Sites Worth Checking Out, March 2011
March 28th, 2011
- Art: The Noun Project offers a free collection of clipart.
- Careers: What is a Foley Artist? Good video on the art of movie sounds
- Economics: National Financial Capability Challenge
- Education: Elev8ed: Student Videos about Education Reform.
- Geography: Maplandia and Google Earth Cool Places helps you find cool places in Google Earth.
- Literature: A cool animated video about Mark Twain’s views on publishing a book.
- Math: Math Games teachers can monitor at Manga High.
- Music: Interactive Music Theory Lessons at MusicTheory.net.
- Music: The New York Philharmonic Archives are now available online.
- Performing Arts: Touching Lives through Theatre Grants.
- Photography: Smithsonian Wild is a new Smithsonian website that houses more than 200,000 images of animals in the wild.
- Photography: Great public domain photographs of nature can be found here
- Reading/Literacy: Open Library offers is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles.
- Science: Sheppard Software offers a number of periodic table games.
- Science: Video: 132 Shuttle Launches in 132 seconds.
- Science: Videos Fukushima Reactor Explained and Tsunami 101.
- Social Studies: If It Were My Home offers a good comparison of different countries.
- Technology: Salman Khan Academy: Video: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education.
- Technology: A site of good teacher training videos on a variety of topics, including Web 2.0 tools.
- Writing: New discussion features have been added to Google Documents.
Other Sites Worth Exploring:
- Cool Big City Wallpapers
- Uploading.it gives you a place to store documents on the Internet.
- Zendo: A note-taking site that turns notes into flash cards.
- PuzzleMaker: A good site for creating a variety of puzzles in all academic subjects.