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Technology Focus (T) - Websites
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Classification: (T
websites) (S cross discipline)
TED (Technology,
Entertainment, Design)
www.TED.com
TED is a small nonprofit
devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a
conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology,
Entertainment, and Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
In addition to its conferences TED now includes the award-winning
TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx
community program and the annual TED Prize. |
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Classification: (T
websites) (S cross discipline)
Shutterstock
http://www.shutterstock.com/
Shutterstock is the
largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Every day
thousands of photographs, illustrations, and vectors are added to the
outstanding collection of premium, royalty-free images. You can choose a
25-A-Day Subscription for the greatest savings (get 25 downloads every
day that's 750 each month) or select an On Demand Subscription for the
greatest flexibility (use downloads whenever you need them for up to a
year). Select the plan that's best for you, or choose as many different
plans as you need, and start downloading today. |
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Classification: (T
websites) (S cross discipline)
Flickr
www.flickr.com/creativecommons
Flickr is almost
certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in
the world. Show off your favourite photos and videos to the world. .
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative
Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each
type of license. |
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Classification: (T
websites) (S cross discipline)
Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Computational knowledge
engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly.
Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term
project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by
anyone. Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram Alpha uses its
built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the
answer.
Type in a question like: Estimated number of websites on the internet?
Receive the answer: 231.5 million as at April 2009 |
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Classification: (T
websites) (S cross discipline)
Wiki Answers
http://wiki.answers.com/
The worlds leading Q and
A site. Try it! |
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Classification: (E
cybersafety) (T websites)
NetSafe
http://www.netsafe.org.nz/
NetSafe is an independent
non-profit organisation that promotes confident, safe, and responsible
use of Cyberspace. NetSafe promotes cybersafety by educating and
supporting individuals, organisations, and industry, on a range of
cybersafety issues. NetSafe is a multi-stakeholder partnership which
represents a range of perspectives from New Zealands cybersafety
community. Founded in 1998, NetSafe is now a leading educational
advocate for cybersafety. NetSafe's work is made possible by
sponsorship, including Strategic Partners the Ministry of Education and
InternetNZ. |
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Classification: (T
websites) (S cross discipline)
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for
generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give
greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source
text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and
colour schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use
however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle
gallery to share with your friends. |
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Classification: (E
professional development) (T websites)
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/teachers
The US Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) has created a new website particularly for
use by teachers. As many will be aware, PBS is one of the higher profile
commentators on all facets of US society. Called simply PBS Teachers,
the site has interactive multimedia materials for all areas of the
curriculum, plus the neat facility to customise material for class use.
The materials and in particular the Flash files, are ideal for IWB use. |
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Classification: (T
websites)
Blackle by Google
www.blackle.com
"
If Google had a black
screen, taking into account the huge number of page views, according to
calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved." In response
Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle,
with the exact same functions as the white version, but obviously with
lower energy consumption. |
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Classification: (S
science) (T websites)
Hubbles Education
Resource Page
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/hubble-index.html
The Hubble educational
resource site offers activities and resources for three primary themes:
Hubble Careers, From Galileo to the Great Observatories, and the Hubble
Walk: Spacesuits and Spacewalks. Revisit this Web site often throughout
the next year for updates and added activities, resources, links to
complementary sites, and notices of special events. |
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Classification: (E
teachers) (T websites)
ABC Education
Resources
http://www.abc.net.au/learn/
The ABC Education
Resources website has a very broad range of activities searchable by
age, subject or content. BtN (Behind the News) is a high-energy fun way
for students to learn about current issues and events in their world.
Count Us In is specially prepared material to help younger children
understand numbers. You will also find an interactive music education
project, a sing online database, the Megafauna of Australia and lots of
very interesting projects. |
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Classification: (T
animation) (T websites)
Animated GIFS
http://www.animated-gifs.eu/
This website has 80,000+
free animated gifs, wallpapers and ecards to use and download. |
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Classification: (T
websites) (E teachers)
Edugator (Kel
Hathaway)
http://www.edugator.net.au/
Kel Hathaway is another
teacher who regularly presents for IWBNet. He has gathered a truck load
of lessons, resources and ideas on a website which he gives away to
teachers wanting some inspiration. |
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Classification: (T
software) (T websites)
Top 100 Tools
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html
Many of you would have
seen this list many times but it is always good to take another look
through it to gain some inspiration and reassurance that you are using
tools that are cutting edge and truly relevant to students today. |
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Classification: (E
teacher) (T websites)
Scootle
http://www.scootle.edu.au
Scootle is a catalogue
facility providing a host of resources for using digital media in the
classroom. You will find Learning objects, Audio, Video, Assessment
resources, Teacher resources and Collections. You can browse by Topic or
Search Term. |
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Classification: (S
science) (T websites)
The National Marine
Sanctuaries Media Library
https://marinelife.noaa.gov/media_lib/index.aspx
The National Marine
Sanctuaries Media Library is an online vault where a comprehensive
collection of select video clips and high-resolution still images from
America's underwater treasures are securely stored and available for
searchable access and download. |
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Classification: (E
online education) (T websites)
edna goes Interactive
Download: To
download this resource
click
here (Box.net)
This presentation was
presented by Janette Carter at the Sixth National IWB Conference in
2009.
Description: This
presentation will focus on edna resources for use on interactive
whiteboards (IWB). The presentation will demonstrate the IWB resources
available and also highlight how online IWB resources that meet the
needs of learners can be found using edna and professional networking. |
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