Technology

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StudentsWithStiles This is a wiki created by a past participant. Enjoy it, it's wonderful.

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**Online Lesson Plans** Crazy About Math! Mrs. Hofer's Website!
 * New York Times Learning Network
 * PBS Lesson Plans
 * Math **

AAA Math Practice problems for all grades and topics A Plus Math Master addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Brain Teasers Math Puzzles for grades 3-5 Chameleon Graphing An introduction to the coordinate plane Cool Math.com "An amusement park of mathematics" Everyday Mathematics Student help, parent resources, glossary Function Machines Enter the value for x and out comes y. Interactive Math Games Practice math skills with pre-made games or design your own Math Baseball Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division problems Mathematics University Resources to support our math program Megapenny Project How much is a million...a billion NCTM Illuminations Interactive, multimedia, math investigations Pattern Blocks Create pattern block designs Kids Math Games Math games for kids

8th Grade Pre-Algebra- Textbook Passcode- CA52450465 8th Grade Algebra- Textbook (Use your personal login)
 * Do your Math Homework!**

7th Grade Math- Textbook Login- MAC3MI06 Password- 899k3qkn 6th Grade Math- Textbook Login- MAC2MI06 Password- 1gn3gvqw


 * Science **

E Hall Rocks! Mr. Bacolor's Website Ms. Dudek's Wiki

Bill Nye Bill Nye the Science Guy Hawai'i Volconoes National Park Ask A Geologist Discovery Channel Exploratorium How Stuff Works Kratt's Creatures Mad Scientist Network NASA For Kids Only - Earth Science Enterprise National Aquarium in Baltimore National Geographic - For Kids Neuroscience for Kids NOVA On LineOcean Creatures World Records Page Pfizer Fun Zone - Cool Science for Kids Planet ARKive Science Learning Network Science and Technology Sites for Kids Underwater Exploration Voyage to the Deep! Wonderful World of Insects The Yuckiest Site on the Internet

**Language Arts**


 * Take an AR Test! ** Renaissance Place

Aesop's Fables Character Cards Character Descriptions Comic Strips Common Errors in English Usage English Grammar Quizzes Fake-Out Free Rice - a vocabulary site that donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations with each word you define correctly. The Grammar Aquarium Grammar Games Poe, Edgar Allen, Quote the Raven

**Social Studies**

GeoBee Challenge Flag Tag Who's Who and What's What Antiques Roadshow, Jr. - A History Game The Outline of American History The Library of Congress American Memory Project Mayflower Web Salem Witchcraft Papers Amistad and the History of Slavery Benjamin Franklin : Glimpses of the Man The American Revolution: Maps and Charts Historic Steps of Lewis and Clark Westward Expansion Links History of the Cherokee End of the Oregon Trail "Black Pioneers." Ghosts of the Gold Rush The Wild, Wild West Frederick Douglass Ellis Island World War I: Trenches on the Web Women's Suffrage Links World War II World War II: The Homefront The Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust American History 1945 - Present Links to Lincoln Selected Civil War Photographs The Civil War The Civil War Home Page


 * Computers and Technology **

Tech Posters- The Web


 * Magazines & Newspapers **

National Geographic Kids@National Geographic Stories about different times and places Time for Kids Current events magazine for kids Weekly Reader Easy to read current events news. Time Magazine Current events People Seventeen Wired Smithsonian Magazine Dance Magazine Parents Magazine Ebony Jet Online Martha Stewart The Oprah Magazine Better Homes and Gardens This Old House Car and Driver Magazine Sports Illustrated

Detroit News Detroit Free Press Yak's Corner Weekly news magazine from Detroit Free Press Observer and Eccentric Newspapers New York Times USA Today Los Angeles Times Washington Post Chicago Tribune The Boston Globe Online Newspapers Thousands of newspapers online NewsVoyager A Gateway to local newspapers


 * Art **

ArtEdventures Interactive online games KidzDraw Art activities Online Coloring Color on your computer Space Crafts Cool space crafts using household objects Art Room Art projects and history

The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art The Louvre Musee D'Orsay The Vatican Museums The Getty The Art Institute of Chicago The Tate The British Museum The Detroit Institute of Art


