Westport Public Schools - ITL

tons of resources!

Easy Question Bank for CMT type questions for Science and Math

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Use this guide for lesson plans and insight into how to teach students to avoid plagiarism in Web research and to find resources for understanding and detecting plagiarism.

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uses crowd-sourcing to generate a gallery of multimedia timelines. Each event is accompanied by text, video, and still images

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"November 12, 2009, marks the 55th anniversary of the closing of Ellis Island, a location that will forever be linked to the notion of the American dream. From 1892 to 1954, over 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island. Located in New York Harbor, the site served as a way station for those coming to America from Europe, hoping to build a new life in a new land. "

Free online photo effects; no registration required (but you can have an account). Make posters, magazine covers, more.

YUDU is an ePublishing library and marketplace that lets you read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content.

This UK kids web site looks great for parents. Kids register providing a parents e-mail, and the parent(s) complete registration. The very last step is to make a "symbolic" payment of 1 Euro using Paypal. I never completed registration, because I'm not sure if entering the credit card information would lead to other payments being deducted from the account.

Similar to Animoto; easier to add text, can upload more than one song for soundtrack

"free service for creating animated videos. Without downloading any software or having any special skills, Memoov allows users to create animated videos up to five minutes in length. Creating an animated video with Memoov can be as simple as selecting a setting image(s), selecting a character or characters, and adding dialogue. Memoov offers users a wide variety options that make it stand out amongst similar services. Memoov allows users to customize the appearance of the characters in their animated videos. On the dialogue front, Memoov gives users the option to record their own voices for use in their videos. Users can also upload pre-recorded dialogue in MP3 format. Memoov users have the option to add background music to their animated videos."

"The Internet is a fantastic source of facts, but also a source of dubious claims and misinformation. Here we offer our observations on which sites are generally reliable and unbiased, and which are not." Links to Federal government, NGOs and advocacy groups We've sorted the sites into three baskets: * The Official Word - Sites where you can find government statistics and official reports and documents. * Policy Wonks - Sites of non-governmental organizations that study issues, though not always from a neutral point of view. * For the Cause - Sites that offer information while also advocating a particular stance on a policy matter. We've indicated some of our favorites with a , and put a by some that we think you should be wary of."

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."