Web Sightings
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. People vote by sending text messages (or using Twitter) to options displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time. Advanced uses include texting comments to a presentation, texting questions to a presenter, web voting, and SMS interactivity in print, radio, and TV. (Submitted by Ronda Brown) | ||||||
 http://www.mindomo.com/ |
Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser – with no complex software to install or maintain.
Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends. |
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. (Submitted by Beth Rogers) | ||||||
 http://www.shmoop.com/teachers/ |
Shmoop is a web site that provides study guides for the areas of literature, poetry, US history, and civics. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. This site is currently a beta test. | ||||||
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