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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tubechop allows you to easily chop a section of any YouTube video and share it.
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