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These are my links for July 28th:

• Big Six Steps- CRLS Research Guide – Basic Steps to the Research Process
• Big6 Matrix: Use the Internet with Big6 Skills to Achieve Standards – Link Big6 Skills to national information literacy standards and national educational technology standards to improve the quality of student research using Internet sources.
• Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards for SAT, ACT and GRE – WordAhead.com > Home –
• Gigapan Systems Online – Introducing the Gigapan Epic Imager – The GigaPan System allows experienced and novice photographers to create high-resolution panorama images more easily than ever before and the resulting GigaPan images offer viewers a new, unique perspective on the world.
• OfficeOne: I want PowerPoint Shapes to be displayed over the video on the – PowerPoint always plays video over all PowerPoint shapes like rectangle, oval, etc. This article explains how to get text over video with the help of a couple of OfficeOne add-ins.
• AT – The Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE) is the official web site of the AT
• PlacePuzzles – NECC Ning – Bring field trips and nature walks into the 21st-century by combining GPS, Smartphones, and well-crafted riddles. We’ll give you templates and inspiring examples
• DE Help – Import users – Import Teachers/Import Students provides administrators with another option to create user accounts. The import feature allows administrators to import numerous user accounts at once.
• 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports – Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading.
• I love Glogster because… | Glogster – Glogster.com – Poster yourself – Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. It is fantastic!

These are my links for July 27th:

• Children’s Songs – The largest collection of children’s music on the Internet – with lyrics, videos, and music for 2,069 kid’s songs and nursery rhymes.
• MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages – MakeBeliefsComix.com as a place for you to come to and have fun by creating your own world of comic strips.
• TechVi: Technology matters. – TechVi aims to bring the best parts of cable news style journalism with technology current events and newsmakers. We produce several shows per day, along with tracking the best news around the web.
• WingClips – Free Inspirational Movie Clips for Sermon Illustrations and Teaching – view inspirational movie clips from many of your favorite films. These WingClips? can also be downloaded to use in your church, school or other non-profit organization for FREE.
• Homemade PPT Games – PowerPoint games provide students with the opportunity to actively learn content by playing an educational board game. This idea was developed by Dr. Lloyd Rieber at the University of Georgia and has been extended by others.
• Learning Telecollaboratively – Learning Telecollaboratively – Learning Telecollaboratively
  A Collaborative Space for Those Interested in Education and Technology
  provided by Clif Mims, the University of Memphis’ Instructional Design and Technology faculty

These are my links for July 19th through July 24th:

• Illuminations: Bar Grapher – Graph data sets in bar graphs. The color, thickness and scale of the graph are adjustable. You can input your own data, or you can use or alter pre-made data sets
• Training Updates – Stay current with changes that have taken place, or are on the horizon for Thinkfinity Professional Development.
• Crickweb | KS1 Numeracy – Maths interactive resources and activities for your IWB
• Grades K-12 Lesson Plans Activities videos current events | SchooNoodle – Use SchooNoodle to find new ideas to build your curriculum. You can easily locate lesson plans, videos, news and current events, images, and much more?all correlated to the standards for your state, subject and grade.
• Slideshow at Slideroll – Flash Slideshow Creator, Photo Slideshows for MySpace, YouTube, and Everywhere! – Slideroll? is a photo slideshow maker that you can use to create slide shows with your photos. Publish your slideshows on the internet, put them on MySpace or YouTube, and e-mail them to friends.
• PBS Teachers | Resources For The Classroom – PBS Teachers is PBS’ national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you’ll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS’ award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.
• Perk Up Your Projects with Web 2.0 – home – Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video

These are my links for July 13th through July 16th:

• Teambox | Project management and collaboration software – A place for your team.
  Share messages, tasks and pages.
  Collaborate freely. For free.
• Jenuine Tech.com — WELCOME – Using the tools of the Internet (Web 2.0), Jennifer will help you understand how technology will help you make the most of your time in a variety of ways. Winning numerous awards for her creative ways in encouraging teachers to collaborate, her teaching style is very user friendly, creative, and personable.
• copyrightfriendly – home – Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. Though you may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, you should cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise notified! If you see any copyright notices on these pages, read them for further instructions.
• SMART Board Games | PBS KIDS – Here is our collection of interactive SMART Board games for educators on PBS KIDS. Students will enjoy participating in these collaborative, fun and engaging experiences, while exploring curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. Like our programs, all of our games are age-appropriate and vetted by educators.
• http://librarianchick.com/ – a collection of links to the best of the Internet’s FREE resources for those with big brains and small pocketbooks!

