Cool Web Finds

Cool Web Finds

WACA 2008

Tim Turner, Richland HS

tim.turner@rsd.edu

Inspirational

Miniature Earth

A thought-provoking movie in which the world’s population is shrunk to a village of 100 people, keeping the same proportions that we have today..

Dove movies--Campaign for Real Beauty (You Tube)

Dove’s campaign for real beauty has produced some great movies about the messages our advertising culture sends to girls and young women.

“Evolution”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U

“Onslaught”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaH4y6ZjSfE

Did You Know (Shift Happens)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

This movie gives students plenty to think about in terms of their place in the world and the importance of education.

Inspirational Movies from Simpletruths.com

http://www.simpletruths.com/movies/

This site has lots of….well…inspirational movies. Some are a little corny for my taste, but there are some good ones too.

Functional

World clock, earth clock, others

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks.htm

These clocks also work as great discussion starters to help kids see the world around them.

ZIP Skinny

http://zipskinny.com

Type in any ZIP code in America and get a page of data and demographic info about that city.

American Rhetoric.com

This site contains the Top 100 speeches of the 20^th century. Some are in audio (mp3), some are video, and some are both. There is also a fun site with great speeches from movies.

Top 100 Speeches

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/newtop100speeches.htm

Movie Speeches

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/moviespeeches.htm

Make giant photo posters up to 50 ft

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

OK…so the name sounds dirty, but this is a cool site where you can upload a jpeg image or photo and create posters up to 50 ft. It create a pdf file which you print out on 8.5 x 11 paper and assemble like a puzzle. There is a great gallery of some amazing posters. You can also download the program for free (for Windows users).

Urban Legend Reference Site

http://www.snopes.com

This is an INVALUABLE site. Use it to educate your friends and students who constantly send you all those e-mail urban legends. (hint: Barack Obama is NOT an al-Qaeda terrorist).

Miscellaneous

EPIC 2015 (invasiveness of web technology)

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

This movie speculates about our future in an ever-increasing technological world.

For Fun

Destroy your least favorite website

http://netdisaster.com/

Type in the address of your least favorite website and select your preferred method of destruction.

Clean the Screen

http://dl.cleanthescreen.com/screenclean.swf

This site is just…..well, check it out.

Self-serving