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Lauderdale County teachers and students can always be found using technology.

What's New in Technology in Lauderdale County Schools

Celebrate Constitution Day on September 17 with"Justice By the People- A Civics, History, and Language Arts Program"- Grades 5-8 .

Celebrate National Day on Writing on October 20 with this program from the National Council of Teachers of English.

New Websites - These websites were presented at the Alabama Educational Technology Conference this summer by a variety of teachers across our state.

Publishing Tools
1. Letter Pop: Make newsletter online. Can email or save.
2. Make Beliefs Comix: Make cartoons for free.
3. My Baby Monster: Finish a story and it will publish to the web.
4. Fodey: Will make text into a newspaper clipping. Can also make animated giffs.
5. Wordle: Make a poster with frequently used words in text bigger based on frequency. Great for vocabulary, writing, speeches, etc.
6. LuLu: Publish books online. Can sell them to parents.
7. Open Office: Free software that is like Microsoft Office. Students don't have Word or Powerpoint at home? Tell them to use OpenOffice.
8. Google Docs: Free forms. These will download into Office.
9. Writer's Block: Publishing on the web. Pick a character. Type a message. It will post to the web.
10. Webspiration: Like Inspiration, but it is free. Works great with interactive boards.
11. Wacky Web Tales: Like Madlibs. Great for grammar.
12. My Brochure Maker: Makes brochures. Requires no logins! Can use your own photos.
13. Comic Lab: Write, assemble, and print comic strips.
14. Prezentit: Create and show slideshows online. Similar to PowerPoint but free.
15. Our Story: Online timeline or sequencing timeline.
16.Book Reports: Write an online book report.
17. Tikatok: Online publishing. Kid friendly. Parents can purchase PDF version.
18. Book Adventure: Very similar to Accelerated Reader. Students read and take test at home. Free.
19. Myths and Legends: Comic strip maker type tool. Can upload pictures. Have to login for sound effects.
20. Tagzedo: Will take the word cloud and put it in a shape.
21. Pic Lit: Pick a picture. Pull words to write about the picture. Maybe for poetry or grammar? Can save or email.
22. Xtranormal: Will make a MOVING cartoon. They could make their own "BrainPop" video.
23. Glogster: Glorified blog, online scrapbook, or online poster. It is a website that lets you put up a webpage. You get 100 student accounts with every teacher account.
Digital Photography
1. Picnik: Online photo editing.
2. Picasa: Free photo editing software to download.
3. Picture Trails: Does really cool things for pictures.
4. Blabberize: Can take a picture and make it talk.
5. Tuxpic: Photo effects.
6. Aviary: More advanced photo editing.
Multimedia
1. Animoto: Makes pictures into videos. Will give you student accounts. Also has FREE MUSIC!
2. One True Media: More advanced. Has cute players.
3. Vocaroo: Make simple voice messages
4. Voki: Create your own speaking avatar

Classroom Tools
1. Class Tools: Lets you make your own video games. Type questions and answer. Gives html link. You can play link online.
2. That Quiz- Make quizzes online.
3. Zoomeranz: Create an online survey tool