Scribblar

Scribblar

Hmm - online whiteboards always seem like a good idea to me, but I have never been able to sell them.
I like this one because
1) it requires no sign -up and
2)it lets you take a snapshot of the page. Maybe this would work with math notes?

Zinn Education Project

Teaching A People's History http://www.zinnedproject.org/

A collection of resources and lesson plans based on teaching history from a passionate place, a nontraditional view, and a social justice view of history.

Classroom idea: Lots of ideas for lessons that could go cross curricular - especially religion and history.

I knew of The People Speak on the History Channel and read about this on Free Technology for Teachers, a blog I read for great ideas

Block Posters http://www.blockposters.com

I found this tool, new for me, to enlarge images to poster size. Just upload image , choose size and you get a pdf file you can cut and place as a poster

Wordnik

Wordnik http://www.wordnik.com/



This is an interesting website. It serves as a dictionary, but I really like the real time aspect of tweets that use the word, as well as images. I also like the statistical use summary.

Classroom ideas. Use this tool to present vocabulary words, both in English and other languages.

dotSUB

dotSUB http://dotsub.com/ This site offers videos subtitled into different languages. Members can do the transcribing.


Classroom idea.
Have a class take a favorite video and translate it and load it on dotSUB
Use dotSUB original language videos with the original language subtitles as a teaching tool.

Rich Chart Live

Rich Chart Live http://www.richchartlive.com


I like this chart maker. It has a nice variety of displays.

Classroom idea:

1. Extend an excel lesson by displaying data dynamically.
2. Add interest to your own blog or moodle unit introduction.
   

Plagium

Plagium http://www.plagium.com/


Detect plagiarism on the fly. Turnitin costs
our school about 1000 . Could this be a cheaper, less intrusive way to go?