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Dipity
Dipity offers the opportunity to create an interactive timeline where students can display events and organize activities. Students can import videos and pictures to display moments in time or plans for the future.
Connecting the Dots II Web 2.0 presentation on Social Bookmarking - June 2009
Google Earth, Google Sky, and Google Maps
This presentation highlights some of the key features and educational applications for Google Earth, Google Sky, and Google Maps. It includes links to tutorials, videos, general and educational resources for all three of these Google applications. Attached is a Powerpoint version of our presentation.
Google SketchUp 6 Quick Start Guide
This is a SketchUp Quick Start Guide (or Pathfinder) which is a 2 page document to get you started using Google SketchUp. Teachers are welcome to modify or copy 'as is' to use as professional development in your districts.
Learning Achievement Tools/TaskStream
The Learning Achievement Tools by TaskStream provide ways to set up e-portfolios.
The e-porfolios would replace filing cabinets and boxes as storage locations for student work and would provide new opportunities for sharing the information among more people.
Garageband and podcasts
Popfly
Popfly can be used to make mashups in student projects. Students can combine visuals from several sources into one single visual. For example photos can be combined with Virtual Earth to create global nature journals.
