Websites
August 30, 2010
The Wilderness Downtown
Every once in a while I find something on the internet that is beyond description...all I can say is WOW.
The Wilderness Downtown at the SCCS
Sweet Search
Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.
- SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.
- SweetSearch2Day is where students Learn Something New Every Day.
- Visit SweetSearch for School Librarians for content that helps students use the Web effectively.
- Visit our SweetSites for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.
- Visit SweetSearch Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people.
- Visit SweetSearch Social Studies for our best social studies content
August 22, 2010
Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System
Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print -- anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.
Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere
August 18, 2010
Kidsnetsoft
This site is dedicated to advancing students in technology. Technology Integration is critical to 21st Century students.
August 7, 2010
Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More
Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More -- National Geographic Kids
Red Eye - Abstract City Blog
I love the idea behind this blog ...what a refreshing change.
Red Eye - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com
July 22, 2010
Math Tools Topics
Math Tools is a project of The Math Forum @ Drexel, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. The goal is to create a community digital library that supports the use and development of software for mathematics education. We began work in September of 2002 and through the help of many people there is already an active and rich resource center.
PBS Teachers -- Resources For The Classroom
PBS Teachers -- Resources For The Classroom
July 10, 2010
New Sand Game
New Sand Game - play the addictive java new sand games online.
July 9, 2010
Learn How to Prevent Plagiarism in Your Classroom
Plagiarism is one of academia's most common problems and a constant concern for teachers. While the Web may have made plagiarism as easy as a few simple clicks, it's also made detecting plagiarism just as easy. If a student can find the essay in seconds, so can you--if you know where to look.
This comprehensive resource will tell you everything you need to know about plagiarism, from the basic facts to free detection tools to preventing it in both the physical and online classroom.
Detecting Plagiarism for Free - Learn How to Prevent Plagiarism in Your Classroom
July 8, 2010
Chrome Experiments
Last year we launched Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing innovative web experiments built with open standards like JavaScript and HTML5. Today we're pleased to announce that the site now points to 100 experiments -- each one made, hosted, and submitted by programmers from around the world.
HTML5 Video Destruction
This is just fun.
July 7, 2010
Song Videos for Kids - Music and Sing-Along
Kideos is the premier destination for kids to safely watch videos online. Each video on Kideos has been screened by our Video Advisory Council before it makes it onto our site. Our goal is to empower parents to feel comfortable allowing their child to spend time on Kideos, while also making sure children have a thoroughly entertaining experience.
Song Videos for Kids - Music and Sing-Along | Kideos
June 30, 2010
Interactive quiz
Very cool tool...check it out.
June 28, 2010
Stroome.com | mix it up. mash it out.
Welcome to Stroome, the world's most collaborative video editing community. Upload videos, share clips, then mix it up and mash it out.
Thousands of clips, hundreds of collaborators, unlimited possibilities
Stroome.com | mix it up. mash it out.
June 18, 2010
Technology Tips for SWSD
This blog is designed to provide continuing tips for staff and parents. Enjoy, use, respond, send ideas and links you think would be great for us to use.
June 11, 2010
Sculptris
Sculptris wants you to make 3D models. Download it and have a go! I'm sure you will enjoy.
June 1, 2010
IS tado Parade
Is Parade is the parade generator which enable people to enjoy parade with many people on twitter. Twitter's icon changed to the character and then you can make your own parade with characters and others. Let's parade by entering your twitter ID or any favorite word.
May 31, 2010
TubeChop
TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
How Does It Work?
1. Find the video you want to chop.
2. Select & cut interesting part of the video.
3. Share it with friends.
May 18, 2010
Fake Magazine Cover Maker
Here you can personalize magazine covers online (no software applications to install, just use your web browser) by uploading digital photos you have on your computer. You can put your face on the cover of many well known magazines
Fake Magazine Cover Maker, Make Parody Covers With 500 Magazines Templates, Upload Face Photo
May 17, 2010
Teaching Style Survey
If you teach you might want to check out this survey...
May 13, 2010
Web 2.0 List Of Web 2.0 Application Links
Now this is a list...1000 web2.0 links
Web 2.0 List Of Web 2.0 Application Links
May 10, 2010
Quintura for Kids
A neat search engine for kids.
May 8, 2010
Free online OCR
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.
Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either a JPG, GIF, TIFF BMP or PDF (only first page).
May 6, 2010
Avatara Build an avatar.
Create a true 3D avatar for your social network presence.
Start by choosing a premade avatar or building your own.
Take your avatar to your favorite social networks.
April 30, 2010
Glogster (techintegrationsite)
Glogster is another wonderful Web 2.0 tool that lets you create a web page that can incorporate sound, video, images, text and more. Teachers can set up a classroom account and assign usernames and passwords. Once the student has a login, they can create web pages that are thematic to the classroom content. At the bottom of this site, there is a free download to a rubric that can be used with students for this project. You can see some examples by clicking on the links below:
Glogster (techintegrationsite)
April 27, 2010
Webbed Feats
There are many Web 2.0 tools that can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom.
It is important to understand that we are using all these tools to practise basic literacy skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) and engage and motivate students
Art interactives
Art interactives | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
April 26, 2010
e-Learning for Kids
In today's complex world, children's futures are determined by their ability to master the basics of reading, science, math and computers. Yet costs, class sizes and other issues often prevent children access to quality online learning that can support and reinforce these essential skills.
Our vision is to be the source for childhood learning on the Internet - available from anywhere and without charge. Established in late 2004, e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 - 12. We offer free, best-in-class courseware in math, science, reading and keyboarding; and we're building a community for parents and educators to share innovations and insights in childhood education.
Genes to Cognition Online
Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online is about modern neuroscience. It focuses on cognitive disorders, cognitive processes, and research approaches. Use the dynamic network maps to explore our library of 750+ unique items. Or, use the linear Selected Items menu on top of each map to tour selected content.
Explore, interact, and have fun!
Create stunning trip slideshows in minutes
t's a jaw-dropping slideshow featuring your vacation pictures.
"Slideshow" hardly does TripWow justice; it's more like a movie!
In minutes, you can create an amazing slideshow using your own
vacation pictures that you can easily share with friends and family.
TripWow | Create stunning trip slideshows in minutes
Instructional Technology Department
A great collections of resources
Instructional Technology Department - Resources
April 20, 2010
SearchStories's Channel
Welcome to the Search Stories Video Creator. Just type in your searches and select the kind of results that best communicate your story. Then, share your story with the world.
YouTube
- SearchStories's Channel
TxtMeBox.com - Anonymous Online SMS Service
Whether it's for Business or Fun, TxtMeBox.com allows people to send you a Text Message anonymously. They will never see your Cell phone number.
TxtMeBox.com - Anonymous Online SMS Service
April 18, 2010
draw.to -- Draw something and share it!
Create and share simple drawings -- like those you do on a napkin in real life. Draw for fun or to communicate an idea. When you're done you can share your drawing with a single click!
draw.to -- Draw something and share it!
April 14, 2010
Facebook | Help Center
There are a number of Facebook best practices for educators, particularly when it involves the safety of their students. Find them here.
April 12, 2010
Is My Thesis Hot Or Not
Eventually you're going to have to defend your thesis. So exactly how confident are you?
IsMyThesisHotOrNot.com lets you test it out, or comment on other thesis statements completely anonymously.
March 26, 2010
Sistine Chapel
So very cool...
March 23, 2010
Dr. Couros at Cyber
The Cyber School was fortunate enough to get Dr. Alec Couros in to speak to our division. His presentation entitled, "Open and Collaborative Learning: How Social Networks are Transforming Education" was very well-received. The audience was captivated by his enthusiasm and information regarding social networks and education. It was streamed live via Ustream where it enabled participation by people from around the world.
March 22, 2010
21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World
In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium.
21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World
March 19, 2010
Everything You Need To Know About Detecting Plagiarism and Preventing It
Plagiarism is one of academia's most common problems and a constant concern for teachers. While the Web may have made plagiarism as easy as a few simple clicks, it's also made detecting plagiarism just as easy. If a student can find the essay in seconds, so can you--if you know where to look.
This comprehensive resource will tell you everything you need to know about plagiarism, from the basic facts to free detection tools to preventing it in both the physical and online classroom.
Everything You Need To Know About Detecting Plagiarism and Preventing It
March 15, 2010
Welcome to Knowitall.org
Knowitall.org is ETV's educational Web portal, a collection of fun, interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers and parents.
Marvel Create Your Own Superhero
March 14, 2010
Mathalicious
"What does this mean? When will I use this?"
If you're a math teacher, you've probably heard these questions before. We're here to help you answer them.
At Mathalicious, our mission is to help transform the way math is taught by providing you with the best, most meaningful and most relevant math content available. Our lessons are aligned to traditional state standards. Unlike most math resources, though, our content emphasizes both conceptual understanding and real-world application.
SafeShare.TV - The Safest Way To Share YouTube videos
Not only does SafeShare.TV remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.
SafeShare.TV - The Safest Way To Share YouTube videos
March 8, 2010
100+ Blogs to Inspire the Creative Genius Inside You
TADO made this list...:)
Researchers say you don't have to be born with creativity flowing from your fingertips, but that you can nurture and grow your creativity. To start with, try opening yourself up to new ideas or learning about something you aren't already familiar. The following blogs provide a great opportunity for you to see how others put their creativity to work and allow yourself to think in a new direction. Take a look at amazing craft and DIY projects, ways to organize and decorate your living space, read about literature, art, foreign cultures and travel, education, and ways to change your outlook on life with the blogs below.
100+ Blogs to Inspire the Creative Genius Inside You | Associate Degree - Facts and Information
March 7, 2010
Mapping Innovations
Education Eye maps the top educational websites, blogs, forums and practitioner case studies to ensure the content is entirely relevant to education's varied communities.
Education Eye - Mapping Innovations
March 6, 2010
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
March 5, 2010
TestSize.com - test any web page in any window size
TestSize.com - test any web page in any window size
March 3, 2010
Pre-Grade Your Paper
PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.
PaperRater.com combines the power of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, information retrieval (IR), computational linguistics, data mining, and advanced pattern matching (APM). We offer the most powerful writing tool available on the internet today.
Before we could offer PaperRater.com we had to overcome large challenges related to computational linguistic design and development, handling transliteration variation; ethnolinguistic identification; document classification and entity extraction; name parsing and regularization; duplicate document recognition, plagiarism detection, clustering, and prioritization; automatic entity extraction and entity resolution.
February 22, 2010
Quest Atlantis
The Quest Atlantis team is committed to bringing together the power of videogames, academics, and participation in socially-meaningful activities. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults. The QA project will foster an awareness of seven critical dimensions in order to actualize them in the lives of children:
February 18, 2010
Kidblog.org - Blogs for Teachers and Students
Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog.
Kidblog.org - Blogs for Teachers and Students
February 15, 2010
Teachers should DOINK
DoInk is a place to enjoy art and animation, and make your own. Have a great idea, but can't draw? No problem. Are you an amazing artist, and want to share your talent with the world? We love you. You can do both? There's an audience here for you! So if you want to be entertained, learn something new, or create something fun, do it on DoInk.
Teachers should DOINK | DoInk.com
February 5, 2010
Online resources for parents and educators
Learn how to be a better parent, teacher or caregiver to the "digital natives" in your life and gain the knowledge and skills for understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.
FRONTLINE: digital nation: digital workshops: online resources for parents and educators | PBS
GSCS Ed. Tech Integration Curricular Resources
We have recently moved all of our resources to this accessible platform. Our resources are divided by grade level, by subject area and even by core unit.
Feel free to browse the site where you will find unit plans, lessons plans, resources and web activities to support what you are doing in the classroom.
GSCS Ed. Tech Integration Curricular Resources
BBC - The Little Animals Activity Centre
A set of activities for all subjects for ages 4-11 years
BBC - The Little Animals Activity Centre - Menu page
February 1, 2010
E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools
This is a great collection of sites.
E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools
Olympics Resources
This page is devoted to The Olympic Games where the world's greatest athletes gather around the world to represent their countries. The Olympic Games create a wonderful opportunity to teach our students in unique and interesting ways.
February Resources
A "hearty" collection of activities for you to use in your classroom. If you haven't prepared, don't be brokenhearted... These lessons and resources will put you in the loving spirit of February!
January 31, 2010
Netsafe NetBasics
An excellent set of video's about internet safety.
INCREDIBOX
You just need to try it...way cool.
[ INCREDIBOX ] presents [ THE INCREDIBLE POLO ]
Thirty-Six Interesting Ways* to Use Search Engines in the Class
Thirty-Six Interesting Ways* to Use Search Engines in the Class
January 29, 2010
Free Languages Online
Welcome to Your Free Online language Courses! - Learn foreign languages with our free language courses!
LANGMaster.com offers the world's most extensive free online language courses. We provide state of the art free courses in many language localizations. Study with us and enjoy 6,616 interactive exercises and tests, 928 chapters, 1,700 hours of learning, 49,808 sound recordings and 11,263 pictures and photos!
January 28, 2010
muxicall
I am not really sure about this...but worth a look, not even sure what it is... but I had fun playing.
January 27, 2010
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
We have 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.
YouTube XL
A great application for showing youtube videos on a smart board or in the classroom.
Royalty free stuff
Mixtures of free stuff and Collections of free photos, sounds, music, gifs, clipart, fonts, icons, satellite images, cartoons, graphics, animations, etc.
Royalty free stuff | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
January 17, 2010
Test your brain
Below you have our selection of the Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games that people have enjoyed the most in our blog. It is always good to learn about our brains and to exercise them!.
January 13, 2010
Symbaloo - start simple
It is our dream to make Symbaloo the easiest starting point on the Internet. It's that simple; you could have thought of it yourself!
Checklist for Better Web Graphics | Mert TOL
Graphics are critical in defining the ambiance, appeal, and professionalism of a site. While we try to deliver engaging graphics, we must also weigh the tradeoff of increasing the download times that heavy use of graphics can entail. Saving images in the proper format, minimizing image sizes, and using graphics appropriately can go a long way toward minimizing download times.
Checklist for Better Web Graphics | Mert TOL
January 7, 2010
My Brochure Maker
Online brochure maker..very cool
Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog
Title says it all.
Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog
Free Screenwriting Software by Plotbot--write screenplays online with friends
Plotbot is web-based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want--there's nothing to install, it's free, and it's easy to use!
Free Screenwriting Software by Plotbot--write screenplays online with friends
ScriptBuddy - Screenwriting Software
ScriptBuddy is a full-fledged screenplay software program. It handles the proper screenplay format automatically, so you can concentrate on your story.
ScriptBuddy - Screenwriting Software
Pixton™ - Create web comics online
Another comic creater..Do it yourself comics
Pixton™ - Create web comics online
Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
Create your own comic strips.
MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator
Cartoon maker, easy to use.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator
January 6, 2010
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
Very cool tool.
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
Bethlehem Independent Film Festival 2009-2010
- This film festival is open for any High School student in Canada.
- To enter the festival you need to fill out the Entry Form and email it to BIFFestival@gmail.com
- Each entry costs $10
- To submit your video you must send in a copy of your video on DVD. Videos will be uploaded to The Star Phoenix Website. A link to the videos will be placed on this site so that anyone may view the festival content.
- Online Voting will be available for one week prior to the festival. Online votes will count toward the people choice awards.
Bethlehem Independent Film Festival 2009-2010
January 5, 2010
Memorize.com - The Flashcard Wiki
Kind of fun site to memorize things.
Memorize.com - The Flashcard Wiki
Shared SMART Board Lesson Reposit
Very cool resource.
Shared SMART Board Lesson Reposit
60 Educational Game Sites That You've Probably Never Seen
Ok, so you've probably seen some of these, but I needed a snazzy title. I recently compiled two lists of sites from Richard Byrne's Blog - the site is an amazing resource, and I'm pretty certain that Richard doesn't sleep. These aren't in order of greatness - they all have their own specific applications for education. A few of these appear on my Sites for Kids (and Teachers) page.
Enjoy!
60 Educational Game Sites That You've Probably Never Seen « Tech:-)Happy
January 4, 2010
Resources for teachers
This is a good collection of resources...love it.
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
The Periodic Table of Videos is a modern version of the famous periodic table of elements. It is perfect for your chemistry classes. It is maintained by the University of Nottingham in England. When loading the page, there is the traditional periodic table. Each of the 118 elements is clickable. By clicking on one, you will get the usual information like the name of the element and the atomic number, but there will also be a YouTube video embedded. The video will give information about the element presented by a scientist and then some sort of experiment using that element. Sometimes, the experiment is an impressive one like the famous sodium in water. Did you know the body of a pencil sharpener is made of magnesium? This is one of the many things your students will learn from this website.
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
Clam Review
Dissecting a clam...
Sheep Brain Dissection: The Anatomy of Memory
Just what the titles says...
Sheep Brain Dissection: The Anatomy of Memory
Fun4thebrain - free addition, subtraction, division games for kids - Beach Rush
Fun4thebrain - free addition, subtraction, division games for kids - Beach Rush
Digital Tools: Photos/Videos Links
A collection of good technology links
Digital Tools: Photos/Videos Vermilion Parish Curriculum Links
25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos
RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding and viewing educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.
25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos
December 31, 2009
LoudLit.org
LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio.
Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.
December 28, 2009
Toolkit A-Z
Looking for a tool to use?
Wondering what to try next?
Thinking about possibilities?
December 20, 2009
ProProfs Brain Games
ProProfs Launches Brain Games: Create and Share Your Own Games or Play over 4,000 Free Educational Games
Los Angeles, CA - December 2 , 2009 - www.ProProfs.com, the leader in free online knowledge sharing tools, announces the launch of over 4,000 Brain Games & Puzzles. The unique feature of ProProfs Brain Games (http://www.proprofs.com/games/) allows users to create their own custom games and quickly upload them to blogs and social media, sharing them across the web.
ProProfs Brain Games allows users to harness their own creativity to engage and inform others in an attention-holding way. The custom feature makes it possible to create games focused on specific images, themes and subject matters, with an emphasis on usability. Bloggers can encourage visitors to spend more time on their site by presenting their text or photo content in the form of a game or puzzle, and teachers can engage their students by integrating their own games into lesson plans.
