Web+2.0+Apps

__**Internet Sites for the 21st Century Classroom**__

//"The way we make curriculum reflects how we are. Get up to date!"// - Dr Heidi Hayes Jacobs

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**﻿﻿Take a look at the following applications - and make the commitment to try one in your classroom this term.** It is a brilliant way to visually explore word relationships. Students can use it to type in spelling or vocabulary words and discuss the relationship the related tags have to the original word. Students can click on the original idea to get a visual understanding of the word in the form of a picture globe. The connection with Flickr helps students to visualize words, ideas, and concepts by providing a variety of pictures that match the tag. || [] || Schoology is an easy-to-use, easy-to-implement online learning, classroom management, and social networking platform that enhances student engagement and improves learning through better communication, collaboration, and increased access to curriculum and supplemental content. || [] https://www.schoology.com/home.php || [] ||
 * ** Site Name ** || ** Description ** || ** Website ** ||
 * ** OoVoo ** || Released in 2007, ooVoo is an audio and video instant messaging client for Windows. Calls can be recorded in real time. || [|www.oovoo.com] ||
 * ** Google Ngram ** || When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. || [|www.ngrams.googlelabs.com] ||
 * ** Gapminder ** || Gapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view || [|www.gapminder.org] ||
 * ** Google time Line ** || [|Google News Timeline] is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies. || [|www.google.com] and select timeline on left side tab feature when searching ||
 * ** Google Wonder Wheel ** || Google’s new feature called Google Wonder Wheel is another manner in which users can view their search results. It is unique as it presents a visual wheel of phrases that is related to the main search query. || [|www.google.com] and select wonder wheel when searching from the left side tabs. ||
 * ** Visual Thesaurus ** || An online //thesaurus// and dictionary of over 145000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually || [|www.visualtheasaurus.com/] ||
 * ** Vocab Grabber ** || VocabGrabber analyses any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. || [] ||
 * ** Wolframalpha ** || Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods || [] ||
 * ** Tag Galaxy ** || Is a neat little tool that helps students to explore relationships between words and ideas as well as view pictures related to that word. Type in a word to search and immediately you are transferred to a galaxy with the original word at the center and the associated ideas orbiting around it. When you click on the word in the center, a globe populates with pictures from [|Flickr] that are tagged with that word. Click on one of the orbiting words and tags related to that word start to orbit. [|Tag Galaxy] is a very neat way to view information!
 * ** PodBean ** || Podbean is a Podcast Publishing and Social Subscribing site.
 * Publish your own podcast is fast, easy and free.
 * Discover popular podcasts and find what other people subscribe to.
 * Collect your favorite podcasts in one place and access them from anywhere on the web.
 * Share your taste in podcast with friends and get recommendation in return. || [] ||
 * ** Edmodo **
 * Schoology** || Edmodo is a free, secure, social learning platform for teachers, students, schools and districts. Edmodo provides teachers and students with a secure and easy way to post classroom materials, share links and videos, and access homework, grades and school notices. Teachers and students can store and share all forms of digital content – blogs, links, pictures, video, documents, presentations, and more. There are also special institutional features for schools and districts that can be accessed for free by administrators.
 * ** Newspaper Map ** || Newspaper Map shows you the front pages of newspapers from around the world, displayed on a Google Map. If it just stopped at that, it wouldn’t be much different from the well-known Newseum. But it doesn’t stop there. Unlike newseum, Newspaper Map lets you click on the front page to gain acces to the entire newspaper. And, even better, with one quick click, you can choose the language you want the paper translated into. || [] ||
 * ** Art Project ** || A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Simply select a museum from the homepage and then either choose ‘Explore the museum’ or ‘view artwork’. Once you are in the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. || [] ||
 * ** Zoo Burst ** || ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. || [] ||
 * ** Today’s meet ** || **TodaysMeet ** helps you embrace the [|backchannel] and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs. || [] ||
 * ** Quizlet ** || Quizlet is the **largest flash cards and study games website ** with over 5 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online. For more info see [] || [] ||
 * ** Typewith.me ** || For real-time collaboration but not the interface or registration, check out TypeWith.me. It's a solid, simple, as-you-type document collaboration webapp with no sign-up required. Getting started with this free app is as simple as clicking the New Document button on the site's home page. You're instantly dropped into an edit-ready page where you can start typing right away, or import an HTML, plain text, RTF, or Word document. Each online document has its own unique URL you can share with others for real-time co-editing, and there's a small window for chatting on your edits. TypeWith.me helpfully assigns different colors to each author so you can easily track who's typed what, and the app instantly synchronizes as you type so changes appear in real time. When you're done, export your work to one of six file formats, including Word, PDF, and HTML. || [] ||
 * ** Museum box ** || This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. || [] ||
 * ** Richerpicture.org ** || Digital portfolios for student development || []
 * ** Google Lit Trips ** || **By combining the satellite imagery of Google Earth with a literature study of a fiction book, you can immerse your students into a book in a new and exciting way. Allows teacher to bring literature to life for their students and incorporate a new and trendy technology tool into lessons. ** || [] ||
 * ** News Action network ** || The Student News Action Network takes the concept of the school newspaper beyond school walls and the confines of print media, allowing students to work collaboratively on a global level to create an interactive, multimedia-rich student-driven online newspaper. || [] ||
 * ** Worldmapper.org ** || Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above to find a map of interest. || [] ||
 * ** Poodwaddle.com ** || Archive of free Flash gadgets, clocks, and applets, including the World Clock of course. All our applets are completely free - ad-free, virus-free, scam-free, fat-free, germfree, handsfree, scotfree, Stayfree... um... maybe not that last one... Poodwaddle requires no sign-up or membership. Add our applets to your website, blog, or social net profile. Simply copy the small embed code snippet (shown in the lower left of each applet page). || [] ||
 * **Weather Spark** || WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context. || [] ||

