Neal Topp, Bob Goeman, & Denny Hanley

Neal Topp, Bob Goeman, & Denny Hanley

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SweetSearch is a search engine for students.  It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. They give priority to web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Websites. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. They exclude not only obvious spam sites, but also marginal sites that read well, but lack academic or journalistic rigor.


http://www.easel.ly/
Easelly is a great infographic site. Create and share visual ideas online or take a screen shot and save them.


http://infocus.cc/
Infocus lets you highlight the important part of a webpage and share it with your students
 
Explore Mars: Free Drive allows users to take the Mars Rover Curiosity out for a spin in the free-drive mode.  Scale a mountain, cut through large canyons, drive across dune fields, and enjoy a virtual ride around Curiosity’s new home, Gale Crater. This experience uses a virtual rover model of Curiosity’s test mobility system (named “Scarecrow” because it has wheels, but no computer “brain”).


Interactive Web Sites for Education includes all of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place!  These activities work great with your SMARTboard or interactive whiteboard for whole group or small group instruction or use in the computer lab or at home for individual learning. Choose from fun, educational, interactive games and simulations for math, english language arts, science, social studies, brainteasers, music, art, holidays and more!
http://www.ribbet.com
Ribbet can be used to fix photos in a single click; Fine-tune results with advanced controls; Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time; Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun, astoundingly fast, right in your browser.
Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational thinking and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. The cloud hosted system is now available to teachers, schools and districts.

Mapmaker Interactive allows use of site tools to explore the world, learn about human and physical patterns, and make personalized maps.


http://www.geogebra.org/
GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.


Vialogues (which derives from “video dialogues”) is an award-winning discussion platform that proves that videos are both powerful teaching resources and the ultimate conversation starters. Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic time-stamped discussions about videos.


http://www.tubechop.com/
Tubechop allows you to easily chop a section of any YouTube video and share it. 


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