December 18, 2009
12 Sites To Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself
If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles and avatars, why not create a cartoon characters of yourself? It'll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartonized way in any online profiles and avatars, anywhere from Gravatar to MyBlogLog, blog profiles, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc.
12 Sites To Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself | Web 2.0
December 17, 2009
32 Unbelievable Paintings Made On The iPhone and iPod Touch |
I've rounded up 32 amazing digital paintings that were all painted on an iPhone or iPod Touch. These great artists are leading the way in mobile art with some fantastic creations. It's hard to believe that some of these paintings were made on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
32 Unbelievable Paintings Made On The iPhone and iPod Touch |
December 10, 2009
Pipl - People Search
There are various reasons why you might need to search for people, you may need to find a lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact - but if you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people, you have probably realized by now that it might work in some cases but in most cases it won't.
December 9, 2009
Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
December 5, 2009
movieclips.com home - movieclips
we at MOVIECLIPS.com are movie fans - no, we are movie freaks! We love movies. We love to see movies. We love to talk about movies. We love to discover, rediscover and relive movies. For this reason, we have created movieclips.com - to bottle that insane, enthusiastic energy and share it with the world. With over 12,000 movie clips, you can search, find, view, discuss and share scenes from your favorite movies.
movieclips.com home - movieclips
December 3, 2009
Curriki - WebHome
A website where the community shares and collaborates on free and open source curricula
December 1, 2009
December Resources
Don't let the December holidays disrupt the learning in your classroom. These resources can help you incorporate the holiday into your learning activities -- and provide a little fun as well.
Vocabmaker from my inbox...:)
Dear Darren,
You did a wonderful job with your Teaching and Developing Online web site!
It provides a ton of great tools and resources for your viewers.
I really enjoy your site and thank you for creating such an outstanding resource!
We're a bunch of struggling teachers over here putting together our first web site. We put together a web site that helps educators make worksheets and puzzles very quickly. I was just wondering, if it isn't too much to ask, could you possibly place a link to our web site on your web site? I'm sure your viewers would appreciate it with all of our no cost worksheets. If you take a look, I think you'll really enjoy it.
Our site is: http://vocabmaker.com/
Vocabmaker allows you to make 29 different types of puzzles and worksheets in seconds.
We also featured new worksheets all the time. All our worksheets can be found here:
http://www.vocabmaker.com/free_worksheet.php
We are in the process of building a web directory on our site related to education. We would be happy to list your web site.
1,000 Thanks,
Garrison Reed
6th Grade Teacher, Dad of 3, and Tired
November 23, 2009
Grooveshark -- Listen to Free Music Online
Grooveshark -- Listen to Free Music Online -- Internet Radio -- Free MP3 Streaming
Google Tools for Schools
This hands-on workshop will focus on all the free applications from Google that support teaching and learning. Click on the links below to explore the applications we will learn in this workshop.
Google Tools for Schools - Home (Google Tools for Schools)
November 20, 2009
GoAnimate - Create your own cartoons and animations easily.
GoAnimate.com is an entertainment website that enables the simple creation of unique computer animated stories, satires and sentiments that can be shared with the entire online community. The site offers simple to more advanced innovative features that provide users with a multitude of possibilities for customizing their animations. We will constantly be enhancing and adding features, popular licenses and animations from well known comedians, animators and writers.
Gcast. Make your voice heard.
What's a podcast? Your own audio broadcast, where you can easily record voice messages, mix in your favorite music, and share it all for the world to hear.
Blabberize.com - Make a Blabber!
This allows you to make any image talk...very funny.
Blabberize.com - Make a Blabber!
Moviestorm
Short Fuze is opening up the world of digital animation to a worldwide mass market of predominantly young amateurs with little or no experience. We are offering an affordable suite of market-leading products that are fun and easy to use, which inspire people to do more, and which combine to form a full-featured movie-making environment.
November 19, 2009
City Creator
Choose a city from the selection on the right, and click the corresponding 'build' button to begin.
Drag and drop pieces from the palettes on the left onto the space on the right. Clicking on a piece brings it to the front.
Arrange them to make your city. (It might help to start by adding the roads)
November 13, 2009
TypeIt.org - Type foreign characters easily
TypeIt.org - Type foreign characters easily
bubbabrain - K-12+, Elementary, Middle School, High School, AP, IB, SAT, College, Trivia, Interactive vocabulary practice!
November 10, 2009
Free Scanned PDF to Word Converter Online
Turn hard to use Scanned PDF into editable Word documents free and easy.
Free Scanned PDF to Word Converter Online
November 9, 2009
Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.
KUBBU: Create online educational games, websites and activities
Create activities, crosswords and quizzes for online practice, revision and examination.
Easily create and manage students' and groups' accounts
Track students' and groups' progress using result database
KUBBU: Create online educational games, websites and activities
November 5, 2009
OnlineVideoConverter.com
This is a very cool and useful video online converter...bookmark this one.
OnlineVideoConverter.com | Convert & Download YouTube videos...
November 4, 2009
Subtitle movie with BombayTV
This is fun...
Math Test Activities
An online assessment tool for teachers of all subjects and grade levels.
A skills site for students, especially useful for math practice and testing.
That Quiz - Math Test Activities
November 3, 2009
7 Very fun games that are actually good for your brain
This title says it all..check it out.
7 Very fun games that are actually good for your brain
November 2, 2009
Learning - E2BN
Welcome to Learning and Teaching. This section of the site is for learners, teachers and schools. You can find resources and information you need for your learning and teaching.
Remembrance Day Teacher Resources
Remembrance Day Teacher Resources
October 30, 2009
Educational Web Sites Twitter
The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents.
Glogster - Poster Yourself | Text, Images, Music and Video
Glogster EDU is your original educational resource for innovative and interactive learning. Glogster EDU was conceived to imaginatively, productively, and collaboratively respond to the dynamic educational landscape and exceed the needs of today's educators and learners. We value the participation of educators and strive to assimilate their contributions to Glogster EDU, Glogster EDU is yours! Educators from all over the world are integrating Glogster EDU's resourceful platform to make traditional learning more dynamic, more interactive and more in tune with learners today. Most importantly Glogster EDU is FUN for teachers and learners alike!
Glogster - Poster Yourself | Text, Images, Music and Video
October 29, 2009
Add Your Prayer
This is a cool site that would work well for many different social sharing tasks.
Add Your Prayer by dcannell@gscs.sk.ca
A blogger talking about the website and how it can be used educationally.
Just another brick in the wall? | Why did the Chickenman cross the road?
October 27, 2009
40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets
Wow nice sets of icons
October 21, 2009
Twitter Applications List You'll Ever Need
That's not a list...this is a list....
Twitter Applications List You'll Ever Need
October 15, 2009
Educational Jargon Generator
This will help me with my PHD thesis...love it
October 14, 2009
The eyeballing game
This will waste a pile of time but it is very cool.
Tread Lightly
This is an exciting classroom activity...check it out.
October 10, 2009
100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques
With so many good teachers out there, it's fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Internet. From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well. Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh perspective, you are sure to find something helpful among these videos.
100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques | Smart Teaching
October 9, 2009
PreZentit - Create, share and show your presentations online
With PreZentit
Create presentations in a few clicks, wherever you are.
You only need a web browser.
Work with your team in the same presentation at the same time.
Your presentations can be private or public. And each one has its own web address.
Download your presentations and show them even without an Internet connection.
There is no limit in the number or length of the presentations and you have 250MB to store your images.
The presentations are web pages (HTML) so you could even edit them manually (if you want it)..
PreZentit - Create, share and show your
presentations online
Witty Comics - Make a Comic
A cool cartoon maker..check it.
October 7, 2009
The ideal introduction to Shakespeare and his use of language...
Everything you need to know about Shakespeare.
The Shakespeare Portal - The ideal introduction to Shakespeare and his use of language...
October 6, 2009
Fix photos direct in your browser
It works and its online...way cool.
Online image editor pixlr free - fix photos direct in your browser
October 3, 2009
NewsMap...
I like the way this gives you a quick snap of what is going on in the world.
September 28, 2009
Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
A very cool search engine for kids.
Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
September 20, 2009
The Origin of the Nerd
In the little more than a decade since I created my original web page here about the origin of the word nerd, it has grown considerably, in part due to various controversies about the word's origins as well as to new information and speculation about its history. My views on the term's origin have not changed much, as you can see by the fact that Dr. Seuss's Nerd has joined me in the page's icon (assuming that you're not viewing the page in the "Full Width" style), but it does seem like time to reorganize the material.
The factor that made me decide that nerd might be a label worth reclaiming was its early association with Dr. Seuss. Having grown up with the Cat in the Hat, Horton and the Grinch, there are worse things to identify with than a hirsute curmudgeonly Seuss character, especially when one is a hirsute curmudgeonly engineer, as I am.
September 18, 2009
ZAP Reader
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time--that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free!
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
SCCS Motivation Poster
Motivator: Create your own motivational posters!
Online Teaching Tips
Welcome to Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online! We hope that you find this website is a great resource for teaching online. We have included tips and tricks for designing course content, facilitating and teaching online, developing learning objects, assessment ideas, and tutorials for blackboard, just to name a few. We gathered these tips from interviewing faculty members at conferences and workshops as well as carefully reviewing the literature.
Learning Resource Exchange Portal
Welcome to the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) portal for schools where you can find open educational resources and assets from many different countries and providers, including 18 Ministries of Education.
September 16, 2009
ThinkQuest : Library
Over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition.
Brain Games & Brain Training
Brain Games
SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED
Shown to improve memory and attention
Detailed feedback and improvement tracking
Fun and easy: full workout in less than 10 minutes/day
Start your training today
Brain Games & Brain Training - Lumosity
September 15, 2009
TakingITGlobal - SCCS Presentation
TakingITGlobal - SCCS Presentation - Cyber Planet & Learning Community Resources
September 14, 2009
Kids Online Resources
My son would love this...I will have to show it to him later.
Kids Online Resources - KidsOLR, Time Tutorial, Early Childhood, Preschool
Educational Games, Worksheets & Homework Help for Kids, Parents and Teachers
Game Classroom was developed to address needs we witnessed firsthand as parents and educators. Game Classroom is the newest web property from Earlier Media, where we are dedicated to providing trustworthy online destinations for children of all ages to learn, watch videos and play games online.
We've thoroughly searched the web for engaging and educational games for kids, and we've collaborated with top educators to ensure that all of our games are age-appropriate, relevant and compliant with academic standards. Our team of educators has also created a vast library of "Homework Help" as an additional resource for students, teachers and parents.
As online games become increasingly pervasive in the home, we strive to offer a site that adults can trust and children will enjoy. We promote education, imagination and literacy...while always making sure kids have fun on Game Classroom!
Educational Games, Worksheets & Homework Help for Kids, Parents and Teachers | Game Classroom
September 11, 2009
SqoolTube: K-12 Educational Videos
Supporting Quality Online Opportunities for Learning.
A batch of instructional videos.
SqoolTube: K-12 Educational Videos
September 10, 2009
Online Books, Poems, Short Stories
Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library
September 9, 2009
JOURNEY TO THE END OF COAL
a very interesting design to a website, cool.
BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students.
High School Lesson Plans
A list of good lesson plans for those art teachers out there.
September 8, 2009
100 Useful Tools for Special Needs Students & Educators
With all of the new trends and tools in education technology, there's no reason for special needs students and their teachers and parents to be left behind. This list of 100 useful tools can help anyone with a learning disability like ADHD, dyslexia or test anxiety, as well as students with visual or hearing impairments, use the Internet and other technology systems to help them with reading, math, organization, social skills, and more.
100 Useful Tools for Special Needs Students & Educators | Teaching Tips
September 4, 2009
Teacher Activities
An extensive list of teacher's Activities...way coool
Teacher Activities - Scholar's Choice Children's Toys And Games
September 3, 2009
All My Faves | Education
This is a way cool link page...way coool.
If you have children check out the tab called Kids...again wayyyyyy coooool.
September 2, 2009
Imagination Cubed
Very cool draw with a friend...I like it
August 31, 2009
Back to School Ideas
So, it's the first week of school - you're anxious to meet your students and begin the school year, but you're looking for great lesson plans and ideas to get everyone off to a good start. This is the web page for you!
These internet sites have links to great links to help you and your students begin the school year in style:
My Best of series
I've separated my "The Best..." lists here by topics. A number of the lists, though, can fit into multiple categories, so it still might be useful to scan all of them.
My Best of series | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
TADO PD Lounge - What there is "Ta Do" in Educational Technology
Cyber School's newest development is an On-line Professional Development
Lounge for All Educational Staff from our own school division and
from around the world.
The Lounge is active and vibrant and updated almost daily by Cyber School Educational Technology Specialists.
The PD Lounge houses a multitude of both self-directed and guided short
courses geared specifically towards integrating technology into the classroom.
Communicate and collaborate with other educators regarding Smart Boards, Wikis's and blogs (Just to name a few).
In Addition to this, there is a vast amount of other Software Tutorials,
Smart Board lessons as well as access to Atomic Learning a company
who specializes in tutorials for most software applications used in schools.
*Please note: These tutorials can be used with or by students as well.*
Do you need some refreshers or introductions to Cyber Planets, Learning Communities, Hybrid courses or Blogs?
If so, Cyber School is posting videos of all staff delivered In-services so that
anyone can access them at anytime.
Click Here To Register for FREE!!!!!!
August 27, 2009
20 Useful Websites and Tools for Elementary School Teachers
Engaging students in an elementary classroom can be difficult. But there are a lot of sites online that can help. Here are 20 useful sites that offer lesson plans, web apps, and other aids for elementary school teachers:
20 Useful Websites and Tools for Elementary School Teachers
August 26, 2009
How to Choose a Search Tool
This is an interesting table which will assist you in finding the right search engine.
August 14, 2009
TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.
This is the second posting pertaining to this presentation that will be happening in Saskatoon. The reason we are posting it a second time is because of the change we have made in the timing of this presentation...it will be at 3:30 p.m.
When I was in Asia with Microsoft I had the opportunity to meet with Katherine Walraven (Education Program Manager) at TakingITGlobal. She is willing to come to Saskatoon to see if we would be interested in accessing Taking It Global. At the end of August she will be flying past Saskatoon and I have convince her to land here for a day or so. She would be willing to present Taking It Global network and how it could be used in our schools on August 31 at 3:30 p.m. This is a program that I have been following for a couple of years and I think it has a lot of merit and would be something we will be using in the cyber school student lounge next year, but since I was thinking of having her drop by I was thinking about expanding the viewing audience.
Please reply to the email below if you would be interested in attending said presentation so I can set up an appropriate venue:
August 31, 2009
3:30 P.M.
Location: TBA
Below is some information about the program
Website: http://www.tigweb.org/
The Vision
Youth everywhere actively engaged and connected in shaping a more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable world.
Our Mission
We enable a collaborative learning community which provides youth with access to global opportunities, cross-cultural connections and meaningful participation in decision-making.
Who We Serve
We serve youth primarily between the ages of 13 to 30 through:
• an online community and initiatives that focus on enabling actively engage youth.
• education programs geared towards middle and high school students.
What We Offer:
• Global online social network and hub for civic participation
• Content & tools for educators to facilitate rich, interactive learning experiences
• Outreach & Collaboration tools for events, networks, campaigns, and causes
• Research, development, and sharing of best practices on youth engagement
• Facilitated learning experiences through workshops, webinars, and e-courses
Why Bother?
• Global awareness and understanding across cultures is key to the future of the planet
• Student dropout and disengagement rates are at all-time highs, and costing billions in lost economic opportunities and crime
• Preventable diseases and health issues are on the rise globally, with young people often the most vulnerable and affected
So Far...
• 4 million young people reached in 2008, over 14 million since launch in 2000
• Engagement across 12 languages, and in every country and territory in the world
• Thought leadership through presenting at over 500 education, technology, development, business, and youth conferences and events
• Partnerships across sectors with over 8 U.N. agencies, dozens of international civil society organizations, several top-tier technology companies (Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, HP), and leading-edge foundations across North America.
• Global recognition from the World Economic Forum and Tech Museum of Innovation
I am aware of the poor timing of this presentation but this worldwide organization is not the easiest to book and it is very exciting that she can make it to our corner of the world.
TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.
WordCounter
Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document.
Wordcounter is useful for writers, editors, students, and anyone who thinks that they might be speaking redundantly or repetitively -- and it's free! Eventually, I'm going to expand it so that you can upload documents, but not yet.
August 1, 2009
Animator vs Animation
Love the way this played out. Very creative
SMART Board Resources
Welcome to a Website containing SMART Board Resources for all educators.
SMART Board Resources / FrontPage
July 7, 2009
Free programs to open any file extension!
Have a file you don't know how to open? Think you need an expensive piece of software to open it? Chances are there is a great free program that's just as good as the expensive one, and you'll find it here.
Free programs to open any file extension!
June 26, 2009
KidRex - Kid Safe Search
KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search and use Google SafeSearch technology.
KidZui, The Internet For Kids
Over a million games, websites & videos reviewed by parents like you.
June 22, 2009
That's Not Cool
Your cell phone, IM, and social networks are all a digital extension of who you are. When someone you're with pressures you or disrespects you in those places, that's not cool.
June 19, 2009
:: K12 Experiential Education ::
Educational Reporting, Inc. (ERI) is a portal to explore K12 experiential education. ERI provides specific approiate links to tools, articles, trends and news that substantiate experiential education. Users have free access to comprehensive resources on curriculum, classroom tools, project learning, service learning, critical thinking, education reports, teaching with technology, and professional development.
:: K12 Experiential Education ::
June 18, 2009
Smoke Sandbox - Smoke Sandbox
This is interesting...a good collection of resources
June 16, 2009
VoiceThread
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos.
With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.
VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
June 15, 2009
Hunch
In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics. Hunch's answers are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community, narrowed down to people like you, or just enough like you that you might be mistaken for each other in a dark room. Hunch is designed so that every time it's used, it learns something new. That means Hunch's hunches are always getting better.
