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1. The following site: http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=1528&openpod=9#anchor9 is listed on Kathy Schroks' resources. It has lots of podcasting links. 2 science podcast links were: XMLfilename is http://www.cvcsd.stier.org/Podcast/mbreed/Secure/Uploads/chemat.xml with several chemistry topics in it and XMLfilename is http://www.wsst.org/podcasts/rss.xml on the trends in the periodic table of elements and facts on various elements of interest.

2. I was looking for another source to purchase music other than itunes and found: http://beta.mufin.com/ It claims to have sound effects and background effects. I want the students to have access during the school day to make a few podcasting vocabulary activities, so it should be useful. I had to send my e-mail address to them to use the services. The options looked neat, but I haven't gotten my password yet... ... so I checked out http://soundcloud.com/. This site is totally great. They //__move__// music. You can easily download any song sent and you can send music too. The graphics display is a voice sound wave and it looks cool. I am definitely using this site for our sound unit in science. It is possible to download other people's itunes, though. Is that really legal?

3. http://www.sumopaint.com/app/ is an awesome picture modification site. I loaded my personal photo from my computer and I could paint and alter it about a million ways at this site. It will be a hit with my class for video podcasting our terms for the final exam I am sure! http://www.fixpicture.org/ is another site for picture editing without the paintbrush option, as is [|www.picnik.com]. There were several other slide show and audio links to jazz up the podcasts as well.

4. A site to do a virtual tour anywhere in the world is http://www.jneys.com/ I have an idea for the alternative energy project "tour" that the chemistry students do in the spring and this is site provides much more info than I have. It has tours of energy facilities already in place!

5. **__FINALLY...__**my biggest find is http://chitch.at/ This site is designed especially for teachers and allows you to do more things than moodle. It is easy to navigate and offers not only postings of assignments from educators, but it allows me to: 1- set up interactive online assignments and games, 2-correspond with students and other educators via networking, 3- collect, grade and monitor progress (graphic options), 4-access posted science lessons and several other features I have yet to explore! There is a nice tutorial video that I commented on at the website.