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TOP FIVE These five sites could change the way you view your classroom.

http://www.wikispaces.com
 * __WIKISPACES__** - You're on one. Your students could be as well.

[|**Skype**]**.**
 * __SKYPE__** - Make free calls from computer to computer anywhere in the world. Yes, that was free!

[|http://www.jingproject.com/.]
 * __JING__** - Capture a video of what you do/see on your computer screen. Share it as a video online by embedding it into your favorite web 2.0 site.

http://del.icio.us/
 * __DEL.ICIO.US__** - Social bookmarking. Access your Internet favorites from any computer and share them with friends and colleagues.

[|http://moodle.npenn.org]
 * __North Penn's Moodle__** - It all starts here...

HOW TO RESET YOUR MOODLE FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR: http://www.screencast.com/t/BNFiBbn5c

HOW TO SET UP YOUR MOODLE BEFORE COMING TO THE FIRST TRAINING: http://www.screencast.com/users/Jmacosko/folders/Jing/media/f1f83daa-1a88-4e97-9100-3249fd022534

=TEACHER TRAINING= [|Online Learning Account] - This is where you log onto do you online learning. [|Penn State Teacher Survey] [|Penn State Student Survey]

Guide to Unit 2 Guide to Unit 3 Guide to Unit 4 Guide to Unit 5

Link to Chapter 1 Material that Tommy Vizza will be using to generate his sync point one discussion.

http://www.learningaccount.net/Course_Files/T21C001_036.htm

//The links below are ALWAYS in progress and should help us get going with Web 2.0...//

New Bloom's Taxonomy: http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=196605124 (revised Bloom’s Taxonomy with specific things that can be done digitally at each level)

Tired of students spending all their time in a creative project by searching Google for iomages, sounds, and video clips that are the creations of other people, then violating copyright law and using them? So am I! That's why I was glad to find a place where students can spend their time creating and sharing copyright free material. http://www.kitzu.com/

[|Skype How-To Presentation]

Instructional video by Steve Zong Making links in your Intranet home page: [|http://www.npenn.org/55777012510020/sitemanager/filemanager/default.asp?precommand=Download&folder=&file=Links%5Fon%5FNP%2Ewmv] http://www.slideshare.net/ Share your PowerPoint slide show presentations online. Embed them into your webpages so they display as a slide show when the page is accessed.

Kids can blog or discuss a story in a discussion forum. Some departments have set up a Moodle (closed network) for English discussion forums. A free forum is [|www.forumco.com]

http://www.skrbl.com/ Discover easy online collaboration. Draw, text, scribble and share on a simple and useful online whiteboard.

[|www.voicethread.com] Share audio for voice-blogging.

Students can also mindmap the story. A good web 2.0 ap is [|www.drawanywhere.com] and [|www.gliffy.com].

[|www.gabcast.com] allows kids to phone in and discuss story events. This site creates a free channel or channels for audio blogs.Free and fun. Caller ID is a nice feature too.

http://www.jingproject.com/. Jing allows you to take a screen capture in picture or flash video form and easily embed it into your webpage.

http://camstudio.org/ allows you to screen capture video and save it as avi files.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx allows you to screen capture videos and save them in a way that is easy to import them into Windows Movie Maker and make videos to show on your Windows Media Player.

Just launched- you can now embed your google forms into your wiki (or other) pages. [|__http://googledocs.blogspot.com/__]

http://yacapaca.com/ - Create quizzes, student surveys, and much more.

Do you want to see what products we will be getting with the C.F.F. grant? Sure you do! Check out our (not-too-distant) future [|here].

Classrooms for the Future - [|CDWG] - Links to the goals and products that comprise CFF, according to our vendor.

Classrooms for the Future Coaches got their start at the Boot Camp; click here: [|C.F.F. Coach Moodle]

Get around WebSense-blocked videos that you know are appropriate and would like to show in class. Take the video link and put it here: [|www.keepvid.com] This proxy will allow you to show that great version of Othello you found on YouTube, even if it is blocked in school.

