WAT+Review+of+Web+Tools

The Discovery Channel's Puzzlemaker: This site gives you the ability to make simple puzzles like crosswords, mazes, wordfinds, etc. I think its usefulness as a teaching tool is probably pretty superficial and limited with the exception of the mathsquare puzzle.

SlideRocket: An online presentation creation tool. It has great functionality and flexibility. Will be more accessible than powerpoint simply because people do not have to have special software on their computer, just access to the SlideRocket website.

ToonDoo: This site gives users the ability to create their own comic strip in a matter of minutes. You can add backgrounds, speech and thought bubbles, you can change the posture and facing of your characters. The site also includes discussion forums, contests and galleries of past and present Toons.

MoneySavingExpert.com: This site lists other websites that provide free courses in foreign languages! The one site I linked to was MIT OpenCourseWare. This site listed all kinds of courses offered at MIT over the past few years that dealt foreign language or culture. I clicked on Chinese 1 from the Spring 2006 semester. They have a downloadable textbook and other study materials you can download for free! This is a great site. MIT has this OpenCourseWare in most of their other colleges as well.

Read,Write,Think: This site offers numerous materials for students of all levels to support learning in literacy. For example, there is a site for K-2 that helps with letter recognition and memory. Another site, for high school students, uses role-playing to explore the lives of different authors.

Dipity: This site allows users to create an interactive timeline of just about anything the creater wants. You can add items to the timeline from many different sites; video from YouTube and Vimeo, photos from Flicr and Picasa, music from Pandora and lastfm, and a host of other sites.

ReadWriteThink Printing Press: This site allows users to create Newspapers, Booklets, Flyers and Brochures. You can add in photos, draw pictures, and text. There are text tools you can use to add effects such as bold, italics, underline and you can change the font size and the fill color.

Remix America: This site lets users mix and match video clips from all over the internet as well as photos and audio clips. This site is similar to Dipity but I think Dipity has a little more funcionality and the UI is laid out a little better.

4Teachers: This site offers many technology-based tools to assist teachers in the classroom. They include a rubric generator, professional development materials, educational video games, a portal to teachertube and suggestions/recommendations on how to integrate technology into the classroom.

BBC Virtual Tours: This site has virtual tours of many things from British History, the World Wars history and Ancient History. The BBC has digitally reconstructed many things such as a dogfight over the trenches, a tour of Captain Cook's ship, and a virtual tour of the London Bridge. This would be a great site for history teachers.