Resources

====The following resources were either utilized during the **Administrator PD Session #1 on July 16th**, or where mentioned in participant discussions as "cool" tools. This list is not exclusive and will be updated throughout this project. If you find a tool that you feel needs to be added to this list immediately or you discover any broken links, please contact [|Emmy Coleman] from the //Friday Institute's Digital Learning Collaborative//. Thanks! ====

Web application that produces videos from user-selected photos and music. It analyzes the provided photos and music, automatically generating a trailer-like video. Animoto’s engine analyzes users' photos and music and takes into consideration music's genre, rhythm, and tempo to generate a video. Animoto Tutorial
 * [|Animoto] **

This animation tool allows users to build short animated scenes, and then publish them to e-mails or social networking sites. There is a large variety of different themes and characters to choose from to generate creative variety. [|How to make a GoAnimate video]
 * [|GoAnimate] **

Create digital stick note board for interactive conversations. Multiple users can post synchronously or asynchronously into the linoit space. A variety of editing features, including stick note color and text editing, image embedding, steaming video, and other attachments can be added to the stick board space.
 * [|Linoit] **
 * How to use Linoit video tutorial**

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Padlet is an application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Padlet Tutorials [|Check out what others have created] [|Blog for 1000 Uses of Padlet]
 * [|Padlet] **

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, Twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time. [|Poll Everywhere for Educational Leaders] Poll Everywhere Tutorial PDF Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize ideas. Teachers and students can create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other forms of visual organization. [|Popplet tutorial]
 * [|Poll Everywhere] **
 * [|Popplet] **

Tagul is a web service that allows words to be created into beautiful tag clouds that can be embedded. Words can also be hyperlinked. media type="youtube" key="AocBksz-54Y?feature=player_embedded" height="360" width="640"
 * [|Tagul] **
 * How does it work--You Tube video **

This website allows user to completely design and customize avatars with a variety of different editing features. They can also add voice or text-to-voice speech for their avatar that can be embedded into any website with HTML code. media type="custom" key="23489262"
 * [|Voki] **
 * How to create a Voki tutorial? **

Enables the creation of artwork from words. Its wondrous properties also allow you to identify key words within a written passage and analyze content. There are unexpected ways to make use of word clouds, classroom teachers already have stepped out in front by identifying all kinds of applications for the classroom that encompass everything from assessment to test review to storytelling. Video Tutorial
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