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"Text2Phonetics is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you."

Share with yearbook advisers or psych teachers

Attempts to quantify the association between words and colors. Users click on the color that matches a word. You can view results for 200+ words. Might make an interesting discussion in psychology class or definitely a good tool for yearbook or web design classes.

Speed Reading. Adjustments for wpm and chunking. Be sure to go to advanced setting to stop at breaks (.) and pause at breaks (.). Use spreeder bookmarklet to skip the copy/paste text step -- just highlight text and click "spreed!" on toolbar.

The Wired Science page. Full of science videos and resources. Click education for more school focused goodies. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science

Eyejot is an easy way to send and receive video email for free. No download or installation is required! Send a webcam message or uploaded video file to any email address, and they can watch your video mail with a simple click.

A simple sound effects search engine. Enter text to search and download to your computer by right clicking on the link. Great for making podcasts and movies. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

TinyChat lets you create a basic web-based chat room with just one click of the button, by generating a unique URL that you can share with whoever you choose to invite to the virtual hang-out.

You can talk just by clicking, no typing!

Karaoke is the best way to learn / practice English. Also a great way to open/close a lesson and engage students. All these karaoke videos can be found in much better quality and with more control (slow the tempo) at EFL Classroom 2.0 Just click TEACH - Karaoke and learn how to download the player and even make your own Karaoke songs/files!

CRSTE invites NECC attendees from all over the National Capital Region to come together and discuss the possibilities for championing K-16 educational technology! From the Chesapeake Bay to the Allegheny Mountains, from Lake Erie to the Outer Banks, please join us on Tuesday afternoon, June 30, 2009 from 4:45 to 6:15 PM in room 150 A of the Washington Convention Center (street level). Click here for a floor map

Time and money often prevent educators from attending as many conferences as they want, but Web 2.0 is really changing this. Many conferences today have some aspect of online participation either in real-time or via archived sessions. One really great directory to check out is the 2009 T.H.E. Conference Calendar. Set up your search according to month and geographical location. Clicking on a particular conference will give you details such as when and where, a conference description, who should attend, website location/reference and contact information. While not all of these will have a virtual participation component, it certainly is the trend.

Shape Collage is a free photo collage maker software program. Automatically create picture collages in a variety of shapes with just a few mouse clicks. Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

The Brain Tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's affects it. There are 16 interactive slides. As you view each slide, roll your mouse over any colored text to highlight special features of each image. Then, click on the arrow to move to the next slide.

Earth Album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Note-- since the top Flickr images are used, the images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!

access an interactive graphic overview on tools, books, researchers in different visualization fields, as well as on key success factors of visualization. There is also an interactive organizing table that shows (incl. examples) one hundred visualization-based methods. Clicking on a particular tool, book, person, document, principle or method within a map opens the respective website or homepage in a new browser window or reveals an example

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So, how do you compare with students nationally and from around the world? Pick a subject, a grade and how many questions you want to see (500+ currently in database), then click the Show Questions button below.

If you use multiple browsers, get a slick looking Browser menu when clicking on a link. Easy to set up.

A new school model called High Tech High is getting good early reviews for its project-based teaching. It is one of several ventures said to be part of what promoters call the 21st-century skills movement. Somewhere John Dewey is chuckling, because he had the idea in the 1890s. The work, not the season, should be the focus. Creating something useful to other people (click on my blog!) should be part of school. Everything should not ride on a letter grade in June.

"With mp32tube.com you can convert your mp3s to youtube.com, export mp3 to flv, convert mp3 files to flv files, upload mp3 files to youtube. You just have to click on the Upload mp3 to youtube button and the selected mp3 will be converted into a video with the background of your choice. "