Resources

Where to Find...

 * Edmodo - help, webinars, blog
 * Copyright Friendly Clip Art, Photos, Music, and Loops
 * A Web Design Rubric (GVC Contest guide)
 * Free Open Source downloadable programs
 * TeachersFirst - free site with many resources, policies, methods for Tech Integration.
 * Creative Commons comes to YouTube
 * Times in different parts of the world.
 * File conversion - Online free file conversion of most types of document, image, music, and video formats so they can be shared by all partners.
 * ====**Tools Recommended by our Participants**====

**Web 2.0 / 21st Century Fluency**
Cools Tools - GVC Blog of Web 2.0 tools. This site is continually updated with new tools free, or free to education. A few will be featured below. Literacy is not enough - 21st century fluency project. The fluencies needed by today's learners.

**Collaboration Tools**

 * Visual Organizer - Collaborative
 * Stixy to share files, pictures, due dates.
 * __[|Padlet]__ a bit of a cross between a bulletin board and a guest book.
 * iEtherPad - real time collaborative word processing

**Photo Slide Shows**
> Even better, teachers get Animoto for Education!
 * [[image:butterfly.jpg width="432" height="224" align="right" caption="Find your creative self!"]]Slide show made into a movie with Animotio.
 * Kizoa - upload pictures to create, can burn DVD of slideshow or post.
 * Smilebox - upload pictures to create.

**Art Tools**
> PicMonkey Online photo editing. No login required.
 * Create banners.
 * [|Add effects to photos] with PhotoFunia!
 * Photo Flexer - simple photo editing.
 * Pencil - traditional 2-D animation
 * Sketch faces from multiple 'pieces'
 * Picture Resizer Upload - resize / crop / rotate - as desired. Choose quality and download.

**Video Uploads**

 * Teacher Tube - first to specify it was specifically for schools.
 * School Tube - a place for teachers and student to share video.
 * Vimeo - open to everyone; some serious independent film work; HD video.

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