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Hello Slide - 2012 HelloSlide

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K to 12
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Create audio generated speech for any slide (ex. PowerPoint) presentation. With any presentation, type the text for each slide. The audio is automatically created. Create presentations...more
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Create audio generated speech for any slide (ex. PowerPoint) presentation. With any presentation, type the text for each slide. The audio is automatically created. Create presentations in other languages. Saving the speeches/presentations online makes them available on the website. Search other presentations already on the site. There are many "ready to go" presentations that could be applicable in the classroom and/or at home.
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tag(s): digital storytelling (40), slides (24)

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Add extra spice to your own presentations or your students' presentations with audio! Reach auditory as well as visual learners with all your presentations. Use in world language classes or for ELL/ESL or non-reader students. Incorporate into presentations in all subject areas. Challenge students to use this tool to create their own audio presentations. Use as a morning message or incorporate in your blog.

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Edublog - Edulogs.org

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Blog your way into the latest social technology using Edublogs. Use the free service to set up a blog as a student, teacher, or campus. This education friendly tool avoids ...more
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Blog your way into the latest social technology using Edublogs. Use the free service to set up a blog as a student, teacher, or campus. This education friendly tool avoids some of the "public interaction" that can offer inappropriate content. Upgrade to more advanced features, to include more options. The additional information on blogging makes this site very valuable even if you already have a blogging platform. Find a plethora of advice, tutorials, pdfs, and lesson plans for blogging. This site is a great reference site for all who are beginning to use blogs, or even look for more varied and effective ways to log with students, or even other classes. Compare this tool to other free blogging tools mentioned in TeachersFirst's Blog Basics for the Classroom .
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tag(s): blogs (53)

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Save this site as a favorite for all of your blogging needs. Find very informative instructions on blogging, and follow the student blogging challenge lesson plans. Peruse through the various subjects and discover how other teachers use blogging in their classrooms. Using the given PDFs on blogging start up, parent guidelines, incorporating into subject areas, and adapt to make them suitable for you. Look at a variety of examples to help devise your own unique style to meet your students' needs.

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Dib Dab Doo and Dilly too... A smarter safer way to search the Internet - Dibdabdoo.com

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K to 7
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Here you will find a "kid-appropriate" search tool featuring countless general topics: Facts & Reference, Computers/The Internet, The Arts, Strange & Mysterious, Hot Topics, The World,...more
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Here you will find a "kid-appropriate" search tool featuring countless general topics: Facts & Reference, Computers/The Internet, The Arts, Strange & Mysterious, Hot Topics, The World, Science & Math, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Nature, and several others. Within each of the main topics are subtopics. For example, in the Classroom section you will find English, Foreign Langauges, Math, History, Reference Tools, Shapes, Woodwork, Colors, Art, Religion, Philosophy, Social Studies, and Homework Help. There is a ton here to explore! The information includes articles and images/photos.

tag(s): alphabet (56), animals (166), animation (38), clip art (6), colors (36), comics and cartoons (51), cooking (24), crafts (25), creative writing (67), cross cultural understanding (38), cultures (62), dance (17), dinosaurs (32), disabilities (14), diseases (35), drawing (58), fitness (38), flags (19), folktales (59), geometric shapes (42), grammar (169), homework (34), insects (46), journalism (20), measurement (103), museums (30), mysteries (19), numbers (137), nutrition (102), oceans (106), operations (66), origami (10), painting (54), photography (97), poetry (169), psychology (28), rainforests (9), religions (27), search engines (41), seasons (21), sign language (5), social networking (53), spelling (124), sports (55), trivia (10), vocabulary (251), weather (150)

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Help students learn about narrowing and refining research by demonstrating this site on a projector or interactive whiteboard. As you start a project, take the time to SHOW how to use this tool to save time and find appropriate resources. Allow students to explore this site on their own finding relevant information from the various topics. If time permits, have students research a specific topic and create a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.

