AugSept08

=[|Survey Site]= This site is wonderful for conducting both parent and student online surveys. This would not only provide faster feedback, but save time and paper from making copies and awaiting written responses. I think it is a wonderful tool! As a matter of fact, I could have used this a week ago when I sent out a field trip cost survey to my parents and waitedf 2 or 3 days before receiving all of the responses. This would have been much faster! Renay Wigley = = = = = = = = = = I liked [|www.xtranormal.com] It looks like a news channel and you can record instructions and have the woman talk as if she were you. Mrs. Byrd = []=

=Karaoke Party is great!!! You hook up a microphone to your computer and sing along with popular songs. People who cannot read music follow graphics that move up or down according to pitch and while your singing, the graphics show you if you are on pitch or how off you were. It is really cool! Jennifer Gebczyk= = = =LivePresentations- Great for finding presentations. Helpful for preparing my students for Senior Boards or any other presentation assignment.== = = =[] So many of our students have talents that aren't related to their academic skills in the classroom. This is a great site to encourage our artists. If we can keep our kids involved and interested in school despite their academic weaknesses, then we can prepare them for the world after high school! Cherie Owens= = = =[] This site is a blogging site, but it had some graphics and you can blog or read blogs by topic. This might be a site where I take my students next year to have them look at blogging before we do our capstone, which is blogging to improve writing skills.= Regina Crawford =http://nomee.com/ This site helps to manage all the aspects of networking. It is all-in-one networking software. I may be able to uses this for my students next year when we start our capstone where students will be able to share information with classmates on their project.= =Ron Paino= =http://bloglovin.com/welcome.php I love this site!! I have a personal blog for photography and I am linked to other blogs of the same interest. I hate having to check up on each site by clicking each indivual link. This is great! It puts all recent posts from your favorite blogs into one place. ~Suzy Stark =

=http://www.e-learningforkids.org/ This is a great site for reteaching, previewing, or even teaching a lesson in a variety of subjects/topics. It includes both instruction and practice and would work well on a Promethean board. Kristy Lapham = = = http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStations.aspx?m=1&l=1&zip=30188&x=17&y=12 This will give you the local gas stations, the gas availability, and price. (I think that it is updated daily?)**
 * http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Image+ToolsThis is a page full of image tools. Some are organizing tools such as flickr and others allow you to be creative with imagery.Chris Lambert, Cherokee High School

http://www.yoozila.com/
I found the search engine yoozila to be very interesting and easy to us. I plan to have my students use it as an alternative to Google.

[|https://www.researchgate.net]
[|/] is a weblog that is used by scientists as they do there research. My students may find this helpful for their reseach projects.

http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home
is a website that allows students to build and animinate interactive activities. Sharon Kirby

This is a cool web application tool! Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like. [|www.280slides.com]

Kathy I thought this site was cool. I teach Social studies and love doing timelines with my class. I have used timeliner before, but this one lets you add photo's and objects to make the timeline more creative. It is also easy to access from home (it isn't software), so children can work on a project at their convienence.- Christine Cantrell =I found this neat site called babyspot.com. Since I have little ones at home and I am always sharing pictures of them, this site really looked neat to me. It allows you to share pictures and videos and document important events to share with family and friends.= -Mandy Latimer =I found. This application is an online whiteboard. It picks up basis shapes so if you draw a circle it will make your circle perfect! You can also type on it. For those of us who have most of our writing space taken up by the Promethean or Smart board, here's a way to use it (with your Promethean pen) like you would a white board if you needed it. You can play with the program without signing up for an account. It also allows you to save your drawings if you need them (you need to sign up for that).= --Allison Baccala = = = = =[|turtilla.com]= =Turtilla is an online service which allows you to search and filter content related to your interests. This content is captured from a large variety of sources. The generated results can be converted to an RSS feed containing a number of items, with each item representing a channel of interest.= This is just another site that acts as a search engine for your interests/topics. You can get loads of RSS feeds on the things you want to know about easily. It's an older site, and there are probably more sites out there who might have more information on them than this one, but I like turtles, so I picked it. :) =-Samantha Daugherty= = = =[|http://www.tripwolf.com]Trip wolf is a world wide travel guide that can be used for research about different countries or finding pictures for reports. It also has a chat area to be able to read about other travelers experiences and preferences in different countries. Linda Schmersahl= = = =[|http://www.dotspots.com]= = = =DotSpots Brings the Wisdom of Crowds to the News = Semantic Annotation System Announces Offering for Improving Mainstream News The DotSpots semantic annotation system allows anyone to attach text, photos or video to any block of text and to have that annotation instantly distributed to all relevant blocks of text across the Internet. DotSpots allows people to annotate and improve a local copy of the news on their favorite site, but have their changes distributed globally. =[|http://www.jneys.com] [|jneys.com] Tags: travel, 3D, mapping, mashup, IsraelTraveling in a Virtual-Real World Journeys is a social world themed by real world trips. It's a mashup built with Yahoo! Maps, Pictures from Flickr and more, to create a casual virtual world that bridge to the real one we all know and love. (Updated 9/3/2008 12:45 AM) Report an updateIn the blogsphere:Hey, Jorneys!**=[|http://www.cuil.com] Cuil (pronounced "cool") [|Cuil.com] searches three times more pages on the web than Google and ten times as many as Microsoft according to the "about us" link on the cuil.com home page. Cuil's goal is to solve the two great problems of search; how to index the whole Internet -- not just part of it -- and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results. Cuil has developed the world's biggest index and tools to help you search. Cuil analyzes the web, not it's users, so they do not collect data about you and your search habits. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge.** Charlie Pineo, WHS**For all you music lovers out there, check out [|www.pandora.com]. Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you enjoy music you already know, and to help you discover new music you'll love. It's powered by the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken, the [|Music Genome Project]: a crazy project started back in early 2000 to capture the complex musical DNA of songs using a large team of highly-trained musicians. Just tell them one of your favorite songs or artists and they'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the musical universe. Denise Oringderff - TMSis a collaborative utility for document authoring and review that runs in the web browser. Supporting a standards-compliant document lifecycle from first draft to final approval, it's a smarter way to work together on documents.Rebekah McKinney-TMS [|www.coventi.com]
 * Liz Grey**