Ruth Fox Gmail is where you will receive and create emails, work in GoogleDocs (Google Drive), and even use instant messaging for back channel conversation.
A Weebly can be used for many purposes. During the Summer Institute, you will be using Weebly as a place to publish your informative piece to the World Wide Web for others to enjoy. *This is the Student Weebly log in site.*
Wonderopolis explores an interesting "wonder"/question of the day. During the Summer Institute, you will be creating your own Wonder-like piece.
A wiki is a collaborative space. You and your partner will be using Wikispaces like a digital notebook for your Wonder work.
Citelighter allows you to highlight important information on the web and add your personal notes to it. After you highlight your facts, Citelighter creates a bibliography of where the information was found.
A free graphing tool from the The NCES Kids' Zone.
ScreenChomp is a free screencasting tool that allows you to include your own audio to uploaded pictures and drawings.
Screencast-o-matic allows you to capture your voice along with screen images in a movie-like format. You and your partner will use this tool to document your thinking through the online inquiry process and into digital composition (writing).
Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool that can be used in many, many ways. This link will send you to a Symbaloo containing Wonderopolis readings for the Summer Institute, as well as some additional fitness resources (visually marked with stars).
Vocaroo is a free online audio recording tool that can easily be shared with others by downloading it into a mp3 file, embedding it, or by simpley emailing the link.
VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways- using voice, text, video and more.