CityData: National Statistics at Your Fingertips
WHAT IS CITYDATA? CityData is a website that provides statistics and data on hundreds of cities across the United States. Data includes statistics such as maps, geographical data, crime data, religions, cost of living, restaurant inspection results, mortgage data, water systems, unemployment data, media station data, and much more. HOW WAS CITYDATA RATED? For information about … Continue reading
Tagxedo: Turn Words into Dynamic Visuals
WHAT IS TAGXEDO? Much like Wordle, Tagxedo is a word-cloud generating program. Tagxedo takes texts from documents, from online input, or from websites and turns them into beautiful word-clouds with the click of a button. Users can choose from a variety of shapes to customize their clouds, including hearts, clouds, famous celebrities, stars, animals, and … Continue reading
Museum Box: A New Presentation Tool
WHAT IS MUSEUM BOX? Museum Box is a free, online presentation tool that allows users to compile images, text, video and other forms of media. As an alternative to other presentation methods and research papers, users can curate and collect information to support arguments, describe events and people, and represent ideas. Museum Box offers educators … Continue reading
Periodic Table of Videos: Each Element Explained
WHAT IS PERIODIC TABLE OF VIDEOS? The Periodic Table of Videos is a series of videos created by the University of Nottingham. Featuring all 118 elements, most videos focus on Professor Martyn Poliakoff explaining properties of individual elements, and then conducting experiments on the element. The videos, now quite popular on YouTube, are an attempt to … Continue reading
Visuwords: Online Graphical Dictionary
WHAT IS VISUWORDS? Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary where users can look up words to find their relationships to other words. The website produces diagrams in a mind-map fashion that show associations between words. Each node of the mind-map is a word, which can be clicked on to discover its meaning, additional word associations, … Continue reading
Blabberize: Talking Images
WHAT IS BLABBERIZE? Blabberize is a simple Web 2.0 tool that takes images and allows them to speak. The process begins by users uploading an image or using an online URL. Then, users select the area of the image that is the mouth and record a message. Blabberize will then convert the image to have … Continue reading
Poll Everywhere: Text & Online Audience Voting
WHAT IS POLL EVERYWHERE? Students today are attached at the hip to their cell-phones, so why fight it? Instead, Poll Everywhere allows teachers to utilize this student connectivity to engage students in the classroom. With Poll Everywhere, teachers can create either multiple choice or open-ended polls and then use them directly through the website or … Continue reading
Splicd: Edit YouTube Videos
WHAT IS SPLICD? In today’s classroom, YouTube is commonplace. However, often YouTube or other video clips are lengthy and bogged down with filler video. Splicd is a great tool for these scenarios; this website creates a new link for YouTube videos based on the section of the video you want it to play. Simply enter … Continue reading
Newswordy: Vocabulary in the News
WHAT IS NEWSWORDY? Newswordy is a website that presents vocabulary in the context of media and news. The site focuses on buzzwords or words that are commonly presented in news media but not often used in everyday language. Each day, Newswordy presents, defines, and shows a buzzword in context of a quote, article, Twitter, and … Continue reading
New Horizons for Learning 