Tools+for+Content+Area+Reading

1. Podcasts I hope to try this year include: Where in Missouri? modeled after [|Our City Podcast].

2. [|Time Toast] allows students to use digital pictures or scanned images to create a timeline and add details.
 * Science examples to try would be plant growth, butterfly life cycles, or the grow beast experiment we do to practice measurement.
 * Social studies examples might be events leading to the revolutionary war, westward expansion, or Missouri becoming a state.

3. Wikis-use for collaboration on topics. 4. Mind Maps: Taking notes when researching or sharing information learned 5. [|Etherpad] allows users to collaborate in real time.
 * Mrs. Lowe's example
 * [|Bubbl.us] is a clean and simple looking tool; plus it is free
 * [|Webspiration] is most like Inspiration. It is in public beta right now and is free.
 * [|Gliffy]is a little more complicated and has many different shapes to use.
 * Collaborate on notes when researching
 * Take notes from a presentation or video