new video site

I joined a video site a few months ago and the it went offline.
They just relaunched it today.
I went in for a bit- and there's almost 1000 videos just for Language Arts!

Watch Know - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized.
WatchKnow makes educational videos for kids EXTREMELY easy to find. Now they claim to have over 10,000 videos placed in over 2,000 categories. It's kinda like a wiki site- contributors (even anonymous) work together, to edit video information as well as the directory by drag and drop, which means it's ALWAYS growing! Here's a video on how to edit. Since it's an opensourced project that welcomes even anonymous contributions, the project engages teachers to act as community moderators. It's a non-profit and receives support through an anonymous donor through the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi.
Navigation is just as easy. Not only can you filter results by category, but there's a slideable age-filter.

3rd grade game for 2-2 vocab and synonym/antonym

You can find all the links below on this page-
http://reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=2510


Here's the questions- 
http://reviewgamezone.com/preview.php?id=2510

Soccer Version-  (super taker)
Player needs to get a question correct to try and score a penalty shoot on a soccer goalie.
http://reviewgamezone.com/games/supertaker/?2510&title=Gr3%20Unit%202-3&id=2510

Ping Pong Version-  (super pong)
Player needs to answer a question correctly, then they get the opportunity to play a round of table tennis.
http://reviewgamezone.com/games/superpong/index.php?2510&title=Gr3%20Unit%202-3&id=2510

Baseball- (super hitter)
Player answers correctly they get to participate in a home run contest. Swing for the fences or strike out!
http://reviewgamezone.com/games/superhitter/index.php?2510&title=Gr3%20Unit%202-3&id=2510

Basketball- (super shooter)
Player is asked a question, if they get it correct they have the opportunity to shoot a basketball in the hoop.
http://reviewgamezone.com/games/supershooter/index.php?2510&title=Gr3%20Unit%202-3&id=2510

Golf- (super striker)
If a player answers a question correct they get a chance to practice putting on the green at a golf course
http://reviewgamezone.com/games/superstriker/index.php?2510&title=Gr3%20Unit%202-3&id=2510

Non-Game- (super quiz)
Player picks an answer. At the end of each turn, they get to see if their answer was correct or not.
http://reviewgamezone.com/games/superquiz/index.php?2510&title=Gr3%20Unit%202-3&id=2510

IWB resources and 1 word resource

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/search/results/%22iwb+resources%22

http://www.teachers.tv/group/6
If you haven't signed up for this, it's great. Thu UK is so UP on ICT and interactives. Do yourself a favor and check out UK sites. You'd be surprised at how much they SHARE and how much content is free!

http://www.teachers.tv/ict/whiteboard

http://www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk/

http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
Try the UK version of this.

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/
Try the UK version of this.

http://www.yenka.com/

http://www.iwb.org.uk/

Here's a neat little application called wordfinder
http://www.design215.com/toolbox/wordfind.php
This utility will find words with any combination of listed parameters. For example, you can find all 6 letter words that start with "d" and end with "n". Find words that rhyme by searching for words that end with the same letters. If you enter letters into the "Unscramble" box, the other fields will be ignored and the program will find any words that can be formed from those letters. Unscramble now finds combinations of two words if "all possible" checked.
Try the Word Pattern Finder if you need wildcards, include, and exclude.

sounds, converters, etc

http://www.soundjay.com/
Welcome to Sound Jay's free sound effects web site! You are allowed to use the sounds on our website free of charge and royalty free in your projects but you are NOT allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else. Remember to read Terms of Use before downloading and using the sound effects or music tracks. Most files are 16 bit stereo 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz high quality sound effects. Remember to bookmark us, as we will often add new sounds.

http://wavcentral.com/
wavs and mp3's- Looking for movie and tv sound clips? You've just reached the best sound site on the 'Net. All of our audio files have been databased and categorized -- to make searching and accessing EASY. Thanks to our enthusiastic members, our collection continues to grow and grow!

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/index.htm

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:

  • Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
  • Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
  • View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
  • Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
http://media-convert.com/
FREE sound file converter
different than MediaConverter- which is listed below

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

  • Record live audio.
  • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
  • Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
  • Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
  • Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
  • And more! See the complete list of features.

About Free Software

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Free software is not just free of cost (like "free beer"). It is free as in freedom (like "free speech"). Free software gives you the freedom to use a program, study how it works, improve it and share it with others. For more information, visit the Free Software Foundation.

Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.


http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com. Our online photo editing tool is fun and requires no registration or signup.

http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/

You can use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it entirely free.

http://www.converthub.com/

This is a super free image converter. You can transform, convert and change pictures, photos, avatars, drawings, sketches, designs, thumbnails, wallpapers, bitmaps, vector graphics, illustrations, charts, diagrams or any other image files with ConvertHub.

http://www.zamzar.com/

Zamzar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats. You can easily convert 1GB file. Its gives you 100GB inbox to store your files.

http://www.mediaconverter.org/

MediaConverter is a well-known and fast growing online video and audio conversion tool. It allows the users to download and convert videos from platforms like Youtube so they can watch them on their mobile devices or computer.


http://www.cometdocs.com/

No need to install anything on your computer. Use the easy upload interface to convert your file. Your original file will not be affected, and you can choose your own file name for the converted file which will instantly download to your computer.

Data Conversion - Online Media Conversions

Numerous conversions available for FREE!

  • Determine unknown file format. Don't know what you're dealing with? This routine inspects your file, and tries to identify the file format. If you're looking for an explanation of file types, take a look at the list of file extensions. List of file compression and archiving solutions extensions, with downloads of the programs needed to extract or decompress your files.

  • Unix2Dos. Convert those pesky end-of-line (^M) characters to normal newlines after doing a binary FTP file transfer. Converts UNIX to DOS format.

  • Dos2Unix. Convert end of line handling for Unix-based systems. Great to fix up your cgi-bin files' newline characters after transferring them to your hosting provider with FTP. Converts DOS to UNIX format.

  • Mac2Unix. Convert text files to the proper line terminator on Unix coming from the mac format. Corrects your files' newline characters after transferring them to your hosting provider with binary FTP. Converts Macintosh to UNIX format

  • Convert PDF (Adobe Acrobat) to text file. Takes a PDF file and extracts the readable text. Formatting preserved where possible using html.

  • PDF info extracts and prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

  • PDF to Excel: Convert PDF to Excel, Xls, csv online. Do it for free and then compare the quality to client side PDF to Excel converter solutions on the market.

  • File sort. Get your file sorted! Sorts the lines or records in your file in ascending ASCII order.

  • Convert toPalm Pilot doc file from text. Transform ASCII text into a PalmDoc PDB file.

  • 'iconv' converter. File converter utilizing the 'iconv' character set conversion utility.

  • Convert Excel .xls to CSV. Online converter which takes the data from an Excel file input and generates a comma delimited values (CSV) file.

  • ASCII to EBCDIC data conversion. Data converter for conversion of PC or Unix files to and from an IBM host format.

  • Fixed record format to delimited data conversion. Enter the column lengths of your fixed data record definition, and get a delimited data file, like a tab-separated one, delivered back to your computer. Pick any delimiter you want.

  • Convert delimited file to a fixed record format. Enter the column lengths of your fixed record data definition, and get a fixed record data file delivered back to your computer from a tab-separated input, or any other delimited file type.

images, website and blog additions, NEAT list-builder, video

http://www.osalt.com/
Find free or inexpensive open-source alternatives to commercial products.


Have a child in middle school? Free SAS Online Curriculum Resources- SAS Curriculum Pathways.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/funding/ongoing-grants/index.cfm?i=56771


http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-great-cheat-sheets-posters-to-make-you-a-software-wizard/
Cheat sheets and posters to make you a software wizard. From office products, browsers. I use some of these shortcuts all the time. You won't be disappointed.

9 Free Web Apps From Microsoft You Might Not Know About

shrinktheweb.com
Free website thumbnail provider.

http://www.widgetbox.com/
Find and make widgets here. EZ to do!

Here's a neat little application called wordfinder
http://www.design215.com/toolbox/wordfind.php
This utility will find words with any combination of listed parameters. For example, you can find all 6 letter words that start with "d" and end with "n". Find words that rhyme by searching for words that end with the same letters. If you enter letters into the "Unscramble" box, the other fields will be ignored and the program will find any words that can be formed from those letters. Unscramble now finds combinations of two words if "all possible" checked.
Try the Word Pattern Finder if you need wildcards, include, and exclude.

http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/delicious-tv-personally-programmed-social-television-channels-on-boxee-preview/
In the posting he explains how to using delicious you can put together a range of video playlists (youtube, iplayer) so that they can be viewed using Boxee.
(I found this in Jane's elearning pick of the day.)

http://mashable.com/2009/09/06/posterous-guide/
How to get the most from posterous.com (my FAVE blogging app)

Found this on freetechforteachers.com : I thought it may be useful for teaching students how to break projects down into manageable pieces. Or even studying for tests. Probably great for 3rd grade and up.

