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**Crop Videos with** [|**http://snipsnip.it/**] [|**SnipSnip.It**] is easy to use, just copy and paste a YouTube url, choose the start and end point and click “snip”. Easy! After snipping your video you can embed the shortened video on a website or blog or share the shortened video with a link. The other benefit: all of the YouTube extras (a.k.a. distractions) are eliminated in the [|**SnipSnip.It**] version.

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[] students will find several thesauruses: emotion, setting, color/shape/texture, weather, and symbolism. The emotion thesaurus offers alternatives for showing character emotion through physical action. The Setting Thesaurus offers sensory descriptions that can help paint the picture of a setting. The color/shape/texture thesaurus helps students include sensory information that helps convey images in specific ways. They symbolism thesaurus helps students utilize symbolism to leave a lasting impression on their readers. __**NOT SURE HOW TO INCORPORATE 21ST LEARNING INTO YOUR CLASSROOM?**__

[] Creative Educator focuses on using technology tools to foster creativity and engage students in the curriculum. Published by Tech4Learning, Creative Educator features articles on project-based learning, creativity, classroom management, and more from authors with a range of experience in educational technology. Creative Educator also features stories from educators about how they are using creativity tools in their classrooms. These connections are designed to inspire and to celebrate effective technology integration. The end of each issue also includes lesson plans that provide ideas, resources,and directions that make implementing technology even easier.

[] This site is an index for all the federal government departments, agencies, museums, etc. that provide resources that teachers can use. Just find the topic you are interested in and see what it available. This includes photographs, lesson plans, videos, animations, and primary documents.

[|**http://www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/**] This site allows you to design your very own superhero!
 * __CREATE A SUPERHERO:__**

__**PREDICTING THE FUTURE:**__ @http://www.paleofuture.com/ A look into the future that never was.

[|**http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/**]
 * __CREATE YOUR OWN REVIEW GAMES:__**

[|**http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonard/Mini%20T%27s/Games/Games.htm**]

[] It is the school-friendly, "hand-checked, non-commercial" Wikipedia.
 * __A SCHOOL VERSION OF WIKIPEDIA:__**

[] A painting full of famous people. Click on the image and it directs you to a website (generally wikipedia) Fun and interactive tool!

[] [|**eyePlorer**] is a really cool site that allows students “explore and process knowledge.” Student type in a word or words to research. [|**eyePlorer**] pulls information from Wikipedia and puts it into a color wheel of information. When students hover over the different areas of the color wheel, they get a sentence or two about their subject. There is a notebook where students can drag and drop facts that they want to remember. Students can drag facts to the notebook and rearrange them as they need to. Students can click the “i” button under the search box to get a quick summary of their topic, click on the “+” button to add search parameters, and click on the paper button to go to a Google search. The idea behind [|**eyePlorer**] is to improve the way “users interact with knowledge and information online.” The goal is to provide innovative, interactive, visual methods for working with and discovering facts and information.

[|www.discoveryeducation.com] Former name was United Streaming. Free through our IU.
 * __DOCUMENTARY AND EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS:__**

[|http://www.archive.org] Awesome site. This site is blocked at the school district (there can be some unsuitable material). This site has everything from MGM's first sound cartoon to current music concerts. All material is open source.

[] Excellent source for all types of documentaries. Everything from sports to history.

[]. Videos created by colleges and universities. Blocked at the district, you must view elsewhere.

__**VIDEO CONFERENCING**:__

[] Collaborate with classrooms around the world.

[] More video conferences. Most require a fee.

[] COSI: Explore Science. Discover Fun. Autopsy, knee replacement surgery, and more videoconferences

[] Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration Videoconferencing service resource center

[] NASA Digital Learning Network Videoconference directly with NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts and education specialists


 * __WEB BASED ACTIVITY CREATOR:__**

[] Created by AT&T, Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages.


 * __STORY BOARDS:__**

__http://kidsvid.altec.org/index.html__ Website to create storyboards.


 * __CROSSWORD PUZZLES:__**

[|http://justcrosswords.com] Just Crosswords is a site of 15x15 crossword puzzles that you solve right in your Web browser. Click on the clues or the spaces in the puzzle, and then simply type to fill in the blanks.

