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.
ScreenChomp is a free screencasting tool that allows you to include your own audio to uploaded pictures and drawings.
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.
Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool that can be used in many, many ways. This link will send you to a Symbaloo containing all our Wonderopolis readings for the Summer Institute, as well as some additional fitness resources (visually marked with stars).
This is where you will find your saved Jing screencasts. Screencast allows you to share your video with a link. Remember to log in with your Jing account information.
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.