By Dr. Eileen Dittmar emdittmar@gmail.com
Title: Top 25 H.O.T. Web Tools for Today’s Business Educator
Sub-Title: Engage Today’s Business Students with H.O.T. Web Tools
Brief description of session.
H = handy O = outstanding T = time saving
This workshop offers you an inside passage to the top 25 HOT web tools for today’s business educator. To make the top grade the web tool is Handy, Outstanding, and Time saving (HOT). Participants will visit these top web tools and discuss practical uses for them in today’s business classes.
Session focus is Web Tools for business skill development AND the following: *Active Learning * Critical Thinking * 21st Century Skills * Information Literacy “It isn’t the web tool that gets the results BUT what educators ask students to do with it.” ~Dr. Eileen DittmarProtocol for the Session
1. The presentation is entirely on this blog page; but for a MS Word version, download hot-web-tools-5-2012. You can use Document Map (off View menu) to get a left NAV menu. You may want to use it for taking notes.
2. The same information is at http://bit.ly/hqz5sf or http://eileendittmar.wordpress.com/hot/
3. Browser settings: new window, on top of the current window, new tab, and/or on top of the current tab.
4. Now, we are ready for the countdown! Please attempt to stay with us as we drive through the sites. However, they are numbered so you can jump back in easily if you should digress a bit here and there.
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#25
WordPress
Description: WordPress.com is brought to the public for free by some of the same folks who work on the open source blogging software available at WordPress.org. Open source WordPress has been incredibly successful and risen from a handful of users to the most-used blog tool in its category. Their goal was to bring the WordPress experience to a larger audience. That is what WordPress.com offers with a hosted version of the open source package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Create a WordPress blog for your classes, or one for each class, or one for each subject. Assign students to create a WordPress blog as a class project where items are added over the semester.
Tutorials: http://learn.wordpress.com/
Examples
http://eileendittmar.wordpress.com
http://mobilelearningtips.wordpress.com
http://hollymccracken.wordpress.com
Want more examples? View “freshly pressed” for ideas.
Other blog providers:
Blogger http://www.blogger.com
Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com
#24 Smart Searching, Finding, Saving, & Sharing Websites
Delicious
Description: Store your URLs, organize by tags and stacks; follow tags and stacks. I added all of this presentation’s URLs with tag HOT; http://www.delicious.com/edittmar/hot.
Help is located in the footer menu.
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Add sites for your classes, but also have students add sites as part of their course work. At the end of the semester, they could be reorganized. Valuable 21st Century Skill development opportunity.
Stumbleupon.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo/
Description: 15.5 million users. StumbleUpon takes you to web pages, photos, and videos handpicked by your friends and like-minded people. Instructor can create a class login/pw.
Digg
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best as voted by our community.
IDEAS FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: There are other popular social bookmarking sites that your students may already be using. Use the “share” feature in your browser to see possibilities. It would be good to ask students to compare them. The results could go into a blog or wiki.
#23 Cloud Office Suites
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Ideal for class projects that take several days to complete and if students may want to work on them from different computers. Activities with project management and collaboration can benefit from cloud office suites.
Google Docs
Description: Create and share documents with Google’s similar to MS Word software in the cloud for sharing. Class projects can work well in Google Docs especially if students want to work both at home and at school. No software needed.
Microsoft Live SkyDrive
Description: Open a free sky drive for storage in the cloud. Once you have the login/pw, you can then use Microsoft Live – Microsoft Office suite in the cloud without having the program on your computer.
Microsoft’s Office 365
Description: It is familiar Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. Everyone can work together easily with anywhere access to email, web conferencing, documents, and calendars. It includes business-class security and is backed by Microsoft. While it is promoted for the small business or multinational enterprise, Office 365 offers plans designed to fit organization’s unique needs. There is a free trial but longer use has a small fee per user.
Zoho
Description: The forerunner in cloud office suites. Has more bells and whistles than Google doc or Microsoft SkyDrive. Class projects can work well with Zoho; such as event planning or project management.
EditGrid
Description: Among the earliest software in the cloud, EditGrid is an online spreadsheet with fabulous features. A budget-related class activity with peer review would work well in EditGrid.
CLOUD OFFICE IDEAS FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Ask your students to compare the features and prepare a report (can be posted to a blog or other web tools covered in today’s discussion) about the similarities and differences. A discussion about the findings can lead to greater awareness.
