Interesting+Sites

I went to a really great session called "Jim's Best of the Web
His name is Jim Moulton and his resources be accessed at this address. http://jimmoulton.org/1.html

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Here are some other sites that peaked my interest at the conference:
1. [|http://takingitglobal.org] - Students collaborating on real-world problems and issues.

2. MIT Open Courseware - Free university courses from MIT. (Google "MIT Open Courseware" to access)

3. [|Jing Project] and [|Screencast.com] - for screencasting (See Screencasting link on left for more info)

4. Google documents- [|great collaboration writing tool.]

5. [|http://www.visuwords.com] - Dictionary, thesaurus. Neat site for students to play with to enhance writing. Great for Smartboard!

6. Debatabase- http://www.idebate.org/index.php This site gives you all kinds of debate topics. It is a research database for debating, but could provide teachers with some great open-ended topics to start discussions.

7. itunes/isf.edu - click on "lit to go". This is a great site for free audiobooks in the public domain. Here are the steps to get to this great resource: 1) Open itunes. 2) Click on iTunes Store 3) Click on iTunes U 4) Click on University of South Florida 5) Click on College of Educaton 6) Lit2Go. It seems like a lot of steps, but believe me, its worth it.

Screenshot of "Lit2Go"

8. Starfall- [|http://www.starfall.com] - Early elementary reading site.

9. literactive.com - elementary literature site.

10. http://thinkature.com/ This site is a shared workspace.

11. http://guest.portaportal.com/techpbl This is a site with resources for Project Based Learning.