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Wednesday Widgets ED 505 Wednesday night class will post a review of their favorite tool from the Edutopia Back to School Guide handout here.

Dr. Fowler--I love the [|LiveBinders] site. It allows you to create online, virtual binders with web sites, ppts, pdfs, and more. It also lets you store on an online shelf. Here is an example of one that I made. media type="custom" key="6769659"

EJM - I enjoyed seeing the Google for Educators tool kit. It gave a lot of useful tools, such as GoogleDocs, class calendars, SketchUp (a neat CAD drawing program), and all sorts of other things that can be integrated into class lessons.

Debbie Graff - I love Prezi.com! It is a great alternative to PowerPoint in the way that it provides various options for the layout and zooming of the presentation. I have used it in many of my lessons and students really enjoy having it in class and developing their own. It’s so easy. Hers is an example of a Prezi I created: prezi.com Areneter Moore[| Wallwisher.com]is an excellent website to use at the beginning of the school year. This website is an easy site to use because it’s a site design for brainstorming with your students and getting different feedback from them. Furthermore, this website allows you to ask a variety of questions from your students such as if you could take a field trip where would you choose? What ‘s the best book you read this summer? I like [|Prezi.com]. Instead of using PowerPoint, you can use this site to do your presentation. The great thing about it is it can be accessed from any computer that has internet access and it’s free. ~S.E.~ Kellen White- I like [|trashforteaching.org]because it takes materials from the trash and repurposes them to things we can use in the classroom. I love doing art projects in my classroom and use lots of materials so this would be a great way to get the materials I need.

Marian L. Stanton- I liked [|edmodo.com]because it allows students and teachers to safely use a social networking site to organize class assignments and communicate. The site is very similar to Facebook and Twitter, which are currently very popular among adults and children. Howard Hollie- I really like the [|Google for Educators tool kit]site. I allow your students to access the spreadsheet, power point, and documents from another computer after they are done with their work. Michelle Jackson- I liked []. I like this website because it allows the individuals the opportunity to donate to school project that would often go with funding.