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World of Tales - Viktor

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K to 8
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World of Tales collects folk and fairy tales from various sources into this site. Many are tales long past copyright and therefore available for use without copyright concerns. There...more
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World of Tales collects folk and fairy tales from various sources into this site. Many are tales long past copyright and therefore available for use without copyright concerns. There are also links to animated or audio folk tale versions. Some of the animations are from YouTube so may be blocked by school filters. Search tales by geographic origin, theme, author, book, and more. You can also change the "theme" of the page display to make it easier to see on a projector. There are advertisements that clutter the page and slow it down a bit, but having such a searchable collection is very handy.
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tag(s): folktales (59), stories and storytelling (13)

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Declutter the display of a specific tale by using the Readability plugin (reviewed here) on your computer or copy/paste the text into a clear page to share on a projector interactive whiteboard. Have students highlight their favorite passages or examples of characterization. Have students create story maps of these classic tales or produce their own "skit" versions to record on video and share on TeacherTube (reviewed here) or SchoolTube (reviewed here). Make this resource available on your teacher public page for students to select and read their stories of choice during a unit on folktales/fairy tales. World language classes can read these English language versions of tales from land/language they are studying and write dialog between characters in their new language. Students could also create scenes using a comic creation tool from the many tools among TeachersFirst's Comics Resources.

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Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama - Nicoleta Cinpoes

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9 to 12
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Sponsored by the University of Warwick in Coventry England, this website is a scholarly, yet eminently entertaining and readable/usable website about the English Renaissance in drama....more
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Sponsored by the University of Warwick in Coventry England, this website is a scholarly, yet eminently entertaining and readable/usable website about the English Renaissance in drama. Opening to the main page will show you a blank (this is a project in process), but click on any of the links on the left and you will find everything from timelines (divided into political, theatre, social, and the life of Thomas Kyd) to key fragment studies of several playwrights' work. Any of the websites with a little padlock next to them are not accessible without signing in and you can't sign in unless you are a student of the university. However, there is enough free offering here to make it a worthwhile site.

tag(s): elizabethan (18)

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The timelines alone are a goldmine. Set students to work connecting political, social, and religious background with the rich drama of the 16th-17th century and you can have a fascinating blend of humanistic study.

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August Strindberg - Jonas Hedstrom

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9 to 12
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If you are looking for a good, solid site for researching this Swedish playwright, this is a good one. Available also in Swedish, the site gives much more than biographical ...more
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If you are looking for a good, solid site for researching this Swedish playwright, this is a good one. Available also in Swedish, the site gives much more than biographical information. It includes drawings, diary entries, an interview the playwright had with himself, all geared to present a unique perspective of this naturalist playwright.

tag(s): plays (19)

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This is a good site if you are looking for a different way to get students to interpret a playwright. Strindberg is unique because of the genre in which he wrote as well as the way which he lived his life. This might be a good research site for two or three students to work on together to present the playwright to the class.

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Respondo! - Ian Byrdseed

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4 to 12
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Bring some creativity into your literature lessons using this site that goes way beyond rote answers. Choose skills from drop boxes, identify one or two stories to analyze/compare,...more
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Bring some creativity into your literature lessons using this site that goes way beyond rote answers. Choose skills from drop boxes, identify one or two stories to analyze/compare, choose your thinking skills, and decide what the final product will be. For example, "Substitute The Giver's setting for A Wrinkle In Time's setting. Dramatize how this would affect A Wrinkle In Time's plot. Create a skit," or "Rearrange Oh The Places You Will Go's plot. Analyze how this would affect its tone. Create a photo essay ." Choose whatever book(s) are relevant to your class. Experiment with different ideas easily until coming up with the perfect response question for your class or individualize easily for different student responses. The creator of this site does admit that it is a rather new site with a few kinks. His email is provided if you see any issues. Our review team noticed nothing unusual, and all options were functioning properly, at the time of this review.

tag(s): blooms taxonomy (5), characterization (7), creative fluency (5), creativity (66), critical thinking (55), debate (22), flexibility (6), literary devices (4), literature (185), plot (8), setting (7), stories and storytelling (13)

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Use this site to create unique lessons and literature responses that require critical thinking responses from your students. Share with students and allow them to create their own response at the end of a unit when comparing two books or reflecting on one book. Use this site as a resource for incorporating different levels of Blooms Taxonomy into your classroom and for differentiation among students. Have students create an online presentation using Nota (reviewed here) or another reviewed presentation tool from the TeachersFirst Edge as a way to view the various products.

