Useful sites (weekly)

Wind with Miller v3.0 The Danish Wind Industry Association has a good website for students to explore and learn about wind energy.
Crash Course in Wind Energy The Danish Wind Industry Association has a good website ( Crash Course in Wind Energy) for students to explore and learn about wind energy. A Crash Course in Wind Energy gives students the opportunity to see how wind energy is harnessed. In the course students will see how a wind turbine is built, learn what the parts of a wind power system do, and see a wind turbine simulation. Overall, it is a fairly simple site, but could be an effective demonstration in some science classes.
Ansel Adams’s Yosemite – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com In 2008 the New York Times created a great article and interactive feature about Ansel Adams’s photography of Yosemite National Park. The interactive feature includes nine of Ansel Adams’s photographs. When visitors click on a photograph it enlarges and a woman’s voice narrates a short story about Adams’s photography. In addition to the photographs there is an interactive map that displays the year in which and the place in the park where Adams took each photograph.
EIA Energy Kids – What Is Energy? Energy Kids is a website produced by the US Energy Information Administration for the purpose of educating students about energy and its many forms. Energy Kids provides a wealth of easily accessible information about energy which students can use to play games, solve riddles, and take quizzes about energy. Some of the games students will find include Energy Sudoku, crossword puzzles, and riddles. Energy Kids also provides students of all ages with ideas and outlines for science fair projects around the energy theme. The science fair projects are available as free PDF downloads.
Creating Dummy Gmail Accounts for Web 2.0 Applications | Technology Resource Teachers
SlateBox :: Visualize Everything Slatebox is a slick, new tool for collaboratively creating mind maps and organizational charts. Slatebox offers a variety of good-looking templates and intuitive tools for designing and editing mind maps and charts. Creating a mind map is a simple matter of selecting a template and using the visual editor to place text and images in boxes. Those boxes can be resized and rearranged using the drag and drop editor. If you need more text boxes, simply add more.
Start 3D photos: 3D photo sharing and printing made easy Start 3D enables anyone to easily create, share and print 3D photos.
Free online Multimedia Training Videos from the University of Westminster Excellent screencast resources from the University of Westminster. Part of a JISC supported project. Good for help with things like Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects and Director etc as well as general web design skills.
Learning in Hand – iPod touch in Education Lots of resources from Tony Vincent. This page focuses on the many things you can do with handheld devices in the classroom including the ever popular IPod Touch. Most of the apps are free.
PolicyTool for Social Media Free Social Media Policy Generator. “PolicyTool is a policy generator that simplifies the process of creating guidelines that respect the rights of your employees while protecting your brand online.*It’s easy. The streamlined process simply requires you to answer a brief questionnaire and provides you with a complete Social Media Policy customized to your company. ” ,
CK12.ORG FlexBooks ”CK-12 has developed an online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook.”
TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration! After having been taken over by google, Etherpad Chris Pirillo and Jake Warner have now “frozen the Etherpad code in time” and released it as Type With Me.
Cacoo – Create diagrams online Real time collaboration Cacoo is a feature-rich collaborative diagram creation resource. Like similar diagram creation tools, Cacoo allows you to draw shapes, type, and drag and drop elements of your diagram
TodaysMeet ”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. “
Engaging the Middle Years Learner with Technology – home A wiki resource to support the Engaging Middle Years Students in Learning
ipodgamesforlearning / FrontPage A wiki with specific ideas on how to use the iTouch in a secondary school
70 Awesome Open Source Tools for Graphic Designers No longer limited to freehand logos, graphic design is a booming field. From website design, to publications, presentations, and much more, graphic designers are in demand in just about every field imaginable.With so much demand, graphic designers can get caught up on the supply end. Don’t lose out on an opportunity or job because you aren’t equipped to handle it Use the below 70 awesome open source tools for graphic designers to get a leg up, expand your resume, and much more. Best of all, the price to put all of them to use is completely free.
TTS Online : Free Text to Speech Voices : Read The Words Free text to speech voices. Alternative methods to process written information. Can be used to assist non-readers/struggling readers. Helpful in ESL classrooms
netgened2010 – home ”Award winning author, Don Tapscott, and award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis (co founders of the Flat ClassroomTM Project) are excited to announce the 2010 NetGenEd Project, another global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today’s students to study leading technology trends and create their vision for the future. “
Welcome to Ember! The best way to share your design inspiration! another tool for making images of interfaces and other graphics and sharing them and using them as teaching aids.
web20-21stcentury-tools – home A well-organised wiki with lots of ideas and tools for educators.
Kate’s Paperie : Ideas and Inspiration : THE TEAR SHEET : Read Into It Amazing papercraft done with old books
Romeo and Juliet @Web English Teacher Good range of resources for teaching this play This site has great links and lesson plans with interactive activities for making Romeo and Juliet
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