Web Sightings
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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Visuwords™ is an online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
(Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Coordinator for the Master’s in Educational Technology Program at MSU) |
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The Internet is changing the way teachers teach and students learn. Thirteen Ed Online is helping shape the future of education in the digital age. This free service features everything from standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities to a multimedia primer, online mentors, and reviews of curriculum-based Web sites. |
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Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which you can print out or use online. All of the guides are completely customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can share them and work on them in groups too.
(Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Coordinator for the Master’s in Educational Technology Program at MSU) |
http://www.teachertube.com/ |
Teacher Tube’s goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.(Submitted by several students in the Educational Technology Certificate program in the Sharing Tips and Tricks forum) |
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Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you! Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web. |