COD - 10/11/2012 - Study Champs [Activities]

Study Champs is a free educational website designed to provide an online resource to students in primary and middle school and their parents and teachers.

Study Champs resources cover math, English, science and social studies. The content includes educational resources such as printable worksheets and games, tutorials, interactive online games, quizzes, stories, flip books, and more . 

Kids can also enjoy fun activities like reading stories, coloring sheets, brain teasing games, and learn amazing facts, too.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 

COD - 10/10/2012 - Claco [Resources]

Claco ia a free website where teachers can find crowd-sourced lessons and resources, keep everything organized in virtual binders, share lessons with a click, and grow their PLNs.

Collaborate with educators across the hall or around the world using Claco. Connect with educators like yourself and build lessons in real time. Ask questions and share your own teaching skills.

Claco enables you to store all of your resources in a single place. Store and easily access all of your websites, videos, files, and more. Using the Claco “snap” button allows you to instantly move resources to your Claco binders. You can even align those resources with the Common Core standards.

It takes just a click to easily and quickly share your resources with students, parents, and colleagues..

See how to use Claco binders in a video

Claco is currently in beta. It is free and pledges the core service will always be so.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 

COD - 10/9/2012 - Citelighter [Tools]

Citelighter is a browser plug-in that saves and organizes your research and formats it to a bibliography, stored in the cloud, that's accessible anytime, anywhere.

Citelighter collects most of the relevant information to create accurate citations for you and asks you to complete any remaining items. Once you have completed the citation, the correct bibliographic info will be attached to that page forever. You can choose to format your citations as MLA, Chicago, or APA. 

You can view each and every one of your findings from the toolbar drop-down window, and reorganize them by simply dragging-and-dropping them in any order you need. Additionally, Citelighter lets you add your own thoughts in the comments box.

Citelighter also includes a dynamic notepad that is there only when you want it, but is unobtrusive when you don't. The notepad fades away when idle. It re-appears when you're ready to take notes. Citelighter allows you to export your citations, notes, and quotes to Word, Google Docs, or email.

Watch a video about Citelighter

You can download the Citelighter plug-in for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 

COD - 10/8/2012 - LiveMinutes [Collaboration]

LiveMinutes is a free online collaborative meeting service focused on document sharing.

The most commonly used method of document sharing is by email, or perhaps Dropbox or some similar cloud-based solution. The documents are discussed on the phone with everyone looking at his own static version. The LiveMinutes team believes this process wastes time, and hinders effective collaboration.

LiveMinutes sharing allows everyone to videochat, looking at the same document at the same time, and annotating those documents in real time. 

With LiveMinutes conferencing, share up to 9 videos and conference for free. Join the call with your browser, Skype, or phone directly. The number is toll-free so there are no long distance charges.

A further feature of LiveMinutes is the generation of meeting reports that can be read online or downloaded as a PDF, so everyone can keep track of what was decided during meetings, and copies can be sent to those who could not participate. Your meeting chat and the audio conversation are recorded as well.

Watch a video walkthrough of LiveMinutes main features

If you are an Evernote user, your account can be connected to open and collaboratively edit your notes directly in LiveMinutes.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 

 

The Rearview Mirror 10/6/2012

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

 

Monday

Classmates can share and connect with each other using StudyHall, a peer-to-peer learning platform.

Tuesday

The goal of ARTSEDGE is to create inspiring, interactive resources for K-12 learners, their teachers, and their families.

Wednesday

SchoolTube provides student- and teacher-produced approved video content to “empower students and teachers through the use of video, with a safe and fun platform.”

Thursday

Kitabuis a simple, easy-to-use, free Mac OS X desktop reader for Ebooks in ePub format.