Sandy's+Help+page

=Welcome to a page dedicated to Helping the Librarian in you= Tagxedo, word clouds with style. Create a word cloud within a shape, for example, take the words pertaining to flowers and put it in to the shape of a flower []

Graphics Programs
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 * Roxik
 * Draw Greetings
 * Queeky
 * ToonDoo
 * Toonlet
 * ImageChef
 * ZCubes
 * Shidonni
 * Mr. Picassohead
 * [|Face in Hole]
 * GoAnimate
 * MagMyPic

[|Internet Dectective] - Use this **free Internet tutorial** to learn to discern the good, the bad, and the ugly for your online research.
(aimed for upper high schooland college, but I think you could adapt for MS)

[|Sweet Search]- Sites that have been evaluated by research experts, teachers, and librarians.

[|Library Games] - An online game to teach shelving skills and book order

[|Monarch Butterfly spring Migration] - visuale chart of the migration timetable of Monarch Butterflies

[|Site Tour Of Finding Dulcinea]Sweet Search and beyond =[|Top 25 sites Tech and Learning Magazine]=

David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at [|cyber-kap.blogspot.com]
 * 1) [|Kidblog] - Great way for schools to have kids blog. No student email is required and everything is monitored before being posted online.
 * 2) [|Sweet Search] - Excellent search engine for students, as everything has been reviewed by educators.
 * 3) [|Cacoo] - Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration.
 * 4) [|21 Classes] - Get students blogging in a safe and secure environment.
 * 5) [|Story Jumper] -Excellent site for digital storytelling, with many educational resources for teachers.
 * 6) [|Middlespot] - Innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way.
 * 7) [|Education Eye] - Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine.
 * 8) [|Kizoa] - Great site for creating animated slide shows with lots of different content to choose from.
 * 9) [|Drag on Tape] - Very user-friendly site that uses a drag-n-drop interface to edit and mix video.
 * 10) [|Shwup] - Great site for making collaborative slide shows.
 * 11) [|PreZentit] - Very similar to Shwup, a nice looking site for making collaborative slide shows.
 * 12) [|Quintura for Kids] - A search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud where results can be embedded into a site.
 * 13) [|TodaysMeet] - Create a real-time, private, back channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter.
 * 14) [|MeMoov] - Very user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voice for narration.
 * 15) [|Wordia] - Brings words to life through the use of video.
 * 16) [|Encyclomedia] - Video encyclopedia where results can be embedded into a site.
 * 17) [|Zooburst] - Great site for for digital storytelling, where a user can make an online 3D pop-up book.
 * 18) [|Jay Cut] - Similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video.
 * 19) [|Splashup] - Looks like Photoshop and is a great way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects.
 * 20) [|Comic Master] - Fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-n-drop interface.
 * 21) [|Knowcase] - Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site.
 * 22) [|Cloud Canvas] - Great site for photo editing and drawing or painting, similar to Splashup.
 * 23) [|Magic Studio] - Great multi-media site for uploading photos,documents or video and then editing them.
 * 24) [|Googlios] - A way for students to create digital portfolios online using Google Tools.
 * 25) [|We are Teachers] - Social network for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.