#22 Virtual File Storage
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Office on the go. Productivity if working on different computers at school or at home. 21st Century Skill development when the storage is effectively used to complete a course or project.
Dropbox
Description: Virtual storage that functions like an operating system. On DropBox home page is a short tutorial that shows the features. 2GB is free (as of preparing for this presentation), which would work well for most class activities.
Windows Live Mesh
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/mesh-devices-sync-upgrade-ui
Windows Live Mesh (formerly known as Live Mesh, Windows Live Sync, and Windows Live FolderShare) is a free-to-use Internet-based file synchronization application by Microsoft that is designed to allow files and folders between two or more computers be in sync with each other on Windows (Vista and later) and Mac OS X (v. 10.5 Leopard and later, Intel processors only) computers or the Web via Windows Live SkyDrive.Windows Live Mesh also enables remote desktop access via the Internet. Windows Live Mesh is part of the free Windows Live Essentials suite of software. For Windows XP http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/essentials-other-programs.
Virtual File Storage ideas FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Ask your students to compare the features and prepare a report (can be posted to a blog or other web tools covered in today’s discussion) about the similarities and differences. A discussion about the findings can lead to greater awareness.
#21 Enhanced Virtual Places for Files and Collaboration
Box.com
Description: Organized online workspace for managing and sharing files. A variety of file types open in usable view and collaborators can comment or discuss or edit. Has a feel of a wiki but integrated with an operating system and blog. 5GB free (as of preparing for this presentation).
ThinkFree
Description: Cloud office for documents. It is a productive suite in the cloud, compatible with MS Office. Free online service with 1GB of online storage for documents. Save and access from mobile or computer. View and edit documents without using software. Create an online workspace and invite collaborators.
For more details http://www.thinkfree.com/thinkfree/thinkfreeMain.jsp
Help options http://www.thinkfree.com/help_center/helpMain.jsp
#20 Social Networks
Yammer
Description: Yammer is an enterprise social networking tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of ideas, questions, and answers.
Detailed description https://www.yammer.com/about/product
Tutorials: https://yammer.zendesk.com/home
Yammer ideas FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Create an account, identify your school and/or program and/or course. Invite participants who desire communicating in a social network for a desired outcome.
Other social network providers:
(ning) NBEAConnect.ning.com
Description: Ning created for members of NBEA! The purpose is for NBEA members to connect, communicate and learn with and from each other. New to using a Ning? Read the information posted in the NBEA Member Forum and then use NBEAconnect to stay in contact with your colleagues.
Google+
Description: Google+ is a social networking service operated by Google Inc. The service launched on June 28, 2011, in an invite-only testing phase. Utilizing circles instead of friends, Google + gained ten million users by November 2011 (FaceBook had 750 million at that time).
Description: Pinterest is a virtual pinboard which allows you to organize and share all things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. Easy to create a board and add pins.
Eileen’s home page http://pinterest.com/dreileendittmar/
Eileen’s mobile learning board http://pinterest.com/dreileendittmar/mobile-learning/
Tutorials: http://pinterest.com/about/help/
Description: Large social network offers opportunities for learning century 21st skills including concise compositions, asking for information, and data mining resources.
NBEA Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/nbeapage?ref=ts
Description: Large social network offers opportunities for learning century 21st skills including concise compositions, asking for information, and data mining resources.
Tweet Tips for Superstars:
- Stay interesting: Sounding smart, opinionated, and entertaining will get followers; revealing the details of your lunch will not.
- Be focused: Love football? Then tweet about it; but not to the exclusion of everything else. Having a specialty or two is helpful.
- Mingle: Treat Twitter like an ongoing conversation, retweet other tweets, ask and answer questions, and share interesting items.
- Find a rhythm: 50 times an hour is overkill; but undertweeting is too quiet. A few updates every day makes sense.
- Don’t autotweek: People like to follow other people, not autobots; avoid services that tweet trivia (i.e. game scores).
- Spread the word: Add your Twitter info on your Facebook page, in your Linked In profile, on your webpage, in your blog, and on your business card.
- Check your stats: Use Klout http://klout.com and/or PeerIndex http://www.peerindex.com/ rate your influence.
Klout Description
(from Wikipedia): Klout is a San Francisco based company that provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across their social network. The analysis is done on data taken from sites such as Twitter and Facebook and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and how other people interact with that content. The company has been subject to substantial criticism, both for its business model and its operating principle.
