Wolfram Research.WolframAlpha is a good researching tool that
anyone can use to research anything. You can type in math
questions and it will show you how they are done step by step.
Students could use WolframAlpha to good use during research
papers, they could get all the facts they want off of it. Students
also use it as a way to get help at math when they are at home.
Snag Films Snagfilm.com
Snag film is a website where you can watch shows of any kind.
All the movies on the website are free to everyone, no sign up
or anything. Most of the films on this website are documentaries.
As a teacher you could use this website to show students some
documentaries and then teach your lesson plan around them.
Another way you can incorporate this into your classroom is to
assign a student to watch a video at home and be prepared
to talk about it at school the next day.
Wiki Answers wiki.answers.com
Wiki answers allows you to ask any question you can come up with and somebody will answer it and for the
most part that somebody is knowledgeable in that subject. One of the downsides of this is that they do not
answer this right away but will eventually get to it. Anybody can go in and answer a question on it, but
wiki moderates the answers to make sure they are good answers. A student if they have any questions
pertaining to things like grammar could go in and ask wiki how to do it correctly in their teachers preffered
method. A student could also make a question about homework they do not fully understand but do not
need the answer right away.
Wiki How wikihow.com
Wiki How is a step by step guide on how to do just about anything you need to get done. You can go look
for how to cite anything like MLA and things like that. You can also ask it how to make a boat and it will
pull up an instruction manual on how to do that. Students could use wiki how on just about everything they
will ever do in school, when it comes to citing things. You can also ask it how to work a math problem
and they would pull up step by step instructions on how you are to do it.
Precipitate code.google.com/p/precipitate/
Precipitate is an online search history that you can pull up if you accidentally close a tab or something like
that. The only problem with it is that it only supports Google Docs, Google Bookmarks, and Picassa Web
Albums. If you ever have done homework on these websites and you accidentally close it out you can go
here and it will pull it back up for you. A student is about to turn in his final essay into Google Docs and
they accidentally push close most would think it is gone forever but Precipitate can pull it back for you and
save your life. Or even a teacher just got done with their lesson plans and they go to save it and they close
it, it will pull it right back up for them.
Diagrammr diagrammr.com/
Diagrammr is a website where you can make your own diagrams like flow charts, bar graphs, and pie charts.
Diagrammr will help you make a proffesional looking diagram you can use in class. When you use
diagrammr it does not ask you to sign in or anything so it is free to use and you can get right into using it.
Students could use diagrammr to make flow charts for a set of events that took place, for homework that
is for outside of class. Teachers could also use it to show how something worked out through time.
Chartle chartle.net
Chartle is another website you can use to make diagrams such as charts, plots etc. Charts can make you an
embed chart that you can put up onto a website and also one you can save to a picture. Chartle comes with
a one minute introduction video on how to use it and use it well. Students can easily makes graphs and
charts to share with the class or turn in for homework. Teachers could also make charts and graphs to
use as a teaching tool.
imTranslator http://free-translation.imtranslator.net/speech.asp
This website lets you use microphone plugged into your computer to speak into it and it will write it down
and can translate it for you. This would be helpful if you are trying to talk to somebody from anothercountry and you speak different languages. It could also be helpful if you
have a pen pal from another country. Students could connect with
people from different parts of the world. Teachers could also try
and talk to students that do not speak fully in english.
PDFmyURL pdfmyurl.com/
website into a good looking PDF. A PDF is something that will print out a ton easier than a URL, they tend
to be hit and miss on their reliability. A teacher can tell a student to print out a specific URL and tell them
how to make it to a PDF.
This website can let you download youtube videos and you can put them on just about anywhere you want.
You can put downloaded videos on your ipod as well as slide shows. This could also be helpful when you
want to watch a video later and you do not have time to watch it then. Teachers could use this in their slides.
Students can use this for slideshows to turn in also they cna use it for out of class activities.
