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Tracker is a free video analysis and modeling tool built on the Open Source Physics (OSP) Java framework. It is designed to be used in introductory college physics labs and lectures. Features include: 1. Object tracking with position, velocity and acceleration overlays and data. 2. Video modeling with dynamic particle overlays and data. 3. Center of mass tracking with overlays and data. 4. Rotational motion data includes theta, omega and alpha. 5. Interactive graphical vectors and vector sums. 6. Line profiles for RGB analysis of spectra and interference at any angle 7. RGB regions for time analysis of RGB data 8. Flexible video calibration options. 9. Multiple reference frame views of collisions and other motions. 10. Video filters, including brightness/contrast, ghost trails, and deinterlacing. 11. User-defined constants and variables for plotting and analysis. 12. Data analysis tool with powerful automatic and manual curve fitting. 13. Full undo/redo with multiple steps. 14. Video converter for converting edited/filtered videos to mov, gif, jpg or png formats 15. Video exporter tool for recording videos with track overlays. 16. Copy and print images of any view for use in labs and other documents. 17. Paste web or other images directly into Tracker for analysis, save if desired. 18. Helpful hints for new and occasional users. 19. Drag-n-drop trk and video files to open.

A ground breaking free video vocabulary builder. A study room provides a distraction free environment with fast and easy access to vocab videos and Flash Cards. It is a time-saving tool especially for the last minute preparation before the test.

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.

A fun game for learning about personal finance. The object of the game is to accumulate as much savings and as little debt as possible.

Visit this Web site, presented by NASD and the National Institute for Consumer Education, to access objective information for teaching basic personal finance planning, saving, and investing.

What is it for? WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate. What can it do? WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. For example WinSplit is useful for owners of the Dell 2407FPW monitor. As you can see in the screenshots below, the advantages of using WinSplit is that it saves you from having to drag and drop windows by allowing you to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using simple keyboard hotkeys.

"Watch these webinars to hear directly from school administrators about how Google Apps has helped them save money and IT resources, plus made students' lives easier with a set of tools for working together."

Convert files to other formats. Also able to convert Youtube files to save to your computer

Interactive online games featuring: -Financial Football -Financial Soccer -Countdown to Retirement -Smart Money Quiz Show -Road Trip to Savings -Ed's Bank -Cash Puzzler

This is a very unique painting site that uses abstract paint brushes to create extremely imaginative and beautiful artwork. One of the things I like best about this site is the ability to save your artwork directly to a "jpg" file.

"iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. Click. Click. Done. Scoring rubrics cannot be made any easier. Just pull up a rubric from the gradebook, click, click, and you're done. Rubric scores are automatically adjusted to the coursework grading scale and posted on the gradebook. All you have to do next is to press [save]. Students get a copy of the scored rubric securely... no more paperwork, no more calculations and no more confusion. Finally, spend more time teaching and less time grading. Only with iRubric. "

"CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. Simple sharing * Anything you paint will show up for all other users in the room in real time. * One click to save a sketch as an image for embedding on forums, blogs, etc. Zero hassle * Runs in all common browsers without plugins or installation. * No registration Now with Google Maps support! * Use google maps as the background for your sketches to show directions or share trips."

YACDS - Yet another collaborative drawing site

As funding becomes tighter and schools are looking for ways to save, switching to Google Apps for Education makes sense for many school districts. The decision is one that is often preceded by a lot of questions from school boards and school administrators. To answer some of the more common questions like "are there ads on Google Apps for Education?" and "what about COPPA compliance?" Google has released a PDF addressing those common questions.

This was saved in another Diigo list recently. VERY cool app for syncing Microsoft Office with Google Docs. Watch the video overview. Sadly, this is Windows only. The Premium version is $12/yr or just $30 lifetime purchase. If you're a windows district I think it would be well worth the $30 fee.

"Gapminder Desktop is a new application which allows you to use Gapminder World without an Internet connection available. You can: * Use Gapminder World without the Internet. * Save a list of your own favorite graphs. * Update automatically to the latest version."

"Simplify your world - save, annotate and organize all your research securely in the cloud. "

Lots of video - but you can save just the portion of the clip you want/need

Curriculum Analysis Tool and Professional Development Materials from NCSM.  This will save so much time with selecting materials aligned with the standards, independent of what the publishers claim.  

"Join us on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at noon CDT, for the start of Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day, a groundbreaking marathon live interactive web event that brings together students, parents, and educators from across the United States to solve their toughest assignments and explore the power of using Wolfram|Alpha for school, college, and beyond."

This should be GREAT!