EarthPulse explores these global connections with vivid and informative imagery, maps, diagrams, and interactives that illuminate where we are today, how we got here, and how our actions may affect the future of life on Earth. || [] ||
 * ** 2mminutes.com ** || The Finland Phenomenon – inside the world’s most surprising school system || [] ||
 * ** National geographic earth pulse ** || Modern humans relate to our planet and to one another in ways that may seem simple on the surface, but when examined carefully, can be mind-bogglingly complex. Turn on a light switch, place a phone call, eat a meal and you tap into a vast network of actions and consequences that connect us to the Earth and to other humans in ways both beneficial and detrimental.
 * ** Facingthefuture.org ** || //Facing the Future// engages students in learning by making academics relevant to their lives. We empower students to think critically, develop a global perspective, and participate in positive solutions for a sustainable future. We do this by providing educators with the tools and resources they need to ignite their students’ interest in complex global issues while helping them achieve academically. || [] ||
 * ** Asia Society ** || Asia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia. We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture, policy and business, and education. || [] ||
 * **Voice Thread** || Forum for students to use in order to give oral feedback on all types of written and visual products and documents. Very user friendly for younger students, too. Teachers can control the participants. || http://voicethread.com/ ||
 * **Wall Wisher** || Wall wisher is an online notice board maker. It's like post-its - online! || http://www.wallwisher.com/ ||
 * **Story Nory** || Interactive site on FAIRY TALES for K-2 ELA classrooms || http://storynory.com/archives/fairy-tales/ ||
 * **Story Bird** || Often, we ask students to come up with a visual AFTER they create text. This reverses that and gives them the visual FIRST, allowing for more ideas, more creativity, and better writing! || http://storybird.com/ ||
 * **Tagxedo** || The NEW wordle! || http://www.tagxedo.com/ ||
 * **Against All Odds** || The game which lets you experience what it is like to be a refugee - an interactive game which helps children develop empathy and explanation. Developed by the UNHCR. || [] ||

[] is a great site with hundreds of different applications for educators.

[] and check out the clearing house for some great applications - sorted by subject area.

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