Tammy Worcester | Beyond the Tools

18 Oct

ICT Tip: Random Name Picker

Link: classtools.net Quick overview: A website that can randomly pick one of your students’ names to answer a question. Easy to use, only takes a few seconds to get up and running. How does it work? Enter your students’ names...
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8 Mar

ICT Tip: BibMe automatically generates perfectly formatted bibliography pages

Quick overview: A website that generates a perfectly formatted bibliography page. Students only need to provide the title of a book or other media sources they wish to cite. How does it work? Bibme (www.bibme.com) enables your students to compile...
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2 Dec

ICT Tip: Tagxedo “Image Word” Clouds

Quick overview: The Tagxedo (www.tagxedo.com) website is very similar to Wordle, which I wrote about in an earlier blog posting. Like Wordle, Tagxedo allows your students to specify text from a website and generate a cloud of word poetry that...
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28 Sep

ICT Tip: Furly allows you to line-up a list of websites before teaching your class

Quick overview: Furly is a website that allows you to store multiple website addresses you’d like to present in your upcoming class. Once class starts, you can simply jump to each website without having to type in complicated web addresses...
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