Do you want to have your students chatting during your presentation? No, wait... you DO, as long as it's on-topic. This chatroom allows students to communicate while listening to a presentation or lesson, and allows YOU to monitor and review every post. [|www.davidwarlick.com/ajaxchat]

Want to teleconference with your classroom on your day off? (No, I know you don't, but...) Want to talk to your son in England for free? How about a video-conference with your sister in Ohio? It’s free to download and free to call other people on **[|Skype].**

If you aren't doing this already, it's time to start being a social bookmarker. Please join and contribute to http://del.icio.us/

Upload your pictures and share them. Copy and embed your photos into your presentations, movies, etc.: http://www.twitter.com/

I hope our wikis can someday be as cool as this one: http://jdorman.wikispaces.com

Here are the Promethean Boards we have in our CFF Rooms: [|www.atomiclearning.com]

Coaches - Register for Prof. Devel.: http://www.embeddedlearningacademy.com/pde/21/forms/registration_october.cfm

http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/index.shtml allows you to build activities online using primary source documents from the Library of Congress for all subject areas.

Research supporting CFF on EdHub: [|__http://www.pde.state.pa.us/edhub__] , 

The Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology  which is a project of ISTE. [|__http://caret.iste.org__]

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=ENGLISH= National Council of Teachers of English website: [|__http://www.ncte.org__] = = http://beta.tikatok.net/ Create an online ebook and get it published. Very much like Mixbook. You can choose from story templates and topics or create your ebook from scratch. If you choose a to use a template students can complete a simple form to customize their story characters, settings, and events. Check out this sample book. http://beta.tikatok.net/view/book/the-spooky-monster

This cue card program allows you to create cue cards and quiz yourself and even print them out. You can save the file and use it from year to year. http://www.download.com/3000-2051-10075304.html

Check out [|__http://www.flocabulary.com/shakespeare.html__]. A 9th grade English teacher used this as an example of how she wanted her students to create a musical composition describing one of the acts of Romeo and Juliet.

Kids can blog or discuss a story in a discussion forum. Some departments have set up a Moodle (closed network) for English discussion forums. A free forum is [|www.forumco.com]

[|www.voicethread.com] -- audio blogging for students (from P. Kinsey)

[|www.gaggle.net] -- safe student e-mail (from P. Kinsey)

Students can also mindmap the story. A good web 2.0 ap is [|www.drawanywhere.com] and [|www.gliffy.com].

[|www.gabcast.com] allows kids to phone in and discuss story events. This site creates a free channel or channels for audio blogs. Free and fun. Caller ID is a nice feature too.

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Celestia. A virtual tour through the galaxy that allows the user to control the rotation of the planets and see the moons of the planets. Check it out: [|__http://www.shatters.net/celestia/__]

Virtual Dissection of frogs: http://www.learningscience.org/lsc2astructurefunction.htm = = =SOCIAL STUDIES=

Vote help: [|www.votehelp.org]

=MATH= Create a graph using points/data - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Compund Interest in Excel: http://mtl.math.uiuc.edu/projects/5/compound_interest.htm

http://ciw.asd.wednet.edu/~jbassett/ti/ [|] - download a free app called Virtual TI, which helps you emulate a graphing calculator (the TI-83+ in this case) on your computer screen.

Data collection/analysis features and also "graphing equations and a graphing program called enter data" similar to Verniers: __www.pasco.com__

