Featured Sites

   
Featured sites-

• Story Jumper helps you write and illustrate stories in just seven steps-- then share them online. You begin by selecting a story format and accompanying graphic. Manipulate the text and add other items to the picture that forms with each addition to the story. You also change the background and upload photos. Add original drawings, as well. When finished with a particular scene, go On to the next page by clicking the arrow. In order to save and share stories online, writers must complete a free registration. Although there is an option to buy the finished story in print format, this is not necessary to use the site.
  http://www.storyjumper.com/
  
  
• Tate Kids was the winner of a 2009 Youth Webby Award. It connects the art of the past and present to the world of blogging, on-line activities, storytelling, and craft making. Each project cleverly weaves in a child friendly art history or theory lesson. Features such as “Tate Paint” invite viewers to create and share their own animated masterpiece on-line. Students can select pieces from the Tate Kids Collection or upload their own artwork into the “My Gallery” space and create a personal virtual museum available to visitors around the world. This site screens all submissions before they appear on-line and provides safety tips for children to review with an adult. Signing up for the “My Gallery” option requires a username and password, but no email address is required.
  http://kids.tate.org.uk/create/create_all_activities.shtm
  
  
• Big Huge Labs: Map Maker
  Create maps -- for multiple reasons -- with ease. As you ‘travel’ through your geography or history course, create an ongoing map of the places you've visited and embed/post it on your blog or any web page. Simply type in the title of your map, choose the land masses you wish to include, and then click on the correct boxes for your particular locations. When finished, click the You're Ready box at the bottom of the screen. Now scroll to the top to see what your map will look like. The embed code (geek-speak term for computer gobble-dee-gook that tells your computer how to find and display the map you have made) for your map is ready to copy and paste into your web page. You can find the embed code to the right of the map. There is also a button to Reset and Start Over.  Explore the rest of this site - it has a lot to offer.
  http://bighugelabs.com/map.php

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