Technology

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Tubechop is a site that "allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it."

Sharing options include embedding, emailing, linking, and sharing on social media sites including Twitter, delicious, and Facebook.

Here is a clip "chopped" from the YouTube video Social Media in Plain English:

Internet Searching

As you may have noticed, I'm a HUGE fan of Google, but I recently found a new search engine for students. Often Google is overwhelming for students who are search for the best, most reliable information.

It's called Sweet Search and is located at http://www.sweetsearch.com/

Sweet Search searches only the 35,000 web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. They constantly evaluate search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.

Sweet Search was created by the team at Finding Dulcinea (http://www.findingdulcinea.com) which presents only credible, high-quality and trustworthy Web sites, saving time for the novice and the experienced user alike.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

Wondersay

made on Wondersay - Animate text with style

The animation above was created using Wondersay, a free tool for generating text animations. You can customize them with various fonts and colors or just use the random generator. Obviously, "wondersays" can be embedded on blogs and other HTML-code friendly sites!

USING GOOGLE EARTH IN YOUR CLASSROOM

Google Lit Trips

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

This is a site that makes use of Google Earth and allows teachers and students to create virtual examinations of the places mentioned in literature.

Google Historical Voyages and Historical Events

http://homepage.mac.com/larow2/Voyages/index.html

This is a site that makes use of Google Earth and allows teachers and students to create virtual examinations of the places of historical events and historical voyages.

More Web Tools

EduTecher:  Created by Adam Bellow, Edutecher is a site updated frequently with new Web tools for all disciplines.  You can narrow your search by subject area and grade level. Most web tools are free, and Adam says any of the sites he posts that have costs associated are well worth it.

www.edutecher.net

Ediscio: This is a website where teachers or students can create flashcards for review that have images, or video clips included.  Once these flash cards are created, they can be shared with classes, embedded in wikis or blogs, and viewed by others.

www.ediscio.com

What is your next step for using technology in the classroom?