 * Physical Education **

Dole 5 a Day Learn about fruits and vegetables Unusual Sports in the Olympics Jump Into a Healthy Life Learn jump rope tricks Lions, Football Pistons, Basketball Plymouth Whalers, Hockey Red Wings, Hockey Shock, Basketball Tigers, Baseball


 * For Fun **

Fun Brain Mouse Practice by Original @http://www.iknowthat.com/com


 * Searching Tools **

Animal Search Search for animal related websites Ask Jeeves for Kids Ask Jeeves a question Berit's Best Sites for Children Search 1000+ reviewed sites Classroom Clipart Art, pictures and illustrations CyberSleuth Kids Internet guide for k-12 students Kids Click Search engine Kid's Image Search Tools Images for student use Yahooligans A Web guide for kids


 * Spanish**

Excelente Biblioteca - Directory of education web sites. EduHound Espanol - Web sites for primary and secondary Hispanic education. Internet Math Forum - Spanish web sites. Teens Health- in Spanish Super Spanish Web Sites - Huge collection of Spanish language web sites prepared by Jim Becker. Zona Latina - Spanish language web sites for children. Campaign for Our Children- Teen guide to pregnancy prevention. Latin American Information Network - Directory of web sites in Latin America. Yahoo! en Espanol Foreign Language News and Newspapers - Links to newspapers in 8 languages (including Spanish) Federal Citizen Information Center - Information on a wide variety of topics from the US government in Spanish. Spanish Alphabet fun Mexico para niños Spanish Unlimited Game Site/Rich! Elementary online drills, quizzes and games Dozens of Fun Drill/Games Here Señora Davis's Game Page Gamequorium Vocabulary in Spanish A Fun Hangman Game A whole variety of games for Spanish Kokone.com in Spanish | Very colorful Oodles of Spanish games Spanish Hangman - El Ahorcado A fun Spanish Hangman Game Spanish Word of the Day

**Sites for creating free Wiki's**
 * What is a Wiki? Find out by watching Wikis in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
 * Wetpaint- is the largest network of free websites. **Wetpaint** sites are great for fansites, groups, classes, and more
 * Wikispaces
 * PB Wiki


 * Sites for creating free Blogs **
 * What is a Blog? Find out by watching Blogs in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
 * Blogger- Create your own free blog. It's easy to post text, photos, and videos. Flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more.
 * Wordpress- A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
 * Edublogs- is focused on providing a fast, reliable, secure and safe blogging environment for teachers and students.
 * Typepad- is the premier blogging service for professionals and small businesses.
 * Moveable Type- Movable Type 5 takes a new approach to social publishing by starting with a website and adding blogs.

**RSS**
 * What is RSS (rich site summary)? Find out by watching RSS in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
 * Bloglines-

**Online Photo Sharing**
 * What is Online Photo Sharing? Find out by watching Online Photo Sharing in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
 * Flickr-
 * Picasa
 * Shutterfly
 * SmugMug
 * MorgueFile- free photos, public images
 * Kodak Gallery
 * Cooliris- photo walls from search results (plug-in for browsers)
 * Tag Galaxy- world of photos from search results


 * Image Games and Generators **
 * Spell with Flickr-
 * Flickr Color Pickr- lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
 * Flickr Montager- Enter a tag and this site will create a mosaic comprised of images.
 * Flickr Memry- Traditional memory game created with Flickr images.
 * Big Huge Labs - Here you might want to try the motivational poster, badge maker, magazine cover, movie poster, Jigsaw, or trading cards.
 * ImageGenerator.org - This site represents one-stop shopping for image generators. You may find it more challenging to use than Big Huge Labs, but it definitely has possibilities.
 * Sketch Up - free computer-aided design
 * Presentations **
 * SlideShare
 * Zoho Show create, edit and share your presentations online
 * PreZenit- Create presentations in a few clicks, wherever you are. Work with your team in the same presentation **at the same time**.
 * Animoto- upload pictures. Animoto analyses the images, feels the music, customises the video. Publish to any webpage
 * Animoto for Education: @http://animoto.com/education
 * Flixtime (similar to Animoto)
 * Prezi- Create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide.
 * xtranormal: @http://www.xtranormal.com/
 * Slidesix- Upload your presentations and share them with your friends (publicly or privately). You can even add video and/or audio by recording it directly within the site!
 * Word Clouds **
 * Wordle- is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
 * WordSift: @http://www.wordsift.com/
 * Word It Out: @http://worditout.com/
 * Visuwords: http://www.visuwords.com
 * Tagul Word Clouds (Word Cloud Shapes): @http://tagul.com/