PeerIndex Description
By weighing the data you provide, Peer Index attempts to provide the most accurate score of your social capital. PeerIndex measures three elements: Authority, Audience and Activity. Authority – built up of resonance scores in a range of benchmark topics. This is weighed by other measures, including your conversation in topics but essentially it builds a topic specific pagerank. Audience – built up of an estimate of your engaged audience. (PeerIndex uses several features to figure this out, and more features are regularly added). Activity – a measure of how active you are relative to the rest of the population. Each of these dimensions reflects some measure of good social behaviour: authority means the extent to which other people like what you say (and in particular share); audience is about whether you are able to engage your audience; and activity measures the regularity with which you contribute to the commons.
#19 Security Web Tools
Disclaimer: Before applying security web tools, have a restore point back up “in case” something goes wrong when running the app.
Browser-fingerprint test
Description: Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. It checks for your score to let you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web. Only anonymous data will be collected by this site.
SlimCleaner
Description: Clean your PC, check for malware, and make it run all-around faster. Free utility SlimCleaner is powered in part by the cloud and community intelligence. This software from Slimware Utilities (makers of SlimComputer and SlimDrivers) includes a variety of modules that will clean your PC, uninstall software, help you decide whether to remove certain programs from running on startup, and more.
CCleaner
Description: Free widely popular utility to clean and optimize your PC. It clears out temporary files, cleans the Windows Registry, erases browser histories, and so on. Developer Piriform (also known for Defraggler and Recuva) released CCleaner 3.0, a native 64-bit version for use with like editions of Windows. CCleaner 3.0 sports new icons, various interface improvements, better support for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9, and added support for programs such as AVG AntiVirus 10.0, Audacity, LogMeIn, Hamachi, BitTorrent, and Windows Game Explorer. CCleaner intelligently scans for cookies you want to keep, like those for Google and Yahoo. CCleaner is the ultimate system-cleaning tool, which is free, thankfully, though you can purchase a priority-support license for $25. As with any tool of this kind, it is strongly recommend making a full system backup and creating a new system-restore point before using it.
FLUSH: Mac Flash Cookie Removal App
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32994/flush
DESCRIPTION: Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO) operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Most internet advertising is delivered in Flash; Google/Doubleclick and other internet advertising companies track your browsing behavior with Flash cookies. These companies can see you traverse the Internet as you come upon the plethora of sites that contain their embedded advertising.
BetterPrivacy (for FireFox users)
How to get it: In Firefox,click Tools, click Add ons, in the search box enter BetterPrivacy, click install.
Description: Firefox add-on BetterPrivacy can get rid of privacy-busting Flash cookies, also known as local shared objects or LSOs, which are used by many sites to supplement the normal HTTP cookies. Flash cookies can be used for similar things as HTTP cookies, including saving preferences and tracking where you surf, but you can’t delete Flash cookies using basic browser options like you can with regular cookies. BetterPrivacy can add a level of security in an area you might not have considered. One study found that some advertisers use the persistent Flash cookies to re-create deleted HTTP cookies. So you might think you’re protecting your privacy by regularly deleting cookies, but sneaky sites can use the information in Flash cookies to put the deleted HTTP cookies right back in place. The straightforward BetterPrivacy add-on automatically determines where the LSOs exist on your hard drive, and can be set to automatically delete them when the browser starts or exits, or after a certain amount of time. By default the add-on will display a small confirmation pop-up when you close the browser before it deletes anything. If you’re concerned about maintaining your privacy online and you use Firefox, then you’ll want BetterPrivacy.
For more information, see http://findpcworld.com/72915
NoScript
Description: NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers. This free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank). NoScript also provides the a powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection. NoScript’s unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality.
For download and more information, see http://download.cnet.com/NoScript/3000-11745_4-10461464.html
Mozila Add on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
Proxify
A free web-proxy page masks you real locaton and prevents malicious snoopers from tracking you with cookies or monitoring your browser history.
Adobe patches
Browser updates
Tor Network
Description: Obscure your route searching on the Tor Network. Tor is free; hackers, privacy enthusiasts, and political dissidents use it to elude surveillance. Download the Tor browser bundle, which includes an older copy of Firefox with the Torbutton extension, so you can enable or disable browsing through the Tor Network with the click of a button. Browsing the Web through Tor Network is glacial; but secretive.
