TOOLS and RESOURCES
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Literacy maps for K-12
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Social network site for educators
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SOS |
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(APA Online)
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K-12 CURRICULUM RESOURCES
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Of course it is blocked by Websense.
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PODCASTS AND VIDEO
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This site has the best talks and performances from the world’s
smartest thinkers, greatest visionaries and most-inspiring teachers
available to the public for free.
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Gcast creators make personal broadcasting simple.
Of course it is blocked by Websense.
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Tools for creating and viewing video in the classroom
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Students can upload videos online in a flash and organize them.
Of course it is blocked by Websense.
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COLLABORATING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
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voicethread |
This site allows you and a group (remember collaboration is a 21st
Century skill) to create, comment and publish work. Beyond PowerPoint
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Ning
in Education |
A community devoted to helping teachers build and use social
networks in their teaching
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Allows you to categorize and store your web links online and share
them with other educators.
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Develop classroom activities and collaborate with colleagues
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Social bookmarking website whose primary ues is to store your
bookmarks online
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WIKIS & BLOGS
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Software that allows users to easily create, edit, and link pages
together. Often used to create collaborative websites Examples of
educational wikis can be fournd at:
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis
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Of course these are blocked by Websense.
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Blogging software available for free download
Of course it is blocked by Websense.
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MULTIMEDIA
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Free online photo editing and management site to share photos
Of course it is blocked by Websense.
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When you install Picasa, it
instantly goes to work, organizing all the pictures on your hard drive
by date in the "Folders on Disk" collection. If Picasa finds folders you
don't want, go into Tools > Folder Manager to tell it which folders to
scan once, scan always or remove. To remove individual pictures from
your library, simply select a photo and right-click to delete it
permanently from your computer or hide it from Picasa.
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Upload a group of photos and this stie automatically generates
professional produced slide shows using their own technology and hig-end
motion design.
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An easy way to makle the transition to Web 2.0. You can create a
personal or collaborative site that functions as an oline scrapbook.
Of course it is blocked by Websense.
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