The Digital Catalyst

This is an excellent list of learning tools.   I am still “mining” my way through most of them.

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html 

These are great advertisements, posted years ago showing how incredibly far technology has changed. Click the link below to see more! 

http://www.2spare.com/item_92760.aspx

Thanks to Bill Bond for finding this and sending the link to me!

Sometimes the best way to learn vocabulary is by just using flashcards. This is a great new twist on an old concept. Students and teachers can create a free account to create cards and practice with them. Each student can create a few cards each and everyone can view everyone cards. This could be a great assignment for students or an individual study tool. This is the website: http://quizlet.com/

This is a short video giving more details:

Welcome to Celestia

… The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A ‘point-and-goto’ interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that’s not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html

These are great online websites for creating family trees or organizational chart.

• http://www.geni.com
• http://www.itsourtree.com/
  
• http://www.myheritage.com/

This is a free online tool to make a website.  It is easy to use and have some fun templates.

http://www.webnode.com/ 

This is a good website where teachers (and students) can upload information and research.

http://www.scivee.tv/tagadelic 

Here is an international writing project with examples and rubrics

http://es1001tales.wikispaces.com/ 

This is an excellent website which looks at Bloom’s Taxonomy from a 21st century vantage point.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/