Follow the White Rabbit

This site is a wiki by Dr. Alec Couros that examines cyberbullying, social networking, online safety and ethics, and critical media literacy. (Thanks Sharon)

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Check out le trou noir. It’s a blog for David’s class. The students are blogging on world news and events.

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This video demonstrates the way a school uses technology to help provide top-of-the-line education for all students.
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A good follow-up article to read is Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner.

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Ning is a site that allows you to create  your own social network. It’s an interesting way to encourage a group discussion.

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Jam Studio allows students to create their own original pieces of music. You simply choose the chords, the instrument and tempo and Jam Studio will play back your original creation. The audio file can then be saved. (A free account must be created in order to save the music). You can use PowerPoint, Sound Studio [...]

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Studio4learning is a source for online video homework help. Subject areas covered are: Math, Sciences, English, Languages, Social Sciences, Business, Arts, Test Prep and Find a Job.

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Spelling City is a fun and interactive way for students to learn how to spell. There are three buttons to choose from: Test Me (the computer says the word out loud and the student types them), Teach Me (the computer says the word out loud, spells it and shows it letter by letter), Play a [...]

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JoVe: The Journal of Visualized Experiments – Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video. This site looks very interesting. The first video is Sigma’s Non-specific Protease Activity Assay – Casein as a Substrate. If this is not a dialect of Klingon for you, then you should enjoy the website.

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Zamzar is a free site for file conversions. Formats you can convert to include: image formats, doc formats, music formats, video formats as well as a number of compression formats.

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Smart Technologies, the maker of our Smart Boards, offers a number of pdf tutorials on how to effectively use the Boards. Tutorials range from basic functionality to collecting and sharing content with the Notebook software.

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