Teacher+Websites-+from+ISACS+conference

[|Blabberize.com - Make a Blabber!] Create talking pictures [|Shelfari] Catalog your library or reading list, link to Amazon reviews and synopses [|Awesome Stories] Links to biographical and historical stories- similar to wikipedia [|HistoryWorld Timelines] Search timelines for events [|xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines] Create timelines with links [|Interactivate: Activities] Math activities [|Quizlet] Create quizzes online, students can access collections of flash cards to study from and quiz themselves at home [|ReadWriteThink] [|Create A Graph] Enter data and create graphs for printing or exporting (good if students don't have excel) [|Fiery Ideas- timer] Goofy stuff- this link is a timer [|Project Gutenberg - free ebooks] Decent collection of books uploaded for free (very few textbooks that I've seen) [|Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More] Online collection of poems [|Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy] Very interesting collection of historical documents, some very old [|Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds] ??? [|LibriVox] Audiobooks (maybe good for ESL?) [|The Science House Foundation] videos of science experiments [|Letters of Note] Copies of original historical letters and documents [|Fuzzmail] "shows the dynamic process of writing"- not sure if useful, maybe interesting for students to assess how they write? [|HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!] Great videos, not only science stuff [|Storybird - Collaborative storytelling] Create your own illustrated story- can choose from their art collections or upload your own. Very easy to use. [|Mad Libs Online Word Game - free great party game!] Madlibs created from a variety of subjects (heads up for student use, there are some rather inappropriate ones in the Adult section) [|Acrostic Poem, Backronym and Mnemonic Creation at JogLab. Fast, Free, Fun.] Create mnemonics [|Free Visual Dictionary & Thesaurus | Online Dictionary | Associated Words | Synonyms Dictionary at SnappyWords.com] Visual dictionary/thesaurus [|Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine] Organizes data searches- sometimes interesting, but sometimes clunky. [|Calculation Nation® - Challenge others. Challenge yourself.®] Math games. [|Khan Academy] [|IfItWereMyHome.com] Interesting data/lifestyle comparisons with other countries [|Save The Words] Adopt rarely used words [|TeacherTube Videos - Protons Accelerate in LHC and Collide in ATLAS] Youtube videos, unblocked (many schools block youtube) [|bubbl.us | brainstorm and mind map online] Creating maps of ideas for outlines or story development [] Website for creating quick, free online polls. Students can answer the poll from their computers or phones

This list is from the ISACS conference and was compiled by Sarah Shartzer from KCD