Hunch was started by clever folks who were exploring how machine learning could be used to guide practical decision-making.
VHEMT
I don't know what to say about this site.
xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines
When we developed the timeline tool, our friends thought of many ways to creatively use the timeline. Some of them thought the timeline could become a great public service, a resource for history education and for debate over current issues. Others wanted to create biographical timelines for celebrities and their scandalous relationships.
The ability of these timelines to entertain and educate convinced us that other people would enjoy our timeline as much we do. And that's how xtimeline came to have a home of its own.
xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines
June 13, 2009
Simile of the Day Generator
The Simile of the Day Generator will make a new simile every time you press the "Gimme a Simile!" button. Try to figure out how the abstract word and the concrete word are alike!
Simile of the Day Generator by Mr. Miller (based on a design by Jellyn and Maygra)
June 9, 2009
MIddle East Map Quiz
I had a hard time completing this map...but very cool.
Rethinking Schools - Just For Fun - Map Quiz
Crossword puzzle maker
The Crossword puzzle maker is used to make simple crossword puzzles. It turns out that good crossword puzzles of the type found in newspapers are fairly hard to generate, and require a pool of lots of words, not all of which are used. This program puts all of the words you specify (no more, no less) into a simple crossword puzzle.
June 8, 2009
cooltoolsforschools
A good collection of web 2.0 tools.
Wordnik
An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them
June 5, 2009
Cooliris | Discover More
Meet Cooliris, the full screen 3D wall that speeds up search on Google Images, Youtube, flickr and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from facebook, Picasa and now even your computer.
facesaerch - find face pics with this people face search
facesaerch is an image search engine for faces powered by Google. All images (thumbnails) are provided, hosted and managed by Google.
facesaerch - find face pics with this people face search
May 30, 2009
The Digital Student
Here's a recent presentation Mike Qaissaunee gave, Thursday May 14th, to kickoff one of their end of year faculty days.He wasn't able to record it live, so he recorded it and posted it.
Frequently Asked Q: Teaching and Learning - The Digital Student
May 21, 2009
Dinosaurs for Kids at Kids Dig Dinos
I created this site about dinosaurs for kids because, let's face it, dinosaurs are cool! It's almost like someone invented dinosaurs for kids! There's the flyers like the pteradactyl, meat eaters like T-rex, herbivores (they just eat vegetables like plants and things) like the apotosaurus, and sea creatures like the kronosaurus! I like the predators the best, like the velociraptor and the Troodon. If you don't know what a Troodon is yet, I'll tell you all about them on this site.
Dinosaurs for Kids at Kids Dig Dinos
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner
For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home
Map of Online Communities
Although dated it is a neat idea..
Dance Mat Typing
Start here... Meet the gang and learn to type. Make your way through all 12 stages and you can be a top typist.
BBC - Schools - Dance Mat Typing - Home
May 19, 2009
HELP Team - Home
fter two+ incredible years of working with K-12 schools, districts, educators, education leaders and elected officials, the Hurricane Education Leadership Program has decided as a group to put the HELP Team on the back burner. This success of this group has been documented to support quick revitalization should another disaster strike.
Each of us whom have been involved have worked together to accomplish some tremendous things for students in need and provided much needed and wonderful support for the students of the Gulf Coast.
Indispensibletools ICT Tools for Teachers
The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question 'What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way.
indispensibletools / FrontPage
Free Learning - Educational Resources
Welcome to the new BC gateway to Open Educational Resources.
Here you will find FREE TO USE learning resources that you can use to supplement your own course materials or learning. Some of these are from BC-based projects while others are from Open Educational Resource projects from around the world.
Free Learning - Educational Resources » Welcome!
The Hero Factory
Now this is just fun.
The File Cabinet
A great collection of teacher tools
Why we build cyber schools?
Built my first movie on xtra normal...check out this cool tool.
thisissand.com
thisissand.com is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand that can be used as building material for cosmic landscapes, Clemens-style sand paintings, mandalas and so on.
May 18, 2009
Save paper & ink printing only what you want
Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want?
PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds!
Save paper & ink printing only what you want « PrintWhatYouLike.com
Evaluating Web Pages
Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once:
Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.
This page is organized to combine the two techniques into a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author(s).
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Scholastic Search sites
Search Engine Watch - http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156451
Greg Note's Search Engine Showdown - http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
Major Search Engines http://www.unl.edu/libr/inet/search.shtml
U.C. Berkeley Library - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Google: Book Search - http://books.google.com/
Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com
Google Government Search - http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Ask search engine - http://www.ask.com
Clusty search engine - http://clusty.com
Yahoo! - http://search.yahoo.com
Google Alerts Service - http://www.google.com/alerts
Bates Information Service Tip of the Month - http://www.batesinfo.com/tip.html
Website Informatin - www.alexa.com
United States Department of the Defense - http://www.defenselink.mil/sitemap.html
Loughborough University - http://www.loughborough.ac.uk/computing/access/map.html
Google PageRank system - http://www.google.com/technology/
ResearchBuzz! newsletter - http://www.researchbuzz.com/
About ResearchBuzz! - http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/admin/about-researchbuzz/
PicFindr - Search the free-stock-photosphere
A very cool search tool for finding free pixs.
PicFindr - Search the free-stock-photosphere (microstock too!)
May 15, 2009
Welcome to MyDinos!
Go guesting, play games, make buddies, train Dynamals, travel through time and more...
8 Ways to Build Websites (Not Blogs) for Free
I am frequently asked by colleagues and readers, "can you help me set up a blog, a wiki, or whatever?" I am not paraphrasing that question, I'm really asked to help set up a "whatever." The reason the "whatever" gets thrown in there is because teachers and people in general have heard the terms blog, wiki, website but they're not sure of the differences between them.
Free Technology for Teachers: 8 Ways to Build Websites (Not Blogs) for Free
May 12, 2009
Edu4U - DELL COMMUNITY
This is an interesting blog with lots of good ideas, and tools...check it out.
TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos
TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
Georgen Siemens used this for his keynote at CNIE 2009. Create a map of your ideas, images, videos, then show overview, zoom to details, amaze, convince, take the day. And it is very simple to use.
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
Digital Research Tools
This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
Keewaytinook Internet High School
KiHS is a program which allows students to remain in their home community while taking a rich variety of ministry inspected courses toward their high school diploma. This year we have partnered with Mishkeegogamang and will have set up 2 sites in that community by the middle of September. We also have reopened our classroom in Fort Severn. We have also accespted students enrolling from satellite sites from different parts of the province. Our staff are excited about starting this new year and are keeping very busy keeping up with all the demands of new registrations and all else that goes with the beginnings of a new school year.
Keewaytinook Internet High School
May 8, 2009
SMART Board Templates
Several templates on this page are developed only for SMART Notebook Software 10. If you are still running SMART Notebook Software older than 9.5, I would recommend upgrading to the newer version of SMART Notebook 10. You'll be amazed with the updates!
Interactive Whiteboard Resources
This section gives you access to a range of resources that have been developed to use on the interactive whiteboard. Many of these files have been adapted from paper-based materials that have been sent into school by the Literacy and Numeracy Strategies.
Free Resources Y3, Y4 and Y5 Maths
Learning Clip is an online resource to support teachers, teaching assistants and parents implementing the renewed primary mathematics framework.
Learning Clip - Free IWB Resources Renewed Framework Y3, Y4 and Y5 Maths
befuddlr!
Picture puzzles. This site is great but addictive. Take an image "befuddle" it and then re-arrange it to re-create the original image.befuddlr!.
May 7, 2009
100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web
xperts say that typical search engines like Yahoo! and Google only pick up about 1% of the information available on the Internet. The rest of that information is considered to be hidden in the deep web, also referred to as the invisible web. So how can you find all the rest of this information? This list offers 100 tips and tools to help you get the most out of your Internet searches.
100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web | Online College Blog and School Reviews
May 1, 2009
May Resources
Well it is May the 1st so here is...
April 30, 2009
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD - PIANO
Now this is cool...and can be used on a smart board
ePals Global Community
The virtual version of pen pals...connect your classroom now.
April 28, 2009
WizMouse | Peripherals Download | PC World
WizMouse is a tiny freeware utility that has a single, simple, function--if you hover your mouse over an inactive window, and use the mouse scroll wheel, it will scroll that window while keeping it inactive. This can be a boon for anyone copying text manually from an inactive window to an active one, or who needs to see data in one window (perhaps one partially obscured) while reading or working in another. It even scrolls applications that don't offer mousewheel support by converting the wheel to clicks on the scroll bars. In other words, if you spin the wheel down, WizMouse will virtually click the "down arrow" for you.
WizMouse has a very simple interface. Most of the time, it sits in your system tray as an icon; if you click on it, you get a small dialog with a handful of basic options. I found the default settings to be perfect.
If this sounds at all useful to you, WizMouse is free.
WizMouse | Peripherals Download | PC World
Science and Technology of WWII
This website design is awesome..check it out.
Science and Technology of WWII
Interactive Virtual Chemistry Laboratory
Here's your chance to mix chemicals without wearing safety goggles. You won't spill any acid on the spectrometer in this lab. Choose solutions from the vast database and mix 'em together till the cloned cows come home. Marvel as the chemical solutions react in real time.
April 27, 2009
Virtual High School Meanderings
Michael Barbour has been a big supporter of the SCCS. Through his blog and personal support and organization he does a great job of showcasing what the cyber school does.
Virtual High School Meanderings
Dig a hole through the Earth
Let's suppose, just for sake of argument that you had a drill capable of plowing below where you are standing right now and grinding its way straight through the middle of the planet to the other side. Where would you end up?
Games just for Kindergartners!
These games have been selected just for kindergartners or other little fingers. Enjoy!
Games just for Kindergartners! - Wacona Elementary School
April 26, 2009
EduTools Homepage
WCET's EduTools provides independent reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and consulting services to assist decision-making in the e-learning community
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Classroom Habitudes in Action
ust as I was getting ready to post a Classroom Habitudes conversation that I had the pleasure of having with students this past week, I received this e-mail from a teacher:
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Classroom Habitudes in Action
Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program
Way cool...
Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program
April 24, 2009
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time
Welcome to Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. New projects are posted every Wednesday.
Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
April 22, 2009
Keyboarding skills page
Many good keyboarding courses, games and skills...check it out.
Let the Kids Game
Might be a tad bias but still a good read.
Sony Online Entertainment - Let the Kids Game
April 21, 2009
Magical Jelly Bean Software
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping.
Magical Jelly Bean Software - Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v2.0.1
Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool - Exemplary Courses
We are very proud of our Exemplary Courses Winner Reg Nakoneshny.
Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool - Exemplary Courses - Confluence
freetypinggames.net
A whole group of free typing games...way cool
One page guides
Many different one page documents explaining social networking tools, google and more..check it out.
Tim Davies |One Page Guides to many techie type things
April 20, 2009
Virtual Field Trips | SimpleK12
A virtual field trip takes students on a tour of a location using a series of web sites that have been linked together, creating a guided experience.
Since they do not require special software, they can be accessed from a classroom or home computer. Virtual field trips can enhance the content of a lesson by providing an activity that extends students' experiences with a topic by taking them outside of the classroom and into a different environment.
Virtual Field Trips | SimpleK12
DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars
DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars
FreshBrain
At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.
Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs.
Kids Around the World | Home
Meet the children on this website and listen as they tell you what it is like to be a kid around the world.
The MY HERO Project Homepage
My Hero is a site where students can write about people they view as...heroes. You can register and create a multimedia webpage about your choices, but, even better (at least, in my view), you can go to the Guestbook area and write a short piece that appears immediately (there are automatic filters to screen content, plus it's manually screened later).
Welcome to Math Playground
Practice math while shopping at a virtual mall. Find the exact change, calculate the interest earned at the bank, compare health memberships at the gym and figure out how much to tip your waiter a the Happy Hamburger.
Stop Disasters
Disasters triggered by natural hazards destroy lives and livehoods.
Your role in this game is to plan and construct a safer environment for your population. You must assess the disaster risk and try to limit the damage when natural hazards strike.
April 16, 2009
How to Create Your Own Online Course: 100 Tools, Guides, and Resources | Best Universities
Perhaps you have a special skill, talent, or knowledge-base that you want to share with others, and maybe you've heard that teaching online courses can make you a little extra money. The resources below will help you discover how to combine both what you have to offer and what you wish to gain by guiding you through creating and establishing an online course. No matter what age of student, subject you want to teach, or size of the class, you will find resources and information to bring your class online.
100 tools guides and resources/
April 10, 2009
Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool - Exemplary Courses
Congrats Reg Nakoneshny on an excellent course.
"The course I designed for Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool is a product of completing my Masters Degree in Educational Communications from University of Saskatchewan. It is founded in research, the result of much hard work in overcoming many design and delivery challenges. I was very excited to submit this course to the BBEC program. I truly enjoy designing new and exciting teaching methods for today's students in online instruction. Recognition by Blackboard at this level is a compliment to my efforts but also puts a spotlight on the experiences and mentors I have had along the way both in the Masters program at the University of Saskatchewan and at Cyberschool.
"The greatest satisfaction to me is the recognition this designation will bring to the Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool as a world class online institution. As an olympic athlete reaps the rewards of his training and hard work in bringing home the gold metal for his country, I feel equally as proud to bring home this award to the Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool. It is very rewarding to "officially" join the ranks of the many talented designers I have had the privilege of working with in receiving this award."
Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool - Exemplary Courses
April 2, 2009
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Facebook
With over 200 million active users, Facebook has become a personal, product and corporate branding hub. Every brand that exists on Facebook has the same core features and benefits, such as the ability to create a page, share resources, add multimedia and much more. You have a unique opportunity to leverage this platform for career success or as a playground for you and your closest friends.
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Facebook
April 1, 2009
Student Online Readiness Tool
Welcome to SORT, the University System of Georgia's Online Readiness Tool.
April Resources
P.E. Zone
This platform has been developed by afPE to create a Zone for users to exchange and share material not all material is therefore necessarily endorsed by afPE and users are strongly advised to consider all the relevant health and safety aspects associated with using any materials posted on the Zone.
Type and Search in your language
Lite Type is a virtual keyboard that allows you type and search the web in your choice of 53 different languages. To use Lite Type select a language and begin typing. Lite Type displays a keyboard that shows you what each key on your computer's keyboard will generate. The keyboard key is displayed directly below the box in which your typed text appears.
Type and Search in your language with Free Online Multilingual Virtual Keyboard - LiteType.com
March 31, 2009
Ideas to Inspire
'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
March 30, 2009
Microsoft Dreamspark
Microsoft offers software free downloads to high school students.
Easy Game Creators - Faculty Development - Confluence
A nice set of game creators
Easy Game Creators - Faculty Development - Confluence
Serious Game Creators - Faculty Development - Confluence
active_learning's games Bookmarks on Delicious
Thanks to Bonnycastle on twitter for the links.
The plot thickens...
A story built 140 characters at a time. If you are a twitter users...log on and add your line...add a hashmark "#tothesky" and I will add your line as I get it.
To the sky
It all started in a galaxy far far away, on the third planet from the sun. It was a beautiful blue planet, inviting like the arms of a parent after being away for too long. The beauty, was, however, deceiving. On that planet live a race of beings surrounded by 37 rings of galactic particles like the rings of an atom. It's been said that each ring is portal to a dark side of the galaxy. This beautiful strange race of beings called the 1st portal the Avani Galaxy ring and carried a small, woven brown sack filled with soil out of respect for its powers. They are the descendants of the Belnar clan and are a threatened race. Chancellor Drod is concerned of the forthcoming prophecy. The rings energy is insidiously strong, yet eerily magical. Whether the prophecy intimated apocalypse or utopia was a matter of controversy among the priests. Drod assumed the worst. Legend says that one of the rings can save them, but which one? Caution: the wrong one is doom. Clues are hidden in the others. There have been many throughout the generations who have made claims to hold the key to the rings, but none dared tempt fate knowing that the true holders of the keys often did so unknowingly. Those claiming powers searched for the Palivati, the unaware keepers of the key awaiting destiny. So when Lakmi, the beekeeper's daughter felt the bees' energy failing, she knew someone was searching, and they were approaching. Lakmi was not afraid, the key
Authors
dcannell... TJWinger... delanotho... APfleegor... grammasheri ... delanotho... tee62... coelacanthro... delanotho... bhs_sanderson... grammasheri... grammasheri... AdtGrg...
365 Smart NoteBook Lessons Project
We at TADO came up with an interesting idea based on the 52 Teachers, 52 Lessons Project (http://www.teachforever.com/2009/01/52-teachers-52-lessons-project.html) From the "I want to Teach Forever Blog".
With the interest in Smart and Interactive White Boards in educational settings we thought that asking our colleagues to submit their favorite Smart Notebook Lesson Files so that we can showcase them on our blog. Ideally we would like to post a new lesson each day.
At TADO we are all about sharing and collaborating. You the educators, have the tried, tested and true lessons that you have used in your classrooms and we want to share your great ideas with our readers.
We will also be posting your lessons on our Smart Board resource site called " I Love Smart Boards" (http://blog.scs.sk.ca/ilovesmartboards) and in our Smart Board User Learning Community.
To submit your favorite Notebook lesson please email your file to : rstromberg@gscs.sk.ca
Bonus: If you submit a Notebook File you will gain access to our On-line Smart Board User Learning Community where you can connect to educators from around the world who work with Smart or Interactive White Boards.
Create games for education
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education
March 29, 2009
HugeURL
Because is bigger is better...
I put the TADO url into it and if came out as:
Now that is a url...try reading that to someone over the phone.
Access by Design Online
Good web design
Web Style Guide 3
Good web design..
Learn good web design by looking at bad web design
Learning from the worst...lol
Web Pages That Suck learn good web design by looking at bad web design Home Page
March 27, 2009
To the Sky
A story built 140 characters at a time. If you are a twitter users...log on and add your line...add a hashmark "#tothesky"
Academic Earth
Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
101 Undiscovered Freebies: The List
We scoured the Internet to come up with 101 innovative, entirely free downloads and services. Here's the whole collection.
