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irene pateraki

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creative tools web 2.0 tools that spawn creativity that add value that make a difference that grow a person is a great thing to have tools that help children interact with the learning material and with each other tools that make lesson more pleasant creative and interesting when teachers are developing web based projects like etwinning it is important to use the right tools that can facilitate the process.

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creative tools tools make educational material more vivid accessible fun to play with but above all compatible with each type of intelligence gardner s theory students can develop skills that probably didn t know they possess not only seeking the information but actively participating in its creation

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but what is a tool according to techweb tool is a program used for software development or system maintenance virtually any program or utility that helps programmers or users develop applications or maintain their computers can be called a tool sometimes people will call any software a tool for example the phrase there aren t any tools to do that job means that no application is available to perform the required processing.

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but how can we choose the right tools is there any way to categorize them?

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tools can be separated in different categories authoring tools programmes that help you write hypertext or multimedia applications they need less technical knowledge to master are used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual graphical and audio data for example exe presentation tools tools we can use to create fancy presentations apart from the common powerpoint there are several online tools to use such as :animoto prezi slide slideshare voicethread.

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collaborative tools with most of the tools you can succeed collaboration among children if you try but there are some tools that make collaboration a piece of cake tools like that are the well-known blogs and wikis and some other like google docs wallwisher typewithme dropbox pbwiki edublogs blogger wordpress flashmeeting glogster cosketch e.t.c.

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audio tools tools to fix or use audio or voice such as audacity fotobabble voicethread voki blabberize video tools tools for cresting/mixing or uploding videos like bubble ply smilebox animoto dvolver xtranormal slideshow tools for uploading/creating effects and transitions/presenting powerpoints etc like slide slideshare sliderocket yodio photostory photopeach scratch.

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image tools there are special tools for organizing and sharing photos creating animations like flickr picasa photobucket gickr photosynth,tabblo mosiackr drawing tools nice tools especially for younger children where they can draw online and create nice pieces of art common tools are scetchfu wordle tuxpaint artpad goanimate kerpoof.

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writing tools that help you create online books or comics such as make beliefs comics zooburst class tools tikatok bookbuilder bookr mindmapping and organizing tools help you create mindmaps and brainstorms you can see mindomo bubble.us webispiration cmap tools spicynodes quizzes and polls for evaluation purposes in an enjoyable way my studiyo hot potatoes quizegg survey monkey limesurvey zoomerang pollmo.

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what to choose there are plenty of new tools in the market and every day new tools appear you are not supposed to try everything test some and find those that suit to your project many tools doesn t mean a good project tools should be used in a way that apply to different methods of learning if a tool is used having in mind the pedagogy then it will serve its purposes.

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our activity check some of the proposed tools or other you know write a small text describing how we can use this tool in class in our etwinning projects and what will offer to our students there will be a special area in the forum of each sub-group create an activity using this tool with your students and present it in our group the activity can be part of an etwinning project or the subject you teach you will upload your activity in the special folder of your subgroup

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our activity read your colleagues descriptions and activities and add your comments and ideas be ready to present your activity in the group in our next meeting success

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an idea now that we are talking about tools how would you find the idea of creating our creative group s logo we can all give a try even collaborate to create a logo that explains to others our group create a logo or use material that is not copyright protected and make a logo upload your logo in the special folder i will create in the member s corner then we will all vote for the best logo!

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wait for your comments ideas and opinions!

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