FMS Arts

*Students, when you say to me "Is this good enough?" I will always say "no".
Your work is done when it's the BEST you can do, the very BEST.
"GOOD ENOUGH" IS THE ENEMY OF GREAT!

Ms Gersich

100days until
Second Semester Ends

WEB 2.0 tools

  • AutoMotivator -- create your own motivational posters
  • BibMe -- fast and easy bibliography maker
  • BigHugeLabs - fun stuff with photos
  • Blabberize - got a picture? Blabberize it (give it audio)
  • Bubblesnaps -- let your pictures do the talking
  • Chartle.net-- tears down the complexity of online visualizations - offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity instead.
  • FindSounds -- millions of sounds for use in projects
  • Foday -- newspaper clipping image generator
  • Geocoded Arta collection of world's greatest landscape, cityscape and seascape paintings. Explore the location of paintings using Google or Bing Maps.
  • Glogster -- create interactive posters. Poster Yourself - Text, Images, Music, and Video .
  • Instant Poetry -- poetry maker site
  • iRubric -- home of free rubric tools
  • Jeopardy Labs -- build your own Jeopardy quiz for classroom use, no registration required.
  • Jing -- this is a screen capture/video tool
  • Kitzu -- digital kits for educators from Orange County Dept. of Ed.
  • Knightcite- MLA citation service
  • Luminosity -- brain games and brain training
  • Make Beliefs Comix -- create comics in English or Spanishl
  • Myths and Ledgends -create and animate myths and legends
  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives -- good math resources
  • Ning -- a social network creator
  • Odosketch -  fun sketching tool
  • Openzine -- online magazine creator
  • PicLits -- create a PicLit, inspired picture writing
  • Plinky--every day they provide a new prompt (like a question or a challenge)
  • Prezi -- create astonishing presentations live and on the web
  • Scriblink -- online interactive whiteboard
  • Shape Collage -- free automatic photo collage maker
  • Springnote -- an online interactive notebook
  • SwitchZoo - make new animals
  • The Visual Thesaurus -- and interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom
  • Timerime - make your own time lines
  • Toon Doo -create your own comic strips, publish, share and discuss
  • Tubechop - allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
  • Voicethread-- a powerful new way to share images, documents and videos.
  • Weebly -- a website creation tool
  • Wolfram Alpha - Wolfram Alpha is a natural language“computational knowledge engine.” Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram Alpha will compute the answer.
  • Wordle- creates"word clouds" from text
  • xtra normal - create a simple, animated movie for free.Type or record your dialogue and then useXtra Normal’s drag-and-drop interface tochange the camera angles, change the actors’ accents, and more.