Supplemental+Materials

These websites provide a wide variety of text, image and video content across all major subject areas
 * General Informational Resources **

containing all Favorited resources, create presentations || category system, not all material is of similar quality, some resources pulled from other sites like wikipedia and flickr || sorted by subject then topic. Logged in users can then save the resources they use to their favorites page and send the URL of their favorites page to others to share those specific resources, they can also use a simplistic presentation editor to compile resources into a presentation. || scavenger hunt ||
 * NeoK-12 **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View all resources ||
 * Logged-in User: || Save resources to favorites, create a personal page to share
 * Logged-in User: || Save resources to favorites, create a personal page to share
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of multimedia resources, easy to understand
 * Description: || Users can search through the large database of multimedia,
 * Uses: || Foundation for a research paper, differentiated by interest

media type="custom" key="13087802" video lessons || can be overly simplistic || of topics, complete online quizzes in a variety of subjects which are tracked via a personal profile || specific videos could function as a foundation for a research paper ||
 * Khan Academy **
 * Website: || [|http://www.khanacademy.org] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View all lessons, talks and interviews ||
 * Logged-in User: || Log personal progress, complete exercises, comment on
 * Logged-in User: || Log personal progress, complete exercises, comment on
 * Email Use: || Gmail or Facebook account required for log-in ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Easy to navigate interface, wide variety of lessons, exercises
 * Description: || Users can view professionally developed lessons in a variety
 * Uses: || User could watch a series as a individualized assignment,

media type="custom" key="13087614" accessible, can automatically create a screen recording, not designed for works in progress || use a webcam to record directly to the website. Content is organized by subject in packets, which can be edited and commented on by other users. Users can also create groups where multiple users can learn about or create packets. || self teach based on the subject area packets, as well as add to packets where appropriate. || = = media type="custom" key="13087628" videos || usually created in a course sequence, limited options for certain subjects, limited options for younger viewers || respective fields. The lectures contain accompanying notes and in certain cases also have online tests which can be used to qualify for college credit through watching the lecture. || specific videos could function as a foundation for a research paper ||
 * Sophia.org **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View published content ||
 * Logged-in User: || Upload and comment on content, create groups ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, streamlined, Highest quality content easily
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, streamlined, Highest quality content easily
 * Description: || User can upload video, audio, documents and presentations or
 * Uses: || User could create a group specific to a class and have students
 * Academic Earth **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View professor's lectures on topics ||
 * Logged-in User: || Add videos to favorites, create playlists, rate and comment on
 * Logged-in User: || Add videos to favorites, create playlists, rate and comment on
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in ||
 * Paid Option: || Gain college credit for taking select courses ||
 * Comparison: || All content produced by professors for college classes, videos
 * Description: || Users can view videos of lectures by top professors in their
 * Uses: || User could watch a series as a individualized assignment,

media type="custom" key="13088142" is longer than 20 minutes, search not always easy to navigate some topics less covered than others || experts The lectures contain accompanying notes and in certain cases also have a transcript available as well as additional talks related to the same topic. || specific videos could function as a foundation for a research paper. ||
 * Ted **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View professional lectures on topics ||
 * Logged-in User: || Comment on and rate videos, join conversations ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || All content produced by experts in respective fields, no video
 * Comparison: || All content produced by experts in respective fields, no video
 * Description: || Users can view videos of speaking engagements by respected
 * Uses: || User could watch a series as a individualized assignment,

search for specific content, many resources are links to external sites || interest. The site provides a link to the information as well as what government agency funded the project. || scavenger hunt ||
 * Free Federal Resources for Education **
 * Website: || [|http://free.ed.gov] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required (for some resources) ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and access all content listed on the site ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of free online resources, easy to navigate and
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of free online resources, easy to navigate and
 * Description: || User can search for and identify content related to a topic of
 * Uses: || Foundation for a research paper, differentiated by interest

**General Informational Quizzes** These sites provide resources for testing subject knowledge, and in some cases creating quizzes relating to any subject area

media type="custom" key="13087298" performance || people across the world, limited selection of question categories, no method for creating personal quizzes || and answer multiple choice questions relating to that category. Correct answers prompt the banner ad to be refreshed and the companies paying for the advertising donate 10 grains of rice to the world food bank per page view. Users can also join groups to donate together. || connection to global community ||
 * Free Rice **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and play pre-made quizzes ||
 * Logged-in User: || Track high scores over time, game scales difficulty based on
 * Logged-in User: || Track high scores over time, game scales difficulty based on
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, correct answers provide rice to feed hungry
 * Description: || Users can choose the category of information to be quizzed on
 * Uses: || Quiz could build knowledge reaction time, vocabulary, stronger

