AKA Riptide Furse

These are my links for December 31st:

• 32 Places to Find Images for Use Online - Part of being a good writer is understanding the impact images have in your work. What you write should be supported and enhanced through your choice of imagery.
• An iPod in Your Classroom Toolbox - SlideShare -
• Armor Games -
• twitTangle | untangling the mess of too many friends - What Is twitTangle?

  twitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter. We allow you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you!
  NEW Now you can create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group.

• CTunnel: Unblock Restricted Sites - CTunnel is yet another online proxy to browse through the web by avoiding URL or IP based filtering. It is useful to unblock restricted sites that have been banned in your school, college or workplace. Using CTunnel, you stay anonymous and the website you are surfing cannot be traced.

Here it is the last one of the year.

Happy New Year everyone!

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• SPS Quiznet | Jeopardy:Take-Home Edition

  Virginia Studies Jeopardy Flash Games

  Tags: VA Studies, Jeopardy, Flash, 4th grade, Social Studies

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

OK so I realized I was off a while back but wasn’t sure just how many I was off. I finally got around to it and so I don’t go through the rest of my life thinking that I cheated any of you following this or discovering it later, here are the the 2 songs to catch up and finish in a couple of days with this year long project.

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These are my links for December 28th:

• The Celebration Of Cartoons and Comic Strip Art | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine -
• Automatic Text Summarizer -
• LogoInstant.com | Download Free Web 2.0 Logo Designs -
• 20 Great Greasemonkey Scripts for Improving Your Facebook Experience -
• Twittad Let Your Ad Meet Tweets -
• GlimmerBlocker - ad blocker for your mac system
• Twitter Buttons - Get Free Twitter Buttons for your Blog, Websites, Profiles in few clicks! Get Twitter Button you like -
• Free K-8 Educational Videos -
• Blogger Templates and Tricks -
• My Holiday Sweater: A Gift from OfficeMax -
• MyTweetSpace.com - Free Twitter Backgrounds - Brand your Twitter Profile for Free! -
• Online file storage | Livedrive -
• HOW TO 2008: How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media -

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• Free K-8 Educational Videos

  Tags: k-8, videos, education, elementary, math, socialstudies, languagearts, reading, videostreaming

• embedit.in

  embedit.in supports most common file types:

  * Documents: doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp
  * Images: png, jpg, gif, tiff, psd, bmp, eps, ai
  * Text: txt, rtf, csv

  Tags: embed, files, filesharing, upload, sharing, blogging, posting, blog

  • embedit.in
    supports most common file types:

    • Documents:
      doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp
    • Images:
      png, jpg, gif, tiff, psd, bmp, eps, ai
    • Text:
      txt, rtf, csv

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

My aunt Argagatha made this sweater that I thought I would share with you.
You can see it bigger here http://www.thisisgrow.com/archive/officemax/myholidaysweater/ee704c5c.73040 You can also create your own!

Happy Holidays!

• Shorty

  Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away. You can also manage your links and see how often people click on them

  Tags: software, tools, url, web, tool, freeware, technology, education

• pixer.us :: online photo editor

  Need a quick fix for that photo? With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.

  Tags: editor, tools, web2.0, photography, photos, image, graphics

• Desktop Screen Sharing Software - Broadcast Your Screen

  ScreenStream lets others ‘watch’ your screen on their computers over the network or the internet. It is the modern equivalent of the overhead projector. When you turn on screen sharing others on your network (or even the internet) can view what is on your screen by typing the link (and optional access code) into their internet browser. They can continue to watch your screen until you turn off screen sharing.

  Tags: sharing, screen, desktop, broadcast, freeware, webconferencing, education

• 7 Things to Do with your Blog when you take a Vacation

  Tags: blogs, readers, problogger, education, technology

• Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies

  Tags: reading, comprehension, Literacy, language arts, education, elementary, primary

  • 
    Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for
    K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos,
    and try the online interactive activities.

    • Would like to see this site! - By Vicki Green

• Get feedback with Backboard

  Backboard automates the process of getting feedback and approval on all your projects—it can handle almost any type of file, but it’s especially good with mixed graphical and text media.

  It only takes a minute to start a Backboard. Upload the file you would like feedback on, choose a security level, and select the email addresses of one or more reviewers.

  Each reviewer will receive a link to your file, where they can come and leave feedback on your document. Every kind of document can be annotated and marked up in the same way, so reviewers do not have to learn several commenting systems. Better yet, you can view all reviewers’ feedback in the same place, so you’ll never again find yourself merging several documents with different “tracked changes.”

  via http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/12/18/best-applications-for-annotating-websites/

  Tags: collaboration, sharing, feedback, annotation, review, comment

• Just Leap In

  3-D world that requires no software download.

  Tags: virtual_world

• Addictionary :: What’s your word?

  Tags: dictionary, words, english, vocabulary

  • Not for kids. Some of the stuff on the front page when this was bookmarked was very inappropriate. - By Fred Delventhal

• NIBIPEDIA : Together We Learn

  A nib is a visual bookmark on a video timeline. Nibs also recommend related videos. As the Nibisphere grows, it will find more cooler stuff that makes you smarter, faster. We have a team of experts nibbing away engaging educational content.

  Tags: nibipedia, wikipedia, wiki, youtube, education

• Pixisnap - Free Photo Mosaic Maker and Polaroid Picture Editor

  Tags: photos, pixisnap, mosaic, Photography, technology, images

• The Read Green Initiative

  Read magazines online free.

