in the image and replaces the face in the picture with that face for some humorous results. Nice program for creating images for writing prompts or to enhance a story or website. Big Huge Labs [|http://bighugelabs.com] is a site which provides some alternative image tools.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; tabstops: .25in; text-indent: -27pt;">1616. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 4.5pt; tabstops: 4.5pt .25in; text-indent: -13.5pt;">Grab Bag <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Wordle [|www.wordle.net] Create word clouds. The more frequent a word, the larger the image. Options for saving on the site but no options for copying to paste into another application. We have students use Alt + Print Screen. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Online Flash Cards and study games. Quizlet [|www.quizlet.com] and [|www.studystack.com] Create your own or use existing sets. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">C. Blabberize [|www.blabberize.com] Make history come to life as students add their voice to an image with parts of the image moving so it looks like its talking. Try objects/animals, such as a horse telling their view of the Civil War. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 40.5pt; tabstops: list 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">D. The British Dance Mat Keyboarding [|www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/] is a favorite with accented directions. Explore the rich collection of resources [|www.bbc.co.uk/schools/]