These are my links for July 10th through July 11th:

• MEDtropolis ® – Virtual Body – Online human anatomy tool
• The Legacy Project: Letters on Display – The Legacy Project is a national, all-volunteer initiative that encourages Americans to seek out and preserve the personal correspondence of our nation?s veterans, active-duty troops, and their loved ones.
• 30 Free System Tools for a Better Mac – a good compilation of free system tools for Mac. With many varieties of applications, from system cleaner to system tweaker, from data organizer to system display manager
• guessthewordle / FrontPage – Each Monday, Wednesday,
• PowerPoint Talking Books present – A Talking Book is an electronic book combining written text with multimedia elements such as animations and transitions as well as recorded audio of the author reading the pages.
• Calculation Nation – Challenge others. Challenge yourself.? – Calculation Nation? uses the power of the Web to let students challenge opponents from anywhere in the world. At the same time, students are able to challenge themselves by investigating significant mathematical content and practicing fundamental skills. The element of competition adds an extra layer of excitement.
• C-SPAN Classroom – To enhance the teaching of Civics
• Skype an Author Into Your Library or Classroom – Skype An Author Network – Wouldn’t it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you’ve read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list in the scrolling author box on the left. Read on to find out just how easy it is!
• SMART Board Information – SMARTboard/IWB resources

These are my links for July 7th through July 9th:

• Top 50 iPhone Apps for Educators | OEDb – Here, we’ll take a look at 50 of these apps and what they can do for you. Whether you’re a teacher, librarian, or other educator, there are a number of apps that can help you do your job better.
• The Connected Classroom – news – theconnectedclassroom

  About Kristin Hokanson
  Blog
  Vitae
  Connected Resources

  * ConnectedTV
  * UMASD Training Links
  * Workshops/Conferences
  * Courses

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  * 21st Century Classroom

  Connected Topics

  * Copyright

• File share – free file share photos – Share files, share photos and calendars securely with your friends, family, and office.
• Welcome to Web-Chops – Web-Chops is a fun and easy way to collect, organize and share any content found on the web. With web-chops you can save “chops” from web pages to your own custom topic pages. Instead of loosing your way through hundreds of meaningless links on your favourite list, why not create your own custom pages containing the content itself, be it text, video clips, audio, flash applications and forms.
• MyStickies, Sticky Notes for the Web – MyStickies allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web.
• bookgoo – Highlight the World – Bookgoo allows you to highlight and annotate your documents in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen!
• Online Meeting, Web Conferencing, Desktop Sharing and Remote Support with Mikogo – Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support. And it?s FREE for both
  commercial and private use
• Flashcards: The world’s largest library of printable flash cards – Flashcards are study tools. Think of a small 3×5 index card with a question on one side and an answer on the other side. This web site is an internet application where you can create, study, print and download flashcards.
• teachade.com – Collaborate with educators from around the world! You can share, chat, blog, ask opinions and questions. Take a minute to register and join the community.
• Empressr – The Best Online Rich Media Presentation Application – Tell your story anyway you like. Add photos, music, video, and audio, and share it publicly or privately in an instant
• Phonevite – Share Your Voice – Community-Based Voice Broadcasting – Phone Tree Service – With this tool, you can send free phone reminders
• Church Software by Parish Data System: Chalksite – It’s the quickest, simplest route to expanding your classroom onto the internet. Teachers, students and parents have a central point to access grading, assignments, discussions and messaging.
• writewith. – We make writing online work for groups. In just a few seconds, get your own account where you can upload documents, share with other people, chat, assign tasks, and track everybody’s actions with a comprehensive history.
• VerbaLearn – Study vocabulary for free – Do your students need better tools or more motivation to study? Do parents ask how to help their children do better within their limited time? By recommending VerbaLearn and its programs to your students and their parents, you can help solve both problems!
• 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom | Teaching Degree.org – Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Read below to learn how you can take advantage of the power of Skype in your classroom.

These are my links for July 6th:

• Visual Resources: Photos and Clip Art – very thorough list of image/clipart links
• ProVoc – Free Vocabulary Trainer for Mac OS X – ProVoc is a free and easy-to-use vocabulary trainer that will help you quickly learn and efficiently train your vocabulary.
• The Best Kids? Books Ever! – Nicholas D. Kristof Blog – NYTimes.com – What are your favorite children?s books, and why would you recommend them? Some readers will undoubtedly come for ideas, so be detailed and persuasive. And of course, kids are welcome to list their own favorites.
• 5 digital icebreakers for online communities or courses – Google Docs –
• PlanetInAction.com – Places – Google Earth is a highly detailed 3D representation of our entire planet. Rather than just looking at it, why not play on it! PlanetInAction.com brings you top quality ideas, applications and concepts that will let you experience your planet in a whole new way.
• Virtual Tour: Panoramic Images: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms.

