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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://www.doccop.com |
| DOC Cop is a plagiarism, cryptomnesia and collusion detection tool that creates reports displaying the correlation and matches between documents or a document and the web. |
| DOC Cop does not take copyright or ownership of your material. It does not retain your material beyond the time it takes to generate your report. |
| DOC Cop gathers the evidence, and provides the information required for you to judge whether plagiarism, cryptomnesia or collusion has occurred. |
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www.polleverywhere.com/ |
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. |
http://scholar.google.com |
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. |
Tags: doc cop, google scholar, mindomo, poll everywhere, shmoop, web apps in education, websites for educators
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
WEB SITES WORTH VISITING
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www.flashcardexchange.com/ |
Flashcard Exchange is an internet application where you can create, study, print and download flashcards.
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http://www.notely.net/ |
Notely is the new tool for students of all ages looking for help to get better grades. Notely has all the tools a student could need, schedule, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more.
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 http://oovoo.com/ |
ooVoo is a powerful tool that gives organizations of all sizes an easy and affordable solution for video conferencing, desktop sharing and other communication capabilities– right from their personal computers.
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http://www.edmodo.com/
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Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component which allows teachers to post any privately shared item to a public timeline and RSS feed.
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http://teachade.com/
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TeachAde combines the best features of social networking with educational resources for teachers. TeachAde is unique because it is one of the few websites for classroom teachersfree and easy to use. Members are able to contribute a variety of files, including multimedia files and complete lesson plans, for others to download and enjoy. In addition to offering blogs and free teacher sites TeachAde offers a real community of educators collaborating on projects. that is completely |
Tags: edmodo, flashcard exchange, notley, oovoo, teachade
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php |
PhET Interactive Simulations has free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations. (Submitted by Patrick Gillespie, Certificate student) |
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http://chartle.net |
Chartle is a web based application that lets you create, embed and share your plots, maps, charts, diagrams and business reports online.(Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Master’s Program Coordinator) |
 http://cobocards.com |
Cobocards are virtually created flashcards. You can print them and study offline, edit them again and again, compare with older versions, check the status of your knowledge, upload pictures and graphs, and share your flashcards with friends.. (Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Master’s Program Coordinator) |
http://classtools.net/
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Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! |
http://www.doink.com
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DoInk is a web based application that lets you easily draw and animate online. You can collaborate with friends and other artists by reusing the works already created. |
Tags: chartle.net, classtools.net, cobocards.com, doink.com, phet.colorado.edu
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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www.starfall.com |
Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling. (Submitted by Lori Kindsvatter) |
www.mariaclaudiacortes
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Color in Motion is an interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism. (Submitted by Victoria Hussey) |
learn.genetics.utah.edu |
How does geneticsaffect our lives? The Learn Genetics website has online activities, labs, experiments, and workshops for students, teens, and all others curious about genetics. (Submitted by Lori Kindsvatter) |
www.timeforkids.com/TFK |
TIME for Kids is a weekly news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about – and it’s the best nonfiction text you’ll find!A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math. (Submitted by Barb Benford) |
issuu.com |
Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Using Issuu you can collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best. (Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Ed Tech Master’s Program Coordinator) |
Tags: color in motion, Issuu, learn genetics, starfall, TIME for Kids
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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Description and Educational Applications
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http://www.hotchalk.com |
HotChalk is a free online learning management system (LMS) designed specifically for K-12 educators. HotChalk helps teachers easily and quickly develop customized lesson plans and assignments, locate and integrate curriculum materials, and manage assignments and grading. |
http://more.mel.org/ |
MORE – Michigan Online Resources for Educators, a portal for K-12 teachers was developed in partnership with Michigan Department of Education, Michigan e- Library and Wayne State University. What makes this portal unique is that all of the resources are ALIGNED TO THE MICHIGAN CONTENT EXPECTATIONS (K-12). Currently we have several thousand math and science resources in the site, we are working on adding resources for the other core areas. We anticipate having approximately 8,000 resources in the portal within the next month. |
http://www.engrade.com/ |
Engrade is a free set of web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online class information. It’s private, secure, truly free, and unbelievably easy to use. |
http://www.gliffy.com/ |
Gliffy is an online application that makes it easy for you to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams. It looks and feels like a desktop application, but it works through your web browser, so there is nothing to install or maintain.(Submitted by Certificate student Loni Brent) |
http://mywebspiration.com/
