YCST Online Resources

Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.

Shwup is a great site for teachers and students to use in order to post and share pictures and videos on the web. You do need to sign up, but anyone who gets a log-in can be invited to share in creating a "muvee" with the images that their "friends" (classmates/colleagues) are sharing. This is a great way to do collaborative multimedia projects or keep pictures and videos in one place from an event that had more than one person taking footage/images. The videos can all be shareed on shwup and posted to blogs, Facebook and other social media sites. Fun, easy to operate, and very useful.

"Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world."

I choose the Launch iTunes because it has a nice display by grade level.

RADAR is a weekly, series produced by WBP LABS - a division of the WorkBook Project. The series is a timely, insiders view into the cutting edge of storytelling and creativity, and the attendant tools, tech, models and community. RADAR highlights innovative projects and events across different creative disciplines, hangs with creators and founders, and digs deep into process, method and participation.

"What Do Educational Innovators Really Do? Here's Twelve Examples"

Focus: Eight Habits of Highly Effective 21st Century Teachers

6 quick sheets located here for using the taxonomy.

Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians.

CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

Welcome to Virtual Stock Exchange, a free stock market game from MarketWatch. With VSE you can: * Create public or private games with a cash balance you set * Choose from thousands of available games * Test your strategy with a personal portfolio * Leverage powerful news and research resources from MarketWatch

POETS ONLINE offers you the opportunity to try writing a poem to our current monthly writing prompt. Write it for yourself, or submit it - and if it is selected, you'll share it with the online world. We will only consider poems that are in response to our current writing prompt.

English, French, Spanish languages I recommend looking at the video first. It is short and it will prepare you for the site. Video about the resource http://www.screencast.com/users/Russell1955/folders/Jing/media/cb6c7f2b-1c44-4d1a-bf5a-f0465aa6543b

A SYNAPSE is a minute gap between nerve cells which transmits crucial information through the nervous system. The goal of this network is to perform a similar "synaptic" function between biology instructors of all levels and locations.

Jim Gates is number 14 on this wonderful list!

DreamSpark is simple; it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and designer tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.

Conducted every three to five years by ACT, the survey collects data about what entering college students should know and be able to do to be ready for college-level coursework in English, math, reading, and science.

Yammer is a simple way for employees to connect and share by posting messages. As employee participation grows, Yammer becomes a corporate social network, discussion board, and knowledge base all rolled into one easy-to-use interface.