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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to introduce a group of high school teachers to the free Socrative student response system. The response from the teachers was overwhelmingly positive to the point that one math teacher stayed with me for an extra twenty minutes just to brainstorm more ways to use Socrative in her classroom. Socrative is a free service that allows teachers to post questions to students during a class and gather feedback through responses submitted from cell phones, tablets, and laptops. Socrative gives teachers a virtual room in which they gather responses from students. Students sign into a teacher's virtual room by simply visiting the Socrative website and entering the room number distributed by the teacher. There are a variety of ways in which teachers can pose questions to students and gather their responses. The simplest way to pose a question is to simply ask verbally or post it on a whiteboard and then telling students to submit their answers. Teachers can also create quizzes ahead of time, store those quizzes in their Socrative accounts, and then make the quiz go "live" in the virtual room when they want students to take the quiz. Teachers can activate an instant feedback option so that students know when they have answered a question correctly or not. A fun way to use Socrative is to host a team "space race." A space race is a competitive format for quizzes. Space race can be played as a team or individual activity. Each correct answer moves a rocket ship across the screen. The first person or team to get their rocket across the screen wins. I've included below, a video of space race being used in a classroom.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration, Interactive Learning, Tutorials Brief Description:  Virtual field trips in many curriculum:  CTE, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health & PE, Language Arts, Math, Library Media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology, and Online Tutorials

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration,  Brief Description:  Online resource for Canada's museums and their collections. It's a unique space featuring over 600 virtual exhibits, nearly 1 million images, and a wealth of engaging multimedia content. Dive into a world of arts, science, and history and explore our stories as told by Canadian museums.

Lumiere Technology, a start-up based in Paris, reveals the true colors of the Mona Lisa. Pascal Cotte, engineer and founder of Lumiere Technology, largely contributed to the knowledge of the Mona Lisa thanks to the multispectral digitization of the famous painting, whose report is detailed in the famous book "Mona Lisa - Inside the Painting", recently published by Abrams in USA, Gallimard & the Editions of the Louvre in France, Shirmer Mosel in Germany. The hidden knowledge of the true colors was revealed by multispectrally scanning the painting in thirteen channels - from Ultra Violet to Infra Red. Then the spectral response curve of the varnish in each pixel was isolated and subtracted from the digital file to virtually reveal the surface of the painting when it had freshly exited Leonardo da Vinci's workshop. This virtual removal of years of accumulated varnish is an illustration of Lumiere Technology's technical knowledge that will now be marketed as an exclusive digitization service to museums and private fine art collections worldwide. The true revolution that Pascal Cotte developed enables the in-depth study of fine art paintings using a numerical file to reveal the true pigments for viewing and analysis without touching or damaging the paintings. Lumiere Technology offers this service to museums worldwide as a unique, single tool to assess, analyze, authenticate, restore and reproduce their masterpieces of fine art.

Campus Bird is a free site designed to help students locate a college that fits their needs and wants. The site offers all of the usual selection criterion like major, location, campus size that you find on most college search sites. The differentiating aspect of Campus Bird is that they have embedded a Google Maps view of all of the colleges in their index. Once you have selected your search criteria you can quickly view the location of each college and explore the surrounding area. In some cases you will be taken to a virtual tour of a college's campus. Campus Bird says that it is working on adding more virtual tours to their database.

Categories: Student Use, Exploration Web-Based Learning Brief Description:  Virtual field trip to the Inca Trail with information and pictures of what is being discussed.

virtual tour and great information about the Captitol

You can create stunning panoramas and turn them into interactive virtual tours.

"The Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen's own hand."

"Rubrics Non-Instructional Library Services 6th Grade DCF Program Rubric - IST 613 - Elisabeth Zwick Adult Summer Reading Program - iSchool Student - Amanda Baker and Gwen Glazer Adult Summer Reading Program - iSchool Student - Leslie Tabor and Katy Kelly Adult Summer Reading Program - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Kathleen MacFarline Aquabrowser - iSchool Student - Jocelyn Clark Audiobooks - iSchool Students - Laura Deal and Amy Discenza Book Club - iSchool Student - Jenifer Arnold and Denice Buchanan Born-Digital Archiving by Emily Doyle (created March 2011) Digital Download Info Sessions - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Elizabeth Hines Discovery Interface - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Erin Eldermire E-Reader Borrowing Program- IST 613 Draft Rubric - Lisa Matthews E-readers and ILL - IST 613 - Gisella Stalloch Ebook PDAs - Draft Rubric - Katrina Schell eReaders in the Library - IST613 Draft Rubric - Katherine Taddeo Family Literacy Program - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Jennifer Whittaker Gaming in Correctional Libraries - iSchool Student - Renee Robbins High School Book Club - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Karen Cronkhite Info and Tech Literacy Workshops for Student Leaders - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Joy Ferguson Instructional Video Service - IST 613 Draft Rubric - John Park Integrated Digital Collections - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Lori Packer Intel Library SharP Tool - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Paul Kandel Internet Portal - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Hilary D Smith Language (Learning) Lab - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Alice Bangs Law Library Homepage Redesign - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Loreen Peritz Law School Paging Services - IST 613 - Jim Thomas Library Blog and Voicethread Book Reviews - iSchool Student - Gail Brisson Library Coffee Bar - IST 613 Draft Rubric - Serena Waldron Library Coffee Bar - SU iSchool IST 613 Students Library Feedback - iSchool Student - Jackie Allred and Jennifer Recht Library Instructional Programs - iSchool Student - Heidi Webb and Margaret Backus Library Multimedia (Audio & Vid

"Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to -- because... "

"Infopowering the Commonwealth, Virginia Public & School Access Page Welcome Page | Registration - Change Request Form | Program Contacts | Registered Member's Page | Product Access This table provides you with direct access URL's to each database as well as your main menu. At the end of each URL there is a location specific to each of your branches so statistics can be tracked, then rolled up to the library system level. You can begin using these URL's immediately. Click the Link below to access the main menu for Liberty High School - va_s_010_1180 MAIN MENU URL Click the Links below to access databases without going to the main menu Business and Company Resource Center Biography Resource Center Computer Database Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Expanded Academic ASAP General Reference Center Gold Gale Virtual reference Library Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module InfoTrac OneFile Infotrac Junior Edition - K12 Interface InfoTrac Junior Edition - Standard Interface InfoTrac Student Edition InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy LegalTrac Kid's InfoBits Military & Intelligence Database Professional Collection What Do I Read Next? © 2004 Thomson Gale. "

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"This film shows how two of the most important social forces of the late 20th century - information technology and the women's movement - have run parallel and sometimes intersected. Using archival footage and the latest computer graphic imagery of women and by women, Minerva's Machine celebrates the history of women in computing and shows the challenges they have overcome to get to the top. Among the women highlighted are a virtual reality researcher, a corporate executive who controlled $7 billion, and a housewife who taught herself programming and became director of an academic computing center."

Includes a virtual tour of the museum

Welcome to Shelfari! Shelfari is the premier social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free!

Students will: ♦ acquire knowledge about the lives and works of seven major Spanish artists of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries through technological and other research and by means of a field trip/ or virtual museum tours ♦ learn art-related vocabulary to apply in describing works of art ♦ learn the cultural and historical context of the time period in which each artist lived ♦ prepare oral presentations on one artist using technology (partners) ♦ complete journal entries on at least one work from art all artists ♦ prepare synopses of the life and works of at least four artists for the class quarterly newsletter (small group) ♦ prepare a role-play video: "Interview the Artist"

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