Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Driving Questions session--sites we visited

Here are just some of the sites / programs we examined in Kevin Honeycutt's session at NCaect. They're cool tools we can use to help reach all our kids. (Not all of the sites are for the use of those kids, though--some of them are just for us teachers, and the rest need to be used judiciously with supervision and guidance....like any other teaching materials, really.)


Apple - iTunes - iTunes Overview
Apple - iWork - Keynote - New in Keynote ’08
Art Snacks
Celestia Home
Classroom 2.0
EarthBrowser - Interactive Earth Globe
Flying Meat VoodooPad
Google SketchUp - Home
Jing Project Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
Joost - Free online TV - Comedy, cartoons, sports, music and more - Download today
Kevin Honeycutt
Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free
MabryOnline.org
NetSmartz.org
podOmatic Podcast Portal Create, Find, Share Podcasts!
Second Life Official site of the 3D online virtual world
Skype official website – free download and free calls and internet calls
Solar System Simulator Product Product home
TeacherTube - Teach the World Teacher Videos Lesson Plan Videos Student Video Lessons Online Teacher Made Videos Teac
The Teaching Company Educational Courses on DVD, Audio CD, and Audio Tape- Lecture Series by College-University Professors
There - the online virtual world that is your everyday hangout
Twitter
USTREAM.TV Shows Free LIVE VIDEO, Webcam & Video Chat Rooms, Streaming Broadcast, Stream Video Clips, Internet Radio Cams, Web
YourTeacher Online Math Help Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, & Geometry
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Zamzar - Free online file conversion



Several books also came up, including The Curse of Knowledge, Made to Stick, On Intelligence (available on Audible.com), and Coloring Outside the Lines.

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