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 * Class Tools **

easy to save and share creations, difficult to find high quality public quizzes || choosing. Users can then save and share the unique URL related to the quiz with others. || knowledge reaction time ||
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View, create, play, save and share quizzes ||
 * Logged-in User: || View full screen, advertisement free, printable ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || Allowed to log in ||
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of tools for building different types of quizzes,
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of tools for building different types of quizzes,
 * Description: || Users can build and take quizzes on any subjects of their
 * Uses: || User could make virtual flash cards to study, quiz could build

missed questions after taken, not all content is vetted, can be difficult to navigate || world to multiplication facts. Quizzes can be customized for challenges such as ending the quiz with a wrong answer, or not showing answers on questions missed. Users also provided a tool for making their own quiz to share with the community || knowledge reaction time ||
 * Sporcle **
 * Website: || [|http://www.sporcle.com] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and play quizzes ||
 * Logged-in User: || Create, comment on and rate quizzes ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of quizzes, breakdown of statistics for most
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of quizzes, breakdown of statistics for most
 * Description: || Users can take timed tests on everything from flags of the
 * Uses: || User could make virtual flash cards to study, quiz could build

These websites provide mostly information relating to language arts, however they may be used in other contexts as well.
 * Language Arts Resources **

option for text to speech and easy copying, can be difficult to navigate || domain, available for anyone to read. It also provides additional links to partner ebook sites, and free audio book mp3 sites. || buying many copies of the book, provide as an option for silent reading time. ||
 * Project Gutenberg **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || Read thousands of books available through the public domain ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || Large library of digitized books, all books have a plain text
 * Paid Option: || Large library of digitized books, all books have a plain text
 * Description: || This site contains a database of books free through the public
 * Uses: || Give students reading options from digital archive instead of

featured books, book reading interface can be sluggish to load difficult to copy text from a book directly || domain, available for anyone to read. It sorts the books by genre and age group. It also provides additional links to information surrounding reading such as book lists and local library resources. || buying many copies of the book, provide as an option for silent reading time. ||
 * Read.gov **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || Read thousands of books available through the public domain ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Visually pleasing book reading interface, additional extras about
 * Comparison: || Visually pleasing book reading interface, additional extras about
 * Description: || This site contains a database of books free through the public
 * Uses: || Give students reading options from digital archive instead of

These websites provide mostly information relating to math, however they may be used in other contexts as well.
 * Math Resources **

personal skill level || grow repetitive quickly, flash and multiplayer can be sluggish || progressively more difficult to keep with the player's ability. || math center. ||
 * Calculation Nation **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || Play games individually as a guest ||
 * Logged-in User: || Play games with others, track progress, games cater to
 * Logged-in User: || Play games with others, track progress, games cater to
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of games, visually pleasing interface, some games
 * Description: || Users play a variety of math themed games which become
 * Uses: || Games could serve as an anchor activity, or an option for a

age level, limited options for certain math topics || presented with a selection of tools to assist working with that unit. Some tools may be digital representations of physical manipulatives, such as tanagrams, but others may be otherwise impossible to create, such as the fractal builder. || lesson around, visualize otherwise difficult to imagine shapes such as dual platonic solids ||
 * National Library of Virtual Manipulatives **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, java plug-in; Download (Windows, Mac) ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and interact with the online virtual manipulatives ||
 * Logged-in User: || Purchase and download the offline version of NLVM ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || Download offline version, gain access to multi-lingual support ||
 * Comparison: || Easy to navigate, clearly sorted manipulatives by content and
 * Comparison: || Easy to navigate, clearly sorted manipulatives by content and
 * Description: || Users can select an grade level and a math unit, and will be
 * Uses: || Explore different tools and find a favorite to build an inquiry

media type="custom" key="13086246" [] Tutorial: [] || account if no email address exists) || spreadsheet programs if imported, no pre-made data sets or animations, can be difficult to initially use || Spreadsheet, users can then visualize the values across the x and y axis, the point size, color and time. || a predicted trend beyond a current graph, see the relationship between position, velocity and acceleration ||
 * Google Motion charts **
 * Website: || Creation:
 * Website: || Creation:
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in ||
 * Anonymous User: || View published motion charts ||
 * Logged-in User: || Create, edit and publish a motion chart ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account (allows users to make a gmail
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Very robust tool for viewing data over time, accepts data from other
 * Description: || By entering a series of values in chronological order into Google
 * Uses: || User could follow trends over time such as the stock market, create

