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This looks fun. You can turn yourself into a talking spud (potato) http://www.screencast.com/users/Russell1955/folders/Jing/media/11ad3cd8-45ee-4b55-ac8b-1d9581d1ddb6 copy and paste this link into your browser to see a screencast about it.

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"Help students analyze primary sources they see, hear or read using holiday themed resources from The Library of Congress. "

"Copy / Paste text in CarryoutText to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. "

Documents that reflect our country's diversity, unity, and past.

"The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently eight tools - you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks: * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides * PowerPoint AutoTweet * PowerPoint Twitter voting - bar charts and pie chart * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Mood meter * PowerPoint Crowd meter * PowerPoint Zoom text * PowerPoint Twitter update bar"

Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers,zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL.

History matters is a database of coursework, guides, and primary-source documetns on topics in American history, History Matters was produced by two academic programs at the City Unviersity of New York and George Mason University. The site is most useful for high school history teachers and studetns, and educators can use it as a professional-development resource. The Digital Blackboard page offersr curriculum guides with links to third-party reference sites. Another page hosts a series of Q & A interviews with history teachers, who reveal the secrets behind teaching a successful history course. The Students as Historians page links to web-based projects created by high school and college students. And don't forget to check out the primary-source search engine, located on the Many Pasts page. The search enging links to more than a thousand images, audio, and text-based documenets from American history sites across the Internet.

"Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country's history and character through the study and understanding of its art. The nation's artistic heritage-our paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts, and photography-offers unique insights into the character, ideals, and aspirations of our country. By bringing high-quality reproductions of notable American art into public and private schools, libraries, and communities, Picturing America gives participants the opportunity to learn about our nation's history and culture in a fresh and engaging way. The program uses art as a catalyst for the study of America-the cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation's fabric over time. Collectively, the masterpieces in Picturing America, used in conjunction with the Teachers Resource Book and program Web site, help students experience the humanity of history and enhance the teaching and understanding of America's past."

Swivel features more than 15,000 data sets for users to play with in various categories ranging from Economics to Health to Technology. From the data, users have created hundreds of thousands of graphs, charts and infographics, including the one below that visualizes the amount of rainfall in California since 1870. You can get started by copying and pasting your data or uploading an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file to the site. Once you've create your visualization, you can embed it anywhere on the web.\n

Free Website Thumbnails and PHP Script to Generate Web Screenshots Now you can display high-quality website thumbnails on your site with our easy to drop-in php or java code. Just enter the URL of the page you want to generate, choose a size and copy & paste the code. It's super easy!

Samples for all types of writing pieces. Each sample is labeled with descriptions like " attention-getting paragraph" or " summary of main points." Very helpful if you are starting a new assignment that you do not have past exemplars for.

Lessonwriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage. * Copy & paste any text you choose into LessonWriter. * LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems. * Then, LessonWriter writes a lesson plan and a lesson that teaches the skills you chose in the context of the passage - automatically.

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Upload your work, add comments, share files, and more. Invite your co-workers and start collaborating. Copy and paste from, and link to, any web site. Share with your friends to get their input.Upload photos from your last vacation. Design, and add a few comments if you like. Allow "guest view" so the whole wide web can see, but not add, edit, or delete.

Stixy lets you create online bulletin boards for collaborating with family, friends, and colleagues. You can share pictures, files, reminders, and notes by using different widgets whose size and color you can change. It's fun, free, easy, and colorful.

Generate vocabulary lists from any text that you can digitally copy. Paste any chunk of text, up to 200,000 characters, into the Vocab Grabber. The Vocab Grabber then sorts, and places in a word cloud, the most frequently used words in that text.