Humanities+2.0

**Animoto - **http://animoto.com A free service to create short video story telling projects.

**Aviary Myna ** - [] A free site that will give teachers and students the ability to create audio recordings and podcasts. You can also create private, student accounts and register a class for an organized project. **Capzlez ** - [] Capzles is a social storytelling app. Using images, video, and music, create your own story and share it via social networking media. A great took for creating multimedia time lines, historical perspectives, instructional videos, or just short stories.

**Curriculum Pathways** - http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com
====Developed and supported by the international corporation SAS, this is a free site for educators and students providing wonderful interactive content in the areas of English, Math, Science, Social Studies and Spanish. Hackley School is a member of this community. Registration is free.====

**DataMasher ** - [|__http://www.datamasher.org/__] A tool that has collected a wide variety of government data into tables. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states. Similar to DataMasher, this tool contains data sets and metrics that can be combined and posted in may ways to help users better visualize data.
 * Google Public Data** - http://www.google.com/publicdata

**OneWord **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|oneword.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OneWord is a simple writing exercise. A word is displayed you users are asked to simply write about what comes across their mind. Its not about learning or defining vocabulary. Will require an account, and also includes podcast tutorials

**Regents Prep** - http://www.regentsprep.org
====Developed by the Oswego City School District, this site acts as a resource for students who are preparing for the NYS Regents exams in multiple subject areas. The site also includes interactive practice examples such as can be found at [].====

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">StoryBird ** - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A site that allows teachers and students to create digital story books or read the work of others. The tool also allows students to work collaboratively, taking turns to compose the next page. Comes complete with tools to select the art work of your choice.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagzedo **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|tagxedo.com__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Will require the installation of Microsoft SilverLight in order to run on your computer.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VoiceThread **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://voicethread.com__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holdsimages, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.