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== =Cool Sites on the Web=
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Fun Stuff:

 * http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/popnow.shtml- Pop virtual bubblewrap just for fun
 * http://del.icio.us/ - Keep your favorite websites, music, books, and more in a place where you can always find them. Share your favorites with family, friends, and colleagues. Discover new and interesting things by browsing popular & related items.
 * http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ - can be used to visually map a walking route. The site updates the distance as you add more locations
 * http://www.acme.com/planimeter/ - measures area
 * http://www.yourgmap.com/ - make your own map and add locations, comments and publish
 * http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/ - shows earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or higher in the last seven days

Information Literacy
 * http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/ - Lesson plans K-12 for teaching information literacy
 * http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge/Q2Q/KeywordChallenge.swf - Internet Search Challenge - practice turning questions into effective key word searches
 * http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=160 -Alan November, educational technology guru, provides links on Info Lit.

Art

 * http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html - ArtRage 2, a cool paint program which has a pay version, but also offers a free version

Assessment

 * http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
 * http://quiz.4teachers.org/
 * http://wizard.4teachers.org/
 * http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html
 * http://www.4teachers.org/rubistar
 * http://www.landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php
 * http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
 * http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/

Differentiated Instruction:

 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/ "My Web, My Way"
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/mac/sub_root.shtml MAC users
 * [|http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/sub_root.shtml] PC users

Digital Storytelling
 * http://www.digitalstories.org/
 * http://www.digitalstories.org/home.asp
 * http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm
 * http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/
 * http://www.sfgate.com/technology/specials/1997/dstorytelling.shtml
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/capturewales/
 * http://www.microsoft.com/education/Storytelling.mspx

Differentiated Instruction
 * http://www.wested.org/cs/tdl/print/docs/tdl/home.htm - Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners by West Ed
 * http://www.edutopia.org/index.php -
 * http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/differentiate/planning/

English Math
 * http://www.webenglishteacher.com - Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
 * http://librivox.org/ - LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
 * http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/ - Good resources for high school teachers
 * http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/ - Open Court Resources K-6
 * http://renew.education.ucsb.edu/downloads.htm#top - Multiplication tables, and other handouts and overheads
 * http://www.mathfactcafe.com/ - Free, printable math worksheets

Science Social Science/Studies
 * http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1023 - These are links to Radio Expeditions. NPR partnered with National Geographic to produce these stories. The general themes for the stories are the natural world and threatened environments, diverse cultures, adventure and exploration and discovery. They occur once a month.
 * http://www.stellarium.org/ - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
 * http://www.mysciencesite.com/
 * http://www.teachersdomain.org/ - Free multimedia resources for the classroom and staff development. Supported by WBGH.
 * http://www.ed.gov/free/constitution/index.html - a list of links to resources on the constitution put together by the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
 * http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/intro.html - 1492: An Ongoing Voyage - Exhibit -examines the rich mix of societies coexisting in the New World before Europeans arrived. It looks at what was life like here before 1492; how Europeans, Africans, and Americans reacted to each other; and the immediate results of their contact. (Library of Congress)
 * http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html - Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress — American Memory presents Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his second inaugural address, an 1864 memo expressing his expectation of being defeated for re-election, and more than 70,000 other images and transcriptions of letters, speeches, and writings from the 1850s through his presidency (1860-65). (Library of Congress)

Student Resources Teacher Resources Teachers Tools Webcreation
 * - Homework helper
 * http://www.mped.org - MarcoPolo has Internet content for the classroom, but for some fun, click on the Student Materials Index. In the search criteria, next to Resource Type, select Student Interactives. There are about 40 interactive applets for students.
 * http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml - eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms.
 * http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/
 * http://www.nvu.com/index.php - Free (open source) web authoring software for Mac, Windows, and Linux. This program is easy to use. Compare it to Frontpage and Dreamweaver.

