Cool Tools
Managing the Digital Classroom
Online Bulletin Boards and Stickies
Corkboard It: An online idea board desgined to help users keep track of things you love. One of the features of this board is the abiity to set up alerts. Probably not the best board for classroom use, but handy for adults.
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Edistorm: An online bulletin board with templates that features an intelligent idea box which brainstorms along with you based on related words. You can also group ideas for organization. .
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LinoIt: A user-friendly online bulletin board that supports colorful
post-it notes, images, video and weblinks. |
WallWisher: This bulletin board supports images, video and text and requires
an account to create, but anyone can post to a board. It's a nice tool, but sometimes can be a bit slow to load. Embed a board into a blog, wiki or website. |
Attribution and Web Highlighters
Awesome Highlighter: This cool tool allows anyone to highlight text on any web page, add a sticky note, and share the link. Install the handy bookmarklet to easily highlight text as you surf the web.
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Curate Us: Use this tool to visually share content on the web. Click a button
to take a snapshot of a website, add a sticky note to it, and embed it into your blog along with automatically generated attribution and a backlink. |
Diigo: In addition to sharing bookmarks, Diigo allows you to highlight text in
two different colors and attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages which can be shared with specific groups or published for all. |
Kwout: Use the handy bookmarklet to capture a screenshot of a webpage, then
click a button to cut out the part you want to quote then grab the embed code and pop it into your blog, wiki or website. |