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Moderated discussions/surveys. Users can create a topic, ask questions, solicit responses, rate responses, etc.

This course is designed to teach students different forms of digital media. The course will be project based and will use a variety of mac software including iTunes, iMovie, Garage Band, iDVD, iPhoto, iWeb, Keynote and Final Cut Express. Topics include digital presentations, podcasting, blogging, and digital video techniques such as capturing, transferring, editing and compression. Web 2.0 tools will also be incorporated into the class.

Blogs allow you to: * provide topical and relevant information and resources regularly, become an appointment * receive feedback from your readers and engage them in discussion that are relevant to them * distribute your content more widely thanks to Google and the larger business community online They allow your readers and customers to: * receive regular updates from you when and if they want them * share the resources and tips you provide with their network * find you through search thanks to keywords and tags that describe their problem

Our mission is to bring users the best information on the Web for any topic, employing human insight and methodical review. FindingDulcinea presents only credible, high-quality and trustworthy Web sites, saving time for the novice and the experienced user alike. Each piece, whether a Web Guide, a Beyond the Headlines story or a Netcetera article, receives the same meticulous research. The Web sites included in each piece are connected through original narrative, providing users with information on each site before they even click on it.

This is a great site with some fun readings about climbing Mt. Everest. There are links to lesson plans that target specific text organizations. The second link is an article about Text Organization/Text Structure that gives a rationale for direct instruction on this topic. It also includes many other links about text organization.

News for teens/tweens with ability to customize for classes. Blog format with printable student comments. Well-organized, topical, current events of interest to middle/high school. Teacher lounge, with lesson plans, to be added soon.

Creates a web guide for researching specific topics. Great for student guided projects.

Wordie lets you make lists of words and phrases. Words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Lists are visible to everyone but can be added to by just you, a group of friends, or anyone, as you wish.

Lots of resources to use on an interactive whiteboard. Topics include, angles, length, money, perimeter-area, temperature, time, volume and weight.

Really cool visualization of trending news topics organized by theme and geographic location

A field trip created with TourMaker guides you through a sequence of Web pages on any given topic. For each page, there is simultaneous commentary in an accompanying frame. You move forward and back through the Field Trip using the tour Control Panel and you can leave the Tour to explore links and return to it whenever you want.

Collection of TED Talks organized by curriculum topics. 

This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators.

Scoopler is a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time. via Mr. Byrne

According to the site: "This tool retrieves recent tweets from the given ID and displays the most common words used in those tweets. The area of the circles is proportional to word frequency. Words that are most often used together are grouped and given the same color.

Very cool visualization tool for compiling Twitter topics.

This animated infographic from Sophia on the topic of a "Flipped Classroom" provides statistics comparing 2012 and 2014.

The wheel is an interactive image which links out to additional resources based on the topic selected.

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