CVSD Secondary Group

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.

History matters is a database of coursework, guides, and primary-source documetns on topics in American history, History Matters was produced by two academic programs at the City Unviersity of New York and George Mason University. The site is most useful for high school history teachers and studetns, and educators can use it as a professional-development resource. The Digital Blackboard page offersr curriculum guides with links to third-party reference sites. Another page hosts a series of Q & A interviews with history teachers, who reveal the secrets behind teaching a successful history course. The Students as Historians page links to web-based projects created by high school and college students. And don't forget to check out the primary-source search engine, located on the Many Pasts page. The search enging links to more than a thousand images, audio, and text-based documenets from American history sites across the Internet.

Wolfram/Alpha is to be the first web-based tool that can find answers to all systematic knowledge in the world. For educators, this "computational iknowledge engine" can find objective and fact-based answers for a variety of subject areas. Type in "Newton's Law," for example, and the formula for force is explained. Enter in an equation for a line, and the site plots the line on a graph. Ask "What is the GDP of the United States and Canada?" and a chart depicts a side-byside comparison of the nations' economic data.

LabWrite guides you through the entire laboratory experience, from before you walk into the lab to after you get back your graded report.

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!

Upload y our file and share your private link. Quick way to send a file to someone.

Protagonize is a community that writes collaborative interactive fiction. One person starts the story, and others post chapters to the story that lead it in different direction. In the end it becomes an evolving story in which everyone can participate.

this is a social network site for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.

"A fast, easy and FREE tool for capturing and organizing information. Brainstorm, take notes and track todos. For individuals and groups."

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Comic master allows you to create your own short graphic novel. This is a fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-and-drop interface.

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Splashup looks like photoshop and is agreat way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. It allows you to share with picasa, flickr, facebook

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Jay Cut is a site similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video. FREE

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Zooburst is a digital storytelling site. Users can make a 3-D pop-up book.

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FREE Encyclomedia is a video encyclopedia with which results can be embedded in a site.

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This is a user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voices for narration. FREE

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"TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs." Create a realtime, private, back-channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter.

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Shwup is a site that can be used for making collaborative slide shows.

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This is a user friendly site that uses a drag-and-drop interface to edit and mix video. "Dragontape is a collaborative webservice that lets you create 3-hour mixtapes of your favorite YouTube videos and SoundCloud clips. Mixtapes are easy to use, simple to share with friends, and let you focus on having a good time watching videos."

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A fun site for creating animated slide shows that has lots of content to choose from. This site will let users create amazing slide shows and edit and share photos.

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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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