Tutorials https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en
Avoid Ads Online
Firefox extension Adblock plus (in Firefox,click Tools, click Add ons, in the search box enter Adblock plus, click install)
Chrome compatible Adblock plus
Google Toolbar Pop-Up Blocker
Ad Muncher (small fee)
Super Ad Blocker (small fee)
SRWare’s Iron, open-source Chromium Web browser with privacy controls
#18 Shortcuts
Click.To
Description: Time-saving shortcut tool. Click.to is a small downloadable program that works on both Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and Mac computers. After you install and launch it, Click.to will work in any application the moment you try to use the “copy function,” whether you press Ctrl+C, Apple-command+C, or right-click and select “copy.” A string of icons representing various programs—Microsoft Word, Skype, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Evernote, Bing, and many, many more—appears near the text.
For more information, see PC World review at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395207,00.asp
Clavier
Description: Clavier is a free downloaded application, which is installed on your computer. To use it, have it “running” which means a keyboard icon appears in your tray (at the bottom right of your computer screen). When first using the application, enter key strokes and the wordings desired to apply with the keystrokes. A suggestion is to start with two keystrokes, use them in your Courseroom, then add more. For a tutorial, see eileendittmar.wordpress.com/clavier
Keyboard Shortcuts
Windows (all versions) keyboard shortcuts http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449
Ubuntu documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts
Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts
Mac keyboard shortcuts http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
Gmail keyboard shortcuts http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6594
#17 Organization Tools
Doodle
Description: Easy scheduling; free of charge and without registration. Free account give you quick way to schedule a meeting when people have different times available and there is a need to find common times. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Effective with event planning when various people need to figure out “best times” open for all participants. A fictitious event could be practice in the classroom.
30boxes
Description: free online calendar for sharing in your wiki, blog, website; and sharing with collaborators. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Ideal for adding to the online syllabus the due dates of course assignments. Especially helpful when a calendar changes often and participants need to see easily the latest version.
TeuxDeux
Description: TeuxDeux is a simple, designy to-do app. If you like making to-do lists, you will love TeuxDeux. The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app: Use the free browser-based TeuxDeux at work/home and then take your to-dos on the road with the iPhone app. Yay for checking things off! . FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Personal productivity. Students can list to do things in school or at home to stay connected with their homework and assignments due. A case study assignment could help students practice the features of TeuxDeux either at home (homework) or at school for in-class work. Effective use of TeuxDeux can help develop project management skills.
Evernote
Description: Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web. Checklists can be shared between computers and devices. Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe and it’s free. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Personal productivity. Students can note things in school or at home to stay connected with their homework and assignments due. A case study assignment could help students practice the features of Evernote either at home (homework) or at school for in-class work.
#16 Financial Tools
CalcMoolator
Description: CalcMoolator offers over 50 free financial calculators for the web, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Some of our most popular calculators are: Tip Calculator, House Rent vs. Buy, Auto Loan Estimate, Auto Lease vs. Buy, Mortgage Payment Estimate, and Pay Off My Credit Card Debt Sooner (and much more!). FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: A perfect partner for finance, accounting, and math activities.
List of calculators
http://www.calcmoolator.com/calculators.php
Mint
Description: Record and analyze financial information for student projects. Over 5 million people use Mint. Has app for mobile devices. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: A perfect partner for finance, accounting, and math activities.
#15
Wikitube
Description: Wikitude World Browser voted “Best Augmented Reality Browser” by the readers of Augmented Planet three times in a row (2009-2011), Wikitude World Browser is a fun, innovative and informative Augmented Reality ( AR ) platform allowing you to discover what’s around you in a completely new way. By using the camera, simply hold up your smartphone and explore your surroundings. Wikitude will overlay the camera’s display and the objects you look at with additional interactive content and information – really cool!
Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment which is augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.
For more detailed information, see http://www.wikitude.com/tour/wikitude-world-browser
#14
LiveJournal
Description: Free online journal. Similar to a blog and has enhanced formats and designs. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: LiveJournal is ideal for business communications classes or any class that has a writing project.
#13 Online Media Services
FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Communication skills, both oral and written, 21st Century Skills integrating technology to present ideas, debate, or market a program/activity. Your course/program could offer a technology showcase to inform the community, chamber of commerce, and parents how your course develops students for today’s workplaces.