101 Undiscovered Freebies: The List - PC World
March 26, 2009
Invention Playhouse
Now this is just plain old fun....love it.
Lemelson Center's Invention at Play: Invention Playhouse
Biology in Motion
Original, entertaining, interactive biology learning activities
Courses -- Open Yale Courses
Sounds like the MIT concept is catching on...
NSC Interactive Whiteboard Links
Here are some links that can be powerful whole-group instructional tools when used on an interactive whiteboard. These are grouped by subject area and subdivided by grade band.
These resources are provided FREE for all Georgia Educators and other educators worldwide by the Educational Technology Center housed at the National Science Center in Augusta, Georgia.
ETTC @ NSC Interactive Whiteboard Links
March 23, 2009
eLearning Learning
Community assembled resources to learn about elearning.
Create a Comic - Pixton™ - Create web comic strips online
Award-winning click-and-drag comic creator
Customize everything right on the page
Move characters into any pose
Create a Comic - Pixton™ - Create web comic strips online
March 22, 2009
Amazing Eye Macros (23 Pictures) | Village Of Joy
Wow this is some great images...
Amazing Eye Macros (23 Pictures) | Village Of Joy
Ideas to Inspire
'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
March 19, 2009
DocMazy
DocMazy is a search tool that takes a specific concern into account, namely looking up documents on the World Wide Web. The folks behind it explain that their aim was coming up with a solution that would enable anybody to find only the files that they are looking for, be them PDFs, Word documents or PowerPoint presentations, and do so in an instant manner. The idea is to dispense with the clutter and provide the user only with relevant results, and to let him browse through these in a hassle-free fashion.
What Web 3.0 Might Look Like
Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham in NYC, talks here about what Web 3.0 might look like. (Start the video at 17:23.)
This clip comes from a YouTube channel called The Alcove, a program that features interviews with various influential thinkers. We're adding the channel to our post called Intelligent YouTube: 80 Smart Video Collections
http://www.oculture.com/2009/03/what_web_30_might_look_like.html
Slides On The Go! SlideShare Launches Mobile Site
My user name for slideshare is dcannell. Check out the powerpoints we have about the cyber school.
Slides On The Go! SlideShare Launches Mobile Site
A Parent's guide to technology.
March 18, 2009
Interactive Teaching Programs (ITPs) Mathematics
The Primary Framework has been designed to support teachers and schools to deliver high quality learning and teaching for all children. It contains detailed guidance and materials to support literacy and mathematics in primary schools and settings.
Interactive Teaching Programs (ITPs)
Sound clips on Entertonement
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Methods of dealing with large numbers in courses
Here is a tip if you are having problems staying ahead of your cyber courses.
Justification for the CIF.
As the numbers in our courses get larger we have to start to put together techniques to make your life as an instructor easier. The 150 day calendar puts extra stress on our ability to follow students. This is going to be a suggestion to help with the tracking of students.
http://www.scs.sk.ca/cyber/cif/dealing.htm
March 17, 2009
Elementary Virtual Assessment FOR Learning Fair
Teachers in the City of Salem School Division have created projects showing their use of assessment for learning to share with their colleagues in the division and throughout the world. This blog showcases projects submitted by elementary (grades K-5) teachers.
Elementary Virtual Assessment FOR Learning Fair
March 15, 2009
SCCS Personal Brain
This is a person brain of TADO... it is an overview vision of a teaching and developing online strategy.
http://www.scs.sk.ca/cyber/jan09brain/index.html
Comments welcome
Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works.
March 14, 2009
SchoolWAX | Don't Get Stuck!
Don't Get Stuck! SchoolWAX provides you with everything you need to be successful. This free website saves you time so you can focus on what really matters. Everything you need is in one place. Homework has never been easier!
SchoolWAX includes useful links to websites on every school subject, quick links to search engines for specific questions, and is a great resource for all grade levels. To get started click on your grade level and start accessing all the free resources SchoolWAX has to offer. Homework will never be the same again!
March 13, 2009
Suggested at the conference as a good read.
This blog was suggested by Karen Brown at the Symposium 2009.
ICT Illustrative Examples Database
To support the curriculum, a set of illustrative examples have been developed to further clarify the intent of the technology outcomes and to convey how students might demonstrate their competencies in a variety of contexts and across all grade levels.
http://education.alberta.ca/apps/ict/ie.asp
March 10, 2009
Math Worksheet Generator
Math Worksheet Generator - Free - Practice Math with these Worksheets
Test Your Geography Knowledge
StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
March 6, 2009
Internet technology tutorials
Butterscotch tutorials are your step-by-step guide to maximizing your tech potential. Our tutorials offer tips and tricks explained in plain English, without the jargon. Short, sweet and to the point, we offer practical PC advice you can start using right away to save time, money and headaches. We help you get the most out of your computer and gadgets.
butterscotch tutorials on the latest Internet technology
Slideshows : Science Channel
From deep space to the dark side of science, these are slideshows that you'll actually want to see.
Virtual Weather Station
Check out the saskatoon weather.
Virtual Weather Station Local Weather Conditions
March 5, 2009
VizEdu » Blog Archive » 6 Ways To Make Web2.0 Work
Visual Animation of McKinseys report "6 Ways To Make Web2.0 Work" as understood by us.
VizEdu » Blog Archive » 6 Ways To Make Web2.0 Work
PEEP and the Big Wide World: Interactive Games
My son and I liked this show...these games seemed like fun.
PEEP and the Big Wide World: Interactive Games
March 4, 2009
March Resources
Looking for fresh ideas for the month of March? This site has theme-based crafts, online adventures, lesson plans and much more
February 26, 2009
Learning in Cyber-Land
Student discusses a new wave in technology communication and the advances in her school.
Learning in Cyber-Land-Virtual High School Meanderings
February 25, 2009
Virtual Schooling in Canada
Michael Barbour does a good job of capturing a snapshot of Canada's virtual schooling in K-12
Virtual School in Canada - Virtual High School Meandering
Awesome Stories
Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each stor
Create your own Myths or Legends
Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling.
Create your own Myths or Legends
NCSA ChemViz
ChemViz (Chemistry Visualization) is an interactive chemistry program which incorporates computational chemistry simulations and visualizations for use in the chemistry classroom. The chemistry simulations support the chemistry principles teachers are trying to convey, and the visualizations allow students to see how matter interacts at an atomic level.
Virtual Electron Microscope
Check out the interactive virtual electron microscope.
Virtual Electron Microscope - Discovery Channel School
Invention at Play
Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play.
Lemelson Center presents Invention at Play
Microscopy and Science Education Web Site
A web site devoted to microscopy science education
Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. Microscopy and Science Education Web Site
February 24, 2009
COOL School
COOL School specializes in the development of web-based resources, including Flash media, interactive explanations, educational games, drag-and-drops, puzzles, animations, video clips, and graphics, among other things.
COOL School - Online Educational Content Development for K-12
American History: "Growth of a Nation"
Animated Atlas portrays large chapters of American history quickly by animating maps and geographic features. For school, home and genealogy use.
American History: "Growth of a Nation"
CutePDF
Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.
CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.
February 23, 2009
BBC - CBBC Wild - Pets
Care for your cuddly critters
WordTalk - Home
WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards). It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary to help decide which word spelling is most appropriate.
Educational Blogs You Should Be Investigating
Today's topic again focuses on another valuable teacher freebie, and free is in my price range. How about you? Today's post gives each of us a rare professional development opportunity - learning from other teachers who teach the same curriculum as you. Think about it. Wouldn't the idea of having just a first grade teacher conference be phenomenal? How about a drama teacher conference? Or one for middle school English teachers? What sort of conversations would you have? What resources would you share?
Educational Blogs You Should Be Investigating | Making Teachers Nerdy
February 21, 2009
Using Hybrids
Reg Nakoneshny has done a great presentation and powerpoint about the top ten list of using hybrid courses in your classroom. We have a collection of videos of Reg presenting this powerpoint.
February 12, 2009
SMARTboard Links
SMARTboard Links to Engaging Learners
MyClusta
Paste a link to your favourite website in the box below
Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Art and PE Interactive Sites
Check it out very interactive...
Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Art and PE Interactive Sites
Browse the Gizmo Collection
Explore the collection ... very cool.Browse the Gizmo Collection | ExploreLearning
Pinky Dinky Doo
Silly stories for serious literacy.
February 10, 2009
Classroom Resources to Counter Cyber Bullying
he Internet has created a whole new world of social communications for young people who are using e-mail, social networking Web sites, instant messaging, chat rooms and text messaging to stay in touch with friends and make new ones.
While most interactions are positive, increasingly kids are using these communication tools to antagonize and intimidate others. According to a 2008 University of Toronto cyber bullying survey, nearly one in five Canadian students surveyed reported having been bullied online in the past three months. An Alberta study found that one-third of students who had cyber bullied, had also been victims themselves.
Classroom Resources to Counter Cyber Bullying - Portal Page
Educational Software Tutorials blog
Educational Software Tutorials
February 9, 2009
Physics First Topics and Units
The Physics Front is a web-based area for teachers of Conceptual, AP and Algebra-based physics as well as teachers of Physics First and Physical Science. This material is meant to serve as resources to enrich the high school physics experience.
The materials, found in this collection, have been selected (and are continuously being updated by the Editor and the Editorial Board), as being quality resources for use in lesson plans, activities, labs and demonstrations. The featured items are not meant to be definitive, merely representative of possible good resources available; additional materials are available on the Physical Sciences Resource Center (PSRC) and the other collections in ComPADRE.
Physics First Topics and Units
Health Games for Kids and Adults | Making Health Games Fun at Playnormous
Playnormous online health games are free and are designed for all age groups. Play fun games, watch animation, and learn how to stay healthy.
February 6, 2009
Free Technology for Teachers
Very cool teacher blog shares muchly resources.
Welcome to the Smiling Designer
Streaming feeds from your favourite design blogs
February 3, 2009
Internet - Tutorials
If you like to learn on your own or practice after taking a technology program at the Library here are basic lessons for people learning how to use the Internet. These tutorials have been developed by Calgary Public Library and CalgaryEducation.org as part of the Connect Calgary program. There is a narrated soundtrack for learning by listening as well as text balloons to read. Relax, sit back and watch or listen to these gently paced lessons on using the Internet.
Calgary Public Library - Tutorials
February 2, 2009
Rubrics
Explore the growing number of excellent Internet resources on rubrics.
February Resources
A "hearty" collection of activities for you to use in your classroom. If you haven't prepared, don't be brokenhearted... These lessons and resources will put you in the loving spirit of February!
Blue Zones - EDUCATION
Blue Zones believes in empowering kids to Explore, Question and Act. Our educational program includes ready-to-use lesson plans and a Curriculum Guide correlated to National Standards.
January 23, 2009
Welcome to Bank Jr!
Bank Jr. is an educational banking website designed for elementary school students. I discovered Bank Jr. through Donna Murray's excellent blog. Bank Jr. is an interactive website on which students can learn the in's and out's of banking. Bank Jr. has a glossary of terms, a help center, and savings wizards. Bank Jr. also provides students with a history of money and a look at how different countries use money. The teachers section of Bank Jr. provides an extensive glossary of terms and some lesson ideas. Bank Jr. does not provide full-length, detailed lesson plans, but it does provide PDF's of worksheets and handouts that teachers may find useful for teaching banking lessons.
January 22, 2009
Math and Algebra Help - Videos from MathTV.com
This site contains a pile of math videos.
Math and Algebra Help - Videos from MathTV.com
January 21, 2009
What Wiki would you use...
The following was asked on the webct user listserve:
We are looking at using Wikis as part as an evaluation tool in our CE 8 system. We heard of multiple Wikis out there, but would like your opinion of what Wiki do you use with your Blackboard system, and is it a Power Link?
We have worked with MediaWiki because it's the original engine behind Wikipedia. We found students would do "format plagiarism" by looking at a Wikipedia article, grabbing the source and changing the content.
You can find Deakin's MediaWiki setup in EduGarage.
Slightly different approach, but does pretty much the same thing.
We have had some faculty and students say MediaWiki is too difficult and they have gone to over Peanut Butter Wiki, even without a Powerlink for seamless authentication. But with PB Wiki being hosted in the States, there are all those other "south of the 49th parallel" issues we have to contend with.
I understand Atlassain's Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/) is also popular and can be integrated with a Powerlink. It's the wiki engine behind Blackboard's Wiki Knowledgebase (http://kb.blackboard.com)
Finally, if you look at presentations from past Blackboard/WebCT conferences you will find some presentations that Bonita and I did on use of wikis in online learning along with Ron and Amy's presentation on their implementation of MediaWiki at Simon Fraser U.
Thanks to Bob Boufford for this information.
January 20, 2009
Ironic Sans: Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus
1. Enter a long word. Look Up 2. Receive shorter synonyms.
Ironic Sans: Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus
January 19, 2009
J! Archive
Very cool and very addictive.
January 16, 2009
Shahi - A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab
Shahi - A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images, and more!...
Shahi - A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab
January 13, 2009
Great Plant Escape
My name is Bud. My good friend Sprout and I are helping Detective LePlant on his search. You will find that plants are an important part of your life. We will need your help to find clues, do experiments, and solve problems as we journey into the world of plants. He promises lots of fun, but remember, we're here to solve a mystery!
Good luck! We'll be with you all the way!
Scrapbooking, Free Ecards, Birthday and Greeting Cards at Smilebox.com
Smilebox® makes it easy to connect with friends and family in a more creative and compelling way.
Unlike other solutions that focus on organizing, editing, and sharing photos or sending pre-packaged ecards, the Smilebox service enables users to create something truly powerful by:
1. Choosing from hundreds of unique multimedia designs
2. Easily personalizing them with photos, video, music, words, and style
3. Sharing them via email, blog, or print
Smilebox creates a new category of service called "creative messaging," which draws elements from photo services, scrapbooking, and ecards to deliver a new medium for communication unparalleled in its ability to convey mood, thought, and emotion.
Scrapbooking, Free Ecards, Birthday and Greeting Cards at Smilebox.com
Shidonni - Creative Fun for Kids
We have created Shidonni as a place to nurture kids' creativity and imagination.
We wanted to go one step further from the templates we found online and give a remarkable and personal experience, which allows kids of all ages to express themselves.
The answer was simple! Give any 4 year old a pen and a paper and see them create their own pets, friends, worlds, galaxies and stories.
Shidonni is mimicking just that. In Shidonni, kids get their own online "pen and paper" to sketch animals. The moment they do, their creations come to life 'virtually'.
Kids can then create worlds for their animals, feed them, play with them and share them with their friends.
Shidonni is ideal for kids aged 4-10 years old, but anyone can play. This is why we have added many layers of safety and privacy. We monitor any creation that is being shared globally and at this point, we are not allowing any type of chat or messaging. Our strict privacy policy can be found here.
Shidonni - Creative Fun for Kids
January 9, 2009
BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF
My son is going to love this one...
Listen to Fables, Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Lullabies, and More!
Listen to Fables, Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Lullabies, and More! | Speakaboos Speakaboos is a collection of online children stories read by celebrities
Listen to Fables, Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Lullabies, and More! | Speakaboos
SecretBuilders
SecretBuilders is a site that can be used to supplement the teaching of various topics, including literature, arts, sciences and humanities. The site gives children an opportunity to interact with famous historical and fictional figures from world civilization, making learning more enjoyable and effective. We can provide teachers with examples of how to incorporate SecretBuilders into their school curriculum. A few examples are provided in the Classroom Activities section below.
The Week in Rap
A week's worth of news, rapped. New every Friday.
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library
The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library
KIDO'Z Browser - A browser made for kids
Why KIDO'Z Browser ?
Safe & free internet browsing for kids.
Easy to use. Kids don't need to know how to read or write.
Direct access to the best sites, videos and games for kids on the net.
KIDO'Z Browser - A browser made for kids
Museum Box Homepage
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.
Free Computer Training Quick References, Cheat Sheets
CustomGuide - Free Computer Training Quick References, Cheat Sheets
January 8, 2009
KartOO visual meta search engine
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps
KartOO visual meta search engine
Let us pray
I am not sure if I had a chance to announce our new prayer site. Kelli Boklaschuk spent a large amount of time creating a site which will allow our cyber school students, GSCS teachers and internet users the chance to express in digital format what they would like to pray for. I like the format and she did a very good job of the site. This like many of the things we do, is a ground breaking website, it has been up for over a month and the web is respecting its intent and it has not been abused by the spammers.
Thank you Kelli for all your work on this site.
The prayer site can be seen at:
Let us pray
January 5, 2009
80 Educational Video Collections
Smart video collections keep appearing on YouTube. But rather antithetical to the ethos of its parent company (Google), YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find. So we've decided to do the job for them.
Intelligent Life at YouTube: 80 Educational Video Collections | Open Culture
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
The History of Visual Communication
This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual forma
The History of Visual Communication
January 2, 2009
10+ Web Tools To Save Your Butt In School
It's a new year, and the beginning of a new semester in school. Students who didn't do so hot last year have probably made a New Year resolution to improve their grades.
To help you all with the next semester, I've decided to make a list of extremely helpful web tools that will make school easier for all the struggling students out there.