  Tags: reading, magazines, online, green

• Tweetag - Browse the twittosphere

  Tags: twitter, twittosphere, search, tweetag, tag, microblog

• jitterbug: music for hip kids

  The “Kindie” (kids and independent music) movement has been evolving for a few years and we certainly didn’t invent it. What we hope to do is to provide a platform for musicians from around the world to distribute their craft and to provide parents and kids a safe place to discover new music without resorting to surfing the mass music and video sites.

  Tags: music, kids, children, students, songs, discover

• The Best Free Software: 35 Must-Have Downloads - Computer Shopper

  Tags: musthave, freeware, applications, apps, downloads

• Krunchd.com - Krunch Multiple URLs into One Short URL

  Tags: url, krunchd, krunchd.com, group, tools, education, technology, social_networking, aggregators, web_2.0, URL, links, Twitter

• Tweet Congress

  Tags: twitter, congress, tweet, technology, microblog, civics, politics

• TwittBot

  Group Tweets

  Tags: twitter, group

• When YouTube is blocked (eight ways around) - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal

  Tags: YouTube, education, filter, bypass

  • The fact is, YouTube is blocked in many of our schools.  And many of us are suffering this loss.

• 24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008

  Tags: underrated, sites, websites

• The Mac Giving Tree

  Sign up to receive lots of free apps for Macs on Christmas morning.

  Tags: no_tag

• QuizEgg - Online Quiz Maker for Educators

  Tags: quizegg, education, technology, learning, classroom, quiz, assessment

• Idea : Docs for Teachers - Google Docs Help Center

  Google doc ideas for teachers, with rubrics

  Tags: google_docs, rubrics

• About Windows to the Universe

  Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. Windows to the Universe has been in development since 1995. Our goal is to build an internet site that includes a rich array of documents, including images, movies, animations, and data sets, that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience. Our site is appropriate for use in libraries, museums, schools, homes, and the workplace. Students and teachers may find the site especially helpful in their studying (and teaching!) Earth and Space sciences. Because we have users of all ages, the site is written in three reading levels approximating elementary, middle school and high school reading levels. These levels may be chosen by using the upper button bar of each page of the main site.

  Tags: science, space

• embedit.in

  embedit.in supports most common file types:

  * Documents: doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp
  * Images: png, jpg, gif, tiff, psd, bmp, eps, ai
  * Text: txt, rtf, csv

  Tags: embed, files, filesharing, upload, sharing, blogging, posting, blog

  • embedit.in
    supports most common file types:
    • Documents:
      doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp
    • Images:
      png, jpg, gif, tiff, psd, bmp, eps, ai
    • Text:
      txt, rtf, csv

These are my links for December 26th through December 27th:

• embedit.in - embedit.in supports most common file types:

  * Documents: doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp
  * Images: png, jpg, gif, tiff, psd, bmp, eps, ai
  * Text: txt, rtf, csv

  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fembedit.in

• Macula art - Paper Sculpture templates - COOL includes a Krampus for the holidays!
• WiiArcade | Play Free Wii Flash Games - Wii games good! Casinos BAD!

  Wii Arcade has a great collection of free flash games to play on any Nintendo Wii or via the web.
  Visit us often as at least one new flash arcade game is added per week. Whether it’s having fun with craps online or playing free Wii flash games, WiiArcade and casinoguide.com bring you the biggest and best of both Worlds.

• VerbaLearn - Study vocabulary for free - VerbaLearn is jam-packed with great features to help you study more efficiently, track your progress, score higher and simply save you time!

  VerbaLearn’s patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don’t waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up.

• pixer.us :: online photo editor - Need a quick fix for that photo? With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.
• TopWpThemes: Hot Wordpress Themes For Free -
• 30 Great Resources for Blogger Templates -
• GLADINET - Access Without Boundaries - You may have files stored online. You may have files scattered on multiple PCs. Gladinet software brings all your files together to your Windows Desktop and your online desktop. Your files are following you wherever you go!
• 24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008 -
• jitterbug: music for hip kids - The “Kindie” (kids and independent music) movement has been evolving for a few years and we certainly didn’t invent it. What we hope to do is to provide a platform for musicians from around the world to distribute their craft and to provide parents and kids a safe place to discover new music without resorting to surfing the mass music and video sites.
• jitterbug: music for hip kids -
• Why an iPod Touch in education? -
• Favorite Freeware Games: Download Them All - Computer Shopper -
• The Best Free Software: 35 Must-Have Downloads - Computer Shopper -

• The Best Free Software: 35 Must-Have Downloads - Computer Shopper

  Tags: musthave, freeware, applications, apps, downloads, free

• Why an iPod Touch in education?

  Tags: ipod, education, iphone, iphod

• VerbaLearn - Study vocabulary for free

  VerbaLearn is jam-packed with great features to help you study more efficiently, track your progress, score higher and simply save you time!

  VerbaLearn’s patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don’t waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up.

  Tags: vocabulary, vocab, mp3, audio, language, languagearts

  • VerbaLearn is jam-packed with great features to help you study more efficiently, track your progress, score higher and simply save you time!

    VerbaLearn’s patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don’t waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up.

• Favorite Freeware Games: Download Them All - Computer Shopper

  Tags: free, freeware, games

  • Some a definite download others defintiely not. - By Fred Delventhal

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

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