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50 Sites in 60 Minutes

Posted in Labels: art, audio, cartoon, ebooks, Education, geography, graphic organizer, Map, web applications, website links | at 10:08 AM

50 Sites in 60 Minutes ver. 2 will introduce you to 50 online tools to use in the classroom or for personal use. Sites included are appropriate for a variety of age levels. Tools are for audio, charts and graphs, digital art, digital storytelling, and several miscellaneous applications. Each slide includes a link to the site as well as a link a review of the site by David Kapular on his blog, Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero.

If you're interested in finding new web tools, you may want to follow his blog.

This slideshare presentation is a good example of the great finds I receive in my e-mailbox as a member of Diigo's Web Tools for Educators group. (Read my post on Diigo here.) If you'd like to see what great web tools others find, just create a FREE Diigo bookmarking account and join the Web Tools for Educators group.

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Presentations ETC, Maps ETC, Clipart ETC, and Cooliris

Posted in Labels: 3D, Education, graphics, images, Map | at 4:25 PM

PRESENTATIONS ETC
On its Presentations ETC website, the Educational Technology Clearinghouse makes available "free backgrounds, templates, letters, frames, and buttons for school presentations, websites, class newsletters, digital scrapbooking, and student portfolios. Thousands of presentation elements and millions of combinations allow you to customize your school projects, electronic scrapbook, or eportfolio. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission."

graphic of samples from the Presentations ETC website

The site boasts over 20,000 backgrounds, over 21,000 buttons and icons, over 7,700 letters in a variety of styles, as well as PowerPoint templates and Keynote themes.

MAPS ETC
Check out Maps ETC to find over 5,000 historic maps representing many different time periods. The same license which was mentioned above (with link) applies to the use of the map images.

CLIPART ETC

The ETC also presents over 60,000 pieces of free clipart on its Clipart ETC site. "Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here." The same license as described above (with link) applies here.

If you have the free Cooliris plugin installed, you can view ETC clipart on a 3D wall without having to click to go from screen to screen.

COOLIRIS

Using Cooliris you can view 3D TV shows and movies as well as content on a number of websites in 3D on your computer or mobile device. You can even view the images stored on your own hard drive on a 3D wall as well. See a demo here. Cooliris supports Firefox (on Windows, Mac, Linux), Internet Explorer, Safari (Mac), and Google Chrome (Windows).

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Google Lit Trips

Posted in Labels: Education, Google, Literature, Map | at 10:56 AM

Wow! Someone (Jerome Burg, an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Teacher) has done what like to do when I read a book: find the locations on a map and look up information about them. THe took it one step further, and made all that available on Google Earth. On top of that, the author of the Lit Trips has included a quote and discussion questions for each location, at least for The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, which is the one I've been enjoying. You'll need to download and install Google Earth to "take the trips." The file will load into the left pane of Google Earth. Just expand the selection and you'll find all the locations the author has provided. If you'd like you can read more about Google Lit Trips.
There's a good post at Infinite Thinking Machine that tells about Google Lit Trip. Also, check out the video at TeacherTube.