These are my links for July 5th:

• ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Literary Doodle – Students draw picture from story they read and then summarize and explain what their doodle is and how it relates to the text
• ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover – students select a book to read based only on its cover art. They then analyze why the art attracted them and anticipate what the book may be about before examining the rest of the information found on the book cover. After reading the book, they reexamine the book cover to determine whether, in their opinion, it conveys the key elements of the book. Finally, students use an interactive tool to redesign the book cover.
• Instructional Strategies Online – Instructional strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives. Five categories of instructional strategies and explanation of these five categories can be found within this site.
• Illuminations: Factor Game – Factor Game is a fun, interactive game that exercises your factoring ability. You can play against the computer or against a friend.
• Blackboard Academic Suite –
• Wolfram MathWorld: The Web’s Most Extensive Mathematics Resource – About MathWorld
  MathWorld creator Eric Weisstein

  MathWorldTM is the web’s most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world’s mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.

• WikiFieldTrip! – exploring Wikipedia entries about places around the world. Enter a city name on Wiki Field Trip and a series of placemarks appears on a Google Map of that city. Click on any of the placemarks to read the Wikipedia entry for that location.
• StatPlot.com: Visualize Sports Stats – Powered by StatSheet.com – Build graphical charts using NFL, NBA, College Basketball, College Football, and NASCAR stats. Each chart comes in three formats: interactive Flash, image, and thumbnail.
• Decimal Squares – program for teaching place values and the use of decimals.
• Interactivate: Assessments – The Interactivate activities listed below are designed so that the user may keep track of correct responses, hence they are cataloged as “assessments”. A number of these activities, the Connect Four type games and the Quizzes, also allow users to select difficulty levels and specific problem types, as well as set a time limit, allowing for further tailoring of the assessment to their abilities

These are my links for July 2nd:

• 280 Slides – Create – Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there’s no software to download and nothing to pay for ? and when you’re done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.
• Create Great-Looking Interactive Quizzes (in minutes) – embed in any website / blog! – MyStudiyo is THE place to create professional looking quizzes for your website, or blog. It takes just a few minutes to make a quiz and seconds to add it to your site. Any quiz you make is hosted on our site and is available to play for free anytime.
• National Archives Experience – Find a treasure trove of reproducible primary sources, lesson plans correlated to national standards, and cross-curricular connections.
• quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses – ability to ?draw? lines on your map between various markers. You can write in the markers, and also write a general description of your map. Then, you?re given an embed code as well as a unique url address.
• Welcome :: MyJugaad.in: Slideshow for Webpages – You may create a slideshow of all the webpages, videos and images you like and then share it with your friends. MyJugaad.in provides you a very interesting way to browse the best of internet.
• How To Videos | Graspr.com – The Instructional Video Network – Graspr is an online video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics. Our mission is to make the world a smarter place by bringing together people who possess different kinds of expertise, and helping them share what they know with others.
• Trip Planner ? Personalized Travel Itinerary ? NileGuide – NileGuide provides intuitive planning tools that enable travelers to easily find the most compelling personal travel experiences, build their own customized itinerary, and then download and print their personal guidebook ? all for free.
  NileGuide Mission Statement
• ZeeMaps – make your own map, build interactive maps, create a map with photos, videos, more – Use ZeeMaps to quickly create interactive world maps. The maps are stored on our server, and accessible anytime, anywhere from a web browser. Selectively allow others to modify your map using admin, member and viewer passwords.
• Zunal.Com – a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. When you use zWebquest, you will not need any of writing HTML code or using any web editor software. zWebquest creates all the necessary files and puts them on the server automatically. Hosting is FREE!
• MeBeam, Video Chat. – allows you to have up to eighteen people on the same video conference call, and it?s all browser-based.
• Twitter Cheat Sheet – A handy cheat sheet to help you get started on Twitter
• OnlineProjects4Teachers – Linking Teachers Together – NING group to arrange for collaboration project with other teachers
• B) Thinkfinity Integration Plan Overview (Activity 1.3) –
• Featured Videos – ISTEvision – Here is the link to videos of featured sessions and keynotes
• Thinkfinity Lessons – Just a place to store all the lesson plans and activities I find on www.thinkfinity.org.