Christenbury knows all too well that some education professors are clueless about kids and just about everything else that happens in classrooms these days. She once taught at a university in another state where students were baffled that some of their professors had never set foot in a school.
SmartBoard Mini-Movies for Lessons and Activities - 7 views
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misterteacher.com offers interactive standards-based activities for students in the areas of math, science, and social studies. Teachers can find resources to enhance their SMARTBoard lessons and activities. Printable activities and worksheets are located throughout the site.
WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized. - 2 views
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Brand new site that puts videos from YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube, National Geographic, etc. all in one place, organized by age, subject, and curriculum order. VERY cool class resource!
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 20 WebCam Activities for EFL ESL Students - 3 views
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Collection of 20 webcam activities described as being for EFL/ESL students, but also very applicable to other students.
Penzu - Write in Private: Free Online Diary and Personal Journal - 2 views
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"Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal with a
focus on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary of thoughts
or a journal of notes and ideas secure and on the web."
Also allows users the option of sharing pieces.
Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards for SAT, ACT and GRE - WordAhead.com > Home - 2 views
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Vocabulary video site. Includes lesson and implementation ideas for teachers plus tips on creating/submitting student videos to the site.
WordAhead: Vocabulary Videos - 2 views
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"This website has a collection of short, simple and fun video clips to correctly define and provide examples of around 800 words in context. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. The students are encouraged to play with words,create their own vocabulary videos and upload their work to the website. Teachers may direct activities and assign word projects to the students. The Study Room allows personalized list creation and sharing. Visitors can also sign up to receive a word of the day in the email."
Zorap - 3 views
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Free audio and video conferencing for up to 50 participants.
Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds - 3 views
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Site is similar to Wordle. Create word clouds in various shapes, custom fonts, colors. Words are actual linked tags, rather than static text as in Wordle.
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Site is similar to Wordle. Create word clouds in various shapes, custom fonts, colors. Words are actual linked tags, rather than static text as in Wordle.
What Should Go Into A Teaching Degree? : NPR - 3 views
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NPR podcast and article about the disconnect between teacher education programs and the real world.
Tinychat - Free Chat Rooms & Audio Video Conferences - 0 views
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Video conferencing today is broken: typically requiring cumbersome downloads, logins, and endless contact lists, it too often becomes a service that is slow and unreliable. Enter tinychat. Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without the extraneous ad-ons and inconvenience, making video conferencing an accessible, uncomplicated experience. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux; with Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome; and there is a version available for iPhones. You can have up to TWELVE people in a room with HQ video, protected by passwords and moderators, share your desktop with them, and your conferences can be recorded and embedded on your website.
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Video conferencing today is broken: typically requiring cumbersome downloads, logins, and endless contact lists, it too often becomes a service that is slow and unreliable. Enter tinychat. Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without the extraneous ad-ons and inconvenience, making video conferencing an accessible, uncomplicated experience. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux; with Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome; and there is a version available for iPhones. You can have up to TWELVE people in a room with HQ video, protected by passwords and moderators, share your desktop with them, and your conferences can be recorded and embedded on your website.
Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds - 1 views
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Similar tool to Wordle, but with added advantage of custom shapes AND actual actively linked tags.
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Similar tool to Wordle, but with added advantage of custom shapes AND actual actively linked tags.
Spezify - 27 views
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Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.
We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.
We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture. -
Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.
We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.
We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.
Animation for kids - Create animation online with FluxTime Studio - 0 views
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Easy to use animation creation tool for kids.
Stupeflix - Video production made easy - 0 views
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Site that turns videos, images, text, and audio into professional looking videos (similar to Animoto).
Twitter Friends Network Browser - 0 views
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Simple visualization tool for Twitter networks.
Gapminder Four Big - Gapminder.org - 0 views
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Site with fascinating and beautiful statistical visualizations.
"Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by:
* Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
* Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics.
All with the intention of being a "fact tank" that promotes a fact based world view."
SmartBoard Mini-Movies - 0 views
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A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook's resources.
Kideos - 0 views
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Videos for kids
cooltoolsforschools - home - 0 views
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Huge list of Web 2.0 resources, categorized by type.
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