Project Building Resources
 

Select another page: Home page Unit 1: Introduction Unit 2: Biochemistry Unit 3: Cells Unit 4: Energetics Unit 5: Heredity Unit 6: Evolution Unit 7: Ecology Project Resources Recycling
 

Virtual Museums: How to build one...

ANIMOTO.COM

Upload photos, music, and dialogue...they do the rest.

Blabberize Great for biographies; as the student talks in to the mic, the mouth moves on the screen.

bubbl.us

Create your own organizational graphics (mindmaps).




 

Free video streaming software. Good Promethean resource.

This site helps you create professional looking graphs and charts.

Live screencasting site
 

Online whiteboard for drawing
 

A great tool for any person with a computer. A MUST HAVE for any person who uses more than one computer device. Watch the video on the home page to see how you can store 2 gigs or more of your documents, images, etc. online for free.
 

a great tool to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheet, presentations, etc

Type in any subject and related items (even with different names) are provided in grid form to select your next step in researching a topic.

 
If you don't have it, get it.

 

Free video editor; movie creation program. Similar to i-movie.
All web-based. (.mov/.wmv)

Instant Messaging: Very easy and free way to have an online conversation with a group of friends or colleagues; can be printed for documentation.
 

Create time lines with text and images.

Create pages in scrapbook form. Includes extensive video editing tools
(like photoshop but it's free!)

Tools to create "Picasso" type caricatures to add to your documents and other media.

    Watch this one...
WOW!  Talk about a new way to present information...  it's a digital canvas to collect ideas (verbal, video, links, images) on a topic in a non-linear fashion. A collection of popular Prezi presentations are available to search under the "Explore" tab. 

Turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans, themes, letters - into a visually stunning tag cloud with words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequency of occurence within the body of the text. 
See also www.wordle.net

Create your own cartoons!

Web-based text documents; allows for collaboration with others.
Great for group writing.

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PHOTO STORY 3

Assemble photos, record dialogue, add text, add music...  basically make a kickin' presentation... for free.

Windows

Search and download this free movie making software.  Add and edit pictures, movies, music, and narration like a pro.
I have free version 5.1.  Be sure you get one compatible with your operating system.  (A tutorial from a friend of mine)
 

Download any type stock music for free.  Excellent for presentations.




 

Share Tabs

Put up to 15 links you want to share with someone in this box, then hit
"Tabify 'em."  A nice way to display several sites at once on one page. 
It creates tabs across the top of the page for each site (like MS Office 2007) as well as making thumbnails of each front page. 
 

Free stuff for teachers/students  From the NSTA website

Wish you were at your computer to get your "favorites" list?
Try using delicious.com.  It's your online 'favorites' list that's always there...

Are you Media Literate? 
Get a load of this, then check out more here...