Video Capture
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html
Description: Capture video with webcam, recording device or screen. Capture video files directly on a PC with this easy to use video recorder program. Capture from webcam, video recorder, capture from device, streaming video recorder, or computer screen. Add text. Free single user non-commercial download.
Ustream
Description: Broadcast live video or watch a video. Examples to see are on the home page.
Slideshare.net
Slideshare Description: Slideshare is an excellent way to share presentations, documents and professional videos. Easy to get a free account to upload and share. For ideas and examples: (1) on home page, review the featured presentations, (2) click “popular” in the top menu or (3) search by topics of interest.
http://www.slideshare.net/about has two examples; first without audio, second with audio.
Alison Topper (2011) created this presentation without audio http://www.slideshare.net/alisontopper/a-comparison-of-2-social-bookmarking-sites, which compares Delicious (http://delicious.com) and Diigo (http:/diigo.com). The presentation also provides basic information about social bookmarking.
SlideShare’s Help page: http://help.slideshare.com/home
Search from the topics listed on the home page and the most popular appear. When opening them, you’ll see that most presentations are without audio.
SlideShare Instructions for audio using Slidecast to insert mp3 file with Slideshare: http://help.slideshare.com/entries/57609-can-you-describe-how-to-create-a-slidecast-step-by-step
Animoto
http://animoto.com/features#overview
Description: Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips, and music.
Description: Educators can get free Animoto Pro classroom for student use and instructional purposes.
Citrify
Description: Free online photo editor that is easy and fun way to enhance your photos.
Livecage
http://livecage.com/?res=root._help_video
Description: Live & On-Demand Video/Audio; Conferencing Broadcasting; Community. Check out the great tutorials, be sure to see the one for capturing audio – perfect for speeches.
#12
Surveymonkey
Description: Online survey creator with easy analysis features. While the fee-based version has more features, the free version has ample features to be a viable tool that advances skill development when integrated into the curriculum. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Using Surveymonkey is a natural for communications and marketing classes. The analysis portion can align with math, finance, and accounting.
help
http://help.surveymonkey.com/app/home
tutorials
http://help.surveymonkey.com/app/tutorials/categorylist/session/L3NpZC9ONFFaZVZway9wdGEvMQ==
example for marketing class, sports consumers topic
www.surveymonkey.com/s/8XQZ8DR
#11
Glogster
Description: Glogging is a blog, notetaking, and/or PowerPoint alternative, which creates a visual that is printable or viewable on a computer or mobile device. The “presentation” is created on a virtual poster; audio and video can be added.
Glogster for Education: Excellent for students and faculty. Works great for one or two minute lessons, tutorials, short stories such as debrief or prep for a job interview. Examples for faculty: create topic information for any course, ideas for open house or first class of the semester are: “About my Course,” “About my Program,” or MyClass Rules.” Students can develop course content knowledge, sharp communication skills, and technology skills at the same time — a component of 21st Century Skills. Link below offer examples.
Forensic Accounting Career planning
http://sue893g.edu.glogster.com/glog-8164/
http://sfmkf5f.edu.glogster.com/glog/
http://sfjv9rp.edu.glogster.com/false/
#10
Prezi
Example: click the video on the home page
Prezi Description Educators praise Prezi; it is among the hottest tools to gain educator attention this past couple of years. The site is easy yet effective for creating and sharing presentations. Many call it the PowerPoint Alternative, but much better than PowerPoint. View “What is Prezi” video and tour of its features on the Prezi home page.
Prezi for Education: Come on, you know your students are tired of PowerPoint – get on the Prezi bandwagon quick and easy. Ideas: Place a course introduction in Prezi to show your first day of class. Prezi gives faculty the chance to think outside the box and help our students to think more creatively.
Prezi Learn http://prezi.com/learn/
Prezi’s manual: http://prezi.com/learn/manual/.
#9
Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/
Description: Perfect for group work when participants are at different locations. Free calls, video calls, and screen sharing. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Take your speech class or business communications classes to the next level with Skype conferencing tools.
#8
Screenr
Description: Free screen capture software to “capture your computer screen” and create tutorials. Excellent if you want students to be able to show you what they did on the computer.
#7 Audio Stuff
MyBrainShark
Description: Amazingly easy to create audio podcasts saved as mp3 file to share in email, messages, and websites. Brainshark offers other features usable in education. The advanced features for a fee are not needed.
Wispera
Description: Amazingly easy to create short audio files that appear with a link to share in email, messages, and websites.
