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I wanted to note that this was shared today on the maiinglist by Joanne Romano

Nice! Demo site for showing Google Docs. Refreshes every hour. Great for use when showing Google apps to new teachers.

100 ways to use Voicethread in Education

The Wall Street Journal has an interactive graphic depicting the rebuilding, and changing, of the Manhattan skyline after 9/ll.

My Fax allows you to send two faxes, with up to 10 pages each, per day for free. Unlike "Got Free Fax," which only lets you send free faxes to US and Canada based numbers, My Fax supports a much large set of countries even for their free service. MyFax offers a dedicated Fax number for an extra fee where you can receive faxes. All faxes sent to your personal fax number will arrive in your email inbox as PDFs.

With Got Free Fax, you can send up to two faxes in a day for free to any number in the U.S. and Canada. You can either use its online rich text editor to compose a fax or upload a PDF /Word file from your computer, type the recipient's fax number and hit send. The service won't add any advertisements or branding to your faxes. If you would like to send a fax to an international number, you can buy credits through PayPal.

Great rubric for assessing participation in online communities

from jgates

very easy

article from Campus Technology

Full report in pdf.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

This site allows you to make a "box" of a person, event, historical period, etc. by uploading documents and building the space.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

This will read the words right back to you!

Upload documents and have them read as audio files that you can download to your ipod of whathaveyou.

ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. We g

An online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers' Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using "My Folders" and "My Groups" to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students. Teachers' Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative teaching methods that incorporate technology in the classroom and inspire students to learn.

Multimedia resources for the classroom through PBS.

Find and make copies of VoiceThreads created by the amazing staff of the New York Public Library. These Learning Modules include expert commentary explaining the background of the images and provide a starting point for further exploration and use of these source materials in the classroom.

DimDim video tutorial site on YouTube.