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publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. |
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VoiceThread group conversations |
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Yuuguu web-conferencing |
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| Screencast | X | $9.95/month or $99.95/year |
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| Make TV | X | professional and expensive | |
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| Screencasting / a middle school example | X | Upgrade to a Pro account for 1-year for just $12 bucks! / | |
Jing - create video/webcasts |
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Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor. Subset of Screencast above |
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Free Surveys |
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Flypaper create instant flas |
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Programming and Robotics |
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| Kinect Hacks | X | KinectHacks.com is a community dedicated in becoming the number one source of news, codes and information about the latest and most innovative Microsoft Kinect user-made programs. | |
| Kinect education | X | KinectEDucation is a community-driven resource for developers, teachers, students, enthusiasts, and any other education stakeholder to promote the use of Kinect applications – open source, freeware, and commercial – in classrooms. | |
| GitHub | X | Git is an extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. | |
SWiSH Flash creation |
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Stage Cast make games |
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Gap Minder Data visualisation |
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| Adafruit | X | electronics - robots | |
FMSLogo: Educational Programming Environment |
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Blender free 3D maker |
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The Blender site was down when I tried it so try again for China 07/17/11 |
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Comic Life comic creation (lessons) |
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Rhino Rhino Rocks |
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GIMP free GNU Image Manipulation Program |
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morphing animal+you |
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Flypaper create instant flash |
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Tux Paint K - 2 |
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Glowdoodle re. painting with light in front of webcam |
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Social Sites |
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2nd Life / skoolaborate Sydney (also) |
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Virtully for K - 12 |
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we world (4-5 grade) |
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Imbee age 8 - 12 |
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Boombang grades K - 3 |
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Dofus - 6th grade + multiplayer game |
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Sanriotown Hello Kitty |
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Webkinz - Primary - virual pets |
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Club Penguin First grade + |
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Marapets Virtual Pets |
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Neopets Virtual Pets |
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Endless-online Role playing 6 - 12 grade |
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Furcadia Role Playing Grades 6 - 12 |
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Millsbury food games |
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technology in class |
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| Udemy | Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online. The goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world's experts. | ||
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'An open source site which lets users assemble educational materials – videos, documents, charts – in one place. Called knowledge chunks, these lessons can then be shared with the public for revising and remixing.' (Wired Magazine, August 2011, P. 130) |
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| Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | X | The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York City Teachers – Free guides, lessons, and images on many art topics | |
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More than 800 universities offer lectures on iTunes – great for using iPhones in the classroom |
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videos on web programming and etc from Google – may not be available in China |
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| Skype education | X | Skype is availalbe but the education site seems to be blocked | |
| X | Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool. Multiple users editing the same diagram means Real-Time Collaboration. | ||
| Psykopaint | X | Like the name implies - do wonderful? things with images | |
| Sharing Diagrams | X | Instant project collaboration, inline commenting, one click publishing and team management. it is $75 though free if using in Chrome apps | |
| Brain POP | X | BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement | |
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WestEd - Differentiated Instruction |
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Gap Minder World Stats |
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Atomic Learning tutorials |
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VTC tutorials |
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Curriculum - global ed: |
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Curriki education resources |
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HotChaulk NBC globa |
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Schoolhouse: Lesson plans and resources for Technology education |
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Mediating Media (PBS) |
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referencing & etc. |
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citeulike free service for managing and discovering scholarly references |
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Connotea Free online reference management |
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Bir.ly shorten long URLs |
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Author stream ~ Share PowerPoint |
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LunaPic online editor |
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Scribd book sharing |
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Notepad - free source code editor |
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Share - Share makes creating interactive presentations, animations, and web sites easy and fun. With just one tool, students can combine text, graphics, original illustrations and animations, movies, and hyperlinks to demonstrate understanding and mastery. |
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Diigo - collect & organise anything. |
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File Sharing quanp free |
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