Darren Draper's List: My NECC Software Links

Finally and easy way to create a podcast on Windows!

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Pixie 2 is a communication tool for your student's ideas. Students can create original artwork and edit photographs they have taken with a digital camera. Students can write and illustrate stories and record their narration. Students can create newsletters, greeting cards, and books. Students can create digital stories with photos, sound, and art.

Pixie is the creativity tool to give life to the curriculum and your student's imagination.

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Students get three random numbers and construct arithmetic equations such as (2 + 1) x 3. To move along the number line trail, they must solve their equations. In the process, students strengthen skills with numbers and operations, negative numbers, and the order of operations. Students can race each other, race different computer opponents, or work cooperatively.

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Templates for the Web 2.0 keychain o' tools.

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Filtering through DNS. Free.

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Create a Firefox web station - free.

Personally, I think that more schools should consider this option for student Internet stations. Forget the "hidden" costs, no more excuses.

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Excellent directory of Web 2.0 sites.

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Must-have Firefox extension for browsing collections of photos.

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An online version of Apple Keynote. Like PowerPoint, only prettier.

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For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.

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