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Edutopia Back to School Guide 2010 Text Version

I would love to design attractive posters to inform teachers, students or parents about the activities at school. Although I may have many ideas, I am not very familiar with photoshop or any other  advanced digital image editing application :(  If you have the same problem, let me tell you that there is a free web tool for educators that may help us: Juxio. Its simplicity allows people to easily create posters for display.  It  offers very complete  HELP section with video tutorials, FAQs and hints. Once you have chosen a template and edit your "Jux", you can print on your local printer. Or you can save it as a pdf file and send it by mail. http://www.juxio.co

" Classroom Update " is a system designed to allow teachers a way to post homework assignments, class announcements, and more in minutes a day. The website offers a way to keep parents and students informed of assignments and other events at school. Have a look at this video to have a better idea of what it is about. http://www.classroomupdate.com/index.php

Popplet is an application for the web and iPad, where you can collect, curate and share your ideas, inspirations, and projects.  It is a combination of wallwisher, glogster and field for webspiration which offers a lot of  possibilities: users can type, draw, upload images , embed videos or draw in the virtual “post-its” called “popplets" .  Advantages: Teachers can use it for collaborative work  Popplets can be connected It doesn’t have an limit on the number of characters you can use. . At the moment   is in beta and you need to request an invite.  Here is a video explaining how it can be used.  http://popplet.com/ Related posts: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/01/03/popplet-looks-like-a-winner-its-wallwisher-on-steroids/ http://2sparkley.edublogs.org/2011/01/05/popplet/

Creative Commons in the Classroom View more presentations from Jessicacoates .

This is my first Saturday of 2010 summer holidays, so here I am having breakfast and enjoying Twittering and facebooking. While I was facebooking, I came across an article written by Ana María Menezes about this attractive visual tool called Wondersaid beta. "You can use any simple sentence or twitter account to generate a cool animation . Wondersayings are easy to create , customise and share . No software programs to download (it's all online ), no sign-up or passwords ( save them by copying the link), and all for free . " I have tried it and used it to wish you : made on Wondersay - Animate text with style