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TES Teaching Resources - TSL Education

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K to 12
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This amazing site contains thousands of lesson plans and activities for students of all ages (ages 3-16+). Simple registration is required with an email address and password. Choose...more
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This amazing site contains thousands of lesson plans and activities for students of all ages (ages 3-16+). Simple registration is required with an email address and password. Choose a grade range to search for activities. Note that terminology for lessons is from the UK, so you may need to "translate" for U.S. curriculum topics and spelling. Choose subjects then further categorized into topics. Many links include complete lessons plans with items such as PowerPoint lessons, videos, quizzes, worksheets, and much more. Other options on the site allows you to save items as favorites, follow other users, save searches, and upload materials. Another offering is the "Whole School" category that includes resources for school needs such as behavior and assemblies.

tag(s): bullying (41), business (42), creativity (66), preK (99), psychology (28), religions (27), sociology (11), teaching strategies (14)

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Save this site as a favorite to use as a resource when searching for lesson plans and classroom activities. Why reinvent the wheel? Take advantage of these ready to go resources!
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Memolane - Eric Lagier, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen, and Harry Vang

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Memolane create a very slick timeline from programs such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, Wordpress, and several others. It could also be used to capture a classroom...more
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Memolane create a very slick timeline from programs such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, Wordpress, and several others. It could also be used to capture a classroom life. There are several choices for privacy settings, ranging from only you can view to public. The unit of measure on the timeline is days. The timeline runs across the top of your window; at the bottom is a bar to quickly navigate to any date. You can build as many lanes as you like, write titles, annotate them, and choose which services you would like to include in the lanes. You can pin individual memos to a lane if you don't want the entire stream. You choose start and end dates for lanes to tell the story of a specific event or span of time. Finally, you can add music to your timeline, too! Be sure to watch the introduction video (using Vimeo or flash) to see just how slick Memolane is. NOTE: The home page features random Memolanes from the public, so you should preview it just prior to showing it to your class. A "recent" Memolane included profanity, so PLEASE preview. Avoid the problem by opening Memolane to your account before projecting it to your screen or whiteboard. While in class, steer clear of "Explore" where the general public's Memolane's may include discussions inappropriate for the classroom. Instead, select one or to specific examples in advance to share.

tag(s): digital storytelling (40), flickr (8), images (115), internet safety (67), multimedia (17), timelines (35), twitter (24)

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If you have a classroom Twitter account reviewed here, you could conduct a class review for a unit of study or test, using twitter for the questions and answers, and Memolane will post that on your "Memolane." Use the embed code to share it on your website, so all of your students can see the review from home. Embedding avoids any issues with seeing inappropriate content. Drama teachers can video skits or plays and upload them to your classroom YouTube or Vimeo account throughout the year. Art and photography teachers can upload images and photos of student work for a year in review. Select a few public Memolanes to share during lessons about digital footprints and Internet safety. Ask student groups how much they can learn about their assigned "person" whom they do not even know. How might this information help or hurt that person if viewed by a potential employer or college admissions officer? The message: trails on the Internet can be good or bad, depending upon what you share.

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Dragontape - Dragontape Ltd. (Tamas and Peter Szakal)

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5 to 12
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Dragontape allows you to create editable sequences of video and sound from different online sources, including YouTube. You can create up to a three hour long playlist of videos and...more
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Dragontape allows you to create editable sequences of video and sound from different online sources, including YouTube. You can create up to a three hour long playlist of videos and music, and share them through both URL and embed codes. Embed multiple videos in ONE box or page. You can add new clips during the playback. If you have a Twitter account, you can gather clips from feeds of those you follow and enjoy. You can trim and use the fade feature on video clips for more seamless viewing. Basically, you can create your own online "bookcase" for web based videos. This is a great collaborative tool for merging videos, and it is so easy to use that the creators have what they call "couch editor mode." This means you do not have to do anything but DRAG ON to tape, a great online equivalent to the tape recorders of the past.

tag(s): sounds (52), video (67)

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In class, register and use this to provide a single link to multiple video clips you can use or assign for a single class period. Pull different sources together to create a more complete and informative video presentation for your students. Or have students create their own Dragontapes for online, multimedia collage projects. Great for any class, but especially great for music, drama, and art classes. Some other project ideas: juxtaposing politicians, critics, authors talking about writing, or anything you want to compare/contrast. Student organizations could create playlists of current music for a school dance, saving money on a DJ as long as the school has the proper sound equipment to amplify the playlist.

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Audio Boo - Audioboo Ltd.

