Web+Resources

Below is a collection of links to great websites that you can use to engage your students in the learning process. Always check that students have access to the site before you plan to use during class!

For web site creation and collaboration:

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 * [|Delicious] - Social Bookmarking

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Great educational stuff:

[|voicethread] - Allows for comments on all types of media [|nota] - Allows multiple students to edit scrapbook type pages [|x-timeline] - Multi-person timeline editing [|Timetoast] - Another timeline tool [|Google Maps] - Lots of great uses, allows you to put "pins" all over the globe... even create trips. [|Google Docs]- Cooperative excel and words type documents [|Gliffy] - Online diagraming (flow charts, floor plans, technical drawings) [|Animoto] - Automatically generated videos from your content (make sure to get a free educator account) [|Wordle] - Create beautiful word art from anything [|Scriblink] - Online whiteboard [|ning] - your own social networking site [|Flickr: Creative Commons] - Great source of creative commons photographs [|Cover it Live]- Real time moderator controlled chatting [|xtranormal] - Create short animated videos fast! [|Glogster] - Online poster maker [|Video Menu] More video sources than you can count! [|GoAnimate] Create your own animations [|xtranormal] Free 3-D text to movie __[|Quizlet]__ Browse and use millions of flashcards created by other students and teachers, or create your own. [|Prezi] Prezi is very easy to use, and it creates impressive and agile presentations. It also lets you download an offline version of any presentation. [|Mixbook] Create Photobooks online

Silly stuff:

[|Image Chef]- Fun with words on pictures (Blocked for students at SV) [|Soundsnap]- 5 free sound effects a month! For when you are bored of the garageband sounds. [|Pikipimp] - Free, no registration needed, photo editor. Fun!

Useful stuff:

[|tiny url] - creates short URLs from long ones. Great for sending students to a site that they would never be able to type in and get right! [|Go2Web2.0] - Every web 2.0 website (well a lot of them) ever invented listed in one place!

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