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You will find pictures from around the world that you have never seen in any of your classes. You will also find as you read along that there are a lot of questions.

"Picturing the 1930s," a new educational web site created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the University of Virginia, allows teachers and students to explore the 1930s through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Using PrimaryAccess, a web-based teaching tool developed at the university's Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education, visitors can select images, write text, and record narration in the style of a documentary filmmaker. They can then screen their video in a virtual theater. PrimaryAccess is the first online tool that allows students to combine their own text, historical images from primary sources, and audio narration to create short online documentary films linked to social studies standards of learning, said Glen Bull, co-director of the Curry Center. Since the first version was developed in collaboration with U.Va.'s Center for Digital History and piloted in a local elementary school in 2005, more than 9,000 users worldwide have created more than 20,000 short movies. In creating digital documentaries, students embed facts and events in a narrative context that can enhance their retention and understanding of the material, said Curry research scientist Bill Ferster, who developed the application with Bull. Besides increasing their knowledge about the period, "Picturing the 1930s" enhances students' visual literacy skills, Ferster noted, adding that PrimaryAccess "offers teachers another tool to bring history alive."

Show Me - Show.me.uk - is a kids' website that is part of a whole family of websites. Culture24 is our organisation's name.

Vocaroo - The premier voice recording service. Record, upload, embed, or send a link.

Could be a great class project to summarize daily/weekly/unit concepts in a quick podcast which can be posted to the class website. Get students involved in scripting and recording the summary!

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We are a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and share audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear.

Looks like a nice tool for Language teachers

Used by educators all over the world, Voxopop talkgroups are a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. They're a bit like message boards, but use voice rather than text and a have a specialised user interface. No longer confined to a physical classroom, teachers and students of oral skills can interact from home, or even from opposite sides of the planet!

Turning text into pictures.

Fun tool to use for banners, poems, reflections

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.

Create your own comic strips starring YOU and your friends!