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Webspiration™ is the new online visual thinking tool that helps you capture ideas, organize information, diagram processes and create clear, concise written documents whether working individually or collaboratively. With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best. (Submitted by Certificate student Huda Abouhammoud) |
Tags: Engrade, Gliffy, HotChalk, Michigan Online Resources for Educators, Web Sightings, Webspiration
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://icue.com |
iCue is a free collaborative learning environment which includes hundreds of current and historic videos from NBC News, fun games and activities, and discussion forums.(Submitted by Lawrence Bruce, Master’s student) |
http://weebly.com |
Weebly – Create a free website or blog in minutes by using a simple drag and drop interface. No ads. One of Time’s 50 best websites of the year. (Submitted by Megan, Master’s student) |
http://wetpaint.com |
Wetpaint lets you build a rich, online community around the whatever-it-is that you’re really into. Utilizing the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks, Wetpaint mixes everything you need so you can create, collect, and organize content on your own social website. |
http://thinkfinity.com
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Thinkfinity is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation’s literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training. This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network. (Submitted by Certificate student Linda Pike) |
http://free-reading.net
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FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence that can supplement an early literacy core or basal program. |
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://terraclues.com/ |
TerraClues is a puzzle game where the objective is to find locations on the world map by solving a set of clues. Each time you solve a clue, the next clue will be unlocked until all clues have been solved. (Submitted by Certificate student Jennifer Allen)
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http://www.diigo.com |
Diigo is two services in one — it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. It is like del.icio.us meets Ning. (Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Coordinator of the Master’s program) |
http://www.shodor.org/
interactivate/ |
Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions. |
http://webtools4u2use.
wikispaces.com/ |
Web Tools 4 U 2 Use wiki is for school library media specialists and other educators to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media programs, and share ideas & success stories. |
https://www.photoshop.com/express |
Adobe is now offering a free web=-based version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. Upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more. (Submitted by Certificate student Joel Flint) |
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://www.viddler.com/ |
Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easilyinside your web browser.(Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Coordinator for the Master’s in Educational Technology Program at MSU) |
http://jumpcut.com/ |
If creating a video and publishing it to the web seems like a challenge, we think you’ll find that Jumpcut makes it easy and fun. If you’ve been wondering what to do with the video you shoot with your snazzy new camera (or your phone), Jumpcut is the perfect place for you to be creative. If video isn’t your thing just yet and you just want to make cool slideshows with your pictures, Jumpcut is still the best place.Finally, it is also a free online location where you can use all your media, create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose.(Submitted by Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Coordinator for the Master’s in Educational Technology Program at MSU) |
http://nettrekker.com/ |
This award-winning educational search engine brings the best of the web to K-12 students, teachers, librarians, and parents. netTrekker d.i. connects you and your students to more than 180,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites – organized by readability level and aligned with your state standards, providing resources ideal for every student’s learning needs with safe, reliable results.(Submitted by several Educational Technology Certificate Students) |
http://www.commoncraft.com |
Common Craft has created several videos that help explain some of the new Web 2.0 technologies in a humorous and less technical format. They make complex ideas easier to understand. They focus on simplicity, creativity and clear explanations to create videos that stick. Learn more about RSS feeds, blogging, wikis, and social bookmarking through these short 3-5 minute videos. |
http://cnx.org/ |
Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons “attribution” license. |
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://www.visuwords.com/ |
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) |
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/
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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. |
http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ |
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) |
http://www.scribd.com/ |
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. |
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://www.jingproject.com |
Jing is a new project by TechSmith. It is downloadable software that you can use to capture images or videos of your computer screen and then share them with your friends through email, IM or your blog. This is currently a project that TechSmith is trying out to see if the idea is useful and how they might package it to sell. But for now it is free. Go try it out before they begin charging for it.(Submitted by Michael Partridge, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program) |
http://www.hippocampus.org |
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.Currently the topics that are covered include: Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus, Environmental Science, Physics, Religion, and US History. |
http://www.teachersfirst.com |
Teachers First is a rich collection of lessons, units and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using the subject/grade level search, keyword search or extensive menus.(Submitted by Dr. Kathryn Dirkin, Professor at Central Michigan University) |
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/ |
Discover education resources and information, lesson plans, field trips, and fun interactive activities for educators, families, and students at the Smithsonian Education website. All based on Smithsonian museum collections and research. |
http://maculspace.ning.com |
MACUL Space is a digital playground for future, current and past members of MACUL to network and share ideas about education.
