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Starter aid
What tools are you using in your

Core Toolset?
Suggestions with lots of ideas **[|Toolset for Learning 2008]**

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Gotta Have
[|Firefox] [|Skype for MAC OS X]

**RSS Links**
[|Google reader] [|iGoogle] [|Pageflakes] [|Settting up Bloglines](RSS feed--David Warlick)

**Social Bookmarking**
[|delicious] [|diigo]

**Screen capture**
[|JING] Image captures and screencasts for MAC or Windows [|Skitch] Image capture--MAC only [|screencast-o-matic] [|Screencasting] list from Shambles

**Other**
[|Flickr] [|Setting up a Flickr Account](David Warlick) [|iTunes] [|Google Docs & Spreadsheets] [|Google Apps Training] (good intro to mail, talk, calendar, start page, docs, sites) [|Proxy] (need help getting to an unavailable site?) [|Flip4Mac] allows you to play Windows Media files

[|UStream.TV] In just minutes, you can broadcast and chat online with a global audience

Copyright Images and Sounds
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ See this portal!

Blogging Examples in the Classroom
[|Introduction to Blogging] [|10 ways to become a better blogger] [|Setting up a Blog with Edublogs](David Warlick) Webblogging in the Classroom (Will Richardson) [|http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/WebLoggingSmall.mov] Edublog Awards http://del.icio.us/edublogawards2005 [|Mr. K's 21st century Learning Center]Secondary blog [|blog] of proximal development]] [|Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog] Grade One and Two [|Room 208]Elementary blog Links to School Bloggers(several are blogspot) support blogging--Resources Blogs and Wikis as WebQuest Tasks (Dodge) http://webquest.sdsu.edu/necc2004/blogs-and-wikis.htm [|Bud the Teacher's Wiki]

Aids and tools
[|Top 100 tools for learning]

[|Add Letters]Sign and Image generator [|Blog] Tag Generator [|CoolArchive] Free clipart, fonts,icons, and much more [|CoolText.com]Logo and graphics generator [|Epals] Classroom exchange [|fds Flickr toys] [|Flickr Creative Commons] [|Frappr]Where your friends live or work [|Geocaching]Adventure game for gps users [|Gliffy]Create and share diagrams online [|Google for Educators] [|ImageChef] [|NVu] Complete web authoring system [|paint.net] [|QuestGaden 1.0] Webquest generator [|Teacher Tools] [|TinyURL] [|What can we do with Flickr?]Alan Levine [|OpenSource] [|FreeWare] [|KML files] used in conjuction with Google Earth StoryTools 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story

**Slide shows**
http://www.bubbleshare.com/ http://www.filmloop.com/ http://www.rockyou.com/ http://www.slide.com/main [|SlideShare] http://www.smilebox.com/ http://www.tabblo.com/studio/ http://tagloops.com/ http://www.pickle.com/ http://www.ourstory.com/ [|VoiceThread] with audio [|Slide Rocket]

Cartoons
http://toonlet.com http://comiqs.com/ http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ http://www.pixton.com http://comeeko.com/ http://www.buildyourwildself.com http://www.kerpoof.com http://www.quicktoons.com/create http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon http://www.stripgenerator.com http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/ http://goanimate.com/

**Timelines**
[|circaVie] [|Dipity] http://www.dandelife.com/ timeline and stories [|xtimeline]

Mindmapping
http://bubbl.us/ http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

**For students**
[|Gradefix]

Aids to podcasting, vocasting, vlogging
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Garage Band 2 http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ Apple iTunes 4.9 http://www.apple.com/podcasting/ Audioblogger http://www.audioblogger.com/ iPodder [|http://ipodder.org] [|Podcasting Resources for Educators and Students] Podcast Bunker [|http://www.podcastbunker.com] NetLingo http://www.netlingo.com/index.cfm [|Innertoob] [|Odeo Studio] Create and Publish a Podcast—for FREE [|Gcast] [|Keepvid] Allows you to download videos onto your computer [|iMovie Tutorials] from Clay Burell

About Podcasting
[|Podcast help] from Wes Fryer All for Podcast [|part1] [|part2] Room 208 Podcasts http://bobsprankle.com/blog/ School Blogs Educators’ examples http://www.schoolblogs.com/listTheSchoolBlogs Podcasting as a Teaching/Learning Strategy http://www.podcastercon.org/share/index.php?title=Podcasting_as_a_Teaching/Learning_Strategy Barnaby Wasson’s NECC Presentation: What is Podcasting? http://necc.dmit.asu.edu/archives/05_06_28_NECC_Podcasting.pdf Yahoo! Groups: Podcasting-Education [|http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Podcasting-Education]

Aid to finding Podcasts/Audio/Videos Online
[|Education Podcast Network] [|LearnOutLoud.com]Free audio and video [|The Bobby Bucket Show]Podcasts on a bucket of books [|The Podcast Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges] [|Shambles podcasting] [|Create, Find, Share, Podcasts!] [|Odeo] Listen to thousands of podcasts and more [|English through Stories] [|English as a Second Language podcast] [|American Public Media podcasts] [|National Radio Project] (how to automatically download) [|American Rhetoric] Includes databases of Online Speech Bank, Top 100 Speeches, Movie Speeches, and much more. [|AccuRadio] [|Free Audio]

Wiki-aid
a wiki of Tutorials and Guide Examples of educational wikis [|Using Wiki in Education] A Wiki-based Book [|Wikispaces Tutorial] a wiki that is not currently blocked in China [|Wild about Wikis] [|Welker's Wikinomics] Great example from SAS for secondary students (wetpaint currently blocked in China)

Fun-aid
[|Geosense] an online geography game [|Scrabble helper] [|Mumble Jumble] http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedcountries Visited Countries