Since launched as a consumer product, Moviestorm has been used not only in film studies, but also extensively by visionary educators as a cross-curriculum tool that promotes engaging and collaborative teaching and learning. As a result, they now offer a range of affordable licenses designed specifically for the technical requirements of modern day schools and colleges.
This site includes colorful, age appropriate activities for elementary school students in English, math, and science. Newest activities include Sara Jane Adventure Science and Bamzooki Math.
Cool presentation tool which allows you to synchronize a video along side of your slideshow presentation. The hybrid presentation can then be embedded in a website.
This website contains a map of the US and a list of the natural disasters that can occur. When you click on the disaster, it hi-lights the states that are effected by the natural disaster.
Flipsnack is a free and easy site to make attractive flipbooks by uploading images or video and adding text. It can be personalized and would be great for an online art portfolio for students.
This site allows users to write a letter to themselves, to be delivered in the future. Nice idea for goal setting at the beginning of a year (or semester or unit), to be sent back to students when the time period is over to see if they met their goals!
Note: I would avoid having students visit the public section of this site, as letters there may be inappropriate.
According to Scribd, "Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing company. " Scribd has over 75 million readers each month making it "the largest book club".
Online tool for creating classroom layouts. From the site, "This tool provides an opportunity for experimentation with the layout of your classroom without any heavy lifting!"
As English takes over the world, it's splintering and changing -- and soon, we may not recognize it at all. This article is excerpted from the new book, "The Language Wars: A History of Proper English" from Farrar, Straus and Girous
Mendeley is a free reference manager for organizing your research. Upload your document and Mendeley helps you organize it. You can also share your research with others and get suggestions on readings similar to what you keep in your Mendeley library.
A simulation game about the capture / recapture of fish. Its goal is to teach students about Hypergeometric distribution as well as other basic statistical concepts like estimation and confidence intervals.