April 6th, 2010

1. How Millenial Are You: Take this quiz and find out
The PewResearch Center put together this quiz based on their recent study "exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millenial Generation.

2. Vocab Sushi: The better way to build your vocabulary.

This free site offers free games to help you build your vocabulary. You can specify your skill level and your goals. You can look at words in context, play sentence completion and definition matching games. When you create a free account the site will remember your progress.

March 30th, 2010

1. Book Discussions: A place to talk about books and ideas that matter.
Check out this ning site that allows anyone (students and teachers) to set up an online book group. You can use this for a class or for yourself. Join the site and start a group.

2. Preceden: The easiest way to make a timeline.
This free site makes it easy to create your own timelines. They aren't fancy, but they are quick and you can print them out or embed them on another website.

March 9th, 2010

1. Doodle4Google

Are you artistic? Would you like to see your artwork on the world's most popular browser? Then enter the Doodle4Google contest. Submssions are due by March 31st. Check out the rules at the link above and be sure to let me know if you are interested! I have to submit your entry, there are forms to fill out and we can only submit 6 entries.

2.DropBox

DropBox is a downloadable application that allows you to share up to 2G of files across different computers and with other people for free. You can get more space for an additional charge. Now you can share large files with friends and access documents and other media from multiple locations easily and safely. Thanks to Mr. Trautz for this tip!

March 2nd, 2010

Belmont Hill Students are Blogging:

A Weekly Dose of Tennis by Bashiru Akinfolarin

A Weekly Dose of World Football by Charles Butte

Albundy's Hip Hop Concoction
by Alan Momperousse

All Time Great Movies
by Andrew Daskalakis

Alternative Automotive Awareness
by Chris Thomsen

Automobiles in the 21st Century
by Mike Nahill

Berry Addicted
by PJ Lee

Big K's Everything Blog
by Kevin Clough

Boston Sports - Everything but Hockey
by Jeff Schimmel

Everything about Vertical Jumping
by Ryan Paganetti

Hardcore Parkour
by Chris Ivsin

Peter's Sports Blog
by Peter Yanofsky

Ryan's Squash Blog
by Ryan Mullaney

Soccer Update
by Birin Padam

Tim's Recipe Review
by Tim Strakosch

February 9th, 2010

1. BBC Religions
Twenty world religions are spotlighted here. You can find both general information and more specific details on beliefs, customs, holy days, and worship.

2. Take the Belief-o-matic Quiz
This 20 question quiz will match your beliefs with different religions and provide links for you to learn a little more about each of those religions. Be warned, the site is slow and has some ads, but I thought the results were interesting.

January 12th, 2010

1. Protecting Reputations Online
This 3 minute video illustrates what happens to information that you share on the web. Common Craft's unique style makes it easy to understand some of the risks of oversharing information Online.

2. Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
This ReadWriteWeb blog post summarizes some of the recent comments made by Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, regarding Facebooks new privacy settings.

January 5th, 2010

1. Google fast flip
New from Google labs, this web application allows you to find news articles from a variety of sources on many different topics. Fast flip shows you the cover pages of the newsprint article and allows you to flip through the pages as if it were a magazine. There is even a mobile version.

2. Wallwisher
An online post-it note board with no sign up required. You can create a wall that everyone can see or one for only you. You can even set it up to approve every post before it shows up on the wall.