Technology Tuesday
APRIL 16TH 2013
Free Apps
MyCongress
MyCongress is a portal to detailed information about your elected U.S. Congressional officials. Track their news, video and Twitter feeds. Look up their official Open Congress profile or contact them directly.
Essential Skeleton
Students can zoom-in, zoom-out, and rotate the skeleton 360 degrees. When students zoom-in and tap on a bone they will see its name in English and Latin, have the option to hear an audio pronunciation of the bone’s name, learn about the connected bones, and write their own notes about the highlighted bone.
Earth Viewer
EarthViewer is like a time machine for exploring the deep history of planet Earth, a tool based on the latest scientific research. Use your fingertips to scroll through Earth history for the last 4.5 billion years!
Meegenius
MeeGenius digitizes children's stories, classic and new, and adds features such as word highlighting and audio playback for easy read-along.
Websites
Two websites to explain taxes and American debt
http://www.whitehouse.gov/2012-taxreceipt
From time to time we all wonder where our tax dollars go. Now thanks to the White House's Federal Tax Payer Receipt we can find out. Visitors to the site can enter the data from their actual tax returns, enter data that they estimate, or choose to use one of the "common scenarios" to see a breakdown of what their tax dollars will be spent on.
What we pay for uses publicly available tax data to show you how your tax money is appropriated.
WoW Math
Excellent resources for high school math including Algebra 1 & 2 up to AP Calculus.
Webydo
Webydo is a smart and free online tool that converts any graphic design into a functioning professional HTML website, without writing code.
Michael Fowlkes
Arab City Schools
Email: mfowlkes@arabcityschools.org
Website: www.arabcityschools.org
Location: 511 Arabian Drive Northeast, Arab, AL
Phone: 256-931-9321
Twitter: @arabcitytc