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Short Description: WaybackMachine is an Internet archiving tool or "digital library" which may be freely accessed and searched by anyone. The archives includes Internet web pages, in addition to the digital forms of books/texts, audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs. Examples of Uses: Educators can use WaybackMachine to demonstrate the permanence of Internet activity to their students. Particularly with social media postings, educators can show their students that websites are archived and accessible in earlier versions, providing some insight and clarity to the "Delete" or "Remove" buttons that students believe are so reliable. In doing so, students can understand how difficult and impossible it is in most situations to erase their digital footprint.

myshadow.org provides a good introduction to digital footprints/shadows, offering some tools that can be used to control one's footprint and a substantial knowledge-base of how-to's and information on subscriber agreements.

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_Description:_ Tracker allows you to extract motion data from a video, so by simply taking a video of a classroom demonstration, students can clearly visualize concepts like acceleration, parabolic motion, periodic/pendulum motion, and momentum conversation in collisions. Tacker makes it much easier to communicate counter-intuitive concepts by enabling students to slow down and quantify the motion of objects in videos. _Examples of uses:_ * Demonstrating constant acceleration due to gravity * Confirming conservation of momentum in elastic collisions * Showing that projectile motion is parabolic

MURAL is a large, shared canvas for mapping content and ideas of all kinds. It's like a giant white board that can be zoomed in and out to see the big picture as well as the details. Electronic "sticky notes" hold individual ideas that can be rearranged, organized, and related to one another. You can add many kinds of web content, and team members can add ideas and content and then build on each other's by finding relationships and patterns. It has a number of educational applications, in science and other subjects: - Realistic labs, where lab groups define the hypothesis and methodology, and agree on the interpretation and presentation of results. - Any kind of group projects where students work together toward a common end product.

As far as I can tell, I expect that this is free for secondary ed uses.

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