Monday, April 25, 2011

10 Free On-Line Resources: Version 2011

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html
Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, and navigate to parts that interest you. (only works in Chrome or Firefox 4)

http://www.qwiki.com/
Qwiki is the world’s first “information experience”, powered by a technology that transforms static information into interactive stories.

http://www.worldmapper.org/
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters.

http://www.librivox.org
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

http://www.linoit.com
lino is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser.

http://www.dropbox.com
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again! 2GB free space, works on Windows, Macintosh, and mobile devices.

http://www.archive.org
Internet Archive: Wayback Machine lets you browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

http://education.skype.com
Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms.

http://www.nsdl.org
NSDL is the nation's online portal for education and research on learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

http://snipsnip.it/
Snipit and notbing work with each other to allow users to find videos. After you have found a video you can shorten the video and create a unique url that shows the shortened video

http://vocaroo.com/
A website that allows you to record and playback your voice. If desired, it can be shared with others. Extremely simple interface.
How does it work? Vocaroo is very straightforward to use. In fact, it’s so easy that there is only ONE button that you can press when you arrive the website.. the record button!

http://voki.com/
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

http://www.tagxedo.com
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

http://www.cloud-canvas.com/index.php
CloudCanvas enables creative people to make digital art, design and other rich media right in the web browser. ----No plugins are required.

http://todaysmeet.com/
Todays Meet is a microblogging backchannel that empowers computer classroom teachers to generate a discussion, without the interference of raised hands or student disruption.

http://learnitin5.com/
Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom.
We hope this list will help you expand your resources. In the comments section below, please add your favorite resource and how you use it. Thank you very much.