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"Eraserdog is created for the Teacher, Parent, or Student looking for a variety of worksheets to supplement an existing math curriculum."

Interesting blog entry about student choice and tech integration

Video explaining the Coriolis Effect, as well as, a hands-on activity that could help your students better understand the Coriolis Effect.

Interactive from National Geographic - students create their own tornadoes based on appropriate conditions for a tornado. Also includes case study activities.

Create professional webpages with ease. Can set up teacher-accounts that can group student accounts together in order to make online projects.

Powerpoint with 45 ways to support writing in the Classroom. This provides lots of ideas that teacher can use to have students write.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Students can view and learn about museum artifacts and air and space history.

Site sponsored by the National Earth Science Teachers Association. Allows students to explore and learn about earth and space sciences and related topics in the humanities include mythology, art, poetry, and more.

Math by design is a math simulation where students are part of the TRC Architectural firm.

This math site was created to help students. It is an on-going work in progress and will be updated periodically. There are a lot of free math worksheets on the site.

This is soooo cool! Go in and check out the 12 minute tutorial video. You will not believe all that this tool can do and it's free. Not only can individuals create and share flash cards, but they can test themselves. You can also add sound to this tool. If you selecte the spelling option you can create spelling flash cards that use sound. There is a translation tool built into this for foreign language teachers or ESL teachers or for students learning a new language. You have got to check this out!

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

Jott can be used by students to help keep themselves organized. The voice-to-text services enable users to call in reminders to themselves, send e-mails or text messages to group sof people, create posts, create a schedule on a google calendar, listen to their Google calendar, listen to their e-mail, and even listen to podcasts and webpages on the go. http;//dial2do.com will work very much the same as Jott.

Can be used by students who are visually impaired so they can send speech to text emails, blog posts, tweets, reminders, posts on google calendar, etc.

This 3 part video 'Sexting in America: When Privates Go Public' Preview shows students how serious sexting is and how it can negatively impact your life. These 3 videos will automatically run from the first to the last. Users can pause them between to discuss what they heard.

Sexting Quiz for middle and high school students. Use to generate discussion about appropriate behavior on a mobile device.

Youtube video that talks about Digital Dossier describing all the digital records that accumulate about a typical person from conception to death. Use this to make students aware that all mobile messages, media uses, and calls are part of their permanent record.

A good way to get students blogging in a safe, secure environment.

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Middlespot is an innovative web site for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. This would be a great tool for teachers to organize content appropriate web sites and then share them with their students.

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The company has released its latest version of Mathematics as a free download. The upgrade includes ink handwriting support and a full-featured grqphic calculator. It is designed to help middle and high school students learn to solve equations step by step while it provides an overview of fundamental STEM concepts.