IzzyTodo - Easy To Do List Builder

IzzyToDo is one of simplest and easiest tools for building an online to-do list. IzzyToDo allows you to make multiple lists for multiple objectives. Once you've registered create a "target" or objective and begin adding "items" that you need to do to reach your target. You can try IzzyToDo before registering by using the demo on the homepage.

Applications for Education
IzzyToDo is a simple tool that students can use to set goals and record their progress toward those goals. Breaking large objectives into smaller steps is a good strategy for some students who feel overwhelmed by large projects. IzzyToDo's design is ideal for those students.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Track Class - Assignment Tracking for Students
Sticky Screen - Your To-Do List Homepage


Got this from Janes e-learning tip of the day. On her site, there's a video explaining it better. Probably great for IWB

http://www.fiastarta.com/PrtScr

PrtScr is a free screen capture program.  Here are some of its features:

  • Captures full screen, rectangle selection, freehand selection, or active window
  • Can capture mouse cursor
  • Allows annotation over capture, with smooth, natural mouse drawing
  • Saves capture straight to desktop or to any file, sends it as email, edits, prints or sends to clipboard
  • Exports as JPG, BMP, or PNG (transparent or opaque
http://repper.studioludens.com/
Images become patterns...

http://thisissand.com/
Actually changes pixels into sand. Click on the grey box in upper left hand corner for directions.
Here's the gallery to view other's pics- http://thisissand.com/gallery/

http://www.outer-court.com/
Creative sites you've probably never heard of. caricatures, make captions- check it out

http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2009/09/masher.html

http://www.masher.com/

Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos all for FREE!

  1. MIX ... Your videos and photos, with the huge library of video clips from BBC Motion Gallery, Rip Curl and more.
  2. MASH ... Your videos and photos together using the simple studio, then add some words, music and special effects.
  3. SHARE ... Your video Mash by posting it to sites such as Facebook, MySpace, or by emailing it.

Posterous description- with a video intro and how-to

Every knows that I LOVE posterous.com! Well, here's a review of posterous that gives a great overview of how to use it. Check this out- posterous IS AWESOME!!! It's absolutely handier than a shirt pocket!

http://www.channelflip.com/2009/09/08/posterouscom/

~~~~~~~~~~~~ sharnon007

Here's 2 of my posterous blogs. I email LOT's of stuff to myself as well as embed games that I make for Treasures- as well as adding lists of websites for different subjects.
http://sharnon007.posterous.com/
http://read1.posterous.com/

A special site for Special Needs and ESL ... here's some freebies

I just happened upon this while visiting MightyBook.  Just thought I'd pass on info...
http://www.easylearningbooks.com/free_sample.html

These unique learning materials were developed by special needs professionals for the education and enrichment of children with attention deficit disorder (A.D.D.), attention deficit/hyperactive disorder (A.D.H.D.), autism, Asperger's syndrome and other specials needs. The materials also are ideal for teaching English as a second language (ESL). Easy Learning Books are specifically designed to provide concrete ideas about the concepts being presented, with real and vivid photos, as well as easily identifiable symbols.

All Easy Learning Books:

Follow the monthly themes of the general school year calendar, as well as real life concepts your student or child will be exposed to. [ more ]
Have interactive Easy-Track Quizzes with viewable and printable data base that makes it easier to keep track of each student’s progress.[ Sample Quiz ] [ Tour the Data Base ] [ more ]
Include lesson plans for each book. [ View Sample ] [ more ]
Have a picture symbol paired with a clear photo to target the concept or main idea of each page. [ View Sample ] [ more ]
Are geared for multi-sensory learning. [ more ]
Are available in Flash for online viewing and as PDF files you can print. [ View Samples ] [ more ]

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The first 100 sign-ups in each subscription level will automatically become a charter member of Easy Learning Books. As a charter member, your annual subscription price will never go up as long as your membership is current. Charter members also may submit requests for the production of customized content at any time.
Subscribe to Easy Learning Books before September 1, and get a free subscription to MightyBook.com in the bargain.
You'll get two great web sites for the price of one. MightyBook.com entertains kids while helping them learn to read with more than 600 animated stories songs and games.
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http://www.easylearningbooks.com/signup_now.html