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National Geographic site covering forces of nature - volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.

Coriolis Effect - This site provides a definition of the Coriolis Effect; talks about air; describes the Coriolis in the real world; and provides a quiz. Caution - some spelling errors but visuals are good.

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

Video explaining the Coriolis Effect.

About.com search results page for Coriolis Effect

This is an alphabetical listing of links to sites A-Z on just about any topic you may be interested in.

A free windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictornary and a text-to-mp3 converter. Wordtalk: A call scotland website

This video is called Cloud Formation: Adiabatic Cooling and condensation within the Troposfere.

Skype in the classrom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms.

If you are interested in bring outside experts and guests into your classroom, then Skype in the classroom may be for you.

At the home page Click Play link on left side, scroll down, then click Make Poems, then click Story Maker.

Magnetic Poetry on line.

The World's largest collection of Holocaust documents is going digital: Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the internet. This collection will include 130,000 photos that now can be searched directly from goodle. In the future the collection will expand to other parts of the memorial's vast archives and will include survivor testimonies.

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.

Mobile Geotagging allows users to post media (photos, video, audio or text) from a mobile phone to a specific point on a map. Flagr allows users to create public, semiprivate, or private maps. Great tool for teachers in many subject areas to enhance learning. For example, students studying habitats or different biological species can take pictures within their community and then send each picture band a description of where the habitat or species was found. In the classroom the teacher opens up the class flagr map and the students then identify the species and discuss why they were found in each particular habitat.

Geograffiti creats voice-marks - audio postings to specific map locations. For example, a history teacher assigns his students to create an audio tour about local history. The students go to various historical monuments and buildings in the community and then phone in historical summaries of the significance of these sites to Geograffiti, which places the oral recordings in the appropriate geographic locations on the map. This activity would enable students to research local history, pratice public speaking, and learn geography in one assignment.

Yodio enables students to create and participate in individual or collaborative digital storybooks using a mobile phone. For example: a class of 1st graders on a trip to the zoo creates a collaborative digital sotrybook with Yodio concerning what they learned about the animals on the trip. Each parent chaperone has a group of four or five students, who take turns calling in to the yodio phone number (on the parent chaperone's phone) and recording their observations about an animal, perhaps even capturing the animal's sound. Students also take a picture of their chosen animal with the cell phone. Back at school, the students log in to Yodio and create a digital sotrybook combining their recorded narrations and photos.

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.

Flickr allows students to take pictures and send them to a private space online. For example: A homework assignment for 4th grade mathematics students requires students to take pictures of different polygons they see in their everyday lives and instantly send them (along with a short text message describing the type of polygon) to a private space online. The next day in class the teacher can open the private space and use it to illustrate polygons and their connection to students' lives, leading to a lesson on how to measure these polygons. Both flickr.com and photobucket.com are sites that would allow this type of sharing. Both have a private mobile address that can be used on any mobile phone; the teacher just needs to set up the mobile account and give the students the address.

Photobucket allows photo sharing by students to a private mobile address. The classroom teacher needs to set up the account and give the students the address so they can submit pictures and messages to the address.

Allows teachers to turn basic cell phones into classroom performance clickers at no charge. Studetns can send poll responses and ideas achieved through bdrainstorming directly to an interactive webpage. An example of the use may be that when the students walk into class the teacher has a question on the IWB that students will need to respond to as their activating strategy for the lesson.

The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience: project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!