These websites provide mostly information relating to social studies, however they may be used in other contexts as well.
 * Social Studies Resources **

media type="custom" key="13086118" to country data, limited statistics from earlier in time || the relative status of different countries throughout history. It can demonstrate hundreds of pieces of country data across the graph's x axis, y axis, point size, point color and change over time. || predictions based on general movement over time, fix misconceptions about the gap between countries ||
 * Gapminder **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug in; Download (Windows, Mac and Linux) ||
 * Anonymous User: || View U.N. country statistics growing by time ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, demonstrates powerful correlations, specific
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, demonstrates powerful correlations, specific
 * Description: || Gapminder is a visualization tool which helps users understand
 * Uses: || Identify a correlation between two quality of life indicators, make

combination of media within an exhibit, somewhat clunky navigation interface, limited options beyond U.S. History || containing both text and images relating to a subject as well as activities or responses that can be completed relating to the subject. Teachers can also register their class and view student responses || paper, students could pretend to be curators for exhibits and try to find more that could be added to the virtual museum. ||
 * Virtual History Museum **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View log-in page ||
 * Logged-in User: || View virtual exhibits, respond to activities ||
 * Email Use: || Optional for account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Strong connection between exhibits and activities, good
 * Comparison: || Strong connection between exhibits and activities, good
 * Description: || Users who log in have access to a wide variety of modules
 * Uses: || Different exhibits could serve as a foundation for a research

** History Matters ** content for certain topics, limited user input || primary source documents, scholarly writings and vetted content related to U.S. History || research project, complete one of the pre-made tasks as a warm-up activity. ||
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, Quicktime plug-in ||
 * Anonymous User: || View content and complete pre-made lessons ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Easy to access content, robust advanced search, limited
 * Comparison: || Easy to access content, robust advanced search, limited
 * Description: || Users visiting are given access to a database of digitized
 * Uses: || Provide a series of texts that serve as the foundation for a

media type="custom" key="13084820" one project focus per year || to a location. For every object received, philanthropic foundations donate money to charitable organizations. || aware of more global issues ||
 * Students rebuild **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View success stories and previous projects ||
 * Logged-in User: || Register for and participate in the latest classroom project ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || Donate to charity related to program ||
 * Comparison: || Clear cooperative national focus, easy to involve others, only
 * Comparison: || Clear cooperative national focus, easy to involve others, only
 * Description: || User signs up to help create a small physical object to donate
 * Uses: || Students could grow local community involvement, become

These websites provide mostly information relating to science, however they may be used in other contexts as well.
 * Science Resources **

media type="custom" key="13082456" interesting and unique, limited subject matter beyond animals and specific cultures || footage or photos related to several scientific and cultural themes. Media is produced with the intention to receive donations from viewers for charities related to the content. || use as a resource for a research project on a specific animal through taking natural observations. ||
 * Explore.org **
 * Website: || [|http://explore.org] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View videos and live streaming cameras ||
 * Logged-in User: || Comment on videos and live feeds, download videos ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || Donate to the video causes ||
 * Comparison: || Live streams provide unscripted view of wildlife, videos are
 * Comparison: || Live streams provide unscripted view of wildlife, videos are
 * Description: || User can view a variety of content as a live feed, recorded video
 * Uses: || Create a virtual zoo tour by switching between animal feeds,

focused message towards real world application, limited resources especially in student section || channel designed to get students excited by science and interested in pursuing a career in a scientific field. Resources include videos, lesson plans, and activities that can be conducted in the classroom or at home. || their favorite lesson plan which would be taught, students could pick a favorite science career path to research from the available videos ||
 * Curiosity in the Classroom **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and download content, take quizzes ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Portals separated for teachers parents and students, clear
 * Comparison: || Portals separated for teachers parents and students, clear
 * Description: || A collection of resources sponsored by Intel and Discovery
 * Uses: || Students could be told to explore the teacher site and choose

These websites provide mostly information relating to foreign languages, however they may be used in other contexts as well.
 * Foreign language Resources **

media type="custom" key="13074548" currently long wait time for invitation, 2 languages offered || the user is then given the opportunity to translate web pages from the learned language to his or her native language. The website has an algorithm for measuring the accuracy of the translated page by comparing it to other users' translations. Successful translations award points which unlock more complex vocabulary || on the web not targeted to English speaking individuals. ||
 * Duolingo **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser ||
 * Anonymous User: || View log-in screen ||
 * Logged-in User: || Take scripted lessons, daily practice, and web translations ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, robust learning options, interesting content,
 * Comparison: || Very easy to use, robust learning options, interesting content,
 * Description: || User takes pre-written lessons to initially learn vocabulary,
 * Uses: || Learn either Spanish or German, discover the variety of content