Geometry Prob & Stat Discrete Math || Interactivate || http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/ || Interactive Java-based applets (some game-like) to practice/test proficiency on scores of math topics || Geometry Probability || Virtual Manipulatives || http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html || Lots of interactive java applets where students use manipulatives to solve problems and illustrate concepts. || Calculus || Hippocampus || http://www.hippocampus.org/?tab=textbook || Step by step animated lessons arranged by textbook and topic. || Geometry || MathNets || http://www.mathsnet.net/ || A lot of interactive lessons for Algebra & Geometry. It is not a US site, so there are some terminology differences (like "factorising") but otherwise, it has possibilities. The Geometry portion seems more comprehensive, especially for an Applied class, but it may duplicate the functionality of SketchPad (don't know since I don't teach Geometry). It does have a learning curve to do the constructions however. || Algebra 1&2 Trig Geometry || Mathonline || http://mathonline.missouri.edu/ || 28 links for practice tests || Algebra Calculus || GeoGebra || http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ || GeoGebra is a ** free ** and ** multi-platform ** dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. You can do constructions with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections as well as functions and change them dynamically afterwards. On the other hand, equations and coordinates can be entered directly. Thus, GeoGebra has the ability to deal with variables for numbers, vectors and points, finds derivatives and integrals of functions and offers commands like Root or Extremum. These two views are characteristic of GeoGebra: an expression in the algebra window corresponds to an object in the geometry window and vice versa. || Trig Geometry Algebra || // U Missouri Online Math Tests // || http://mathonline.missouri.edu/ || Choose test type, number of problems for randomly generated questions arranged by topic. Choose all-same or all-different questions for a class. Answers provided. Questions are challenging. || Calculus Linear Algebra || MIT Open Courseware || http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#Mathematics || Shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than ** 1800 courses ** spanning MIT's entire curriculum. || Algebra 1&2 Statistics Calculus || Larry Green’s Applet Page || http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/java/index.html#Beginning%20Algebra || Lots of applets arranged by topic where students solve randomly generated problems. Hint button and feedback included. || Algebra 1 || Seasonal Puzzling & Perplexing Problems || http://sln.fi.edu/school/math/levmain.html || Seasonal problems for middle school math classes. Ready made problems for each month of the school year. They include holidays, seasons, & sports. May are open-ended for practice for standardized tests. Non- interactive. Answers provided. Simple math problems you could copy into a worksheet for a sponge activity. Middle school level but good for Topics, Algebra 1, etc. || Algebra Geometry Calculus Probability || That Quiz || http://www.thatquiz.org/ || Interactive practice tests in 20 categories … pretty elementary. Click About this site to get expanded list of tests. Registered teachers an get scores and create their own tests. ||
 * ** Category ** || ** Name ** || ** Link ** || ** Description ** ||
 * Algebra
 * Algebra 1 || Percent Change Activity - Groceries || http://www.deltastate.edu/docs/math/Morris1.pdf || A static worksheet for calculating the percent change of grocery prices over the years. I have used a modified version of this (where students guess the prices before calculating the change) as a lesson opener. ||
 * Algebra 1
 * Algebra 1 || Factoring with Mr. Yang & Mosley the Alien || http://www.geneyang.com/factoring/ || A comic strip version of factoring. Includes primitive remediation. Intro and 5 lessons including GCF, Distributive Property, Trinomials, & Factoring by Grouping. Corny but clear explanations with extra examples if needed. ||
 * Algebra 1
 * Algebra 1
 * Algebra 1 || Percent Change Activity – Be All that You Can Be || http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM94 || Looks at how military strength has changed based on the economy. Some links for additional exploration, although I just use the first part (skipping the economics lesson) as a static practice worksheet. ||
 * Algebra 1 || Supply & Demand || http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L724 || 9-12 actvity. Students write & solve a system of linear equations in a real-world setting. Students should be familiar with finding linear equations from 2 points or from slope & y-intercept. Graphing calculators not necessary for this activity but could be used to extend the ideas found on the second activity sheet. Non-interactive. ||
 * Algebra 1 || WebQuest: Properties of Exponents || http://www.brookscole.com/math_d/special_features/ext/internet_activities/wq_algebra/exponents/index.htm || 4 part webquest including a step-by-step example, online quiz, java applet with randomly generated problems and remediation. ||
 * Algebra 1&2 || Beginning & Int. Algebra Webquest Index || http://www.brookscole.com/math_d/special_features/ext/internet_activities/wq_algebra/index.htm || Many topics but preview them first … not all lnks work ||
 * Calculus
