HiTechHall's School Tool Kit:

• Google for Educators

1. Google Docs (replaces Microsoft Office, allowing collaboration too)
2. Google Notebook (an online notebook for collecting "scraps" of information)
3. Google Apps (growing suite of tools than can be incorporated into any domain)
4. Google Sites (allows collaboration and easy building and sharing of intranets, Web sites and wikis)
5. Google Alerts (sends email updates of the latest relevant search results based on the user's choice of query or topic)
6. Google Sketchup
7. Google Maps
8. Google Earth

• Ustream (live interactive broadcasting)
• VoiceThread (group conversations around images, docs and videos)
• Delicious (online bookmarking)
• Diigo (online bookmarking, plus)
• Citation Machine (an oldie but a goodie)
• Rubistar (rubric creator)
• Polldaddy (online polls and surveys)
• Quizlet (study tools, quiz/test creator)
• Gliffy (an online version of Inspiration)
• Ning (opensource social network creator)
• Wikispaces (admin, teacher & class wikis)
• Edublogs (admin, teacher & student blogs)
• Online Grades & Attendance (opensource tool that allows various grading software to be put online)
• Twitter (mini-blog, or mini-social network)
• Flickr (photos)
• Skype (phone/video-conferencing, IM, file-sharing)
• Gcast (Podcasting)

Reference:

• Del.icio.us/hitechhall is where I save my growing list of bookmarks related to Education and Technology
• EBSCOhost Databases require a username and password that many teachers & students have
• Questia Database also requires a username and password that many teachers & students have

Personal & Friends' Sites:

• Jenny Abrams, an excellent math teacher who works at Ruamrudee International School in Bangkok.
• Tom Mallan, a great theater teacher and filmmaker who works at the American School of Barcelona.
• Hal, Marcy Newton & The Newton Boys family Web site.
• Waterloo Education specializes in correlating educational products to state standards, tests, and other publications.
• Mom Hub, a great site for parents looking for family-oriented things to do. Developed with the open-source platform Drupal.
• Full House Moms, a nonprofit support group for parents of twins, also using Drupal.
• Kealing Middle School Here is a list of articles, videos and Web sites concerning the troubles at my old school:
• Austin Chronicle
• News8Austin (video)
• KVUE (video)
• Austin-American Statesman
• MSNBC
• Kealing Parents concerned about Teacher Morale and Retention (Web site)

Last modified: December 6, 2008
For more information, contact steve AT hitechhall DOT com