Web Sightings
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Teachers can make all different types of worksheets and post them on the web for their students |
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Kidz Online(KOL), a federally-funded, nonprofit organization, combines the concept of peer-to-peer training with a web-based content delivery system, providing a fascinating and innovative new way to integrate technology into the classroom. Throughout this site, you’ll find free videos and free lesson plans that will give you a new insight into using technology. Train yourself and then train your students. |
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LearnIT is an innovative web-based educational resource that provides free, user-friendly learning resources for teachers and students, and demonstrates the power and potential of broadband technology. This site develops technology skills, engages students in technology through stimulating multimedia resources, and provides teachers with resources to help them integrate technology into the learning environment. |
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Archive.org is a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Got a favorite website that you can no longer access. Type in the address at this site and you will be able to view it once again. Teachers and students can also use this site to see the changes in a website over a period of time. |
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CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents – with just a push of a button! Teachers can use this to turn worksheets and other documents into PDFs before posting to the web. |
