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The Daring Librarian || || Lansing School District Japanese Site || || Bridget Cooper's Site || || Dawn Stark's Site || || Reading, Writing || This free slideshow maker is easy to use and a nice change from power point. You and your students can make slideshows with Japanese text, and add music of your choice. Even unmotivated students like to make photopeach projects, and they are proud to show them to their classmates. Photopeach.com || || Speaking || With //UJAM//, you can create music for all the things in your life, for free! Put your lyrics to music. Ujam || Speaking || Blabberize is a very easy application that allows you to speak through a picture. Students can manipulate the picture to say what they want it to say. Teachers have used this resource for quick projects such as having students retell a story, book reviews, explain a math or science process, create biographies. The ideas are endless. Take a look at a few below and then follow the links to see more blabbers in the different content areas here. || Listening, Speaking || Students set up their own free accounts, and then create speaking avatars. They can record their own voices, and e-mail their vokis to their teacher. [] || www.befunky.com || Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking || This free tool is a student response suite that allows teachers to send out a set of questions, prompts, or even a quiz, and lets students provide their responses via any device - tablets, computers, phones, etc. The drawing response is a great way to have students write words in kanji or kana, and of course they can also draw pictures. First the teacher signs up, and then gives the room code to students so they can type it in and get started. Sign up for infuseLearning || Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking || This free 2.0 tool is sometimes called facebook for teachers. Teachers can use it to post assignments, add links to videos and webpages, create polls for student responses, and more. Students can turn in assignments by attaching files or links, for teachers to view and grade. The site is well-managed and is constantly being improved. Parents can also get free accounts to track their student's progress. Edmodo website || || Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking || You can combine video, audio, pictures, graphics and text to make your own unique product. Use the "Grab" feature to create your own audio, video or image files using your computer camera. Sign up for a free trial and check it out. Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash. If you want to write in Japanese, it is easier to write in a word document, and then cut and paste into glogster. You can also select Japanese Arial for text and write directly into glogster. Please note that glogster seems to slow down when many are on the site at one time, although that could be a problem with my school's wireless. Glogster EDU Digital Poster Poster Maker and more Glogster EDU Free Trial || media type="custom" key="23083266" ||
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 * || Tools You Can Use ||
 * Photopeach
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 * Tube Chop || //TubeChop// allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
 * Tube Chop || //TubeChop// allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
 * uJam
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 * Blabberize
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 * Voki
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 * Befunky.com || This free website lets you add special effects to your photos. Students can use this site to make avatars of themselves, to use on their Edmodo accounts, Wikispaces, and more.
 * Befunky.com || This free website lets you add special effects to your photos. Students can use this site to make avatars of themselves, to use on their Edmodo accounts, Wikispaces, and more.
 * Infuselearning.com
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 * Quia || Set up a quia account ($49/year) to create quizzes, activities and learning games. You can share quiz questions with other teachers, and put their questions into your question bank, to use later when creating tests. You can imbed images of authentic materials for students to read. You can also create writing prompts, and students can write directly into the answer box. Try it for free for one month. [|www.quia.com]
 * Quia || Set up a quia account ($49/year) to create quizzes, activities and learning games. You can share quiz questions with other teachers, and put their questions into your question bank, to use later when creating tests. You can imbed images of authentic materials for students to read. You can also create writing prompts, and students can write directly into the answer box. Try it for free for one month. [|www.quia.com]
 * Glogster EDU**Targeted Skill(s):**
 * Glogster EDU**Targeted Skill(s):**
 * Storybird || Create books. Pictures are already there, you just add your text.
 * Storybird || Create books. Pictures are already there, you just add your text.
 * Socrative || [[image:Socrative_Screen_shot.png width="400" height="322"]] ||
 * Socrative || [[image:Socrative_Screen_shot.png width="400" height="322"]] ||