> Great Educational Podcasts - Part 1 > Great Eduational Podcasts - Part 2
 * Podcasts **
 * What is a Podcast? Find out by watching Podcasting in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
 * Watch these two episodes of RESA's Tech to Go for a guided tour of educational podcasts.
 * Education Podcast Network
 * Podcast Alley
 * Audacity- Free Download. You will also need LAME in order to convert to MP3s.


 * Copyright Friendly Music **
 * PodSafeAudio
 * Jamendo - music you can use
 * PartnersInRhyme - both royalty-free and free sound effects


 * Online Productivity- **
 * What is Google Docs? Find out by watching Google Docs in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show (you need to scroll down for this one)
 * Google Docs
 * Google Voice
 * DocStoc- is a community for people to find and share professional documents
 * bubbl.us brainstorm online with this free, concept mapping tool
 * Remember the Milk create task list, share it, get reminders
 * 30 Boxes online calendar
 * LibraryThing personal online bookshelf
 * Trailfire create a "trail"of annotated web pages on any subject
 * Dropbox- is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn.
 * Google Calendar - (Other Calendars -> Add -> Browse Interesting Calendars) lots of fun stuff!

**Polls and Surveys**
 * Polldaddy
 * SurveyMonkey
 * Poll Everywhere


 * Online Video **
 * YouTube
 * TeacherTube
 * SchoolTube
 * Ustrem.tv- allows you to set up a free account and post videos and stream live
 * Next Vista for Learning
 * United Streaming
 * Photo Story 3

**Download and/or Convert Online Video**
 * Zamzar
 * KeepVid
 * PWNY on YouTube


 * Widgets **
 * Miniclock just what it says, a mini clock
 * ClustrMaps visual map of who visits your blog
 * Voki
 * Google Gadgets collection of Google widgets
 * Widgetbox huge assortment of widgets
 * Widgetbox: Education list of education related widgets
 * PBS Teacher Activity Packs education related widgets
 * Wallwisher- is an online notice board maker.


 * Social Bookmarking & Tagging **
 * What is Social Bookmarking? Find out by watching Social Bookmarking in Plain Enlish by the Commoncraft Show
 * Delicious- Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using **Delicious**, the world's leading social bookmarking service.


 * Make Flashcards **


 * Knowtes create a deck of virtual flashcards for study
 * Flashcarddb- is the smarter, faster and more elegant way to create, study and share flash-cards online.

**Making Games**

**Social Networking**
 * What is Social Networking? Find out by watching Social Networking in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
 * Facebook- is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
 * MySpace- Find friends & classmates, meet new people, listen to free music & build playlists, share photos, watch videos.
 * Twitter- is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.
 * Classroom 2.0- the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education.
 * Fresh Brain - a place for teens to be wildly creative
 * Ning- An online service to create, customize, and share a social network.


 * Misc **
 * Voice Thread- Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
 * Urban Dictionary
 * Tinyurl- Free URL redirection service. Turns a long URL into a much shorter one.
 * Evernote- a clever, worthwhile way to organize your thoughts, documents, and ideas.
 * Citations: **


 * RESA's 23 Things
 * Leslie Fisher
 * Rushton Hurley
 * Barbara LaBeau and Russ Barneveld

__Misc.:__ xtranormal.com - movies moourl.com - shortens long URLs back channeling- peer collaboration, assisting other, making meaning letterpop.com- see what you can do with letters (Free to cost involved) buddy.com [|Audacity] - free audio editing software for Podcasting and editing audio files. commons.wikimedia.org - images [|flickr] - image and video hosting site [|Zoho] - entire suite of web-based tools [|The Newspaper Clipping Generator]

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__Surveys:__ polleverywhere.com