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Great website for news headlines around the world

Try this website search; newspaper headlines from around the world.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/Â

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Google goggles

This is an app I have started playing with after reading about it in the latest Macworld. Download the app if you are an Iphone user or to your Ipad.  This app allows you to capture an image of something a book, landmark, artwork or text and google searches for it and gives you information.  The librarian in me searched a book cover and was given a review, I can tell you it will be one of my favourite apps of the year!

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text

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PBL - great ideas and tools

This site was recommended by a few blogs that I follow; http://www.bie.org/ there a a lot of free ideas and and PDF's for Project Based Learning if you are considering a project in your KLA.

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Ipadio

Great site and app or tool It allows you to basically podcast using your phone or ipad.

I tested this tool and it would be great for students to create audio copies of study notes practice their presentations as well, It should be tested to see if we can also make study notes for the students.

www.ipadio.com

app to purchase from app store ipadio!

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Khan Academy - how one man wants to educate the world.

Found out about this guy who started the Khan Academy in America, he started tutoring his nephews over distance, then Bill and Melinda Gates have helped him out with their foundation. Mathematics and Science are his thing, here is the home page of his hundreds of videos on mathematics and science concepts and teachings. I would love some feedback on whether these videos are helpful to our students.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet W-X

http://weblist.me Social listing sire allows you to create smart lists from URL’S.

http://wordle.net generate words clouds from text that you provide. Great for unit starters to generate a glossary.

www.wallwisher.com Create your own notes in your workspace wall, great for group collaboration or class collaboration.

www.writewith.com Writing online work for groups. Track everybodys actions with a history.

http://poster.4teachers.org/ Webposter site.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet U-V

http://votations.com Web based polling software.

www.ujam.com Sing a tune or follow some simple steps and produce your own piece of music.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet Y-Z

http://yacapaca.com/ Site to allow you to create or use quizzes, surveys, tests or more.

http://show.zoho.com/login.do Online presentation tool.

http://www.yourfonts.com/ Online font generator that allows you to create your own opentype fonts.

http://www.yogile.com/login Easy photo sharing site.

www.yudo.com Pubish your own digital magazines.

http://www.zooburst.com/ Create 3d pop up books.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet S-T

www.sendshots.com

I Site where you can film yourself and share it with others there are many backgrounds to choose from.

http://slidesix.com Upload your presentations and share then with friends and students you can even add video and audio by recording directly within the site.

http://www.slideshare.net/ Wonderful site for sharing of slideshows, great site to search for all manner of teaching ideas and tools.

http://www.spinscape.com/ Spinscape is a Web based application you use to find, organize, and share information on any topic. Mind Mappers will be at home with the look, but Spinscape goes much further.

http://www.scribblar.com/ Multiuser whiteboard online collaboration site.

www.tadalist.com Make lists for yourself and share with others.

http://soshiku.com This is one for the students allows you to manage your assignments and deadlines will even email reminders to you.

http://tagul.com A web service that enables you to create generous tag clouds.

www.tagexdo.com/ Turns words famous speeches, news, articles slogans and these into visually stunning tag clouds.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet Q-R

http://quikmaps.com Draw a route or label directly on Google Maps.

http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini/kidsafe.htm Make yourself into your own lego avatar.

www.quibblo.com  A survey, poll and quiz site.

http://quizzlet Make your own flashcards.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet O-P

Prezi http://prezi.com great new tool for creating online presentations Prezi does non linear presentations.

Here’s another presentation tool http://PreZentit.com allows you to create presentations in a minute and collaborate with your team.

http://www.ourstory.com// Make a timeline collaborate with family and friends.

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Wen 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet M-N

http://my.brainshark.com/home.aspx Upload your presentation docuement, arrate it , share it, track it create voice over, make talking photo albums.

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/  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.

www.mixbook.com Create an online book with turning pages.

www.novlet.com Collaborative writing of non linear stories.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet L

http://lovelycharts.com Simple drag n drop drawing mechanism easy way to represent complex ideas.

www.lucidchart.com Create attractive flow charts for we or print it is a collaborative document sharing instant site.

http://letscrate.com Extremely easy file sharing drap and drop.

http://en.linoit.com Simple and easy web sticky note.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet J-K

https://join.me Share a screen simple application that allows users to share their screen instantly.

www.jumpcut.com Upload media grab shared media and remix movies and share.

http://kidsvid.4teachers.org/ Instructional website to help teachers and students to use video production in class.

http://kubbu.com Create games and quizzes and make them available to students then view and analyse results. Free teacher accounts.

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Web 2.0 Tools by the Alphabet: H-I

A fun new one to playwith would be very popular with the students http://www.hidetext.net/, you can hide text passwords or personal messages in text turned into an image.

http://www.hitpad.com/ for bite size bits of current information and news. Apps avaialble.

IGoogle http://www.google.com/ig great aggregator for rss feeds and custom desktops for all widgets you enjoy using every day feed your gmail as well.

http://www.ioutliner.com/ is a powerful way to manage your tasks, ideas, and projects in structured lists. Simple to use and customizable to the way you work and best of all its completely free.

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Web 2.0 tools by the Alphabet: G

G = Google (do I need to hyperlink it?)

But what more is there to google.  I will be hosting a more to google PD this term, but I would like to share a few good components to google searching.

Check out the left hand side tools specifically the more search tools, the timeline option is great especially for historic terms and then the wonder wheel gives a great diagram of search results in concepts or key terms.

If you are searching something topical try narrowing the search term by date past 24 hours or 2 days you will receive the most up to date entries.

Looking for different ways to use google that helps with the mammoth task of filtering currently done by our students. Book them in anytime for a lesson with me.

One more of my favourites for G is http://edu.glogster.com/ look out for the PD on glogster and how best to use it in the classroom.

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Web 2.0 tools by the Alphabet: F

http://www.rightwork.jp/fontdemusic/ Fonte de music lets you add sound and movement to the words. Lots of Fun.

http://fav7.com/ is a site to create short and safe urls. You can add up to seven urls and it gives you one link. It also offers the screenshots of the urls that you are going to visit.