Wispera for Education: Use to practice sharpening your voice. Guide students to use it as a way to develop their voice and speeches.
#6
Google books
Description: Google’s mammoth ebook opportunities are a must have for students and teachers. For example, search “business communications” and you’ll get dozens of books to add to your online library.
#5
LiveBinders
Description: Amazing way to create a collection of websites.
LiveBinders for Education: Faculty can use a LiveBinder as part of a presentation or offered as study information (resources you want your students to use). Faculty can ask students to create a LiveBinder of their own personal resources related to coursework; LiveBinders can also assist with student’s personal career development plan.
Examples
http://livebinders.com/play/play/224967 Integrating Mobile Technology with Learning. Note that this binder is for students and faculty.
http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/250823 Online Coach binder (for faculty who want ideas for writing skill development)
http://www.livebinders.com/edit?id=269550 Virtual Presenter Guide; tips for creating powerful presentations. Note that this binder is for students and faculty.
http://livebinders.com/play/play/110787 Teach 21 Century Business. Note that this binder is for faculty (not students).
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=76391 Teaching Business Resource. Note that this binder is for faculty (not students).
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=62246 Educator Resource. Note that this binder is for faculty (not students).
#4 Resource and Reference Sites (students and teachers)
Web 2.0 Personal Learning Network Glog
http://wgraziadei.glogster.com/Web2PLN/
Description: A Glog loaded with web 2.0 tools and resources.
Go2Web20
Description: A huge repository of web tools and applications.
Are you my hero
Description: Are you my hero is a place where you can get help, or give someone in need of assistance help. Be it a simple thing as helping someone choose a name for their dog, or help a person find their relatives after a natural disaster.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Description: Popular online dictionary in a wiki format. Thousands of experts post information daily.
Wikipedia as a research tool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Using_Wikipedia_as_a_research_tool
WolfRamAlpha
Description: Free online access to the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine: answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge—and much more.
Ifixit
Description: IFixit is like Wikipedia but for technology. The site claims that it is the free repair manual that you can edit. Includes: diagnostics, tips, links, and oodles of tech information.
Brainify
Description: Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. If you are looking for the best sites and a great community to help with your courses, this is the place for you.
Tutorial
http://www.brainify.com/About/
#3
CiteULike
Description: Online journal library. Instead of saving journal articles to your hard drive, keep them in CiteULike, add tags, and you can quickly find more. In addition, CiteULike provides assistance with citations. FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION: Students in any class with a research paper will love this fantastic web tool. Online books, journals, and articles are a snap to place into CiteULike.
#2
Zamzar
Description: Tired of document file types that won’t open at school or at home? Zamzar to the rescue. A quick submit of the file will get you a return of the file type you want. Amazing must have for students and teachers.
Go2Convert
For more file convertor info see http://mobilelearningtips.wordpress.com/converters/
#1 The Hottest Web Tool
NBEAConnect.ning.com
Description: Ning created for members of NBEA! The purpose is for NBEA members to connect, communicate and learn with and from each other. New to using a Ning? Read the information posted in the NBEA Member Forum and then use NBEAconnect to stay in contact with your colleagues. Send Eileen a friend request! join a group! Enjoy!
Added during the presentation
use this space for recording additional web tools shared during the presentation
Honorable Mention
BrandMyMail
Description: Send rich, beautiful emails from your Gmail account. Create your personalized email template. Customize it with your blog posts, Twitter/Facebook updates, pictures and more.
For more details, see review at http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/01/brandmymail.html
Foreign Language Translator
Translate English to another language by the word, sentence, or paragraph; translate another language word, sentence, or paragraph into English.
Qik
Description: Share videos as they happen from mobile device to Internet social site.
Tutorials
http://support.qik.com/entries/327844-a-qik-intro
Eggtimer
http://my.online-eggtimer.com/
Description: Cool way to time activities and assist students with time management.
MORE HOT Resources for Teachers
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Description: Institutional sponsors include Sloan, National Science Foundation, and more.
FlatClassroomProject
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/
Description: Check out the projects relevant for business classes.
Harvard
Description: Amazing resources for business content. A must subscribe site for today’s innovative business educators.
World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Description: Amazing resources for economics, general business, math, finance, business administration, and many other classes!
Inspiring Teachers
http://www.inspiringteachers.com/classroom_resources/tips/curriculum_and_instruction/great_active_learning_strategies.html
Description: The place for ideas to ignite active learning in your classes.