 * General || Bagatrix Math Glossary || http://www.bagatrix.com/glossary/math_glossary_a.htm || Comprehensive math glossary ||
 * General || Brain Betty || http://www.brainbetty.com/ || PowerPoint templates, free music, etc. ||
 * General || Brain Pop || http://www.brainpop.com/ || Short movies on various topics in Algebra, Data Analysis, Geometry & Measurement, Numbers & Operations, Ratios, Proportions, Percents, & Probability. Includes quizzes that can be graded, ungraded, or printed for paper test. Registration required. ||
 * General || Cengage :Learning || http://academic.cengage.com/cengage/discipline.do?disciplinenumber=1 || A textbook website but many of the textbooks have free access to their online versions. This is where I found my exponent webquest. ||
 * General || Class Tools || http://www.classtools.net/ || Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! 15 types of games offered. Use your own problems, but can’t include graphics, special characters or exponents. ||
 * General || Future Kids || http://futurekids.com/pa/ || PA Classroom for the Future Kids Training Site. A general site with links to educational tools. ||
 * General || NASA Digital Learning Network || http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/content/catalog/listall.jsp?imageField.x=12&imageField.y=2 || Enrichment only activities. Free, interactive programs allow you and your students to learn more about our home planet and to journey into space using video-conferencing and Web casts. Students of all ages are able to speak directly with NASA personnel including scientists, engineers, astronauts, and education specialists. Placing an emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), the DLN offers a wide variety of distance learning events designed to educate through demonstrations and real time interactions with experts. All programs are aligned to national standards with pre- and post-activities to enhance your video conference and Web cast experiences. Join NASA's DLN as we go back to the Moon, onto Mars, and beyond ||
 * General || NetTrekker || http://www.nettrekker.com/ || Educational search engine. Free trial but subscription required after expiration. ||
 * General || Saab SAT Prep || http://mathcounts.saab.org/mc.cgi || Preparation Drills for MATHCOUNTS. Most Problems are adapted From [|MATHCOUNTS] Competitions and Workouts. Select question type, topic, & number of questions. May generate randomly or use same questions for all students. ||
 * General || Saab SAT Prep || http://www.saab.org/saab_org.cgi || Questions arranged by topic. 24 links to math tests and drills (correct answers given to student after they submit answer). All levels. Great for SAT prep. ||
 * General || TeacherTube || http://www.teachertube.com/ || Search by topic for short videos examples and explanations. ||
 * General || Virtual Manipulatives || http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html || Arranged by subject & grade level. Decent selection in each category. ||
 * General (but higher level) || Illuminations || http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=4 || 68 high school java applet activities including line of best fit, recursion, compound interest, congruence theorems, dihedral symmetry and reflections, limits (visual representations of geometric and harmonic series), spreadsheets with graphing calculators, etc. ||
 * Geometry
 * Geometry || NCTM Home Dec Problem || http://my.nctm.org/eresources/view_media.asp?article_id=563 || A for-print packet that has students calculating area & surface area in order to buy paint, carpeting, etc. Good for Geometry. Includes reading graphs, charts, & scale drawings. ||
 * PreCalc
 * Pre-Calc
 * Probability || Learning About Probability || http://www.chemical-ecology.net/java/probjav.htm || 16 Java applets dealing with probability applications including permutations and combinations. ||
 * Probability || Let's Make a Deal || http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/LetsMakeaDeal.html || As a motivating example behind the discussion of probability, an applet has been developed which allows students to investigate the Let's Make a Deal Paradox. This paradox is related to a popular television show in the 1970's. In the show, a contestant was given a choice of three doors of which one contained a prize. The other two doors contained gag gifts. After the contestant chose an initial door, the host then revealed an empty door among the two unchosen doors, and asks the contestant if he or she would like to switch to the other unchosen door. The question is should the contestant switch. Do the odds of winning increase by switching to the remaining door? ||
 * Probability || Poker Hand || http://www.chemical-ecology.net/java/comb.htm || Interactive combinations & permutations using poker hands. ||
 * Topics
 * Topics
 * Topics
 * Trig || Law of Cosines & Sines for Angles/Sides of Triangles. || http://www.chemical-ecology.net/java/triangle.htm || ** Interactive applet. ** Interactive calculator, supplying missing side/angle.** Enter two angles and any side, or 3 sides, or two sides and angle between them, into the boxes to get the other sides and angles using the laws of cosines or sines and sum of angles of triangle. ** ||
 * Trig || Math Central – Real World Applications of Trig || http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.01/trigexamples1.html || Application problems with solutions ||

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