Free tech for teachers

Marcia Jensen our librarian turned me onto this blog that follows technology that could be useful for teachers.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

While perusing this site a few times I have found a couple interesting resources.  I haven't decided how to use them yet but they do have promise.

I found a couple tools for creating flashcards that looked like they could be beneficial to students in there studies.  I do wish that students in our building had the opportunity to use these more in class during lessons because that would be ideal.

The first flashcard site I looked at was Zen.do.  This program was for note-taking during lessons.  The neat part of this program was that you could highlight important notes and it would create note cards for you.

The second flashcard tool I looked at was called Cobocards.   I liked this one better than the other one just because it seemed more organized.  You had to type in the information for the note cards which could be more time consuming.  It didn't seem to be that bad when I watched the video tutorial.

Both of these sites could be a great help for students that like to use flashcards for studying.  It would definitely be quicker for me typing than creating flashcards by hand.


Another resource I came across when reading an article on the blog.  I clicked to read the article and it took me to Scribd.  Scribd is an online publishing site where people can upload or print off articles.  I was reading the article and I became distracted by Scribd and started messing around doing searches and found that this could be a great find.  Lots of free resources so far from what I have found that could benefit my classes.  So far this might be the best tool I have found while being networked with the blog link above.

Networking is a powerful resource.  My librarian gave me this site to look at and explore, I was able to find some interesting tools.  Maybe I won't use the flashcard tools much but maybe someone will read this and explore, like, and use them.  I know I will use Scribd as a resource for my classes and this Site opened the door for that for me.  You have to go exploring to join the networking that is taking place all over the Internet, who knows what you might find.