Google Docs http://google.amdsb.ca

You Tube Class Site http://www.youtube.com/Turnberryps

TubeChop  Edit YouTube videos to relevant minutes

YouTube to MP3  ListentoYouTube   Tubeminator  MakeItMP3  Convert music on YouTube to mp3 file, edit in Audacity

 

 

Reading Minute News Sites 

Worldnewspapersonline search by country

Newspaper Map

Onlinenewspapers.com

Headline news http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

OnLine News

CBC News   http://www.cbc.ca/news/  

CNN student news

Teach Kids News

Tweentribute.com 

Newseum  sort stories by region http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Mapea

Time for Kids        DOGO news        Scholastic News Online 

Democracy Now

Global Voices

 

Research 

Quiki

Thompson Gale Trillium - Jr. Edition

Ontario Ed. Resource Bank   

Teacher Login:  amdsbteacher        Password:         oerbt

Student Login:  amdsbstudent        Password:         oerbs

 

Technology Sites (Fun Friday's)

 

Skydiving, Fairtale..place yourself in a video  http://memeo.madeupmemories.com/

Skitch images 

Vocaroo - create a podcast

Voki http://www.voki.com

On-Line Games

 

Video Search Engines

IsInVideo

National Film Board of Canada

 

Geography 

• Natural Resources Canada Students  Climate Change, Landscape Pics (clk on Geography)
• Earthquakes and Volcanoes
• Google Maps
• Google Earth
• Map a List  http://mapalist.com/
• Canada Year Book 2008  www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources

         (Articles, trends on population, children and families, energy,

          government, health, ethnic diversity, immigration and more!

 

Science

 

Science Fair Websites 

 

Language/Vocab Sites

• Very cool Dictionary (visual) http://www.lexipedia.com/
• Tagxedo word cloud 
• Word It Out  (alternative to Wordle)
• Wordle  http://www.wordle.net/
• Easy Define  http://www.easydefine.com/  (http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2009/12/4-similar-tools-to-wordle.html)  
• Wordnik  http://www.wordnik.com/  You need an email address or use embeded in a blog (see instructions below)

           http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/11/creating-word-lists.html 

• Wordsift  Create a word cloud from a bunch of text   http://www.wordsift.com/

 

Five Card Writing 

Excellent English activities http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/ 

Reader's Digest Games http://www.readersdigest.ca/

 

 

 

Wikipedia for Students  (Character Ed, History, Geog, etc.)  http://schools-wikipedia.org/

 

Social Networking

 

Diigo    http://www.diigo.com/user/hdurnin     

Delicious http://delicious.com/hdurnin             One-stop shopping for all your bookmarks.

Twitter  http://twitter.com/hdurnin                       You Tube http://www.youtube.com/heatdurn

Mrs. D's Blog  http://hdurnin.wordpress.com

Flickr  http://www.flickr.com/hdurnin                

 

Audioboo http://audioboo.fm/profile/Hdurnin