December 23, 2008
Online resources for visual literacy
10 X 10
http://www.tenbyten.org/now.html
21st Century Literacies
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/index.html
AnimAction
http://www.animaction.com/
Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
http://nuovo.com/southern-images/analyses.html
Discovering How Images Communicate
http://nsli.ednet.ns.ca/units/uopattach/uopnm/imcomm.pdf
Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html
How the Media Persuades: Verbally and Visually
http://library.csumb.edu/instruction/icmodules/treat/persuade.html
Images and Influence
http://eprentice.sdsu.edu/J03OW/boehm/INDEX/Images_Influence.htm
Images in Action
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/ptolerance/plan.jsp?ar=53
In the Mind's Eye
http://www.worldandi.com/public/1999/September/visual.cfm
Introducing Visual Literacy
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dancin/resources/lesson_plan-l2.html
Is Seeing Believing?
http://medialit.med.sc.edu/isb.htm
No Picture Tells the Truth
http://medialit.med.sc.edu/no_picture_tells_the_truth.htm
Photo Literacy
http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/photoliteracy/
The Power of Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article80.html
The Visual Literacy White Paper
http://www.adobe.co.uk/education/pdf/adobe_visual_literacy_paper.pdf
Thinking Visually
http://excellent.comm.utk.edu/~mdharmon/visual/
Tools for Reading the World
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/21c.html
Visual Literacy Activities
http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/look.html
Visual Literacy and Picture Books
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/picture.htm
Visual Literacy and the Classroom
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/riesland.htm
Visual Literacy in the Classroom
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~leemshs/visual.htm
Visual Literacy K-8
http://k-8visual.info/
Visual Literacy Lessons
http://www.visualsummit.com/Media/VLLessons.html
Visual Literacy: 21st Century Skills
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/vislit.htm
Visual Literacy: Information Inquiry for Teachers
http://eduscapes.com/info/visuallit.html
Visual Ranking Tool
http://www97.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/VisualRanking/
December 20, 2008
eLearning Technology
This blog covers trends in eLearning and more broadly the use of technology that aims to improve human performance. This is fairly wide ranging from traditional courseware kinds of issues to specialized kinds of tools and sites. My background includes things like being the CTO of eHarmony (online marriage matching based on personality profiles and controlled communication) from its launch through their $110M venture round to working on interesting eLearning and tools for companies like Lexus, HP, IBM, etc. Thus, the blog has a tendency to jump into a wide range of technology types and solutions. I do generally focus from a corporate standpoint (not as much in the education realm). Of course, you'll get a better sense of this as you read through various post.
December 17, 2008
Science is fun
The master of chemical demonstrations and science policy advocate, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, shares the fun of science through home science activities, public presentations, scholarship, and other programs of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy.
December 16, 2008
Blog readability test
What level of education is required to understand the Teaching and Developing Online blog.
November 20th 2007 the blog was a Junior High School reading level...I have gotten more academic...strange.
Apple Distinguished Educators - 2009
The Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) program is a relationship program focused on educational excellence and leadership. ADEs are members of a select group of K-12 and Higher Education professionals possessing an identified expertise in educational technology leadership. This group of over 1200 educators spans the globe with membership in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Latin America, and Asia.
Apple is currently accepting applications in the USA and Canada for the Class of 2009 ADEs. Deadline for Application is January 31st, 2009.
Apple Learning Interchange - Apple Distinguished Educators - 2009
December 12, 2008
Academic Info: Online Degree Programs, Subject Guides and Resources
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers).
Academic Info: Online Degree Programs, Subject Guides and Resources
December 10, 2008
StatPlanet
Stat Planet is a thematic mapping website. Stat Planet relies on data from UNESCO is a project of SACMEQ. Stat Planet can be used to create thematic maps based on a variety of development indicators from the fields of education, health care, and economics. Stat Planet can be used online in your browser or you can download Stat Planet. Downloading Stat Planet gives you the option to include your other data sets and create a custom map. Stat Planet is a good resource for students to use to create thematic maps. Stat Planet can also be used by students to make inferences as to the reason for inequities between countries and regions of the world. After making those inferences students can conduct research to investigate whether or not they were correct.
FreeRice
For each answer you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance.
Think Big - Start Small / FrontPage
100+ Web 2.0 Tools
An ever expanding list of web tools.
Think Big - Start Small / FrontPage
FeedJournal - The Newspaper You Always Wanted
FeedJournal - The Newspaper You Always Wanted With FeedJournal you decide what gets printed in your daily newspaper! Why spend more time than necessary reading on your computer screen? Print out your favorite content in a time-tested, elegant format. You read 25% faster on paper! FeedJournal is an award-winning solution for converting Internet content to a newspaper
FeedJournal - The Newspaper You Always Wanted
SMEET
Smeet lets you create 3D rooms where your avatar can chat and interact with other avators. You have register, but no download is necessary. A tool like this one might be useful in an education setting. For example, if students from our International Sister Classes Project were going to communicate in real time, Smeet might be a bit more engaging than some of the other applications on The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration list. I’ve asked Smeet if it is possible for teachers to create private rooms only available to their students. Their response has been “yes,” but they didn’t explain how to do it, and I can’t figure out how to incorporate the privacy option. Obviously, it would only be useful if that feature could be implemented.
December 4, 2008
Let us pray
We have launched our much anticipated Let us pray site. This site is designed for the cyber school students to pray for the people in their lives. Feel free to add your concerns to the site as well.Let us Pray
December 1, 2008
December Resources
Don't let the December holidays disrupt the learning in your classroom. These resources can help you incorporate the holiday into your learning activities -- and provide a little fun as well.
Ziggity Zoom
Expressivo
Expressivo is a text-to-speech application that speaks with a human voice. It can be used for fun, as a help in your studying activities or at work. With Expressivo you can listen to books, news, RSS feeds, e-mails, articles and you can easily create your own audio books. Furthermore, you can copy audio books, e-mails and other audio documents created with Expressivo to your Mp3 player and take them with you anywhere. All this is now possible with Expressivo, Your TTS Reader.
Free Expressivo Text To Speech Reader Service
November 28, 2008
Let me google that for you.
This is a simple site you can use for those people who think the internet is toooooo hard for them to figure out.
Its a wonderful Internet
neat.
November 27, 2008
Frengly.com
This is a quick and easy to use text translator.
free online translator | frengly.com
November 26, 2008
See Ancient Rome in 3D
How come only United States Educators???
Welcome to Google's Ancient Rome 3D Curriculum Competition!
While Google's suite of geospatial tools--Earth, Maps, SketchUp, and Sky--are used daily around the world by educators hoping to bring a fresh perspective to lessons, every once in a while a new product feature comes along that we believe will knock the socks off teachers and students alike! We're proud to announce the Ancient Rome 3D Curriculum Competition in conjunction with a brand new layer in Google Earth that models the ancient city of Rome in unbelievable detail.
For the first time ever, K-12 educators in the United States will have the chance to highlight their creativity and technical know-how by combining this brand new Google Earth content with classic classroom curricula.
November 25, 2008
Welcome to Google Lit Trips
This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
November 24, 2008
Interesting things for ESL students
Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)
Games Games .com
Play Free Online Games at GamesGames.com
Spin and Spell
A cool spelling game.
SpinandSpell.com
Kids Spell
The Absolutely Free And Totally Fun Way To Improve Your Spelling. Kidspell.com helps to dramatically improve your students ability to learn and retain spelling words.
Free Spelling Games And Activities For Kids - By KidsSpell.com
November 20, 2008
Exemplary Course Program
Welcome to the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program page. Here you will find a rubric to help you develop and assess engaging online courses, examples of courses rated as exemplary through the review process of the Exemplary Course Program, and information on how to submit your course to the 2009 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program.
Exemplary Course Program - Exemplary Courses - Blackboard WikiKB
November 19, 2008
Science-tube.com
science-tube - chemistry and physics experiments and videos for school, studies and everyday life
K-12 alerts
With the creation of K12 Alerts®, schools and districts are able to communicate important messages to parents in a matter of seconds. K12 Alerts® is an emergency messaging platform for school districts that enables them to send real-time emergency messaging to parents, community residents and staff. The information is accessed through work and home emails, text messaging to cellphones and telephones. Simply type in a text message and have it converted to a male or female voice and send it to your group list using our Text-to-Speech tools.
K12Alerts.com - K12 school district real-time emergency messaging to parents
Cassiopeia Project
No science teacher left behind
The Cassiopeia Project is an effort to make high-definition science education videos available to anyone who wants them.
Welcome to the Cassiopeia Project
November 17, 2008
Destination Impossible
Words - Destination Impossible game to practise reading and following instructions - Game
I love Smartboards
If you are looking for smart board resources this is the location.
I love Smart Boards!
Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share
Incredibots Game
This is fun.
IncrediBots - Online Robot Physics Game!
Ask a Scientist
Welcome to Ask A Scientist! Our service has been in operation since 1991. We have already compiled answers to more than 20,000 questions – and this site now receives more than ten to twelve million hits each month!
Ask A Scientist - Submit Question
Mrs P.com
www.MrsP.com is a fun, new children's entertainment site that celebrates reading and books. The site features TV star Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P, an adventurous redhead who brings Story Time to life with her video library of classic children's...
November 12, 2008
Track this Now
Track news articles on any topic across the world, all in REAL TIME!
Track This Now - TRACK news articles across the world in REAL-TIME
November 10, 2008
Learn English Online
U.S.A. Learns was an outgrowth of a project that was conceived by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL). Core funding for U.S.A. Learns was provided by ED. Additional funding for U.S.A. Learns was made available by the California Department of Education, Office of Adult Education.
DAEL promotes programs that help American adults get the basic skills they need to be productive workers, family members, and citizens. The major areas of support are Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English Language Acquisition. These programs emphasize basic skills such as reading, writing, math, English language competency and problem-solving.
Expedition Game
This is a very cool game.
Expedition Week | Expedition Game | National Geographic Channel
Glossopedia
Glossopedia™, is our free, safe, multimedia online interactive encyclopedia, connecting kids to the world by supporting explorations of nature, animals, science, and culture.
Discover Primary Science
Audios and videos for download for school - Teaching Science in Primary Schools Ireland
Engaging Science Online Games
Engaging Science is a teacher professional enrichment program designed to engage you in a fascinating journey of exploration and discovery to bring fresh ideas to your classroom. It is designed to help BC teachers implement the science curriculum in the new Integrated Resource Package.
Engaging Science - Online Games
Math Moves U
This is your place to explore the stuff you're into have fun and pick up some cool math skills along the way.
MathMovesU.com: Explore, have fun, and pick up cool math skills!
November 9, 2008
Teacher Education Goes Into Virtual Schooling
Teacher Education Goes into Virtual Schooling (TEGIVS) is a national project leading preservice teacher education programs across the U.S. and the world. Its curriculum development and research prepare future teachers for the twenty-first century phenomenon of K-12 distance education (Virtual Schooling), through which all ages of students are learning from a teacher who is not located in their school. Students in all U.S. states are engaging in VS and the number is growing exponentially. A key to effective practice is teacher support in each student's location, thus, there is a pressing need to prepare all teachers for VS. TEGIVS will provide a model to incorporate VS in teacher education training for preservice programs across the U.S.
Teacher Education Goes Into Virtual Schooling
November 7, 2008
Spelling City
We are an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun. SpellingCity.com has:
- Over 37,000 spelling words and eight spelling games!
- A REAL person who says each word and sentence
- Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!
- A free forum and newsletter with more resources!
November 6, 2008
Planet Green Game
Today is all about educational games...what a fun way to learn.
Sea Monsters
Fun fun fun...
Map Games
Way cool, I enjoyed playing these.
National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventure - Map Games
Send a robot deep into an ancient Egyptian pyramid to find hidden hieroglyphs—and uncover a secret chamber!
Life or Death
this is very cool...I died on the second screen.
Life or Death Game : Discovery Channel
Math people are always asking.
MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen, to picture files, or to MathML - today’s leading standard language for describing mathematics.
November 5, 2008
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Tar Heel Reader
Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
Hard Spell
Interesting game
BBC - Entertainment - Hard Spell
November 3, 2008
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Utah State University hosts a wonderful site that explores different ways of using technology to solve math problems. Users are presented with a matrix when they enter a site, where they can select an age group, as well as mathematics strand. There are even logic games such as Mastermind and Tangrams.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Remembrance Day - Teacher Resources
This site contains information and links to resources that teachers may use to plan student activities for their Remembrance Day planning.
Remembrance Day - Teacher Resources
October 31, 2008
National Media Education Week
November 3 is just around the corner and that means National Media Education Week is also almost here. For the third year, Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers' Federation have partnered for the week of November 3-7, 2008 to promote media education and encourage media literacy activities throughout Canada.
October 30, 2008
Digital Storyteller
A digital story combines text and images with narration in the student’s own voice to form a short digital movie.
Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access
Welcome to Digital Storyteller
October 22, 2008
Florida Center for Intructional Technology
FCIT is funded by the Florida Department of Education to provide leadership, instructional materials, and support services to educational institutions with regard to the integration of technology into K-20 education.
Florida Center for Instructional Technology
Tech-ease
Tech-Ease for Windows is your source for just-in-time answers for classroom technology questions. A companion Tech-Ease for Mac site is also available.
Bibme
Welcome to BibMe! The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.
Search for a book, article, website, or film, or enter the information yourself.
Add it to your bibliography.
Download your bibliography in either the MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian formats and include it in your paper. It's that easy!
BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free
Art Pad
So you think you can paint...check it out.
October 17, 2008
Search Me seach engine
Searchme is a search engine that returns screenshot images of website pages for users to visually flip through, sort of like browsing digital album covers.
Searchme: Visual Search - Beta - rev. 2.0.2
October 16, 2008
Meet Elbot
AI is one of my personal interests.
Elbot - Artificial Intelligence?
Make your own warning signs.