Merlot
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Description: Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.
Sloan-C Scoreboard Online Program
http://sloanconsortium.org/quality_scoreboard_online_program
Description: If you have or will have an online class, check out this tool to assure course quality.
EduTechWiki
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/EduTech_Wiki:About
Description: A wiki of educational technologies providing information and idea sharing.
Quizlet
Description: Create online flashcards and quickly convert them into a game. Great for students who learn from “game” technology especially when something you think is important for them to know.
Make Use Of
Description: Free PDF Files about many computer programs and computer skills including widely-used websites.
Curriki
Description: Educator wiki to find or share curriculum, class activities, projects, and more. Free.
WiZiQ
Description: Virtual classroom with features to inspire online teaching and learning; $10/month.
WiZiQ Tutorial
http://www.wiziq.com/Virtual_Classroom.aspx
Edmoto
Description: Edmodo is a secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts. Edmoto provide a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner.
EdmotoTutorials
Kathy Schrock
Description: Award winning education technologist offering several web pages of info linked from her home page; but also shown below.
Kathy’s Blog
Kathy’s Connecting Your Classroom to the Future
https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/connecting/
Kathy’s Classroom Guide
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/
Bloomin’ Google
http://kathyschrock.net/googleblooms/
Description: Blooms taxonomy aligned with Google tools.
Focus on Adult Learning
http://hollymccracken.wordpress.com
Adult learning blogger, Holly McCracken, MA, created and continuously updates this site to be a top resource for educators who are interested in adult learning topics.
Tom Grissom, Ph.D
http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/
Description: Ed tech guru’s blog with technology podcasts for teachers and more.
Music
Grooveshark
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/
Personalized searching, playing of tunes, and you can upload your music too. Some services are free; but with a small fee you can have robust music venues.
Pandora
Free app for mobile device. Free for web but to get rid of the ads, and have better personalization, pay $36 per year.
Last.fm
Free with a downloaded software that enables your choices to result with new similar songs to unveil songs you may not have considered.
Clementine
http://www.clementine-player.org/
Sweet Clementine delivers speedy performance in an easy-to-use interface. There is no play video nor a built-in music store; however, it does offer a complete range of tools to help you get the most out of your tunes. For example: Index and access your music; click song info linked with last.fm wiki and lyrics from LyricWiki.com.
Cloud Parking Options (currently 5 GB free; additional storage $20/year)
Description: Play your music from multiple computers/devices.
Amazon find.pcworld.com/72220
Apple iCloud find.pcworld.coom/72221
Google Music Beta find.pcworld.coom/72222
mSpot http://mspont.com/
Start an Internet Radio Station
Setup a Shoutcase server with Winamp http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en to collect and play your music;
Edcast plug-in http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,83619-order,4/description.html to turn it into a streamable audio feed; Icecast2 http://www.icecast.org/ to send it out to the Net.
Tutorial http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_webradio_with_icecast2_ices2
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!
END OF PRESENTATION (if you would like to keep abreast of this pages’ updates, take the Feed Post link at the top right). Thank you for your interest in my presentations! ~Dr. Eileen Dittmar
Thanks for making the cite available. For how long will we be able to access it? Presentation at the NBEA conference was great!
Hi Aline! Thank you for attending my workshop! It was fun! My blog is permanent and continuously updated. Hope to see you in Boston 2012!
Eileen
Thank you for the presentation at NBEA and thank you for identifying these wonderful websites.
Great information! I was glad to learn about the virtual storage devices. My division has disabled the USB ports for students, so my students have to save work, and email themselves when they work on documents at home and want to finish and/or print at school.
Thanks again!
This is a great site. I am including it in my LiveBinders.com I am beginning to put together for business ed teachers in our district.
Your presentation at NBEA was very informative and captured my interest for the entire 2.5 hours.
I am anxious to begin checking out some of these sites and putting them to use in my classes.
Looking forward to new sites you may be adding too!
It was great meeting you at the conference. I shared my pictures of our adventure with my class and they were very interested in the city.
I enjoyed this blog and presentation I always learn something. Hope to keep in touch!
Cheers–Sharon Keehner
Thank you for the presentation at MBEA.
Thank you so much for all of the information Eileen! Your blog is helping me put all the new elearning and technology out there to use!
This was a very helpful, informative, and current workshop. Thanks for presenting!