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1 to 12
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Enter your classroom in to the digital age with AudioBoo's audio digital archive and sharing device. Using your iphone, android, or PC record high quality sound tracks easily. Along...more
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Enter your classroom in to the digital age with AudioBoo's audio digital archive and sharing device. Using your iphone, android, or PC record high quality sound tracks easily. Along with the sound recording, a map shows the who, where, and when of the recording. Use AudioBoo with social networking sites, embed into a website or used as a full podcast. If sharing an already created Audiboo, please preview first. While this site CAN be used with all grades, some of the already created Audiboos are only appropriate for high school students.
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tag(s): maps (165), social networking (53), sound (79)

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Jazz up your curriculum with sound. Invigorate debates, interviews, reporting, or interviewing with expression and passion. Easily record and share Readers Theater and storytelling with your class, other classes, or even parents. Add personal narratives from students's reports on historical figures, scientists, or community leaders. Add a further dimension into author studies with audio requests using audioBoo. Autobiographies and biographies can include a much-needed sound component. Blogs, podcast, and websites easily support these recordings.

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Sound Cloud - SoundCloud Ltd.

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K to 12
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SoundCloud is a sound sharing site. Upload your favorite sounds and share using your sound cloud free account. Share via a link or a choice of embed widgets to add ...more
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SoundCloud is a sound sharing site. Upload your favorite sounds and share using your sound cloud free account. Share via a link or a choice of embed widgets to add into a website, blog, podcast, Wordpress, email, instant message, or social network. You can choose to use previously recorded sounds or record your own sounds using this site. Share the sounds on the web, with your group, or privately between users. Use your drop box to receive recorded material from others.
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tag(s): creative writing (67), descriptive writing (11), expository writing (14), sound (79), sounds (52)

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Add the dimension of sound into your language arts classes with SoundCloud! Turn written stories or poetry into works of spoken art. Use SoundCloud recordings of places such as; the city, the forest, the beach, or a cafeteria to bring settings to life. Make and share audio writing prompts. Challenge students to create their own story using sounds. Add sound into projects such as webquests, PowerPoints, podcasts, or blogging to hear the results! Emphasize important messages to your parent or student emails using sound. What a practical solution for ESL/ELL learners. Record and share poetry readings during Poetry Month. Save quarterly recordings of speech articulation students s they can hear their own progress (and you can share it with parents). Check school policies, of course, before uploading any student recordings to the web. Instrumental music teachers can share clips of musical pieces for students to emulate during at-home practice.

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BBC - Sing - Learn to Sing - BBC

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2 to 12
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"BBC- Sing- Learn to Sing" gives you a step by step tutorial on how to properly stand, warm up, sing, and improve your singing explained through text instructions, images, and ...more
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"BBC- Sing- Learn to Sing" gives you a step by step tutorial on how to properly stand, warm up, sing, and improve your singing explained through text instructions, images, and videos. This videos give you the basics; what you do with them is up to you! This a fun and interesting way to bring singing into your schools, especially where funding cuts have eliminated staffing for music.

tag(s): music theory (14), sound (79)

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This site would be great for music, choral teachers, musical directors, or individual students hoping to improve their singing. Use the tutorial with students who are new to singing and group performance. The more students know and practice, the more comfortable they will be with their own abilities. Assign this link from your webpage or wiki so that students may access the lessons from home to practice in their own comfort zone. This would also be great if you are the adviser of a musical club or group. Guitar clubs could even benefit from this, as they could learn how to sing better along with their instruments. In science class, include this site in a unit on sound as you investigate how human anatomy creates and adjusts sounds in singing.

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Remind 101 - Remind 101

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Remind 101 is a safe and easy way to send reminders to students via text message. The site is set up so that students do not see the teachers' phone ...more
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Remind 101 is a safe and easy way to send reminders to students via text message. The site is set up so that students do not see the teachers' phone numbers nor do the teachers see the students' phone numbers. Create an account. Any phone that can receive text messages will receive these. Communication through this site is safe and secure. You only see the names of your students, not their phone number, and they only see your name -- not your cell phone number. Be sure to obtain parental permission FIRST, as standard messaging rates apply. .

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Set up accounts for all your classes, and even your extracurricular activities, to send homework, project, and supply reminders. Remind students of upcoming events, practices, or things they need to bring to class or practice. You could also use this to communicate with parents (allow them to sign up for text message updates at back to school night). Remind parents of big tests, report cards, field trips, deadlines, back to school night, sneaker days, conferences, and more. Set up a faculty reminder group within your school for emergency closures and more.