Video Conferencing:

 * http://www.isighted.com/index.php - Projects and Collaboration
 * http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/ichat/lesson_plans/ - iChat in Education Lesson Plans
 * http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/ichat/
 * http://www.apple.com/education/accessibility/technology/ichat_av.html
 * http://[|www.apple.com/education/profiles/belaire/index3.html]//

//YouTube Movies and Other Movies://
Organizing Bookmarks: Calendar Creators: Teacher Introduction
 * //http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o// //- A Vision of Students Today//
 * //http://[|www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U] - Did You Know: Shift Happens
 * http://homepage.mac.com/lesleyu/iMovieTheater.html - When I become A Teacher. ..
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE - Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY - Wikis in Plain English
 * http://[|www.arisleyschool.org/Inclusion.mov] - Inclusion. A video about how one teacher and his class included a student who had lukemia and was not able to attend school. She was included using video-Skype.
 * http://www.backflip.com
 * http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com
 * http://www.calendars.net/
 * http://www.calendarserver.com/
 * http://www.teachers.tv/home.do - Teacher TV
 * http://www.vickiblackwell.com/timer.html - Class Timer
 * http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/npeek/rannamegenerator.htm - Random Name Generator
 * http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/randomnumbergenerator.htm - Random Number Generator


 * Research**

Search Engines
 * http://www.google.com
 * http://clusty.com/about
 * http://www.dogpile.com

Use Google's Advanced Operators to do a more powerful search
 * http://www.google.com/help/operators.html - Operators are query words that have special meaning and will modify the search in some way

Create a customized search engine
 * http://rollyo.com - you can create a customized list of sites to search on a specific subject

Finding pages no longer on the Web
 * http://web.archive.org - the Wayback Machine has archived 55 billion web pages from 1996 to a few months ago

Before going to generalized search engines, check out on-line versions of print books, journals and magazines as well as government documents
 * http://www.gutenberg.org - Books
 * http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers - Newspapers
 * http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html - Newspapers - USA and Worldwide
 * http://www.ipl.org/div/news/ - Internet Public Library's Newspapers from around the world
 * http://www.ipl.org/div/serials/ - Internet Public Library's magazines, E-zines, and more
 * http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedexec.html - U of Michigan's Documents Center with Federal Government resources
 * http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html - Government printing office documents

Sources for primary documents and data http://www.landmark-project.com/index.php [|]

Repository for Links to Primary Documents
 * http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/

Other.Repositories.html
 * [|http://memory.loc.gov] - American Memory
 * http://www.archives.gov/education/index.html

Search the Invisible Web - Go to Invisible Web search portals to find a list of databases which are not searchable by Search Engines
 * http://www.beaucoup.com
 * http://aip.completeplanet.com/ - CompletePlanet

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Scaffolding

Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/

Track Star http://www.4teachers.org/trackstar

Filimentality http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/

Surweb http://www.surweb.org/

NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/

Timeline Maker http://www.teach-nology.com/ web_tools/materials/timelines/

Pics4Learning http://www.pics4learning.com

MyeCoach http://www.my-ecoach.com

Flamingtext http://www.flamingtext.com

Cool text [|http://cooltext.com/]

Online Graphic Organizers

Eduplace http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

Smarttech http://smarttech.com

Projects

Quest Garden http://webquest.org/questgarden/author/

Technospud-collection of projects (since 1999) http://www.technospudprojects.com/index.htm

Global School House http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/

Flat Stanley http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/

Quest Network http://www.bluezones.com/pages/ expedition_central/index.php

Social Networking

Blogmeister http://www.classblogmeister.com

Blogger http://www.blogger.com

Educational Podcast Network http://epnweb.org/ Flickr-things you can do with a digital picture http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/

Wiki Creator http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

Tool Collections

4Teachers http://www.4teachers.org/

Noodletools http://www.noodletools.com/

Landmark Project http://landmark-project.com/index.php

My eCoach http://my-ecoach.com/

Other Helpful Links

Teaching Matters http://teachingmatters.com

Blogging in the Classroom

http://www.edublogs.org

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