MACUL Space allows members to easily share photos, websites, podcasts, and videos from any of the popular video sharing sites on the Internet. It is free to sign up for the space. Sign up today!
(Submitted by Melissa White, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program)
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://www.go2web20.net/ |
Go2Web20 is a comprehensive index of the latest Web 2.0 applications and services. By mousing over the logo of an application you will get a brief description of what it does. By clicking on a logo of an application you will get a detailed description and the web site address. |
http://www.macul.org |
The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization established in 1975 dedicated to bringing educators from all levels together to share their knowledgeand concerns regarding educational uses of computers and technology. MACUL offers many workshops and conferences throughout the school year with their annual conference being held every March. They also produce several publications including the MACUL Journal and their online newsletter. |
http://www.readingrockets.org/ |
Reading Rocketsoffers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Their reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.(Submitted by Susan Wright, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program) |
http://www.picnik.com/ |
Picnik is an online photo editor that lets you quickly edit all your photos online in one place. It is currently in beta version and is free to use. Users must register in order to begin using the web application. Because it is an online photo editor there is nothing to install or download. |
http://www.w3schools.com/ |
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP. The tutorials are listed on the left side of the web site. It has several ads but we have come to expect it with items that are “free”. |
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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http://www.zotero.org/ |
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.A great extension for students to use when conducting research for a project or paper.You will need Firefox 2.0 in order to use this extension. |
http://google.com/notebook |
Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you’re browsing the web.Teachers can create a Google Notebook for a particular lesson when they want students to have access to many sites for their project. Instead of creating a Word document with a list of websites for them to use, teachers can share a Google Notebook with them.(Submitted by Carolyn McCarthy, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program) |
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/ |
The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a free online resource for educators. This online community provides a wealth of content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units, rich with digital media.ALI enables educators to create their own curriculum content, find colleagues, collaborate around their classroom methods and experiences, and share movies, images, sounds, and other powerful teaching tools. |
http://creativecommons.org/ |
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.This is a great site that can provide clear guidance about acceptable and legal uses of digital content that you may want to use in your classroom. In order to conduct a search click on the Find CC Licensed Work link at the top of the page.If you and your students are creating content that you share on the web you may want to consider licensing your work on Creative Commons as well. |
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ |
Flashcard Exchange web site is an internet application where you can create, study, print and download flashcards.You need to create a free account to create flashcards that you can share with your students online. For a small one time fee you can get a membership account that will let you print your flashcards or export them to Word or Excel. |
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
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http://www.google.com/educators |
The Google for Educators website has teacher’s guides to Google products, including basic information about each tool, examples of how educators are using them, and lesson ideas. You’ll also find lesson plans and videos from Discovery Education focusing on two of the most popular teaching tools: Google Earth and Google SketchUp.They also have a free newsletter that provides tips and updates on Google tools and features. |
http://www.thinkfree.com |
ThinkFree.com is a Web-based, server hosted office suite that allows users to create, edit and share word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation files anytime, anywhere.This is great for students and teachers to be able to create files at school and still be able to access them at home even without having Microsoft Office installed on their computer. Thinkfree can also be used as a collaboration tool, allowing students to see each others work via a web browser. Because this program is Web-based an Internet connection is required. |
http://themathworksheetsite.com/ |
The Math Worksheet Site is not a collection of worksheets. It is a web site that creates the worksheets you want when you want them according to the criteria you specify.The Math Worksheet Site has a free section where a limited number of types of worksheets are available in HTML format. The subscription area of the site has a much broader range of types of worksheets available in PDF format.(Submitted by Susan Wright, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program) |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ |
Dance Mat is a fun colorful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.(Submitted by Susan Wright, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program) |
http://www.internet4classrooms.com |
Internet 4 Classrooms is a great site that includes tutorials on many different applications such as PowerPoint, Excel, and Dreamweaver as well as lesson plan ideas, links to great websites, assessment assistance, integration ideas and much more.(Submitted by Susan Wright, instructor of the Educational Technology Certificate program) |
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