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Virtual Field Trips - Utah Education Network

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1 to 12
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Save hundreds of dollars spicing up your curriculum with virtual field trips! This site has "field trips" to take, instructions for creating, and resources for other virtual field trip...more
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Save hundreds of dollars spicing up your curriculum with virtual field trips! This site has "field trips" to take, instructions for creating, and resources for other virtual field trip sites. Field trips for; Career, fine arts, foreign language, health and PE, language arts, math, library, media, professional development, science, social studies, and technology are given. There is a plethora of topics - perfect for research and "virtual" travel. The topics are too broad to list all of them, but some include tessellations, dinosaurs, water cycle, medieval times, Civil War, oil painting, and much more! Receive a detailed tutorial for finding instructions on asking permission for field trips, creating virtual field trips, and evaluating the experience. No bus required! At the time of this review, three of the links under "Visit Related Sites" were not working.

tag(s): animals (166), baseball (37), biomes (112), business (42), charts and graphs (130), civil war (80), dinosaurs (32), egypt (53), field trips (8), immigrants (6), immigration (38), japan (56), maps (165), mayans (7), medieval (19), mexico (30), multiple intelligences (6), musical instruments (15), nutrition (102), olympics (38), painting (54), probability (68), religions (27), rocks (31), russia (19), sports (55), statistics (79), tessellations (7), test prep (53), virtual field trips (15), volcanoes (45), water cycle (21)

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Immerse your students into your studies with a close up in depth look through virtual field trips. Visit places where time, money, and mileage inhibit your dreams for bringing your students into wondrous worlds. Find ways to visit where your class has never gone before. Create a personalized field trip to meet your every need with the detailed tutorials given. Find ways to motivate your most reluctant learners. ESL/ELL learners will appreciate the visit. Reach all types of learners through a class visit. Use field trips as a whole class anticipatory guide, a center activity, a home connection, or even as extra credit. Challenge your gifted students to be guides to their own learning. Make your class go global!

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obooko - Tony Stanton, Sarah Bainbridge, Tim Johnson

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7 to 12
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Join the writers and readers of obooko, the free site to publish and read ebooks. Readers' Choice Awards of 2011 winner for free eBooks , obooko offers a platform to ...more
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Join the writers and readers of obooko, the free site to publish and read ebooks. Readers' Choice Awards of 2011 winner for free eBooks , obooko offers a platform to share your work and read the works of others. Become a reviewer and write comments on other ebooks. As authors, you retain all rights with no charges or contracts. This site is legal and does not infringe on copyright laws. There are numerous categories to choose from: Romance and Women, Crime, Religion, Thriller, Mystery, Teens, and much more! This site is not intended for children under 13. Some of the content may not be appropriate for the classroom. So be sure to preview.
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tag(s): creative writing (67), ebooks (14), mysteries (19), novels (13), poetry (169), religions (27)

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For your language arts class, obooko contains many examples of contemporary writing. Selections for critiquing and editing are readily available without hurting any class member's feelings. Look at examples for current ideas and places to begin brainstorming. Included are free templates for different types of writing. Have each member of your class become a published author! Use the titles as writing prompts or read only half of the story and have students finish it in their own way. Bring each student's story into the lives of many. Assign critiques using obooko. You might even create a school or class obooko literary magazine during poetry month.

Library/media specialists may want to select certain ebooks to load on school iTouches for students to read and review. Start an obooko reading club with these free options.

If you are uncomfortable sharing here or school policy prohibits it, have your classes create a similar website (wiki) with published pieces from your school or class. Not familiar with wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through.

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Kids Talk Radio - Bob Barboza, Kids Talk Radio USA

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6 to 12
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Kids Talk Radio is maintained by educational professional, Bob Barboza to help kids learn to listen, speak, read, write, and compute effectively. Originally the project was started...more
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Kids Talk Radio is maintained by educational professional, Bob Barboza to help kids learn to listen, speak, read, write, and compute effectively. Originally the project was started for students in grade 4 to 8, but is expanding for students that are bilingual or at risk in grades 9 through 12. You can view parts of the radio shows via the website, find them on YouTube, or subscribe on iTunes! Kids radio broadcast by students for students. The topics range from news stories around the world to science to music to world cultures and more. Some of the videos are hosted on YouTube. If your district blocks YouTube, then they may not be viewable. You could always view that at home and bring them to class "on a stick" to share. Use a tool such as Zamzar reviewed here to download the videos from YouTube.

