REALLY Cool Tools & Sites - Please add them as you find them

[Denise Easton]

There are thousands of cool tools out there and unless you never sleep, how do you find them. Lets share what we come across.

I will begin with Scratch - http://scratch.mit.edu/.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Scratch is available free of charge: go to Download.
Currently available for Mac OSX and Windows (see system requirements)

[Denise Easton]

A terrific article about Scratch - http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/press/New-Scientist.pdf

[jame]

This indeed is a terrific article.thanks a lot for sharing it.I have been using this one for a long time now and i am really happy with it.But i am not sure How many are really interested in trying this out.
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[Emma Duke-Williams]

I've also discovered yesterday when looking at scratch, that it's possible to run it from a memory stick - which makes it useful if you want to use it somewhere you can't install software. (e.g. student computer labs!)

[Virgo d]

I read the article and i found it quite interesting tools are also good it mite help me a lot.
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[Plone Glenn]

If you like scratch, then take a look at inform which is the most popular tool from the Interactive Fiction community.

[Denise Easton]

I really don't sleep.....

I found this via a group I belong to on LinkedIn --

Troy Peterson is the founder of www.nibipedia.com. Here is a bit about the tool -

Watch, Learn, Research, Teach.

What is a Nib?
A nib is a visual bookmark on a video timeline. Nibs also recommend related videos. As the Nibisphere grows, it will find more and cooler stuff that makes you smarter, faster. We have a team of experts nibbing away engaging educational content.

[Denise Easton]

SuperCool School
http://www.supercoolschool.com/about.php

Supercool School wants to empower People to teach and study from each other using a bottom up, grassroots-like approach to organizing and holding live classes online.
With your help, we want to make it as powerful, fun and easy as possible for people all around the world to share their knowledge and learn in a social way.

[Paul Hughes]

Thanks Denise,
I currently have teachers using Alice http://www.alice.org / and parts of GoAnimate http:goanimate.com
for student-created content. We'll certainly add Scratch to the toolkit.

[Denise Easton]

Social Media Classroom --
The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don’t want to install your own. (See this for an explanation of who “we” are).

http://socialmediaclassroom.com/

[Denise Easton]

I can't help but post this because ULiveandLearn is number 7 on the list.

Online Degree World just posted their “100 Best Websites for Free Adult Education” http://www.onlinedegreeworld.com/blog/2009/100-best-websites-for-fr...

There are also 99 other terrific resources.

[Denise Easton]

Who is familiar with Knol --- a google lab project - http://knol.google.com/k/. Interested in feedback.

[Celia]

Hello undoubtedly going to be a fascinating job with super useful tool, I hope we continue to report

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