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| Bubble wrap - go ahead, pop the bubble wrap | Timer | Dr. Arlys E. Peterson - USF |
| Doodle Poll - create an online poll | Calendar - a calendar for web site (free) | Jing - snap a picture of anything on your desktop or record video of what you do or see |
| Live Maps | USGS Maps and Aerial Photos Online | Pics for Learning - includes pictures to use and lesson plans |
| Puzzles and Brain Teasers | Daily Sudoku | Brain Teasers |
| Jigsaw Puzzles | Word Search Puzzles | How Stuff Works |
| References | Zebra | |
| Lesson Plans | ||
| PBS - free lesson plans, teacher professional development opportunities, videos, blogs and more. | Awesome Stories - Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources, IN CONTEXT, within each story. This web site is free for all educators, schools and libraries. Simply request an academic membership. | Computer - lesson plans for a variety of computer class and/or activities |
| Microsoft On Line Lesson Plans - lesson plans for using different programs (word, excel, powerpoint, paint. There are simulations also for brochures | Smithsonian Source: - online resource for teaching American history. The site includes instructional strategies for using primary sources in the classroom, information about various history topics, lesson plans, and primary source materials such as artifacts, documents, and photographs. | Internet for Classrooms - helping teachers use the internet more effectively. Has a ton of links for resources, lesson plans, and more. |
| Free School Stuff | Discovery Education | Kathy Schrock |
| Internet Resources | Fact Monster - This free reference site for students, teachers, and parents offers homework help and facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health | Pics for Learning - includes pictures to use and lesson plans |
| Videos | ||
| United Streaming | Futures Channel - Channel has many resources for teachers including short video clips on a variety of subjects. Lots of math, science, animals | Teacher Tube - Instructional videos that are educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. |
| School Tube - videos on a variety of subjects as well as lesson plans. | MovieTone Portraits - movies on the topics of entertainment, lifestyle, personalities and travel | |
| Tablets | ||
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PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released to manufacturing. They'll add fun and functionality to your Tablet PC. Some PowerToys include: Art Tool, Handwriting Analysis, Hoop Strategy Game, Physicis Illustrator, Music Compsition. These PowerToys come from the Microsoft web site.
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One-Note Training - From the Microsoft web site, training videos to learn more about One Note. | ABC Ink - A tracing program to help children practice writing words. Choose from a list of words that include: apple, barn, fish, ladder, umbrella, and many others. When you're done tracing the letter, click "See Picture" and the program will take your letters and turn them into a picture of that word. |
| PDF Annotator - Annotate, Edit and Comment on PDF Files. | Tablet PC Post - A variety of downloads for your tablet. | 3D Sketching - |
| ChemPad - allows chemistry students to draw molecule diagrams on a Tablet PC or tablet-enabled Windows Vista PC and have the computer automatically generate the corresponding 3D models. | Math Practice Skill Pack - advanced ink-technology so you can handwrite solutions to math problems just as you would with paper and pencil. As you handwrite your work the programs are able to recognize your answers and provides immediate reinforcement as to whether your solution is correct or not | |
| Blogs from other teachers | ||
| Smith - English | Biology | English 10 |
| Learning and Laptops | Fischbowl | Arapahoe HS |
| Blogging Tools | ||
| Blogger - a place to create a blog | Widgetbox - widgets for your blog or web page | Yahoo Widgets |
| ClustrMap - a way to locate your site visitors | FeedJit - show off live traffic | Clocks - various styles to pick from |
| 50 Great Widgets for your blog | Answer Tips - double click a word and get the definition of the work | Weather Information - shows current conditions |
| Snap shots for blog or web | Voki - speaking avatar for blog | Google Gadgets |
| ESPN Widgets | Blog Usability: Top 10 Design Mistakes | Gliffy - create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more! |
| Web 2.0 Web Sites | ||
| Classroom20 - the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. Be part of the digital dialogue. | Picnik - edit photos online | Go2web20 - a complete Web 2.0 directory, tons of links |
| Slideshare - a place
to share powerpoint presentations,
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Dabbleboard - a powerful digital whiteboard that's actually easy and fun to use. With a revolutionary new interface, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Share and collaborate in real-time. All as naturally as using a marker or a pencil. | Slideroll - on line slide shows. A photo slideshow maker that you can use to create slide shows with your photos. Publish your slideshows on the internet. |
| Animoto - web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos. | Twitter - a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? | Pageflakes - an easy way to read, see, discover and share your favorite things on the web. Start by easily creating a web start page that keeps you up to date on the many blogs and news sources that you read daily. Add photos, videos, a calendar, email, a to-do list and more to make your page even more personal. You can even make special pages that you can share with friends, family, or post on the web for everyone. |
| One True Media - make slideshows or videos. | Splashup - a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. | Picture Resize - free online picture editor. Crop and resize photos, images and pictures |
| Flickr - online photo sharing. The creative commons section is copyright free. | Voice Thread -an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. They can even be exported to an Archival Movie for offline use on a DVD or video-enabled MP3 player. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. | Sketch Cast - a new way to communicate something online by recording a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back, and you can also point people to your sketchcast channel at the sketchcast web site. Sketchcast is new but it's based on an old principle: the whiteboard (or the napkin in a bar) on which you sketch something to get a concept across... or to just have some fun. |