Cool+Web+Sites

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Lesson Plans & Videos
Stossel in the classroom Looking for ways to get your students engaged and excited—while building on their critical thinking skills AND fulfilling your standards-driven curriculum?

Convert YouTube

 * zamzar.com **Convert youtube videos, other conversions too!**
 * kickyoutube.com
 * keepvid.com

**Polling Site**

 * polleverywhere.com **Text based polling**

**Screen Capture**

 * www.screencast-o-matic.com **Captures your screen and turns it into a video**** A FAVORITE ! ! **

Flash Cards

 * Flash Card Creator**Study** vocabulary or almost anything;**Create** your own flashcards - [|sign up free] **& Share** flashcards with your friends

Gadgets News

 * The Cool Gadgets All about gadgets, cool consumer electronics, mobile computing and technology.

Presentations

 * prezi.com **The zooming presentation editor**

Book Printing

 * blurb.com
 * lulu.com

**Make Videos from Pictures**
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 * This is a fun program that usually has a fee. When you apply at the educator site, you will receive a promo code that you and your students can use until next May. It's great for putting together cool videos of FBLA pictures!

Tools

 * Enlarge pictures without pixelation
 * Make your own word search
 * 1000 Business Cartoons
 * Word CloudsWordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Free Software
> This is one terrific free program that works on both Windows and Macs. And it makes easy work out of creating HTML professional-quality Web pages. You don't even have to know HTML (HyperText Markup Language). You just need to know how you want your page to look. Nvu has features comparable to FrontPage and even Dreamweaver. But Nvu is free, which is great for those of us without a professional-sized budget
 * [|jingproject.com] **Free software for screen captures**
 * [|www.nvu.com] **Want to create your own Web pages?**
 * www.artweaver.de **An alternative to Photoshop**

Video Sites
 * Economic Topics great for intro and managment


 * teachertube.com
 * schooltube.com
 * novemberlearning.com
 * archive.org View old web site designs.
 * Inspirational Stories

Graphic Organizers

 * Graphic Organizers Lots of templates to use!Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.