Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.  ~ William Morris

Interesting World Wide Web Sites to Visit
 

Birthdate Calculator - Enter your birth date and see how many days, hours, and milliseconds you have existed.

American Sign Language Dictionary - Includes video clips showing each word (QuickTime Required).

Copernic Summarizer - A software product (with a free trial) that  summarizes content of documents, web sites or other files. While not yet perfect, it does point towards an intriguing use of intelligent agent software.

The Miniature Earth [click on the large word "Play"] - This is a Flash presentation representing the world's population and economic disparity. Count your blessings.

We Feel Fine - A real-time data driven site that harvests "I feel..." statements from blogs worldwide and represents them within a graphical interface.

The Visual Thesaurus [after it loads, click the red "Launch" button] - This site shows a graphical representation of a thesaurus. As you click on words, the image shifts to that word. It is interesting to explore.

Floorplan Designer - Make a floor plan, then walk through it using the arrow keys in isometric view.

Virtual Reality Sites - A list of links to 3D and/or VR sites, games, worlds.

Cyber-Geography - This site has many images and graphic representations of the Internet, and the 'virtual real estate' which it has created. After choosing a category from its menu on the left, scroll down the page to see the various images.

SodaPlay - This is a fun site for kids. It lets construct things from virtual-soda-straws that animate on the screen. You can turn gravity on or off, and experiment with various shapes and forces.

SwitcherZoo - This fun site lets you choose various animals to combine, and then morphs the results for you. Try making a zebrilla or an elephig!

Data Powers of 10 - This site puts bits, bytes, and zigabytes into their proper perspective.

Image Powers of 10 - Travel from the rim of the universe towards the Earth and eventually into the quarks in the atoms of a leaf in leaps of 10x magnification!

Virtual Reality - A collection of sites on educational VR software gathered for a report I wrote.

Encyclopedia of Educational Terms & Technology - Descriptions of an extensive list of educational constructs and pedagogy.
 

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