Clear your mind give yourself and time and good luck answering these questions that have no right answer...so much for black and white this is so grey it makes me see red. Why do you need a bandaid? Have you ever wished for a way to practice typing so that you may become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the "speed of thought," perhaps? Enter Keybr, the flash based type instructor you've been waiting for. keybr.com | Typing at the speed of thought! Welcome to the Cyberschool CPT Hall of Fame. This section spotlights some of the exemplary student works created as a result of the course. Files are Quicktime Streaming format and require the Quicktime plug-in for viewing. Enjoy! Computer Production Technology Hall of Fame Walkers crisps | Simply 100% Great British Potatoes As the leaves change color and the air gets chilly; pumpkins get large enough to carve and eat!; and apples appear in mass quantities - "Fall" back on some favorite teaching ideas for the Autumn, Thanksgiving, Pumpkins and Halloween...... Cyber Ethics for students and youth >> Parental Guidelines Note to educators: Feel free to use any of the following scenarios for educational purposes. And please feel free to share your own ideas too! This is a great selection of K-8 resources. The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages. Encyclopedia of Educational Technology One of my teachers was asking about a mobile version of our website. I am not sure but this website does a good job with TADO. Teaching and Developing Online. I was in Winnipeg last week and was trained in Marvin. I can train people who would like to try this animation tool...download the 30 day trial on your laptop, make an appointment and come see me. It is fantastic for tutorials, instructions to students and just doing short animated videos. I will do a group training session in a couple of weeks . If you are not a cyber school teacher and you would like some training...contact me and we can make a date. The Embedded Media HTML Generator has been developed to ease the burden of inserting video and animations into web pages. Please select the type of media you wish to embed in your web page... Holy Crow...fifty...education is not a simple thing is it???? Simply follow a link below to watch a Two-Minute Tutorial. Preventing all plagiarism all the time is impossible, but there are steps you can take to eliminate it from your classroom. The Internet is an endless resource for information, and that means it can also be an endless source for both intentional and inadvertent plagiarism. While preventing all plagiarism all the time is impossible, but there are steps you can take to eliminate it from your classroom. That the future may learn from the past. Walk through time in this reconstructed colonial capitol. Follow in the footsteps of the founders as you walk the same streets they did. Colonial Williamsburg - Kids - Games & Activities - Midnight Messenger Get a firsthand look at the land down under, from the Great Barrier Reef to the outback! ChannelOne.com - Passport: Australia Dumpr is where you create marvellous photos to share with your friends The coolest place for digital photography hobbyists Wow, finally a Web collaboration tool that doesn't cost a fortune or require a cumbersome software installation Very easy to use, tool! Vyew.com - Vyew - FREE Anytime Collaboration and Live Conferencing™ Hard to explain check it out... We believe it is extremely important that the crisis confronting contemporary universities be publicly acknowledged and debated. Toward this end, through this website, we will provide the public with a way of monitoring the growing awareness of the problems associated with the crisis and the debates about the state of our universities. Welcome to Jeff Ertzberger's Game Template and Utilities web site. The materials located here are designed to enhance education through the use of technology. Jeff Ertzberger Microsoft Office Games PowerPoint Games Audio Puzzler is a new kind of puzzle game based on, well, snippets of audio found online. The audio is taken from popular video clips, so that when you complete the puzzle you'll be able to watch the video as well. Three and a half million from the Klondike fields...it gold the rush is on...check out the game The most essential knowledge, skills and attitudes required of an online teacher What a neet non-killing type game. This site contains free to use interactive games for learning languages and links to study resources. English language learning games Anatomy Arcade makes basic human anatomy come ALIVE through awesome free flash games and interactives. Finally, students can play flash games in class and not get in trouble for it and teachers can run lessons that will engage students like never before. Ever wonder what you'd look like in the past? Upload your photo and see yourself with classic hairdos and outfits through the decades. With the summer nearing its end and the school year almost upon us, teachers, tutors and students have a lot to prepare for. As with just about any profession nowadays, there all kinds of tools that can help you do most of your planning from your computer keyboard. We’ve put together a list of 35 tools to help you get your school year started right. 35 Tools For Teachers, Tutors and Students Greetings from Las Vegas, where today I gave a detailed guided tour of Project NG, our multi-release effort to deliver the next generation of Blackboard solutions. I'm emailing to let you know about an online version of the Project NG preview so you can also get a feel for what's to come from Blackboard. These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology or show you some of the best ELT sites around. What you actually see are screen recordings of my own computer screen. Teacher Training Videos created by Russell Stannard Not only a cool application and website but also a comic strip by Morten Paulsen. toonlet: Transparency for Quality Morph you picture very cool tool. Kathi Mitchell is a New Hampshire teacher who has a nice collection of links that appear to be updated frequently. They cover many subjects. Quite a few, though not all, of them are probably accessible to English Language Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School All these links will take you to websites created by companies, public institutions, or other teachers. Check out the wickEDly cool things on this site! Quizzes, crosswords, interactives and games in English and te reo Māori, a gallery of student artworks, profiles of inspirational New Zealanders, an information station, and activities and games based around topics – it’s all here – on wickED! What is The Good Life? It's a community for Canadians who want to make simple but significant changes in their lifestyles that help fight climate change and reduce their footprint on the planet. Conservation International - Carbon Calculator This is a cool website. GreenPrint :: Saving Money Today, Trees Tomorrow Loss of privacy...This should not be allowed Drivers License Search - National Motor Vehicle License Search Gotcha. Make Your Coat of Arms allows you to easily create your own family coat of arms or family crest based on your family ancestry or on the values that are important to you and your family today. Check it out... the movement has started. We have forty people signed up for the initiative on facebook with 500+ people who have not replied yet. Green Email Signature Initiative Very cool site. RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus This is a re-post but they keep adding new stuff - check it out. Check out this site it has a collection of great people from around the province sharing. A space for Saskatchewan High Schools to share information about distance learning opportunities they offer. Saskatchewan e-Learning Network Research shows that comprehensive strategies are essential to reduce tobacco use. However, actual implementation often appears overwhelming and impossible to achieve. This resource was created to help school staff and administrators map out their comprehensive action plan. Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory Listen and Write is a new web tool that I think has a lot of potential for English Language Learners. A user first chooses a text he/she wants to hear read to him/her. Listen and Write - Dictation : BETA Here you will find all of the distance education courses being offered in Saskatchewan. To search by School, Course Title or by delivery method. Saskatchewan Distance Education Courses Students can watch movie trailers for popular films and then complete various language development activities related to them. It's free. This is one great group of science resources. Zephyrus is a team of four. We are all graduates with experience in research and education. We regularly update our site, which is part of Zephyrus Education. We have created a site mainly concerned with science suitable for children aged between 8 and 14. We provide information, puzzle and printable worksheet sections, together with a homework help site with a rapid turn-a-round for answers. We also have many links to other sites. We are an independent company and have no connection with any schools, colleges, universities or education authorities and are totally self-financed. Zephyrus Interactive Education Website FREE Printable Alphabet, Math, Science, and More! Links on this page are to EE-related information, activities, and games for students interested in the environment. Student Environmental Education Sites "Innoken's mission is to combine creative energy and programming logic through leading edge technologies to create engaging and innovative games that generates customer delight." |::::: INNOKEN GAMES :::::|- Flash Online Games, Advergames, and Learning Games from India With the exception of no. 8, all these materials were created with Flash 5 and Flash MX. Some great online math resources. Free Math Worksheets @ MathSlice All these sections are specifically designed to assist adults and children who are learning English as their second language. This past semester the group of graduate students that form the K-12 online learning research group and I have been working on a glossary of virtual schooling. Basically, it’s purpose is to collect all of the terms that we can think of related to virtual school and to define them (based upon existing definitions in the literature or by creating our own definitions). At this stage, we are ready to announce the glossary: http://virtualschool.wikispaces.com/glossary In addition to announcing the results of our efforts, we would also like to encourage feedback from the virtual school community. So, if you have comments about any terms that we may be missing or any definitions that you’d like to suggest revisions to, please e-mail me at mkbarbour-at-gmail-dot-com or post a comment to this blog. Thanks to Michael K. Barbour Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. Totlol is in early testing phases and this means that at most times, most things, will work as most would expect. But sometimes, some things may not work as some would hope. Totlol - Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents Our Mission: To advance science and math education through the use of computational science, modeling and technology. Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. The rigors and demands of our increasingly complex, technologically dependent society have made high student achievement in mathematics a top priority among educators, policymakers, and employers. Todays citizens need more than basic computation and rote mathematical skills. They must master the higher-level concepts and approaches to problem solving that are key to success in work and everyday life. To meet this need, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in cooperation with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Widmeyer Communications, and the Learning First Alliance, launched Figure This! Figure This! Math Challenges for Families - Challenge Index The Futures Channel was founded in 1999 with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today’s learners who will one day succeed them. E-learning Microsoft style. Way way cool..check it out.... Dr. Maria Puzziferro is one of my professors at NorthCentral University and has a great collection of resources. Maria Puzziferro - Distance Learning Links and Resources Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria. See them all here. Information Literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information efficiently and effectively. The Internet has a wide range of information. The quality and purpose of the information spans the spectrum from garbage to top notch and from expert to intentionally misleading. Being able to evaluate the quality and purpose of information you encounter online can prevent a bad grade, but in the case of information you encounter through contacting people online evaluating the quality of that information can prevent a bad or life threatening experience. The activities contained in this section will help you develop critical evaluation skills in your students that will make them Cyber Safe and Information Literate. Interactive Whiteboard Resources Think Bank Ltd - Training, Design, Consultancy Big Brown Envelope was set up to allow teachers to share their resources with others around the world. Teachers, and trainers, are continuously reinventing the wheel when it comes to teaching materials. This is often unnecessary since someone out there probably has already got something that meets the need. On this site we hope you will find useful materials to help with your classroom teaching. Welcome to the Big Brown Envelope aace is the professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology (ICT). The Association was established in 1984 and has become the key influential professional association for those working in ICT in education. NAACE Primary: Curriculum Support IDEAS FOR INTEGRATING ICT INTO THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CLASSROOM. 166 links to learn about the Holocaust. Site languages include English, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. All 166 links have been reviewed Jacob Richman's Hot Sites - Jewish - Holocaust Check out some of this stuff that Johnny is doing with a Wii controller. Johnny Chung Lee - Human Computer Interaction Research Why Use Searchpickr? - Easily Find almost any kind of information or media existing on the web. - Discover web content not indexed on main search engines. - Query 200+ search providers from one single site, without having to retype... There are plenty of video websites out there to suit your every video viewing needs. They range from the entertaining, nonsensical depths of YouTube, to full-length movies, to skin flicks and tutorials sites that excel at teaching you how to... ION is always trying to further the knowledge of online education. In the course of our research and practice, we come across many best practices in online teaching. This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses. A complete description of each activity is given, along with examples when possible. Common educational uses of each activity are discussed as well as common educational objectives. Furthermore, teaching strategies for the given activity are provided. This index is primarily directed towards the use of these activities in senior high school and higher education. It also represents evidence that many quality educational activities are possible and feasible in the online classroom. Illinois Online Network: Educational Resources : Online Teaching Activity Index Bringing the Evergreen Curriculum to Life with Technology Technology Integration Support What this means I have no idea, the math is way beyond me, but it creates one very cool graphic. You go google. Welcome to Bullying Canada. Young people speaking out about bullying and victimization. Youth who know that one out of 4 kids are bullied, one out of 5 kids are the bully and that 282,000 high school kids are attacked each month nationally. Youths who know that bullying isn't only physical, but emotional. Youths who know that bullying is deadly. Youths who want to help stop bullying. So Help. Listen and Speak Up! Bill Chapman sends me a comment about this neat language. Check it out. A continuation of the TWO MILLION MINUTES documentary film, this blog offers deeper insights into education in China, India and the United States, and the challenge America faces. Now you can join a dialog about what governments, communities and families should and are doing to best prepare US students for satisfying careers in the 21st century. this is a conference overview on the Hanoi that my stomach is still trying to get over. My touchy stomach did not like the lack of McDonalds and other fast food. All kidding aside, Microsoft treated us like royalty and it was a very informative conference, with fantastic food, sessions and company. Jaduka's engineers created Jaduka Labs - an interactive showcase of useful applications and widgets - to demonstrate the power and clarity of Jaduka's voice communication technology. Use our on-time prediction engine to help you book your flights. We’ve built mathematical models of the U.S. air transportation system to predict delays and cancellations. If you need to make that meeting on time or are afraid of missing a connection, don’t book until you check out the predictions here! Delaycast � Flight Delay Predictions Smarter Ways to Use the Smart Board with Math Core Content Looking for fresh ideas for the month of April? This site has theme-based crafts, online adventures, lesson plans and much more. Check back often as more resources will be added updated. Players must help the Questionaut journey through strange worlds, answering questions on English, Maths and Science on a magical journey to recover his friend’s hat. Check out the great new game here: BBC - KS2 Bitesize - Games - Questionaut FNO.org From Now on: The Educational Technology Journal is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up)... Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share Grab some tools from the curb and pick some colors to begin your masterpiece. Wetpaint Please Touch - Create Your Own Masterpiece! This explains the way the world has shifted into this era. Founded in 1999, WebExhibits is an interactive, web-based museum that challenges visitors to think and explore scientific and cultural phenomena in new ways. Using innovative and intuitive data interface designs and multimedia content, WebExhibits helps visitors formulate questions and examine issues from several points of view. The success of WebExhibits has led to collaborations with museums around the globe. Cartoonster - Fun Flash Cartoons and Animation Tutorials! A collection of more than 600 websites that you can search or browse to explore physics on your own. It's also a biweekly online magazine, with archives containing more than 55 selected physics images. Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the Physics Education Technology project at the University of Colorado. PhET :: Physics Education Technology at CU Boulder Physics simulations that are animated in real time. Able to interact with them by dragging objects or changing parameters like gravity. MyPhysicsLab – Physics Simulation with Java Fiery explosions, beautiful reactions, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about chemistry. Here are some of our favorites. Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos | Wired Science from Wired.com These applications were designed to fill some of the holes left in the tracking of K-12 students in the Learning Management System. Most management systems are designed for post-secondary institutions and are designed to work with the university student registration and student reporting systems. The Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School(SCCS) does not have such tools or applications so it as found it necessary to develop it's own. This website will try to explain some of the applications that we designed in house. A Better World has been created to provide you with a place to begin gathering resources and ideas for your school's character education /safe schools/ positive school climate and positive citizenship priorities. Portfolios, Rubrics, Performance Assessments, and Assessment and Evaluation. We've begun gathering informative resources on all of it so you have it at your finger tips. This library consists of about 3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as we could make them. This is not a huge resource of graphics; its purpose is to provide a set of those graphics most basic and useful for low-level language-teaching, and at the same time, to make them as easily searchable as possible. The 3000 images consist of 1500 pairs. One member of each pair has a transparent background just big enough to fit the image, the other has a white background 110 by 110 pixels. For example, compare these two images: UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library Check out this very cool site...students would love it. Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Safety on Social Networking Sites Should You Read This? Very cool typing test, keybr.com - Typing at the speed of thought! HotChalk is a community for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes an easy-to-use learning management system, a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment – available through any Internet browser. HotChalk’s mission is to improve the lives of school teachers by helping them find Teacher Approved lesson plans, automating repetitive classroom tasks like managing homework, improving communication with students and parents, and delivering convenient access to valuable digital content to supplement curriculum. HotChalk - Connecting Teachers, Student and Parents - Featuring NBC News Black History Month Internet forums are either a brilliant community where you can meet and chat with new, interesting people, or full of scornful idiots who deserve to be banned from The Net in its entirety. This film explains some of the common mistakes people make in forums, which makes then the sort of loathsome fool no one wants to know. How To Behave On An Internet Forum (Technology: MySpace, Facebook & More) This is one very cool use of 360 degree image. Airbus A380 - cockpit | p a n o r e p o r t a g e | g i l l e s v i d a l Parent Information is targeted to families who are interested in understanding how online learning plays a part in their student's education and career; and how to find courses and support successful online studies in Minnesota. Survey of SFU First-year Students on Perceptions of Academic Integrity in High School Ice breakers are activities or modes of discussion used to help individuals ease into a group setting. Some ice breakers are done in groups and some can be individually completed. Others involve physical activities while others can be purely mental. Any activity that suits the intended purpose can be used. Illinois Online Network: Instructional Resources : Pointers and Clickers : Ice-Breakers The following activities can be used in a variety of ways. They can be used for beginning of the year activities, energizers for breaks during standardized tests, team building activities, etc. They work for almost any age group--try some at the next faculty meeting. Some of them will guarantee a good laugh! In an online environment, human interaction does not just happen naturally. Your online students need a way to get to know you, the instructor, and others. There are several ways to encourage your students to interact with each other. The idea is to be creative and set several guidelines for students to follow in order to stimulate asynchronous discussions. What a pretty search engine... Hello and welcome to the official Internet home of Cecil Adams, World's Smartest Human Being, and his famous syndicated column The Straight Dope. Here you will find all manner of things relating to the column and the vast Straight Dope media empire. Doodle 4 Google gives U.S. students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a doodle for the Google homepage. Students will be asked to draw a doodle that best represents the theme "What if...?" We ask ourselves this question every day when we build our products, so we thought we would ask the same of the future doodlers. Official Google Blog: What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day? Here is a site with all the past google holiday logos. Welcome to RecoverYourLife.com, one of the biggest and best Self Harm Support Communities on the Internet. We strongly believe in a free and open atmosphere here and our non-judgemental approach to all things Self Harm has been a help to thousands of people already. Come in and join us! You're not alone anymore.... Explore the site, communicate with other members via the moderated Forums, Live Chat, E-mail Support - or via the one-to-one Live Assistance and realise you are far from alone. Whether you want help in reducing or stopping your Self Harm, or you just aren't ready yet, everyone is welcome here. There are few rules and few taboos, but we will not condone the encouragement of Self Harm or Suicide in any way at any time. Our members have proved many thousands of times that there is hope - RYL really can be the stepping stone to getting through your Self Harm. RecoverYourLife.com - Self Harm Support and Information - Home The Internet is fantastic, but there are risks. This site provides the tools you need to help keep your kids safe online. Welcome to PIE, the Puzzles in Education section of Puzzles.COM! We are always on the watch for good programs, and there are a few out there that are exceptional that you should know about. Follow this link to learn more about these programs and how you could get involved with them. Want to encourage kindness on campus? See our free Teacher's Guide, lesson plans, activity ideas, and other materials. The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation Middle Years Professional Inquiry Cycle (MY PIC) is a professional development tool designed to support Middle Years teachers, grades 4-8, and teacher-librarians as they inform and advance teaching and student learning through a process of inquiry. In this process, teachers will define a question for inquiry relevant to student learning in their own classroom environment. Teachers will then have opportunities to connect to research and best practice as they investigate their question, experiment with new strategies and models of teaching in their own classroom, gather and reflect on student evidence stemming from that investigation and experimentation and share their findings in a professional learning community. Middle Years Professional Inquiry Cycle A "hearty" collection of activities for you to use in your classroom. If you haven't prepared, don't be brokenhearted… These lessons and resources will put you in the loving spirit of February! I want I want I want. Media Convert - free and on line - convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs - MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW WK1 MDB XLS VOB PhraseExpress organizes your frequently used text snippets and allows pasting them into any application. Expand abbreviations and common phrases as you type The history of computing spans thousands of years - from the primitive notched bones found in Africa, to the invention of abacus in 2400 BC, to Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in 1883, to the rise of the popularity of Personal Computers (PCs) in the 1970s. For the most part, this timeline is marked by devices that bear little or no resemblance to present-day machines both in form and capabilities. We’ve had many posts on Neatorama about the newest and greatest in computers and technology. But for this article, let’s go back - way back - and take a look at the wonderful world of early computing. Neatorama � Blog Archive � The Wonderful World of Early Computing The vision of Project Tomorrow is insure that today’s students are well prepared to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world. We believe that by supporting the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities, students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century. Elementary Tutorials in PowerPoint Welcome to the online resource developed for elementary teachers by the Ontario Ministry of Education and TFO. It includes modules on Literacy and Numeracy with videos of teachers in action, activity sheets, lesson plans and more. You'll also find modules on Daily Physical Activity (DPA) from the government's Healthy Schools program, and on Anaphylaxis, for the protection of students with life-threatening allergies eWorkshop - Online Teaching Resource "Constantly surrounded by technology, today's kids are accustomed to its strong presence in their lives. Today's kids are so bathed in bits that they are no more intimidated by digital technology than a VCR or a toaster. And it is through their use of the digital media that N-Gen will develop and superimpose its culture on the rest of society. Boomers stand back. Already these kids are learning, playing, communicating, working, and creating communities very differently than their parents. They are a force for social transformation. "[ Integrating Curricular Resources@2Learn.ca: Reflection on Teaching Practise NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in NSDL.org - K-12 Teachers - The National Science Digital Library The Interactivate activities listed below are designed so that the user may keep track of correct responses, hence they are cataloged as "assessments". A number of these activities, the Connect Four type games and the Quizzes, also allow users to select difficulty levels and specific problem types, as well as set a time limit, allowing for further tailoring of the assessment to their abilities. The Connect Four type games are designed for two players whereas the other activities listed are designed for individual work. This page is a collection of references for use by (and contributed by) colleagues who are using the Blackboard / WebCT systems, especially those at the beginning of the learning curve in using the systems. As elementary teachers, we know that your everyday brings many responsibilities and challenges. In the average day, you face hundreds of issues: classroom management, student achievement, certification, study skills, administrative tasks, learning standards, parental communication, and various other intricacies of pedagogy. This leaves little time to create useful and effective resources that help your students learn. This is where Worksheet Library comes in. PointSmartClickSafe.org, Smart choices for internet safety Game Show is brought to you by AliveTek, Inc. as a free service. This page contains the resources that will allow you to create an interactive assessment of your very own. Please read all directions and review the Terms for Use before you begin. Thanks for visiting the AliveTek Resource Center. Over the years we have enjoyed providing resources to our friends in the world of online education. We have combined the best of our Interactive Assessments and Learning Objects pages to form this Resource Center AliveTek, Inc. [Resource Center] Welcome to "The Big Picture" of connecting through the Internet to reach online resources. The purpose of this page is to answer the question: "What are the major pieces of the Internet, and who are the major players in each segment?" Internet: The Big Picture (by Russ Haynal) A Teacher Induction Program involves those practices used to help new and beginning teachers become competent and effective professionals in the classroom. Induction programs also help develop an understanding of the local school, community and cultures. NWT Teacher Induction // Links We might add some of these sport games to our online physical education. play Sport Games free online games
Add Letters Warning Sign Generator
Moral Sense test
Cool bandaids cartoons
October 15, 2008
Typing speed...cool
October 9, 2008
Cyber school CPT Hall of Fame
October 8, 2008
This is a neat one...want to be a spud?
October 7, 2008
October Resources
October 6, 2008
Cyber Ethics for Students and Youth
Zippy Scenarios for Teaching Internet Ethics
Scenarios for Internet EthicsK-8 digital Classroom
My son liked this site.
