Archive for the 'Social Studies' Category
ThingLink is a site that allows users to create interactive images. After uploading an image, the user creates hot spots on the image that link to text, video and audio content or to other websites. ThingLink for Education allows teachers to set up and manage accounts for their students, which is a great feature for […]
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OpenEd is a repository of online educational materials that are aligned to the Common Core standards. It contains a searchable database of videos, games, courses and assessments. The resources can be browsed by topic, grade level and standard. In addition to the resources, OpenEd has a practice assessment generator which allows teachers to add multimedia […]
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The Secret Door is a website created with millions of images of places all over the world. To view these places, just click on the door on the site’s home page. You will be taken to a random place which you can explore by dragging your mouse to get the 360° panoramic view. If you […]
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ABCYa! Animate is a tool for creating short animations. The animations are made using the tools available through the site. Students can create up to 100 frames before downloading their animation. One drawback is that there doesn’t seem to be any way to save an unfinished project to work on at a later time so […]
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World Geography Games is an interactive site for learning the names and locations of countries, capitals, regions, land formations, etc. The interface is intuitive and students get instant feedback on their answers.
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Boolify is a visual search engine that I found out about from Kristen Novotny. The site is designed to help students learn Boolean searching through a drag-and-drop, visual interface. To use Boolify, start by dragging the green Word or Phrase rectangle into the workspace and enter a search topic. Then drag the other rectangles as […]
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Rewordify is a free website that helps users read difficult passages. To use Rewordify, the user just copies and pastes the passage into the box on the Rewordify website, then clicks on the Rewordify text button. What appears on the screen is the same passage with simpler words. The easiest way to see how this […]
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Gooru is a website that I learned about from Deyana Matt. It calls itself a website for learning and is a great place for teachers and students in middle or high school to go to find quality resources related to a variety of topics. At the time of this posting, Gooru’s resource collections center on […]
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Spree Learning Games hosts a collection of learning games from around the web for students in kindergarten through high school. The games are organized either by subject area and by age/grade level. Students do not need to sign up to play most of the games. As with any kind of site like this, some of […]
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Lingro is an amazing tool that helps readers easily look up word definitions when reading a web page. It works like this — you find a page that you want to read, copy the URL, then paste it in the box at the top of the Lingro page. Click on the arrow, and you will […]
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