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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Wordle www.wordle.net. Educational Uses. Vocabulary
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Wordlewww.wordle.net
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Visuwordhttp://mpcollab.org/MPbeta1/node/1720 Online graphical dictionary that provides meanings and word relationships.
Educational Uses • Illustrates relationships of words • Synonyms and homonym • Nous, verbs, adjectives, adverbs • Great for English language learners • Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus. • Visuword combines a web 2.0 type visualization tool with Princeton University’s opensource WordNet database to create an interactive click and drag type tool that is free for everyone to use.
Quizlet quizlet.com (Web 2.0) TN 6th grade science academic vocabulary
Do PDF http://www.dopdf.com/ Installs a virtual printer on local computer doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.
Photo Story 3 Photostory 3 is a free download from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx Digital Storytelling Class projects Individual student projects Communication of content knowledge Communication with community and parents
Cool Features Touch-up Crop Rotate pictures Remove red-eye Add special effects Add soundtracks Add narration Create music Use music from other sources
Audacity Free, fully functional multi-track audio editor http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Teacher Tube The goal of TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. • Registration is required for uploading - Unlimited MB video upload space.- Unlimited MB bandwidth per month.- Unlimited video uploads.- All TeacherTube packages are FREE!
YouTube Fast Math Trick Ma and Pa Kettle Math • Ways to Use YouTube in the classroom: • YouTube downloader – changes to QuickTime format • http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html?tag=mncol • YouTube downloader – changes to AVI and format • http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm
Go to the video (you should be viewing it) Type pwn in the address line after the www For example if the video is at this address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU After the www type: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU On the next screen, click to download: Download High Quality Video (MP4) This may take a while depending on the length of the video and your internet speed.
iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html Part of the iTunes store Educational, audio, and video content Most popular downloads Contents categories By University
Molecular Workbench http://workbench.concord.org/
Molecular Workbench http://workbench.concord.org/
The ChemCollective Downloads to computer
Favorites from Thinkfinity Comic Creatorhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/ Perfect Pitchhttp://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/perfectpitch/ Marble Maniahttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/marble/marblemania.html Touch of Classhttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html Lemelson CenterHttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html Power Uphttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/powerup.html Dynamic Paperhttp://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=205 Break it Downhttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/breakitdown.html Make A Missionhttp://www.sciencenetlinks.com/messenger/mission.htm
BBC Science Clips Bitesize 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/science_6_7.shtml Forces and Motion Bitesize2 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science Bitesize3 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/
PhET: Free online science simulations Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.
Bio-Alive Videos are on YouTube!
NASA Education http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html
Illuminations by NTCM http://illuminations.nctm.org