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
Mobile device TADO
Marvin Training
September 26, 2008
Embedded Media HTML Generator
September 24, 2008
Fifty Theories of education and Learning.
September 23, 2008
Smart Technology Training Center
Smart Board Tools
Preventing Digital Plagiarism
Colonial Williamsburg.
September 22, 2008
Passport Australia
Dumpr
September 18, 2008
Teacher Click.com
September 17, 2008
Vyew Instant Workspace
September 15, 2008
Universe
Ivory Tower Blues
September 11, 2008
Game Templates
September 9, 2008
Audio Puzzler
Klondike- the game
September 5, 2008
Essential knowledge, skills, attitudes and advice for Online Teachers
September 3, 2008
echo genesis
September 2, 2008
Learn English Language
Anatomy arcade
September 1, 2008
Google Chrome might be very cool.
August 19, 2008
Yearbook yourself
August 16, 2008
35 Tools For Teachers, Tutors and Students
July 18, 2008
The next generation of Blackboard
July 11, 2008
Teacher training videos
My own background is in teaching English, so some of the sites are specific to ELT and are grouped separately. The rest are for all teachers and there is also a section for those interested in more difficult multimedia products like Flash and Director.June 20, 2008
Toonlet
June 16, 2008
Youwild
Mrs Mitchell's Links
June 13, 2008
Math Resources and sites
Wicked - What on Earth
June 12, 2008
The Good Life
Conservation International
Green Print
June 11, 2008
Driver's License Search
June 5, 2008
Make Your Coat of Arms
Green Email Signature Initiative Blog
June 3, 2008
RhymeZone
June 2, 2008
Learning Tools
Welcome to Learning Tools, from UBC Arts ISIT. The e-learning tools listed here are publicly available for academic use, within and outside the University of British Columbia. Periodically, Arts IS releases new tools to this site, so please check back in the future to see what's new. You are invited to explore these exciting new learning tools, and make free use of the learning objects they generate for educational or research purposes.Saskatchewan e-Learning Network
Tobacco Tool Kit
It outlines what a comprehensive model should include, and provides practical advice, suggestions and ideas of how you can successfully move toward a Tobacco-Free School.June Resources
Go2Web2.0.net
June 1, 2008
eChalk optical illusions
May 30, 2008
Listen and Write
May 23, 2008
Saskatchewan Distance Education Courses
May 22, 2008
English Trailer
Science Resources
Interactive Education on the Web
Free worksheets for Home Education
Student Environmental Education Sites
Free educational resources of Adrian Bruce.
May 20, 2008
INNOKEN Games
Adams Learning E-learning materials
Math Slice
Larry Felazzo: English resourses
May 13, 2008
Virtual Schooling Glossary
ToTLoL
May 12, 2008
Shodor
Take a Challenge
The Futures Channel
May 9, 2008
Microsoft has finally entered the field
May 8, 2008
Distance Learning Resources
May 6, 2008
The Webby Awards
May 5, 2008
Hieroglyphs
May 2, 2008
Wired Safety
Wired SafetyMay 1, 2008
Think Bank
Big Brown Envelope
NAACE
IDEAS FOR INTEGRATING ICT
CLICK ON THE SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICEJewish - Holocaust
May Resources
April 30, 2008
Johnny Chung Lee and Wii
April 29, 2008
Searchpickr
Yobler
April 28, 2008
Online Teaching Activity Index
Supporting Student Learning with Techology
April 24, 2008
Measuring information distance between citiies
April 23, 2008
BullyingCanada.ca
April 22, 2008
Earth Day Information Center
Esperato Language
Esperanto: Multilingual Information Center: English (angla)April 21, 2008
The Two Million Minutes Blog
April 17, 2008
Microsoft Innovative Teacher Conference in Hanoi
Jaduka Labs
Delaycast
April 15, 2008
Using the SMARTBoard to Support Math
April 1, 2008
April Resources
Questionaut
March 13, 2008
Discovery School Resources
The Educational Technology Journal
Although an older website...it has some great resources.March 10, 2008
Scratch
Wet Paint
Shift Happens
Webexhibits
March 6, 2008
Cartoonster
March 3, 2008
The Internet as an Instructional Tool
Physics to Go
Physics Education Technology
My Physics Lab
Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos
SCCS Applications
February 29, 2008
A better world
Pieces of the Puzzle
March Resources
Language Teaching Clipart Library
Mysteries in Canadian History
Aunt Lee Dot Com
Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A guide to RSS and More
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With all the information on the web how can we make sense of it all?
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to filter out what we want from what we don't want?
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Do you visit the same web sites again and again looking for new content; wouldn't it be nice to automate this task?
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Would you like to share great resources that you find with other teachers or your students?
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Would you like to have access to new tools and resources without having to spend hours searching for them?
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Would you like to make connections with other teachers?
If you have asked yourself any one of these questions then the answer that you are looking for is RSS and Atom feeds. They are here to stay and feed offers a new face to the World Wide Web that we are already familiar with.February 25, 2008
Keybr.com
February 22, 2008
HotChalk
February 20, 2008
How to Behave on an Internet Forum
Flight deck of the Airbus 380
Parent Information
February 19, 2008
Quackwatch
Quackwatch has grown considerably. To help visitors with special areas of interest, we maintain 21 additional sites for autism, chiropractic, dentistry, multilevel marketing, and many other hot topics. We are also closely affiliated with the National Council Against Health Fraud, which cosponsors our free weekly newsletter, and with Bioethics Watch, which highlights issues of questionable research on humans. Our Internet Health Pilot site provides links to hundreds of reliable health sites. Our Casewatch site contains a large library of legal cases, licensing board actions, government sanctions, and regulatory actions against questionable medical products.February 18, 2008
Academic Integrity Survey
February 15, 2008
Icebreakers
ICEBREAKERS & ENERGIZERS
Using Online Icebreakers to Promote Student/Teacher Interaction
February 14, 2008
Tafiti Beta search engine.
February 13, 2008
The Straight Dope
What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day?
Recover Your Life .com
February 7, 2008
Web Aware
February 1, 2008
Puzzles in Education
You belong here if you are a teacher looking to learn about the best work going on in the world today on teaching creative problem solving to students, or a concerned parent looking for the same things for your own children.
Welcome to Puzzles in EducationActs of Kindness
My Pic
February
January 28, 2008
Microsoft surface
Media Convert
Phrase Express
Launch applications by entering text shortcuts
Autocomplete phrases with the predictive text recognition
Quickly handle email responses
PhraseExpress Autotext - Autocomplete text UtilityThe Wonderful World of Early Computing
January 27, 2008
Project Tomorrow
January 25, 2008
WiziQ
January 23, 2008
Workshop.on.ca
Growing Up Digital
January 14, 2008
The National Science Digital Library
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.Interactive Activities
January 10, 2008
Learning Blackboard/webct
January 4, 2008
Worksheet Library
Earth Science Worksheets: Grades K-6December 30, 2007
Point Smart Click Safe
December 11, 2007
Game Show
AliveTek
December 10, 2007
Internet "The Big Picture"
NWT Teacher Induction
December 5, 2007
Best Flash Games
Typogenerator
December 3, 2007
December Resources
Don't let the December holidays disrupt the learning in your classroom. These resources can help you incorporate the holiday into your learning activities -- and provide a little fun as well.
November 27, 2007
Best Ed. Sites
Welcome to BEST ED. SITES the best educational links on the web!
Smithsonian Education
Smithsonian Education - Welcome
November 20, 2007
Lingro
This is one very cool site.
lingro: multilingual dictionary and language learning site
Blog REadability test
What level of education is required to understand the Teaching and Developing Online blog.
November 14, 2007
Very Cool Mural
Check out this mural each tile is one foot square and is it's own individual picture...Click on them to see the individual times.
November 13, 2007
Literacy Center Education Network
We started the LiteracyCenter.Net with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U S Department of Education. Today, it dynamically serves more than one million free lessons every month to children, parents, and teachers in every state in United States. Many ask why the LiteracyCenter.Net online pre and early reading curriculum is free. Our answer is simple. We have a dream that all children will be able to access the same high-quality, research-based, educational material. The only way we can reach our dream is to make our online curriculum free of charge and free of advertising.
Literacy Center Education Network™ - Play & Learn English
November 5, 2007
Montano Meth Project
MONTANA METH PROJECT IS A LARGE-SCALE PREVENTION PROGRAM AIMED AT SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING FIRST-TIME METH USE THROUGH PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGING, PUBLIC POLICY, AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
November 2, 2007
Pics4Learning
Copyright-friendly images for education.
Transforming Teaching through Technology
A pile of great resources.
Pay Attention
Over 10,000 hours taking on cellphones
And roughly 20,000 hours watching TV.
Today's children and teens spend 2.75 hours a week using home computers.
70% of our nation's 4-6 year-olds have used a computer
In any given day, 68% of children under two will use a screen media, for an average of just over two hours (2:05).
Why?
Richness
How much richness does your curriculum provide?
Do your students...remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create?
What do your students create?
"These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other"
Are you reaching your students?
"We have learned to 'play school'. We study the right facts the night before the test so we achieve a passing grade and thus become a successful student."
"It's not attention deficit- I'm just not listening!"
Are you engaging them?
When I go to school, I have to 'power down'."
MediaSite
Mediasite is a tool (by Sonic Foundry) for recording and storing rich-media classroom and conference presentations ...more
October 30, 2007
Top 100 Open Courseware Projects
Check out some of these free resources.
Top 100 Open Courseware Projects | OEDb
October 23, 2007
TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal is an international organization - led by youth and empowered by technology. TakingITGlobal connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities.
TakingITGlobal - About TIG - Home
October 16, 2007
The Crooked, Crazy Weather Project
Check out this grade 4 unit...awesome
Predicting Weather
Jet Streams, barometers, radar dopler; how meteorologists predict weather can be difficult to explain. Teaching through technology creates a stimulating and exciting learning environment for students. Looking up fact and answering questions is only a mouse click away!
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Overview
This project is a technology infused grade 4 science unit about predicting weather. The project integrates science, L.A., art & technology. Students will learn about various aspects of the weather and then develop their own blogs to explore weather around the world. Finally, the students will create their own web weathe
The Crooked, Crazy Weather Project
History of Religion
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!
October 12, 2007
This is a good idea.
If this ever works, this will be a great resource.
October 11, 2007
Internet World Stats
An International website featuring up to date world Internet Usage, Population Statistics and Internet Market Research Data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions. See the Big Picture here.
Internet Usage World Stats - Internet and Population Statistics
October 4, 2007
ProProfs.com Sat Exam Study
Welcome to ProProfs Online FREE SAT Exam Study Center. Our Online SAT school is the most comprehensive collection of Free SAT study resources on the web offering practice exams, study guides, flashcards, quizzes, cram sheets, articles, links and tips to help you succeed on the SAT exam! Our extensive SAT Reading and Writing Study covers both sections in a convenient, easy-to-read "study guide" format, while our SAT Math Study area presents a comprehensive overview of the topics involved in SAT Mathematics. We have one of the largest collections of SAT flash cards and quizzes at your disposal, as well as three practice tests. Our SAT Quiz School and Flash Card database is continually expanding, keeping you up-to-date on the latest developments in SAT testing. Best of all, all our SAT Test Prep Study Aids are totally FREE for students and educators!
FREE SAT Exam Study: Online Free SAT Test Prep , New SAT Exam Study guide & Test Prep Practice
October 2, 2007
Sleepover home
Everything you need to create, sing, and enjoy all aspects of staging a school musical.
Bubble Guru
Bubble Guru provides an extremely cost effective solution for you to directly engage your web site visitors and with our unique floating design, it delivers your key message quickly and then gets out of the way.
October 1, 2007
October Resources
Pumpkins, Apples, and Leaves ... It's October!
As the leaves change color and the air gets chilly; pumpkins get large enough to carve and eat!; and apples appear in mass quantities - "Fall" back on some favorite teaching ideas for the Autumn, Thanksgiving, Pumpkins and Halloween......
September 25, 2007
Weather Bug Video
Welcome to youCaster where you can create your own weather show!
September 19, 2007
New Icon set for SCCS
And so we are getting closer to creating a complete set of icons and announcement tools for the courses at Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School.
Rescuing Recess
Experts say fresh air and play give kids an edge in their school work. Yet, only 8 state school boards of education have a policy that ensures daily recess. Further, 55% of PTA leaders feel their school’s recess is in jeopardy. So Cartoon Network has created a successful, award-winning national movement called “Rescuing Recess” and National Recess Week (9/24/07-9/28/07) to safeguard and promote daily recess!
Cartoon Network - Rescuing Recess
September 14, 2007
Optical Illusions
I just love these.
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
September 10, 2007
Voice Thread
this little tool is so easy to use and what cool applications for an online classroom. Check it out.
McToonish ? My First Attempt at Using VoiceThread
September 5, 2007
Second Language Education
This website presents a guide to second language organizations and centres, journals, resources and services, and selected thematic sites which have a presence on the web. Canadian sites, the primary focus of this compilation, are highlighted with a flag.
The Second Language Education website serves primarily educators and students concerned with the theory and practice of second (French and English) and minority language teaching and learning.
Second Language Education on the Web
September 3, 2007
Google earth fans check it out.
The latest version of Google Earth contains a hidden feature: a full-fledged flight simulator! Press Command+Option+A in OS X or Ctrl+Alt+A on a PC or Linux box and you'll be greeted with a hidden dialog box that lets you choose an aircraft (F16 or SR22) and an airport. Once you've made you selection, you'll be placed inside the aircraft. You can then fly around the globe in a free flight simulator, viewing the scenery that is pulled from Google Earth's map files.
Tangled up in Purple : Crashed
August 30, 2007
Instructional Strategies Online
Cool site check it out.
Instructional Strategies Online
The Alfred West Jr. Learning Lab
The Alfred P. West, Jr. Learning Lab is Wharton's development center and experimental laboratory to explore new approaches to learning. The Learning Lab develops technology-enhanced learning materials—simulations, web-based exercises, and interactive programs— to investigate new paradigms for learning and instruction. The products developed by the Learning Lab engage students in real-world exercises that challenge them to apply principles they've learned across multiple disciplines.
The Learning Lab draws on the creative expertise of faculty leaders and industry professionals to experiment with new methods of learning throughout the School's degree and non-degree programs.
Wharton Learning Lab - Wharton Learning Lab - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Quest
KQED's QUEST is a new multimedia series about the people behind San Francisco Bay Area science and environmental issues and how their work is changing the way we live. Do you know what is in your own backyard?
KQED QUEST: A Different Kind of Science and Nature Adventure
August 23, 2007
Criss Angel
This is one amazing site.
Everest Beyond the Limit
This is a virtual tour I would like to try in real life someday.
Everest: Beyond the Limit 2007 : Discovery Channel
August 20, 2007
Teaching English
On these pages you will find links to ideas for your class and teaching sent in by contributors around the world on a range of topics.
BBC | British Council teaching English - Downloads
August 17, 2007
World Clock
While the actual numbers cannot be precise the rates of change are what is most interesting.
The data is taken from WHO, UN, Internet World Stats, and other official sources.
August 15, 2007
The four slide Sales pitch
I like this idea. But I missed the deadline...but I did make one here it is.
If you would like to send your own it would be neat to see what people are creating.
dy/dan ? Blog Archive ? Contest: The Four Slide Sales Pitch
Simpsonize Me
I took an image of myself and turned myself into a simpson character and this is what I appeared as..
August 4, 2007
The Generator Blog
This generate almost anything...check it out.
Newspaper clipping
This makes such a cool clipping.
The Newspaper Clipping Generator - Create your own fun newspaper.
July 25, 2007
Learning Tools
People teaching another language check this one out.
Learning Tools - Character Stroke Recorder
July 13, 2007
Pilot Math
Helping your students learn, study, and quiz themselves at their own pace.
How it Works
1 Teach
What's the ideal way to incorporate Pilot Math into your teaching? View the Teacher's Guide here.
2 Assess
Access already written unit tests for each unit in Pilot Math. Why write a test if you don't have to? Answer keys are provided for the unit tests and all workbook questions.
3 Search
Search the Pilot Math Learning Object Repositery (LOR) to quickly access specific learning objects (Concept Capsules, Interactive Games, etc.) to use with your students.
Pilot Math - Think Outside the Book
July 11, 2007
ToonDoo
ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator - Create, Publish, Share, Discuss!
June 28, 2007
iQuiz maker
According to the site: " iQuiz Maker is an easy way for you to create custom quizzes for the iQuiz game for the iPod. iQuiz Maker works seamlessly so you can write, create, package your very own quizzes."
e-Clippings (Learning As Art): iQuiz Maker - Make Custom Quizzes for the iPod - oh yeah, its free
Teen Driving
To better understand parents' knowledge of the teen driving issue and to help parents prepare their teen for driving, The Allstate Foundation recently conducted a national survey of 1,000 parents of teen drivers.
June 27, 2007
50 Free Full PC Games
I never expected the original 100 full version PC games list to make the impact and receive the traffic that it did! The response was phenomenal.
Photosynth demo
There are very few things on the internet that makes me go…holy crow that is so cool. I might be a little jaded but holy crow this is cool. Check it out.
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
June 26, 2007
Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness delivers programs and services to all instructors at the University of Saskatchewan to encourage, develop and support the scholarship of teaching and learning.
The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
Queeky - Draw online
QUEEKY is a Web 2-Tool for people who like drawing and share their pictures with others. But QUEEKY can do even more: pictures made on Queeky can be replayed by the visitors. So you have the possibility to check out how an intersting picture is made..
QUEEKY - Draw online! - QUEEKY - draw online
YoYo games
June 25, 2007
MizPee
Now this is the best idea I have ever seen for a website.
MizPee finds the closest, cleanest toilet and gives you entertaining reading material once you get there. Since the service is cell phone-based, it's always with you, when you really need it.
Toufee
The fastest flash movie maker online
Toufee - Create Flash Movies in Seconds!
June 22, 2007
YackPack
This is a perfect tool for English as a Second Language and language education.
