STAR+Tools

Please explore our technology engagement tools that we used in the Elementary STAR Classrooms!

Create a beautiful aggregation of an amount of text. || [|Bing] General search engine used to research various subjects. || Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces are very helpful. || [|Flip Cams] The world's simplest shoot and share video cameras. || Make beautiful videos from images in a snap. || [|Vimeo] Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. || Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all. || [|Gizmos] Online interactive Math and Science simulations. || Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Aplusmath.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Oswego] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Create your own interactive games. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Standards based Educational search tool. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Zunal] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">A word processing program to compile information in an organized format. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Survey Monkey] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Free online survey software || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Spreadsheet software to compile data and create graphs for presentation. || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Microsoft Office Powerpoint <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Presentation software that helps you tell a powerful <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">story and share your slides on the web. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Small software application for taking photos and videos on Apple products. || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">iMovie <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Video editing software application that allows users to edit their own home movies. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> A Mac-size practice space. Your own recording studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand has everything you need. || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Keynote <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Create your presentation in Keynote, and you’ll be a hard act to follow. Powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout tool. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works. || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">iPad <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">iPad inspires creativity and hands-on learning with features you won’t find in any other educational tool — on a device that students really want to use. Powerful built-in apps and apps from the App Store let students engage with content in interactive ways, find information in an instant, and access an entire library wherever they go. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Students can create their own movies. They simply choose a character and type what they want they want their character to say. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Tagxedo] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The site that swims with learning fun! || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|BrainPop!] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wordle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wikis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Animoto
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Kerpoof
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Glogster
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|GoogleDocs]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Nettrekker]
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Microsoft Office Word
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Microsoft Office Excel
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">PhotoBooth
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">GarageBand
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Pages
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Xtranormal]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Gamequarium]