tag(s): musical instruments (15), podcasts (30), radio (18), sounds (52)

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Use this to inspire your own students to create their own in school radio programs, or if you can interest your administrators in the initiative, try to start Kids Talk Radio in your school. Use a tool such as PodOmatic (reviewed here). Within science for instance, have students do current reports of controversial science topics. In music, have students create songs and sing them. You can always use this simply as inspiration or join with the initiative.
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OPB: Art Beat at School - Oregon Public Broadcasting

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K to 12
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Here you will find an online collection of streaming video clips from OPB's Oregon Art Beat television series. In addition, there are 100 lesson plans designed for K-12 teachers to...more
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Here you will find an online collection of streaming video clips from OPB's Oregon Art Beat television series. In addition, there are 100 lesson plans designed for K-12 teachers to use in the classroom. Each of the lesson plans has related materials such as worksheets and scoring guides to use with the activities. Discover a variety of ways to integrate the Arts across all subject areas with this innovative set of learning resources.

Searching this site is very flexible. You can search by categories (music, drawing and painting, historical and cultural perspectives, dance, architecture, landscape, films, sculpture, and many more) by clicking on the "search video" tab. You can also search by entering a keyword. There is also an advanced search where you can search by topic categories, curriculum categories, as well as keywords.
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tag(s): architecture (45), art history (21), cross cultural understanding (38), cultures (62), dance (17), drawing (58), geometric shapes (42), painting (54), plays (19), sculpture (18), video (67)

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This site will help any teacher answer the question, "Why do I have to learn this?" You will also find ways to show connections between the arts and other fields of endeavor. Share the videos on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Here are just a few examples of how you can use the Arts in your academic classes:

In math when studying geometric patterns, you might want to show the video about quilt artist Mary Bywater Cross. She likes to take a traditional pattern, blow it up, figure out where to cut to make the repeat in her geometrical patterns, how to achieve symmetry and balance in her designs, and how to make it all work in the quilt she envisions. Mary is also a quilt historian, so your students will also gain background knowledge about quilts and wool.

In science, view quantum physicist-turned-sculptor, Julian Voss-Andreae's stainless steel sculpture based on the molecular structure of an antibody.
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PBS Learning Media - PBS

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K to 12
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This PBS site is a reorganized collection of over 16,000+ public media offerings (including radio and photographs), arranged specifically for preK-12 teachers. You can search by subject...more
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This PBS site is a reorganized collection of over 16,000+ public media offerings (including radio and photographs), arranged specifically for preK-12 teachers. You can search by subject and grade level across many subjects. After viewing three offerings, you must join (for free) to continue. Membership includes the option of saving favorites. You can also find correlations to state standards. The site is still in development, so material is being added frequently.

tag(s): alphabet (56), careers (78), dance (17), data (93), decimals (77), diseases (35), human body (54), mark twain (11), multimedia (17), music theory (14), percent (43), probability (68), problem solving (123), psychology (28)

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Find more details and teacher information under "Customization for States and District" to align the offerings here with your state's standards. Check this site for an introduction to a curriculum topic or unit or when looking for support activities to reinforce concepts. Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects. Share the interactives as a learning center or on your interactive whiteboard or projector. This is one that you want to save in your favorites.
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Disapainted - Matus Lestan

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4 to 12
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Make a series of sketches; then turn them into an animation with one click! Set up an account (free) and create an avatar to practice using the simple drawing tools. ...more
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Make a series of sketches; then turn them into an animation with one click! Set up an account (free) and create an avatar to practice using the simple drawing tools. Draw "cells" in which the action slowly progresses. Finally, click to see your cells together as animation! Typical basic drawing tools include a brush, a line, curvy lines, rectangle and circle shapes, polygons, paint, spray, colors, and an eraser. You can save and publish final animations. Be certain to preview anything you wish to share with your class. This site does not require Flash, but rather Java. It therefore will work on iOS devices!

tag(s): animation (38), drawing (58)

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Use this site to draw a quick sketch to show to your class instantly. Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Use this site as the way to add another dimension to individual or group projects. Encourage your students to use this tool for projects, such as simple animations of the rock cycle or water cycle, cells dividing, etc. Share the various projects on your interactive whiteboard or class wiki by url.

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