Sunday, June 26, 2011

ISTE opening in Philli

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scr.im - Share your email address in a safe way.

Convert your email address into a short, cute and safe link you can share on the web, in Twitter, forums, Craigslist, anywhere.

Free Online Panoramic Software - Dermandar

Easily create panoramic photos with Dermandar. Sometimes a standard photo just can't do justice.

Prey - track your stolen devices

Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works.

Skype Community Comes to the Classroom -- THE Journal

Skype has launched a global community for educators called Skype in the classroom.
The free service is focused on connecting teachers from around the world to allow them to communicate, collaborate on projects, draw expertise from one another, and share learning materials and best practices. It also serves as a launchpad for connecting students with their peers in classrooms across the planet using Skype video.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Dipity Timelines - About Dipity

Dipity is a fun, innovative and powerful way to visually research any topic and create free timelines. Dipity serves as a forum where users can generate, edit and share content. Dipsters have made timelines for everything from World War II to the BP Oil Spill, The 2010 FIFA World Cup, presidential elections, technological breakthroughs and more. Dipity is the perfect tool for teachers, politicians, celebrities, community managers, bloggers, journalists and anyone with access to the internet; that's a big market!

Dipity timelines implement the latest in Web 2.0, combining the power of multimedia and social media content with trends like timestamps, geolocation and realtime updates. You can manually create timeline events or easily connect your existing web services like YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr, Blogspot to import content to your free timeline.

Online survey software - conduct your customer surveys and polls with Polldaddy | Polldaddy.com

polldaddy.com - Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes. Collect responses via your website, e-mail, iPad, Facebook, and Twitter. Generate and share easy-to-read reports.

Flashcards: The world's largest online library of printable flash cards

Another Way To Study - Over 400,000 people use this web-based flashcard program to absorb information efficiently and permanently.

Mapwing - Build and Share Virtual Tours for Free

Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. Use Mapwing to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Then, share your virtual tours with friends, clients, or the entire world. Begin creating your own virtual tours for Free - Just Sign Up or Learn More.

OurStory.com - Capture your stories, save them permanently.

Make your timeline about anything
Collaborate with family and friends
Share it with whomever you want
Share your stories as status updates on Facebook

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Museum Box

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Free Online Adventure Games | The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World | About

The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World is an exciting new massive online virtual world for kids where players can travel to places around the world, through time and space, meet famous historical people, play fun enriching games, make new friends own exotic islands, build culture-inspired houses, wear all kinds of cool clothing and costumes, explore secret locations, solve ancient mysteries and become a legendary traveler!

Game for science - Virtual world devoted to science, technology and free educational games online

Explore all kinds of virtual islands depending on your interests: health, aeronautics, genomics, environment, engineering and more. Youll find fun games, interesting facts and fascinating photos and videos all on a science theme.

AnswerGarden - Plant a Question, Grow Answers

AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.

WebList - The place to find the best web lists on the web

Weblist is an innovative way of gathering and organizing your content on the internet. We all love lists and we love sharing our lists with others. Why spend hours tediously adding and sending links and files when you can do it all in one place using a single URL?

Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups.

On Wiggio, you can share and edit files, manage a group calendar, poll your group, post links, set up conference calls, chat online and send mass text, voice and email messages to your group members. Each group member can define how they want to keep informed of group activity. For a complete overview of what your group can do on Wiggio, click above to see a quick video.

Image Embellisher

Image Embellisher makes it easier to create special effects with a few clicks. Simply pick the Image Effect you'd like to try, select your image and click Submit to generate a new image.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

istation | ISIP™ Early Reading

ISIP Early Reading is a comprehensive assessment for developing readers in Pre-K through 3rd Grade. ISIP Early Reading assesses all critical areas of early reading development. Our teachers spend 20 minutes one EACH student. This claims to assess a WHOLE CLASS in 20 minutes. I wonder... could we save money on guest teacher pay and classroom interruption.

Educational Video Streaming | E-Learning | Lecture Capture

Educational Video Streaming | E-Learning | Lecture Capture
I saw this at the Tech for Tots Conference, and I want to learn more about broadcasting video from school. This may be a good source.

Zebra Crossing

This site features a QR Code Generator, which allows you to create a two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned with a camera phone. These QR Codes can contain a URL, contact information, a calendar event, and much more.

Bubble Comment - make the human connection

BubbleComment is a quick, easy-to-use service designed specifically to help you use video for variety of web-based interaction with others.

Jalapenyo - Create Your Own Customized Video eCard

http://jalapenyo.com/ Create and share personalized video e-cards featuring YOUR videos. They're perfect for families to stay connected without sharing their videos with everyone on the web. Video ecards are easy to create, free and fun for any occasion!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The MY HERO Project

The MY HERO Project: invites your family, school, or organization to take part in this not-for profit educational project. Add your vision by sharing your words, images and short films celebrating heroes from around the world on this ever-growing internet archive."

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Khan Academy

Khan Academy: "What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history."