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Artisan Cam is more than just a comic creator, it is a comprehensive collection of online art activities. On Artisan Cam students can use the Super Action Comic Maker to build a six frame comic. The Super Action Comic Maker has a drag and drop interface which students use to select a background and character for their comics.

Witty Comics provides a simple platform that students can use to create two character dialogues. To use Witty Comics students just need to select the pre-drawn background scenes and the pre-drawn characters they want to feature in their comics. Writing the dialogues is the creative element that is left to the students.

The World's Simplest Meeting Scheduler 1. select possible dates 2. e-mail participants 3. monitor progress

By browsing the taxonomy on the left, you can explore all of the biomedical concepts being researched at JHU. After selecting a concept, you can view the articles published in this area and locate the top scientists at JHU working in this field. This taxonomy is the 2007 version of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The U.S. National Library of Medicine developed the MeSH Thesaurus and releases updated versions on an annual basis.

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Lively tries to make that conversation three-dimensional, more interactive and more fun. As if they were playing a game, users choose from a selection of unrealistically handsome or Disneyesque avatars. They can also create their own rooms, which can be posted to a blog or social network profile as easily as a YouTube video.

GREAT LIST OF SITES FOR ANALYZING BIAS IN MEDIA "Bias is manifest in texts when authors present particular values as if they were universal. For example, bias can be conveyed in the media through the selection of stories, sequence, and slant in newscasts; the placement or omission of stories in newspapers; who is interviewed and left out in radio or television talk shows and news programs; the advertisements on webpages, television, magazines, radio shows targeted at specific audiences; the lyrics of commercial jingles and popular music, and the images displayed with them in broadcast commercials and music videos; the goals, procedures, and the rules of video games."

Like tagging baby names! If I had any desire whatsoever to have the little brats, I'd use this to select names.

The full text of almost every single selection from the textbook Holt Elements of Literature Fourth Course.

not sure how this one's legal, but my 10th grade English teachers LOVE it!

A one-year, ongoing, job-embedded professional development opportunity built around emerging social Web technologies that connects: * 20 schools from around the state (or world) * 5 educators (administrators/teachers) from each school * 10-21st Century Fellows (Champions) selected from participating districts ...Finally, it prepares schools and districts to move forward in systemic ways after the one-year commitment ends by laying the groundwork for three and five-year community building project plans.

News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

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A WebQuest about Evaluation Websites. If you are like most students, you are relying heavily on resources from the Web for your research. Not all Web resources are created equal. If fact, there are great variations in the quality of the resources you access. The rule of thumb is "when in doubt, doubt." When you carefully select your resources, when you understand their strengths and limits, you create better products.

Nice blog post explanation: http://cliotech.blogspot.com/2008/09/useful-app-for-teachers.html

Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

Environmental, scientific, & biological information. Covers current environmental news & concerns. Includes the Learning Web— classroom activities & lessons, and a detailed selection of Fact Sheets.

Contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.

Cheat sheets have a bad rap as a way for students to succeed on tests without actually knowing the information, but now it's time for them to have a more positive place in education. Cheat sheets can offer a succinct way for students to study their lessons and provide an excellent boost to what you are already teaching them in class. Cheat sheets can provide helpful information for teachers too. Browse through this selection to find cheat sheets for a variety of subjects.

Founded in 1999, Thinkronize is a leader in the digital delivery of K-12 educational content. Thinkronize, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is dedicated to enhancing the education of today's youth with highly effective technologies that deliver the rich educational value of the Internet to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. Thinkronize was first to market with its standards-based educational search engine, netTrekker d.i., the #1 educational search engine in K-12 schools. Utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks, the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration services, netTrekker d.i. is currently used in over 21,000 schools nationwide. The company's consumer product, netTrekker home, gives parents and students whose school or district has not yet purchased a netTrekker d.i. subscription access to its 180,000+ educator-selected resources.

This Java-based tool will record a select region of your screen and any audio from your computer's microphone. It then hosts it for you, complete with download links so you or your users can download a local copy for offline viewing.

If you've not seen this, do check it out. Show this to your social studies teachers.

kmlfactbook.org can use either Google Maps or the Google Earth browser plugin to preview the KML files that you create. To switch between the two modes press the 2D Map and 3D Map buttons to the right in the screen. The Preview in Map button will show the selected data-set in the Google Maps or Earth plugin preview window. The Download KML file button will download the same file to be saved locally on your disk or opened in the standalone Google Earth application.