Dear parents,
Starting this month, the Curriculum Office will be sending all students in grades 6-12 a monthly newsletter with tools and resources that they can use to enhance their school projects and special assignments. Following is a copy of our first digital student newsletter. Enjoy!
Spicynodes is a fresh way to display information for various creative and educational uses, from concept maps, to poetry and art, to new user interfaces and visualizations. Click here to view one: http://www.spicynodes.org/a/fd15ee43638285acdad08ae5cc917755Go to: http://www.spicynodes.org/
Snip.ly is an interesting new web application. Without having to register, you first paste a url address of any webpage into the site. After you click “next,” you will see the page “within” Snip.ly. You can then highlight one section of the text on the page and write a note about it. You’re then given a url address (or can directly email it) of the page “within” Snip.ly with your note “floating” in front. Go to: http://snip.ly/alpha
Channel.me is a new application that lets multiple people view the same webpage and chat about it. It could be useful when you are researching a topic together. It has the feature to easily annotate websites with virtual sticky notes that can be placed on the site — whether or not you are using the group text feature. The site maintains the sticky notes indefinitely on the unique url address you’re given for the website you input, so this might be the easiest tool around for you to use and save for research notation and, more importantly, to illustrate your use of reading strategies. Go to: http://channel.me/
Embedr lets you easily make a playlist of videos from across the web, and then lets you embed them all with one embed code. This could come in handy if you want to present a series of videos into your own site. Embedr certainly is compatible with a ton of video-hosting sites. Go to: http://embedr.com/
Documentary Tube, like similar services, is a catalog of full-length documentaries found on the web. Documentary Tube doesn't actually host the videos rather it catalogs them and displays them through embedding. Documentary Tube videos come from places like Daily Motion, YouTube, and Google Video. The catalog is arranged thematically. Go to: http://www.documentarytube.com/
Audio Pal is a web tool that allows you to record voice messages and embed them in a website. It's a great way for you to share an audio project. Go to: http://www.audiopal.com/
Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE!. There is also a paid version that has features that will enhance your recording experience. Go to: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
Bubblesnaps is about adding speech bubbles to a picture . Pictures can be uploaded from your computer or from your flickr account and attach it with your bubble captions before you either share it online or paste it to your site or blog .Go to: http://www.bubblesnaps.com/
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Anahi Vargas-Paredes
Curriculum Coordinator
