Professional Development Committee Workshop
Creative Uses of the World Wide Web

Description

Use the World Wide Web creatively to watch your stocks (top10traders.com, to save family or class photos (picasa.com) or family videos (video.google.com), create a family web page (googlepages.com), create a blog (blogger.com) or do your taxes online (turbotax.com)

Student
Learning
Objectives

Te student comfortable with using several of the following (as time permits) types of web sites for teaching and personal uses
bulletStocks
bullet Photos
bullet Video
bullet Blog
bullet WebPage
bullet Taxes
bulletPersonal (Travel, Shopping...bots)

Stocks

bullet top10traders.com
bulletBest bet schwab.com or wherever you have your account
bulletCheck out
Yahoo
(saves your portfolio at My.Yahoo.com
Select stocks with their Stock Screener
bullet SmartMoney.comSmartMoney is truly Interactive.  As you point to the graph the price is displayed, etc.    Map of the Market is my favorite. It takes a look at the Whole Market over your choice of time period today, three months, six months, a year..
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Google it      

bullet Microsoft Money CentralMicrosoft Investing site is very complete. As with most you can get quotes and charts and  track your portfolio.  Their stock lookup compares the firms number to industry averages and explains the meaning of the numbers.  I particularly like reading the "Insight" columns.
bullet StockCharts.com
bullet The Motley Fool is where you learn about investing while having a wonderful time reading about how you could make (or loss) lots of $$$.    
bulletListen to Marketplace morning report (from NPR). Great links to other economic sites and some fun like poems.
bullet Stock Selector.com Stock Selector
bullet Earnings Whispers
bullet You're reading the leading Live US Stock and Bond Market Analysis site!Briefing.com has some good columns. Some are free, some $6/month, some $25/month.
bulletFortune Investor has some of the best columns - "Street Life" is my favorite. It has a stock/mutual fund pick, links to online Fortune, Money and Time and gives you and old fashioned ticker (NYSE and NASDAQ) in a separate window. Like most stock sites, it will track your portfolio.  If has more for monthly fees of $10 to $30 (with a 30 day free trial).  
bullet Big Charts  is great for comparing your selection to a sector or other stocks over your choice of time frame.   
bullet Investors's Place has some very readable columns with some investing suggestions.Investor Place has some very readable columns with some investing suggestions.

Photos

bullet picasa.com

Video

bullet video.google.com

Blog

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bulletArticles on how to do it
bulletA List Apart: Articles: How to Write a Better Weblog
bulletHow to Write Killer Blog Posts & More Compelling Comments
bulletHow to Write Compelling Blog Posts| MarketingProfs.com
bulletAnyone can write a blog, but will anyone read it? | csmonitor.com
bullet Blogging for Beginners
bullet Seth's Blog: How to write a blog post

WebPage

bullet googlepages.com
bullettripod.com

Taxes

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bullet  H&R block offers lots of options: Do it yourself, or with help or turn it over so lots of prices

Personal (Travel, Shopping...bots)

bulletSelect from SUMWARE.com
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bullet kayak.com
bullet OneTime searches
bullet Computers has many subcategories such as
bulletElectronics
bullet Car Rentals
bullet Flights
bullet Hotels Lets you filter by Most Popular  |   Alphabetical  |   Price Range  |   Near an Airport 
or # of Stars

If I can be of help feel free to email me at t  or call 908-753-2230 (home)

 

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