On October 6th, 2011, I participated in an amazing Webinar, offered by SimpleK12, that shared a lot of very useful tools for our classroom.
visualblooms.wikispaces.com
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I hope you find these applications useful as they are also very well organized for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Blooms chart (New Version)
- Creating
- Evaluating
- Analysing
- Applying
- Understanding
- Remembering
Knowledge and Rembering
- Visuwords – graphical connection – Online Graphical dictionary http://www.visuwords.com
- LinoIT – sticky notes – http://en.linoit.com
- Studyblue = flash cards – http://www.studyblue.com
- What to learn = Create own games – http://www.what2learn.com
- Jeopardy Labs = 1$ donation – http://jeopardylabs.com/
- Spelling City = Vocab http://www.spellingcity.com/
Comprehension and Understanding
- Discovery Education – Subject area free discussion and lessons http://www.discoveryeducation.com
- BBC – Games and Videos Galore – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/
- Hippocampus – Online digital Media (like a digital textbook) – http://hippocampus.org
- Annenberg – Free media – http://www.learner.org
- Bubbl.US – Mindmapping – http://bubbl.us – Like Inspiration – Can be exported
- Voki – Talking avatars – http://www.voki.com
Application and Applying
- Wolfram Alpha – using search to develop and construct- http://www.wolframalpha.com
- Vocaroo – (Flash) audio recording – http://vocaroo.com – get links or embedding code
- Soundcloud – Use phone to record audio – http://soundcloud.com like http://cinch.fm
- Xtranormal – Animated Movies creating audio from your text or you can upload audio http://Xtranormal.com
Analysis..
- 10 x 10 – Get material on topics from many different angles – http://www.tenbyten.org
- Exploratree – visualize conclusions – advanced mindmapping – have templates for ideas – http://www.exploratree.org.uk
- Animoto – Free video making site (30 seconds free) – http://animoto.com
- Popplet – visual display, like poster board or mindmap – embed videos into mindmap – http://popplet.com
- Jaycut – free video editing w/o camera or download http://jaycut.com/
Evaluate (Formerly the top)
- Fotobabble – Record audion over picture – http://fotobabble.com
- Authorstream – Share your powerpoints with audio – http://authorstream.com
- Protagonize – Upload writing projects for feeadback –http://www.protagonize.com
- ToonDoo- Comic stripping type site – http://www.toondoo.com
- Nota – collaborative whiteboard/webpage – many people can work on it at the same time – http://notaland.com (has education version)
Creating
- Voicethread – Make comments on a picture with audio – http://voicethread.com
- Go Animate – animation -http://goanimate.com/
- Screencast-O-matic – Desktop recording (online) http://www.screencast-o-matic.com
- Glogster – Digital poster board – http://Glogster.com
- Prezi – More sophisticated slideshow has educational licence that gives teacher more –http://prezi.com
- Stupeflix -add images/text/audio tracks to make video – http://www.stupeflix.com/
Links from the webinar:
http://www.diigo.com/user/mrplough07/bloomsSK12
If your interested, check out : http://simplek12.com/tlc/webinars/ for their upcoming FREE webinars!