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7 Things You Should Know About Haptics: Haptics technologies provide force feedback to users about the physical properties and movements of virtual objects represented by a computer. For applications that simulate real physical properties—such as weight, momentum, friction, texture, or resistance—haptics communicates those properties through interfaces that let users "feel" what is happening on the screen.
A Virtual Journey into the Universe: This free online activity allows puts students in the cockpit of a space shuttle as they explore the solar system. Students land on each planet where they find information about previous explorations of the planet, the planet’s exterior features, composition, and satellites. Students can also engage in interactive activities to learn more about various planetary features.
Addressing Cyberbullying in Schools: Address the issue of cyberbullying with tools and workshops provided through this resource, and help students understand that bullying and cyberbullying are behaviors that will not be tolerated.
Arcademic Skill Builders: Arcademic Skill Builders is a nonprofit web site that features online educational games offering a new approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Inspired by arcade games and the intense engagement they foster between the game and player, the site's programs stem from experience, systematic observations, and research in understanding student learning in school and social situations.
Art Teachers: Experiment with Still Life: This feature at the National Gallery of Art makes it possible for students to use web tools to compose their own still life paintings, using images of fruits, flowers, and other size and spatial arrangements. They can even add textured brushstrokes. The program includes a slideshow of 38 still life paintings, and kids can identify common elements and try to guess the artists who painted them. The activity requires Adobe's Shockwave Player, which can be downloaded as a free browser plug-in (if you don't have it). The player is not yet available as native software for Intel-based Macs - you'll need to run it in emulation mode. Click on "manual install" to find out how.
Ask a Scientist: Ask a Scientist connects you to some of the top scientists in the country, and each of them is connected to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. If you've got a question about medicine, human biology, animals, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, or evolution, then please, Ask a Scientist!
ASL Clip and Create: ASL Clip and Create is available on 4 CD-ROMs, offering nearly 5,000 signs for $49.95.
ASL Pro: ASLPro.com offers free online dictionaries, including an alphabetized dictionary as well as a conversational dictionary with categorical common phrases.
ASL Video Dictionary and Inflection Guide: The ASL Video Dictionary and Inflection Guide was developed by the Rochester Institute for Technology and presents signs in sentences or phrases, allowing the user to understand how signs change with meaning and inflection. The CD-ROM can be ordered for $50.00; there are demonstration video clips available on the Web site.
AutoTutor: The AutoTutor program and research on the use of teachable agents, created at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. The animated agent dialogs with the user as a tutor, eliciting deep reasoning and explanations.
BBC Science Games: Free games (most using Flash) and simulations on a variety of topics in science and nature.
BBC Science Simulations: BBC Science Simulations provide students with the opportunity to manipulate variables and explore virtual science experiments on a variety of topics including, plant growth, electricity, forces, friction, and food chains.
Best Practices: Staff Development on the Go!: This podcast series offers current educational topics such as technology trends, action research, and working with mixed-ability classrooms. Each episode typically contains three interviews with experts on the subject.
Best WebQuests: This site provides a matrix of the best WebQuests arranged by content area and learners' age.
Betty and Billy: Betty and Billy are teachable agents created at the Teachable Agents Group at Vanderbilt University. These agents interact with users by asking to be taught concepts necessary to solve problems in the program.
Between the Lions: The PBS show Between the Lions presents animated interactions with words, word parts, sounds, stories and songs within the setting of a library. Online games allow users to interact with the show's characters and activities.
Book Adventure: Book Adventure is a free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.
BookBuilder: BookBuilder is an online tool to develop e-books with three different embedded agents that offer strategic comprehension prompts. There is even an agent to help authors create the books. This library will grow as users post the books they have created.
CDJukeBox v2.1: Play audio CDs from your computer’s CD-Rom using only a switch or an Intellikeys keyboard. Users can take advantage of five different music playback modes: Direct, Latch, Timed, Step and Scanning.
Celestia: Celestia is free space simulation that lets students explore the universe in three dimensions. Students can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

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