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=Here are some of the links to today's sites:=

[|pecha-kucha] - (pronounced peh-chak-cha) -the method of presenting powerpoint slides where each slide is on a 20 second timer, and you have a maimum of 20 slides. NO BULLETS! Images only. Start the show and GO! Turns the students from being screen readers to story tellers immediately. [|Coveritlive.com] - allows you to create and embed live blogging events. Include ustream.tv feeds and twitter feeds, as well. For added security, add a password that you send to parents so that they, too, may join in. The event is automatically archived. [|ustream.tv] - broadcast yourself with two click of the mouse. Embed in a coveritlive session, as well. Viewers may join the conversation via a chat window. You may also require a password that you send to parents so that they may join in. [|Mappingworlds] (show.mappingworlds.com) great visualization of global data. Consider this: Instead of assigning a powerpoint presentation, if appropriate, assing THIS as the tool to use. Students will HAVE to be story tellers instead of screen readers.. [|UUorld.com] - download this application and any of hundreds of data sets to create 3-d maps of the US or the world. When downloading files from the web, open them so that you can see the data fields in order to know which format to designate. [|ManyEyes] - Create WONDERFUL visualizations quickly and easily. This is fantastic for making charts that tell so much from the data. [|Gapminder.org] - watch the data move and change over time. Excellent! Ask the students ahead of time how they expect the graphs to behave. Have them watch for data points that do not follow that behaior. Great for starting the conversation. Also, [|watch the videos] to see how Hans uses the charts to debunk theories. Why not have YOUR students do the same thing? [|Wordle.net] - create word clouds of any text that you can type in, paste in, or point to on the web. Then, find just the color and format that best matches your cloud [|Wolfram|Alpha] - THE MOST AMAZING search engine around. (Get [|this Firefox extension], too) This search engine marks the beginning of the most important revolution in searching since the days of Excite and Alta Vista. This is HUGE!!! [|Skype] - group chat or voice and video over Internet calls. Send files, have conference calls with up to five people in the call. Have group chats that can have hundreds. A MUST-HAVE application. [|Twitter] - THE tool for developing a Personal Learning Network (Get [|tweetdeck]!) Although at first you will wonder why you're following people who are telling you about what they're cooking, etc. Then, you'll find that they begin to share the articles and books that they're reading, and the sites they're seeing, etc. A POWERFUL learning community emerges. [|Tabbloid.com] - have rss feeds made into pdf newsletter and delivered by email. This is VERY cool. Imagine having this pull together all the posts that your students are writing? Put them together to have a complete summary of what they've been reading and talking about as they read. [|Polleverywhere.com] - create free polls for up to 30 responses. Look for the k12 pricing, as well. It's cheaper than the CPS systems. [|netvibes] - one of many RSS aggregators [|GE Smartgrid] - Fun site that requires you to print a page. Also required - webcam

=Misc= [|Zoomit] - the Windows app that allows you to zoom into your screen. GET it TODAY!! [|Learning Latin America Wiki] - a nice example of a wiki with 9th graders