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Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. "Users with any browser can head to the bookmarklet's setup page, choose a few reading options, then drag a "Readable" link onto their bookmarks/links toolbar. The major difference with Readability, other than the voluminous font, size, and layout options, is that a readable text scroll appears as an overlay that greys out the rest of the page. It can auto-grab the main reading text off a page, or you can select the text you want to read and hit the bookmarklet."

Really striking images with good short texts. The images can really motivate students to want to dig deeper and read the text. From the Boston Globe "The Big Picture" web pages, collections of some of the most amazing photographs that range from natural wonders to political events. The page includes an RSS feed, a comments section, and archives are also available. - comment by Nik Peachey

good site for demonstrating online Inquiry in a data base

from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web Has * Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy. * Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part. Animal Diversity Web Is An Online Encyclopedia. ADW is a large searchable encyclopedia of the natural history of animals. Every day, thousands of classroom students and informal visitors use it to answer animal questions. Other sites specialize in local, endangered, or particular kinds of animals. We aim to be as comprehensive as possible. A Science Learning Tool. ADW facilitates inquiry-driven learning, that is, teaching about science by leading students to use the methods of science. Our large database is structured, providing consistent information for all species to foster comparisons. An advanced search tool allows a user to call up species accounts fitting any combination of descriptors. Students can explore for patterns and relationships, learn how to frame and answer scientific questions and, with the help of a good teacher, experience the excitement and satisfaction of doing science. Our long-term goal is to create a database rich enough that students can discover for themselves basic concepts in ecology and conservation biology.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

- Views from the Taj Mahal's Roof, Minarets & Crypt (normally closed to the public) - - Includes 360° Panoramas, Movies, Photos, Descriptive Narration, Maps, Music and Text - - Downloadable Assets (here) for Schools, and integrated Text for Hearing-Impaired visitors -

Popular note-taking application Evernote can capture a wide array of inputs, such as voice notes, web clippings, images, and photos you take with a regular digital camera or a cameraphone. Once you've got a free Evernote account, you can email a cameraphone picture to a supplied address to save the contents of that photo to your Evernote notebook. (Your phone will need email capabilities for this to work. Go to the settings area of your Evernote account to get the email address, and save it to your phone's address book.) Evernote recognizes text in photos - even handwriting.

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Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

could be interesting for vocab at the start of a science or math lesson, or spelling lists, etc.

Using Cramberry to study is simple. First, you create a blank "set" of flashcards. Cramberry will prompt you to give your set a name. All of your flashcards are stored in sets. Once you've created a blank set, Cramberry will help you add cards to the set. Adding cards with Cramberry is as simple as it is with traditional flashcards: just type in the text you want on the front and back of the card, and click on "add another card" to add another card to the set. Once you're satisfied with the amount of cards you have in your new set, click "finish".

Le logiciel vous permet de vous promener dans le temps et sur la terre et de visualiser les dynasties et les pays qui ont dominé la région survolée à ce moment. Un texte à droite de la carte vous informe sur ce qui se passait à ce moment. Vous avancez année par année et voyez à l'écran les modifications qui surviennent sur le territoire visualisé. Vous pouvez aussi vous déplacer sur le terrain et ainsi voir ce qui se passe à cette date dans d'autres lieux. La carte est recalculée à chaque changement. Par exemple vous pouvez suivre les conquêtes d'Alexandre le Grand année par année. Ce logiciel est gratuit. Il fonctionne sous Windows (98, XP, Vista

With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.

Now teachers and students anywhere in the world, can connect and meet live in the Virtual Classroom for an online interactive class. The collaborative web conferencing environment enables you to communicate synchronously using video and audio or through text chat, and to share presentations, documents and images on an interactive whiteboard. Join us now, to conduct your online live class and experience the next best alternative to classroom teaching.

Here are some flash animations produced for my own teaching and free for you to download and use as you wish. Most links open the animation in its own window. One or two are links to collections of animation on a similar theme. Click on the picture to open the animation in its own window. Right-click the text link if you want to download and save the animation to your own computer by selecting Save link as...

use this page to create a drawing, enter text, etc., and then email it to others for contributions to the design

Interactive flowchart for troubleshooting PC power supply problems with text descriptions of decision points

Got images? Create videos! Stupeflix is a REST web service that turns your pictures, videos, and text into professional videos.

The snoovel Tour Director is the first interactive browser tool to build so called geo movies. In our application you can pull together your gpx-data, kmz-files (e.g. Google Sketchup 3d objects) and all kinds of media (videos , audiofiles, images, texts etc.) to one dynamic Google Earth animation playing inside a webbrowser.

Type the text you wish to scramble and click next to turn the words into indivitual "magnets"

Aimed at younger students, it again lets you choose characters and scenes but will also update the text of the story depending on characters chosen and their actions. Be sure to play the instructions befor you begin