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Classroom Uses
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- Voicethread site for NWS
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- Smartboard resources from Jimi at the Evergreen School.
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- Free Sound Clips
Copyright
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- Activities and information about copyright
Curriculum
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- Terrific site covering many aspects of life in the Middle Ages
Environment And Global Warming
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- This carbon dioxide emission calculator will help you gain an approximate idea of how many tons of carbon dioxide some your activities generate and how many trees it would take to offset those emissions
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- We all contribute to global warming every day. The carbon dioxide you produce by driving your car and leaving the lights on adds up quickly. You may be surprised by how much Co2 you are emitting each year. Calculate your personal impact and learn how you can take action to reduce or even eliminate your emissions of carbon dioxide.
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- Take the NWS transportation survey and help us gather information on how our community gets to and from school.
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- Starbucks' Climate Awareness program. Play the game and find ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
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- Calculate your carbon footprint and find steps you can take to reduce it.
Interactive Web
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- Great blog site for those new to blogging.
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- Online and collaborative mindmapping and brainstorming.
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- Collect, tag and annotate your favorite websites
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- David Warlick's podcast site
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- Find educational podcasts, how-tos, or post your own or your student's podcasts.
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- Podcasts and Audio Books, many of the free! Great site to look for audio, and educational podcasts. Think about this for students that have difficulty reading or need other ways to process written information.
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- Virtual reality world. Create an alter ego for yourself and then have a look at what educational institutions are doing! Think distance learning in a virtual world.
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- Collaborative tools for students. Take notes, create schedules and calendars, share your work with group partners.
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- Teacher-created v-casts on all sorts of topics including specific lessons for students, tutorials and social commentary.
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- Create a wiki for yourself or others to use. Educational institutions can get the premium account for free.
Internet Safety
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- Activities and videos to help you learn to stay safe on the Internet.
Media Awareness
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- Everything you ever need to know about the famous explorers
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- Information and history of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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- How to evaluate a website for credibility
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- Lesson Plans from Annenberg Foundation about using Wikipedia and other online sources wisely.
Professional Development
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- David Warlick's entertaining and very informative blog about the state of education and educational technology today.
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- A new online journal from Education Week on what's new, what's exciting and what's workin in educational technology.
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- Links to all sorts of useful sites for students and teachers.
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- Online, self-paced tutorials for all of the Microsoft products, including the Office suite.
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- Online tutorials that you can do at your own pace. Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Excel and more.
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- An article from Read/Write Web outlining all sorts of interactive web applications.
Search Engines
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- A search engine that not only does not give you the millions of hits that Google does, but groups them by relevance and provides a list of related topics. A very, very good way to find sub topics that help you narrow your research.
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- Visual search engine that pulls related topics and factoids from Wikipedia. A very good place to start narrowing research, and you can drag the factoids to a notebook page so that you can keep track of your research.
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- Visual search engine. Instead of boring old words, this nifty search engine pulls up images and arranges them in a rotatable cube. Perfect for visual learners!
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- Sort of a search engine aggregator, Triplify pulls the top results from Google, Yahoo and MSN Live. An advantage to using this engine rather than Google is that you only get the top 15-20 hits from all three. You can also specify which of the three you don't want to use.
Seniors
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- Google Apps page for Calvin's class.
Social Networks
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- This probably doesn't need much explanation but think of the possibilities for collaboration!
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- Upload, tag and create using your photographs.
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- Save links and pages you find on the internet.
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- The social network for Northwest's faculty and students.
Study Helps
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- Get yourself ready for that vocabulary test, TOEFL or SAT with this free vocabulary quiz site. Simply enter your words and definitions, choose the quiz method and start practicing!
Uncategorized
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- Good example of using VoiceThread to create a classroom conversation on Current Events
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