Dushare: an incredibly easy way to share files

Dushare is an incredibly easy way to share files with students. It lets you transfer files by way of a web browser as fast as you can upload and quickly share a file with all of your students by way of a unique url.

The site could not be easier to use, just pick your file, decide if you want it password protected to download, and then share the file. Dushare requires no login or registration to use so it is appropriate for students under 13. You can even chat with the person you are transferring the file to over Dushare. File sharing just doesn’t get much easier!

Kidsblog

 This is a great blog to blog along with your students. As the teacher you can have as much control as you want on post and comment approval. You and your students can add images and multimedia and embed web objects. Very basic themes. Designed mostly for grades k-9.

The Art Project Powered by Google

The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums.

Select a museum from the list on the homepage and you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview and click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum. The best part of the Art Project powered by Google is the option to create your own artwork collection while visiting each museum. As you're touring a museum click on the "+" symbol on any work of art see it in greater detail, to add it to your collection, and to open background information about that work of art. To create a collection you must be signed into your Google account.

Qwiki - A New Search Engine

 QWIKI is not a search engine like Google. Instead it’s more like a picture dictionary. For every search term entered, QWIKI responds with a definition which is read aloud plus a series of pictures, gathered from the Web and presented as a kind of slideshow that illustrating the search term. While the pictures actually come from many different web sites, the text for each item or article is written by QWIKI staffers.  Test it with a search "water cycle" you will see a visual of the process as well as an audio description.   Then click the "contents" tab and you will get a print visual of all the content and links at the bottom to a variety of related Quiki files.

Teacher Vision

TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 20,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources. There is a subscription rate for some materials but there are also a lot of materials that are free.  k-12.

More Moodle Tutorials @ Adventures in On-line Learning

Here’s a great set of resources, including sample courses, videos, blogs, books and step-by-step tutorials. It’s not necessarily an exhaustive list, but if you’re just starting out and want to create your own repository of great Moodle help and content then Fran’s Adventures in Online Teaching blog is a great place to start.

The Science of Football

The Science of Football is a series of ten videos from NBC Learn explaining and demonstrating math and science concepts as they relate to football.

The Science of Football could be a good way to get students who enjoy sports, but don't necessarily enjoy math and science, interested in learning math and science. Lessonopoly offers lesson plans corresponding to each video to support your use of the videos in your classroom.

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The Science of Skateboarding, Bicycling, and More

Sport Science - The Science of Baseball

ESPN's Sport Science