Supporting Bloom’s Taxonomy in a Digital World

On October 6th, I participated in an amazing Webinar, offered by SimpleK12, that shared a lot of very useful tools for our classroom.

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I hope you find these applications useful as they are also very well organized for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Blooms chart (New Version)

• Creating

• Evaluating

• Analysing

• Applying

• Understanding

• Remembering

Knowledge and Rembering

• Visuwords - graphical connection - Online Graphical dictionary http://www.visuwords.com

• LinoIT - sticky notes - http://en.linoit.com

• studyblue = flash cards - http://www.studyblue.com

• What to learn = Create own games - http://www.what2learn.com

• Jeopardy Labs = 1$ donation - http://jeopardylabs.com/

• Spelling City = Vocab http://www.spellingcity.com/

Comprehension and Understanding

• Discovery Education - Subject area free discussion and lessons  http://www.discoveryeducation.com

• BBC - Games and Videos Galore - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/

• Hippocampus - Online digital Media (like a digital textbook) - http://hippocampus.org

• Annenberg  - Free media - http://www.learner.org

• Bubbl.US - Mindmapping - http://bubbl.us -  Like Inspiration - Can be exported

• Voki - Talking avatars - http://www.voki.com

Application and Applying

• Wolfram Alpha - using search to develop and construct- http://www.wolframalpha.com

• Vocaroo - (Flash) audio recording - http://vocaroo.com - get links or embedding code

• Soundcloud - Use phone to record audio - http://soundcloud.com like http://cinch.fm

• Xtranormal - Animated Movies creating audio from your text or you can upload audio http://Xtranormal.com

Analysis..

• 10 x 10 - Get material on topics from many different angles - http://www.tenbyten.org

• Exploratree - visualize conclusions - advanced mindmapping - have templates for ideas - http://www.exploratree.org.uk

• Animoto - Free video making site (30 seconds free) - http://animoto.com

• Popplet - visual display, like poster board or mindmap - embed videos into mindmap - http://popplet.com

• Jaycut - free video editing w/o camera or download http://jaycut.com/

Evaluate (Formerly the top)

• Fotobabble - Record audion over picture - http://fotobabble.com

• Authorstream - Share your powerpoints with audio  - http://authorstream.com

• Protagonize - Upload writing projects for feeadback -http://www.protagonize.com

• ToonDoo- Comic stripping type site - http://www.toondoo.com

• Nota - collaborative whiteboard/webpage - many people can work on it at the same time - http://notaland.com (has education version)

Creating

• Voicethread - Make comments on a picture with audio - http://voicethread.com

• Go Animate - animation -http://goanimate.com/
• Screencast-O-matic - Desktop recording (online) http://www.screencast-o-matic.com

• Glogster - Digital poster board - http://Glogster.com

• Prezi - More sophisticated slideshow has educational licence that gives teacher more  -http://prezi.com

• Stupeflix -add images/text/audio tracks to make video - http://www.stupeflix.com/

Links from the webinar:
http://www.diigo.com/user/mrplough07/bloomsSK12

If your interested, check out : http://simplek12.com/tlc/webinars/ for their upcoming FREE webinars!