Cool+Web+Sites

World History II digital textbook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Want to learn 3D animation? check this out - it is free! @http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice

Vocabulary fun @http://www.wordia.com/

Current Events in rap @http://www.flocabulary.com/

Some current interesting sites I'm investigating: Spaaze - infinite ways to visually organize information Linoit- online stickies stixty - another cool collaboration site bubbl.us- cool web site for online brainstorming

One stop shopping - wiki for tech tools. Very nicely laid out. http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Collaborative+Tools

Thank goodness Tom Barrett has created a one stop technology site. All of the following come from his ed tech blog. This year's Edutopia Top Ten (always a fantastic resource) 2010-2011

A great site to discover all this fun is [|www.instructify.com] Why not just use the RSS feed and have it come to you?
Wordle can be found at [|www.wordle.net]

Those phone polls? [|www.polleverywhere.com]

The microblogging site? [|www.coveritlive.com]

Great collaborative sites: [|www.google.com] (go to docs) or [|www.etherpad.com] or [|www.zoho.com]or [|www.spinscape.com]

A great post it site: [|www.wallwisher.com]

Want to make these cool web recordings? [|www.jing.com] and/or [|www.screencast.com]

Check out [|www.plagium.com]. A sweet little application you can embed in blogs and wikis for students to have a quick check on plagiarism.
[|Wiki Mind Map] is a resource for visually exploring Wikipedia. [|Wiki Mind Map] is essentially a search engine for Wikipedia articles that uses the Google Wonder Wheel concept. Enter a search term into [|Wiki Mind Map] and it will generate a web of links to Wikipedia articles about your chosen search term. [|Wiki Mind Map] will also include related search terms within your web. This could be especially helpful in students are trying to decide in which direction a research paper should go.

Glogster - a web based poster site. Add video clips, links to other sites, and cool graphics

Gapminder.org for a fact based view of the world. Data and statistics have never been this fun!

TED.com for all the cool, thought-provoking videos, topics, and people in Technology, Education, and Design

Stuff You Missed in History Class is a great podcast - cool, hip stuff you don't always here in class

VoiceThread Do's and Don'ts (created by Bill Ferriter)

__**Free - Large As You Like - Posters**__

I encourage you to use the not copyrighted images found on creative commons sites (listed below) but [|blockposters.com] will take any image and print it on 8x11" paper which you can piece together (like a puzzle) for the largest poster you would like.


 * __How to download and convert videos from Utube and place them in a PowerPoint.__**

There are lots of resources for this item and it is different for a Mac rather than a PC but give it a try! There are lots of ways to do this and they are explained in the powerpoint explanation below but one short way is go to[| www.zamzar.com] and post the url from the utube video and upload.They will convert (you want .wmv for a PC or .mov for Mac quicktime) and they send you a link via email. Fairly reliable stuff.

Edutopia Top Ten Technology Tricks 2009-2010 Horizon Report on the Future of Technology K12