__**CONCEPT MAPPING:**__

CFF Laptops: All laptops have the program **__ "Inspiration 8" __** that is great for mapping

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 * __CULTURE IN THE USA__**

[] What is American culture? There is no one answer to this question, and everyone you ask will probably give you a slightly different answer! The reason is because the United States of America is a diverse land. Covering more than 9.6 million square kilometers, the USA is home to more than 290 million people. While there are [|core values] that unite Americans, you will find that a large, urban area like Los Angeles, California has a very different culture and way of life than Oxford, Mississippi. When nearly three thousand miles separate people on the west coast from those on the east coast, there are bound to be differences!

__**GOOGLE EARTH ACTIVITIES**__

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__http://www.googlelittrips.com/__

http://historytours.wikispaces.com/

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 * __STORY WRITING AND CREATING COMIC STRIPS:__**

__[]__ There is a FREE version and an educational version that does have a cost associated.

[|www.myebook.com] Awesome way to get students to write books. This is a free site that allows the user to write books, illustrate with drawings or pictures and import music. Books can be published on the internet.

[|www.xtranormal.com] Write the story and xtranormal will put it into a movie. This website allows students to choose backgrounds, characters (up to 2 for free) and write text that will be spoken by the characters.

[|www.toondoo.com] A GREAT way to get students writing. Very easy to create comic strips at every level and subject!

__**FREE DIGITAL RESOURCES:**__

http://digitalmediaresources.wikispaces.com/ Website created by teachers from Troy HS. Gives audio, video, and picture resources that are ethics and royalty free.

__[]__ "Kids' Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning."


 * __FAMILY TREES:__**

__[|www.geni.com]__

__http://www.dynastree.com/__

__http://www.myheritage.com/__

__**CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT:**__

[|http://docs.google.com] Create presentations, surveys, spreadsheets. Very User Friendly!!


 * __AP COURSES:__**

__http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/teachers/index.htm__ Great site for AP courses! Provides video and other information from MIT professors of biology, calculus, and physics.


 * __VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS:__**

[|www.cilc.org] Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration Take your students on virtual field trips (many have costs associated with them) or collaborate with a teacher in another state.

__http://www.edutopia.org/virtual-field-trips__ Supported by the George Lucas Foundation. Best part.....FREE

__http://www.twice.cc/fieldtrips.html__ Look under "Favorite Field Trips". There is a cost to most field trips.


 * __BOOKMARKING:__**

[|www.google.com/ig] This is the only way CFF teachers will be able to bookmark. Online calendars that can be shared with everyone! You can embed the calendars into wikis.


 * __SOCIAL BOOKMARKING__**

[|www.diigo.com] Currently blocked at school

[|www.delicious.com] Currently blocked at school

__**COPYRIGHT: (select "Images" on left side of this page)**__

[|http://www.vclass.cciu.org] Fair Use in Educational Technology. This webinar was a lively discussion surrounding the challenges educators face when dealing with Fair Use.


 * __GREAT Websites to incorporate 21st Century Learning:__**

__http://school.nettrekker.com/subject/__ We are members of this site through NEIU 19. More resources than you can imagine possible!

[|http://www.teachersdomain.org] Digital media for the classroom and professional development

[|http://www.webquest.org] Use a webquest already created or create your own. Fun way for students to research topics!

__http://www.spiritsd.ca/teacherresources/teachertoolbox.htm__ Great Resources

__[]__ Create games to review, essay planners (fishbone, hamburger), timelines, venn diagrams, learning puzzles, lights out

__http://www.hotchalk.com/index_new.html__ It's a learning management system, and part of it includes a lot of wonderful videos.

[] AMAZING website for all subject areas

__www.21classes.com__ Site especially for teacher/student blogging

__**FIGHT WORLD HUNGER:**__

[] United Nations World Food Programme created a series of virtual food "missions". As a rookie, the program hosts six missions. Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster.


 * __21st CENTURY RUBRICS__**

__[]__ Create rubrics or use one already created by a teacher

__http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/podcastrubric.html__ Podcast rubric

__http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html__ More rubrics