Review Documents

Thanks to ilearn Technology Blog for writing this post!

What it is: Crocodoc is a new online tool that is quickly becoming a go-to application in my technology toolbox. Crocodoc lets you easily share and review documents online including pdfs, Word documents, and PowerPoint slides.

It is as easy as 1-2-3

1. Upload the document from your computer or a URL (no registration required!).

2. Mark up the document using the built in highlighter, sticky notes, strike out, and text.

3. Share the unique URL of your Crocodoc with others.

This is an easy way to collaborate on projects, edit student work, and critique written works. Since Crocodoc was released last week, I have used it to share numerous documents with my students, edit a technology grant, send a lesson plans to teachers with notes about how to use them, and added my suggestions to a PowerPoint presentation. It is SO easy to use, and since it doesn’t require registration, it is perfect for the classroom.

Creating Your Own Certificates For FREE!

Certificate Street is a website that offers free templates to create certificates so you can print them out. You can browse through all the categories templates. For school, sports, special occasions, blank certificates etc.

Sharing Knowledge is Good

The title of this post is the slogan for the Educational Live Binders Page. I wrote about Live Binders before on the Amschool Web 2.0 Resources Blog.

You can search for binders made and shared by teachers. But if you are interested to start and create your own digital binder where you can add your favorite links please give it a try. Your binder can be public or private.

Wordnik

Wordnik is based on the principle that people learn words best by seeing them in context. We've collected more than 4 billion words of text (web pages, books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) and have mined them exhaustively to show you example sentences for any word you're interested in.

At Wordnik, we also believe that some information about a word is always better than no information, so we'll show you whatever we've found, for any word you look up.

At Wordnik, you get:

• real example sentences to show words in context


• meaningful information about your word's frequency and use patterns


• related words—not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that behave in similar ways


• the chance to contribute to our knowledge of English through recording pronunciations, pointing us towards new words, adding tags and related words, and leaving your notes

Two Good Options for Subtitling Videos

"Two Good Options for Subtitling Videos " is a post written in the Free Technology for Teachers blog! This has been the answer too many of the times they have asked me about sites that can add subtitles to a video.

Since I'm not much of a writer here is the post: