Teacher+Leadership+Academy+2010

=Carteret County Schools Technology/Media Wiki=

ZoomIt:
[] Free Download! ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. Hotkeys:
 * Activates and deactivates the zoom: Ctrl-1.
 * Draws in color: **Ctrl-Y is Yellow, Ctrl-R is Red .....**
 * To draw a:
 * **Circle**: Hold down the **Tab** key plus click and drag the mouse
 * **Straight line**: Hold down the **Shift** key plus click and drag the mouse
 * **Rectangle**: Hold down the **Ctrl** key plus click and drag the mouse
 * **Arrow**: Shift- Ctrl plus click and drag the mouse

[] Free Grades 3 through 12. This website is dedicated to improving math and science education through computational science. It has interactive sites that is search skill, by NCSOS, or by textbook! Try these:
 * Shodor:**
 * General Coordinate Grid: []
 * Fractions []
 * Order of Operations: []
 * Plotting []


 * Smartboard:**
 * 60 Sec Tutorials: []
 * Kelly Hines already created Smart lessons. [|http://delicious.com/search?p=Kellyhines1&chk=&context=main|&fr=del_icio_us&lc=]
 * Pre made lessons: []

[] "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."
 * Wordle:**

[] Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
 * Tagxedo**

Use Pro account is free for teachers
 * Google Earth Pro for Educators**
 * http://earth.google.com/outreach/program_details.html

Google Earth Pro for Non-profits Application
 * https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleearthgrantapplication/

Use Google Earth for
 * Weather patterns
 * Country Maps - with and without borders

http://www.shelfari.com/
 * Shelfari** - Great for Booktalks