Podcasts (Library of Congress)
Did you know the Library provides podcasts of some of its presentations and online resources? Listen to book festival presentations, material on music and its impact on the brain and oral history interviews with African Americans who provide first-person accounts of the hardships of the slave plantations and of life during and after slavery. Download the audio recording and a transcript of the program to your iPod, other portable media player, or to your computer from the Library of Congress website. You may choose to automatically download this and subsequent episodes via a free subscription from the Library's podcast website or through Apple iTunes.
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
J.ot Down - simple internet notepad
J.ot Down is a simple Internet-based notepad. Here are some simple instructions:
1) Open j.otdown.com in your browser.
2) Start typing.
3) Pause for a moment (or hit "Save") and J.ot Down will save your note and give you a
permanent link for it (as seen in your browsers location bar)
4) Continue to edit your note or share it (or a read-only version) with your friends.
5) Bookmark your note for later access or just start another one.Using page recorder to make a "reset" for your smartboard lessons
VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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