Digital Media Scoring Guides
Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives.
DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories
June 19, 2007
Funology
Funology.com is the best place on the Web to find things to do. Not just while you’re sitting at the computer, but anywhere. Things to do by yourself or with your friends, your parents, your pets, anyone. We’ll teach you a million and one ways to make things, explore the world, and discover skills you never knew you had. It’s one place where you’ll never be bored!
Funology -- The Science of Having Fun!
HowStuffWorks
Howstuffworks "Science Channel"
June 14, 2007
FactBites
What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia?
Factbites - a new way to search the web.
Other search engines spew out meaningless site-names and mangled phrases.
Factbites offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic.
Factbites: Where results make sense
June 13, 2007
Bibme
If you write essays this is for you.
BibMe - the fully automatic & free bibliography maker (MLA, APA & Chicago)
Voicethread
Could have many uses for english, english as a second language and just second languages.
June 12, 2007
ScienceHack
What is ScienceHack?
ScienceHack is a unique video search engine for science videos.
What makes ScienceHack unique?
Every video is screened and approved based on accuracy and quality by our scientists.
What fields of science are you focusing on?
So far we indexed: Physics, Chemistry, and Space.
June 8, 2007
wwwtools for education
Their objectives:
wwwtools is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web.
Each article is on a particular topic or issue related to Web-based teaching and learning. The articles take a skilled researcher between 10 and 20 hours to research and prepare.
Many of the topics covered are suggested by our readers--if youre curious about a particular subject or issue send a "research" request to the contact below.
Journey of Mankind
This presents a virtual global journey of modern man over the last 160000 years.
JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World
Foreign Language Convening Group Links
Here is a group of links that deal with language education.
AniBoom
aniBoom is a cross-media, cross-platform animation content project which addresses wide audiences through a range of genres, techniques and means. In order to get things started we chose the most democratic medium, the Internet. In our next phase we intend to cross over to other mediums as well as TV, Cellular, PC games etc. We're also deeply proud at the fact that aniBoom is the first content project of its kind which focuses solely on animation in the hyper world of user generated content and Web 2.0
June 7, 2007
WebSiteOptimization.com
Try our free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. The script incorporates best practices from HCI research and web site optimization techniques into its recommendations.
June 5, 2007
SpringWatch
Watch the live webcams on the website so that you keep in touch with the animal stories throughout the day.
BBC - Science & Nature - Springwatch
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
OK. You asked for it. Here's some more experiments from Reeko's bag of tricks. And don't forget - you're in the Top Secret Section F of Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab so please understand that all knowledge gleamed from conducting these experiments must be kept strictly confidential...
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - Top Secret Section F
June 4, 2007
Learn Quebec
Leading English Education and Resource Network
June 1, 2007
A walk in the woods
The wonders of nature are right in front of you, if you take the time to look closely and explore things carefully.
Interactive Moving Applets
This is a great collection of applets
Maps made for printing and copying.
A great collection of maps for printing and copying.
Atlas - Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com
School Interactive Exercises
This is a good collection of interactive exercises in different languages.
Interactive exercises and eResources
Year end ideas / projects
It's the last three weeks of school and the year will come to an end soon. You have done your best and your students have done their best. Classes are winding down but you don't want the learning to stop until the year is over. Your hard work has paid off and your students will graduate on to the next grade! Here are some fun ways to finish out the year with your class! We hope you find an idea or two you can use in your classroom to make the end of the year fun & educational for your students.
Global internetTV Portal
Welcome to the gateway to global internetTV! - our database provides you with free access to 7241 TV-Stations from nearly all states and countries all over the world.
May 30, 2007
Stop Cyber Bullying
May 28, 2007
Find a place to elearn
Here is a list of places to e-learn. I am currently trying to decide where to do my PHD online so this list was useful.
May 24, 2007
Explorers Theme Page
This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of explorers. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.
First Nations History Theme Page
This "Theme Page" has links to curricular resources (information, content...) to help students/teachers learn about the History of First Nations People.
First Nations History Theme Page
First Scientists
First Scientists is a series of vignettes based on a documentary of the same title. The vignettes explore the links between traditional knowledge of Native Canadians and western science. First Scientists was written and directed by Mark Sandiford. It was produced by Exploration Production Inc. with the support of five federal government departments working in the area of natural resources. The vignettes and the documentary aired on the Discovery Channel in 2003
Science and Technology for Canadians - First Scientists Videos
Culturally Situated Design Tools
Teaching Math through culture:
Many cultural designs are based on mathematical principles. This software will help students learn standards-based mathematics as they simulate the original artifacts, and develop their own creations.
Culturally-Situated Design Tools
May 23, 2007
Fire Safety Website
Please preview this site and if possible integrate it into your existing curriculum and classroom learning environment. Social Studies teachers might enjoy the public interest aspect of this unit, that students are becoming informed about this topic for the purpose of informing and educating others in their community. Language Arts teachers might appreciate the fact that their students are researching this topic, then publishing and distributing their work to a real audience.
A Learning Website for Middle School Students
Silicon Spies
A kind of neat site
Engineering Interact - Interactive science & engineering for 9-11 year olds
May 22, 2007
Teacher Staff Development Materials
The Alabama Science Teaching and Learning Center (ASTLC) is charged with meeting the increasingly sophisticated demands from Alabama schools for the highest quality science teachers. Its courses, for both new and in-service teachers, are designed not to just bring scientific knowledge to their students, but to train their students to think and operate as scientists poised to meet the complex challenges of the 21st century.
Teacher Staff Development Materials
Sage advice
What teaching trick do you use in the classroom to help your students succeed?
Sage Advice April/May 2007 | Edutopia
May 16, 2007
A list of Learning Theories
TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
May 14, 2007
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is a fantastic way to engage students, teachers and just about anyone else who has ever wanted to be the next Ken Burns or Steven Spielberg. There are many different definitions of "digital storytelling," but in general, all of them revolve around the idea of combining the longstanding art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
May 8, 2007
A teacher's Toolkit
A Teacher's Toolbox is the companion of adrianbruce.com. Both showcase: recent educational resources that have been added to the site, my ICT work with teachers and students, free reading games, free maths games, free educational software and much, much more. Feel free to check it out and if you know people who can use this stuff, send it on :) Be SURE to check out MY ARCHIVE - Heaps of GREAT STUFF there!
A Teacher's Toolbox - Resources 4 Busy Educators
May 4, 2007
Inside the Teenage Brain
What's going on in there? How science may help to explain the mysteries of the teen years.
frontline: inside the teenage brain | PBS
May 3, 2007
Student Online Readiness Tool
To find out whether online learning is for you, you must assess your readiness, your goals, and your learning preferences. Research and study tell us that there are six main topics closely related to a student's success in the online learning environment. To help you make the right decision about enrolling in an online course, we have created this Student Online Readiness Tool (SORT) for you to rate yourself in each of the topic areas. Each section of SORT has a brief description followed by a questionnaire. Based on your responses to questions, feedback is provided on your personal readiness profile, along with suggested strategies for success and links to more information.
April 23, 2007
Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence
The Center brings together academic institutions, city and state agencies and organizations, community groups, schools, youth groups, and faith organizations to collaborate on both positive youth development and the prevention of violence. By integrating research findings with education and training, professional development, and practice efforts, the Center provides the infrastructure that facilitates academic-community collaborations, thus translating research into improved professional practice. The result is an increase in the capacity of local providers, policy makers, and academic researchers to choose among potential interventions, monitor fidelity to specified standards, and increase knowledge concerning effective and ineffective practices and policies.
April 20, 2007
The Gender Genie
Inspired by an article and a test in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author.
Simply type or paste your text in the box below. Choose a genre and click submit for the results.
April 19, 2007
What the Font?
Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database. If WhatTheFont can’t figure it out, you can submit your image to the WhatTheFont Forum where cloak-draped font enthusiasts around the world will help you out!
Wridea
Never forget your ideas again. Save them as you have them.
Create categories and organize your ideas.
NEW Create brainstorm sessions with your friends.
Use wridea as a basic project management tool. Create a page for each project and different categories for each work type.
You are the limit! You have pages, categories and ideas. Use wridea your way!
April 3, 2007
Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids
Storynory has been publishing free audio stories for children since November 2005. You’ll find our own stories here about Prince Bertie - a modern prince who has been turned into a frog - as well as plenty of classics.
Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids
April 2, 2007
Believable homework excuses.
Believable excuses you can use for those rare occasions
when you have forgotten your homework.
April Resources
Looking for fresh ideas for the month of March? This site has theme-based crafts, online adventures, lesson plans and much more. Check back often as more resources will be added throughout the month.
bFree
Use bFree to open a Blackboard™ course export or archive file and display the content of the course, as shown here. Preview and select the content items that you want to extract, then extract them as a set of files and folders or as an independent Web site. Step-by-step instructions are included in the application.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
KS2 Bitesize
Key Stage 2 Bitesize is a brand new site that covers English, Maths and Science. Each topic has an online activity, a test and a quiz; making revision a much more engaging experience for children in the run up to their KS2 tests. This new site replaces the old ReviseWise site.
BBC - Schools - KS2 Bitesize Revision
Do more Watch Less
April is the month to “Do MORE Watch LESS”. The “Do MORE Watch LESS” Challenge encourages individuals and families to reduce screen-time and replace it with physical activity and other great screen-free activities. From April 23-29 take the challenge to do MORE physical activity and spend LESS time in front of the television, computer and video game screens.
March 30, 2007
Now this is addictive.
March 26, 2007
Zamzar
Have you ever wanted t convert files without the need to download software. This website will do it for you.
Zamzar - Free online file conversion
Cyber Teens
A great collect of links that would be interesting to teens.
March 15, 2007
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the "best of the best."
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
March 14, 2007
Technology Used Wiki
Help us make the list:
We are interested in finding out what technology you use in your school division.
March 13, 2007
Tools to improve keyboarding skills
The ability to type faster than you can write by hand is more important today than ever. I remember as an elementary teacher and later an elementary computer lab teacher / technology integration facilitator using the commercial program Type To Learn from Sunburst Technology, to help students learn better keyboarding skills. Now, however, more FREE options for helping students learn “home row” are available than ever.
Moving at the Speed of Creativity ? Blog Archive ? Tools to improve keyboarding skills
Educational podcasting for teaching and learning
Welcome to educators, parents and carers everywhere. This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 350 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals.
Podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges
Open Educational Resources
OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues' course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today's classrooms.
March 5, 2007
We the Teachers
WetheTeachers sprung out of a hypothetical idea that Nate and Amy had in the fall of 2005. After getting frustrated from fruitless searches for lesson plans and ideas, Amy wondered why there were so few websites that effectively catered to teachers. There is a lot of information, but little is organized. Even worse, many times the resources you need are only available with a yearly fee.
Amy told Nate, and together they imagined a website that combined both the resource aspect of teacher-focused sites, and the community aspect of social websites. Many months of work later, the site was born!
March 2, 2007
The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles
Tomski: The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles
Technology in Illinois
Illinois delivers a wealth of high tech educational resources and services. The list below provides information on many of those resources and services.
Illinois.gov - Technology in Illinois - Education
Edublogs Tutorials
Here is a great list of tutorials for those of you who are in education and blogs.
March 1, 2007
Resources for March
Check it out, here is a great list of march resources.
AOK12S Newsletter
Welcome to the sixth newsletter of the Association of Online K-12 Schooling. The goal for this newsletter is to provide members with Association news, upcoming events and to showcase new developments in online K-12 education.
Association of Online K-12 Schooling: March 2007 Archives
February 27, 2007
Online College Rankings 2007
Online higher education is growing, but a lack of transparency is preventing it from reaching its full potential. Even though online colleges are now receiving increased respect from top employers, diploma mills and the like limit the prestige of a legitimate online degree. We think more transparency is a good thing; a set of objective, quantitative rankings — however imperfect — should help shed some light on the relative attractiveness of the most popular accredited online colleges.
OEDb's Online College Rankings 2007 | OEDb
I got the following email to let me know about this rating.
eLearning Workshops
Based on the needs of the students you have recently taught or will be teaching in the future, identify an area for professional growth. For example, if your students have scored below target in reading comprehension, you may be looking for some new instructional strategies to assist students to better understand what they read. In this case, you might choose the course, Looking at Vocabulary.
February 24, 2007
Online Community Toolkit
Thinking about building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas? Start here. The following is a collection of articles that may help inform your work.
Reena Virk: A real-life Lord of the Flies?
Teaching English Language Arts: ReenaLOTF
What is Disruptive Innovation?
Disruptive Innovation (Christensen)
February 20, 2007
Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies
Very neat website with a large amount of resources
FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
21st Century Information Fluency Project
IMSA's 21 st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF) provides free online resources to all educators and learners so that they may locate, evaluate and use digital information resources more effectively, efficiently and ethically. 21CIF addresses the information needs experienced by today's teachers and students through IMSA's "Full Circle Resource Kit", online courses and webinars, face-to-face workshops and interactive tutorials. All curricular resources are informed by the latest research and supplemented with interactive Wizard Tools.
IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project - Resources
February 7, 2007
Alice a good friend of mine.
K12Wiki
This is a great group of wikis.
February 6, 2007
Your eyes will fall out of your head.
Now this game will drive you wacky
Learning Tools
Welcome to Learning Tools, from UBC Arts ISIT. The e-learning tools listed here are publicly available for academic use, within and outside the University of British Columbia. Periodically, Arts IS releases new tools to this site, so please check back in the future to see what's new. You are invited to explore these exciting new learning tools, and make free use of the learning objects they generate for educational or research purposes.
Internet for Classrooms
Lesson Plan sites for K-12 Teachers
Free English Test for ESL
Free English Tests for ESL/EFL, TOEFL, TOEIC, SAT, GRE, GMAT
Universal Teacher.org
Andrew Moore's resource site home page - index
Open Learning Initiative
Welcome to Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (OLI):
A collection of "cognitively informed," openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format.
Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University
Free Online Photography Course
Welcome to Jodies Coston's Free Online Photography Course sponsored by the morguefile.com and its contributors. This course is free and open to the public.
Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts
A very cool list of sites
February 2, 2007
ASCD Idea Exchange
Here you have an opportunity for ongoing conversations with educators across the country focused on improving the quality of professional development. Many of us are stumped when asked pointedly by a policymaker or school funding representative "How have our students benefited from the latest professional development initiative?" We still have a great deal to learn about designing, implementing, and then documenting the results of professional development efforts.
Blackboard Patent Pledge
Welcome to the Blackboard Patent Information Page. Below is a collection of resources we hope the community will find useful in better understanding the recently announced Blackboard Patent Pledge.
January 31, 2007
Survey highlights Internet dangers kids are facing
A new report shows many children are still oblivious to the public nature of the Internet and the dangers that may lurk there.
Survey highlights Internet dangers kids are facing
January 30, 2007
Educational Testing Service
At nonprofit ETS, our mission is to advance quality and equity in education for all people worldwide.
We help teachers teach, students learn, and parents measure the educational and intellectual progress of their children. We do this by
Listening to educators, parents and critics
Learning what students and their institutions need
Leading in the development of new and innovative products and services
January 29, 2007
AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5
This setup contains the free as well as the paid version of AVG Anti-Spyware. After the installation, a free 30-day trial version containing all the extensions of the full version will be activated. At the end of the trial, these extensions will be deactivated and the program will turn into a feature-limited freeware version.
ewido - anti-spyware and anti-malware solutions
January 25, 2007
Neuroscience for Kids
Brain Games Many of the games listed below have separate pages...Just click on the small picture or the game to open up a new page to play.
Neuroscience For Kids - brain games
January 23, 2007
Cyber School Poem (Holy Crow is this corny)
Cyber School, I never told you how I truly feel
Being with you feels surreal
Love is our connection
You are like perfection
Cyber School, you are unbelievably beautiful
Not having met you earlier makes me feel like a fool
Words cannot express
How you have captured my heart with success
Cyber School, you mean so much to me
With you I really feel free
I anxiously await our time ahead
With impatience, I am fed
This education is for you, I hope you will like it
Because loving you, I will never quit
I look forward to our next moment together
I hope you enjoyed this letter
This poem was created by a poem generator, using Cyber School as the person I love and an education as an optional gift... and the above is what was created.
Wierd and Wonderful sites
This is a very neat site, I always wanted to create my own M and M character. And here it is...
January 19, 2007
A Brain-Controlled Humanoid Robot
This page describes the brain-computer interface project at the Neural Systems Lab at the University of Washington. We are working towards enabling sophisticated control and interaction with the environment, using very simple selection-based interfaces that can be operated using brain waves alone.
A Brain-Controlled Humanoid Robot
January 18, 2007
Teachers without Borders
This is something that our Association of Online K-12 Schooling should offer to partner with. Teachers without Borders - a compass for worldwide educational reform in the information ageJanuary 17, 2007
Learning Centre
Welcome to Library and Archives Canada's Learning Centre -- bringing quality educational products and services to teachers and students.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has a collection strong in history, literature and music. The Learning Centre allows us to open our vaults to all Canadians by making some of our treasures available online. Students gain access to material that will enrich their learning experience.
Introduction - Learning Centre - Library and Archives Canada
The Weblog Project
January 16, 2007
GSCS Soccer Academy
The academy concept allows high school students to integrate, within their regular school day, intensive study of a sport, skill or area of interest that is particularly engaging for them.
In our pilot project, the area of focus is soccer. This sport was chosen for two key reasons. Firstly, there is interest from this sporting community in Saskatoon . Secondly, there is a world-class indoor soccer facility available that our school division can access through agreements with the city and the Saskatoon Soccer Centre Inc.
There are other options for academies, including visual or performing arts, like drama or dance; other sports, such as hockey or swimming; entrepreneurship/business; science; social justice and faith-based activities.
Academies are advantageous for students for several reasons.
Students are engaged in their schooling.
Students are working to expand their technical skills in a particular area.
Students are learning life skills that will help them become stronger members of their communities after their high school careers are over.
Students in an academy, though they may travel off-site to a specialized facility, will remain spiritually, aca