Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Wordlewww.wordle.net

Educational UsesEducational Uses

VocabularyVocabulary ReviewReview Scrambled sentencesScrambled sentences SurveysSurveys News ItemsNews Items Book reviewsBook reviews

Visuwordhttp://mpcollab.org/MPbeta1/node/1720

Online graphical dictionary that

provides meanings and word

relationships.

Educational UsesEducational Uses

Illustrates relationships of wordsIllustrates relationships of words Synonyms and homonymSynonyms and homonym Nous, verbs, adjectives, adverbsNous, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

Great for English language learnersGreat for English language learners Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus.Serves as a dictionary and thesaurus. Visuword combines a web 2.0 type Visuword combines a web 2.0 type

visualization tool with visualization tool with Princeton University’s ’s opensource opensource WordNet database to create an database to create an interactive click and drag type tool that is free interactive click and drag type tool that is free for everyone to use.for everyone to use.

Quizlet quizlet.com (Web 2.0)quizlet.com (Web 2.0)

TN 6th grade science academic vocabulary

QuizletQuizlet

Spanish Days of the Week

Do PDFDo PDFhttp://www.dopdf.com/Installs a virtual printer on local computerInstalls a virtual printer on local computerdoPDF is a free PDF converter for both doPDF is a free PDF converter for both

personal and commercial use. Using personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.virtually any application.

Photo Story 3Photo Story 3

Photostory 3 is a free Photostory 3 is a free download from download from Microsoft.Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

Digital StorytellingDigital Storytelling Class projectsClass projects Individual student Individual student

projectsprojects Communication of Communication of

content knowledgecontent knowledge Communication Communication

with community and with community and parentsparents

Cool FeaturesCool Features

Touch-up Touch-up CropCrop Rotate pictures Rotate pictures Remove red-eye Remove red-eye Add special effects Add special effects Add soundtracksAdd soundtracks Add narrationAdd narration

Create musicCreate music Use music from Use music from

other sourcesother sources

AAudacityudacity

Free, fully Free, fully functional functional multi-track multi-track audio editoraudio editor

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Completing the Square – Teresa Franklin and Andrew Alder

Teacher Tube Teacher Tube

The goal of The goal of TeacherTube.com is to is to provide an online community for provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. sharing instructional teacher videos.

Registration is required for uploadingRegistration is required for uploading- Unlimited MB video upload space.- Unlimited MB video upload space.- Unlimited MB bandwidth per month.- Unlimited MB bandwidth per month.- Unlimited video uploads.- Unlimited video uploads.- All TeacherTube packages are FREE!- All TeacherTube packages are FREE!

YouTubeYouTubeWays to Use YouTube in the classroom:Ways to Use YouTube in the classroom:

YouTube downloader – changes to QuickTime – changes to QuickTime formatformat• http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/

3000-2071_4-10647340.html?tag=mncol3000-2071_4-10647340.html?tag=mncol YouTube downloader – changes to AVI and – changes to AVI and

format format • http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-

YouTube-Download.htmYouTube-Download.htm

Fast Math TrickMa and Pa Kettle Math

Go to the video (you should be viewing it) Type Go to the video (you should be viewing it) Type pwn in the address line after the www For pwn in the address line after the www For example if the video is at this address: example if the video is at this address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU After the www type: After the www type: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU On the next screen, click to download: On the next screen, click to download: Download High Quality Video (MP4) This may Download High Quality Video (MP4) This may take a while depending on the length of the take a while depending on the length of the video and your internet speed. video and your internet speed.

iTunes U

http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html

Part of the iTunes Part of the iTunes storestore

Educational, audio, Educational, audio, and video contentand video content

Most popular Most popular downloadsdownloads

Contents categoriesContents categories By UniversityBy University

World Wide Telescope (Web 2.0)(Web 2.0)

Molecular Workbench

http://workbench.concord.org/

Molecular Workbench

http://workbench.concord.org/

The ChemCollective

Downloads to computer

Thinkfinity.org

Favorites from ThinkfinityFavorites from Thinkfinity Comic Creator

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

Perfect Pitch http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/perfectpitch/

Marble Mania http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/marble/marblemania.html

Touch of Class http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

Lemelson Center Http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

Power Up http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/powerup.html

Dynamic Paper http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=205

Break it Down http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/breakitdown.html

Make A Mission http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/messenger/mission.htm

Interactivatehttp://www.shodor.org/interactivate/http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

BBC Science Clips

Bitesize 1Bitesize 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/http://www.bbc.co.uk/

schools/scienceclips/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/ages/6_7/science_6_7.shtmlscience_6_7.shtml

Forces and Motion Bitesize2Bitesize2 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science

Bitesize3Bitesize3 – – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/ools/ks3bitesize/science/

Utah Education Network Utah Education Network – Student Interactives– Student Interactives

Utah Education Network Utah Education Network – Student Interactives– Student Interactives

Utah Education Network Utah Education Network – Student Interactives– Student Interactives

Teachers’ DomainTeachers’ Domain

PhETPhET: Free online science : Free online science simulationssimulations

Fun, interactive, Fun, interactive, research-based research-based simulations of simulations of physical physical phenomena from phenomena from the PhET project the PhET project at the University at the University of Colorado.of Colorado.

Bio-AliveBio-Alive Videos are on YouTube!

STEM Resources.com STEM Resources.com TennesseeTennessee

NASA EducationNASA Education

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/index.html

Windows to the UniverseWindows to the Universe

Illuminations by NTCMIlluminations by NTCM

http://illuminations.nctm.org