Archive for November, 2007

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Universal Leonardo

http://www.universalleonardo.org/index.php
This is a really interesting and well designed site with a huge range of resources and activities, all based around the works of Leonardo deVinci.
Hours of fun and a huge range of resources

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Photo framing tools

http://www.dumpr.net/
There blurb and banner lines is “The Coolest place for digital Photography”
….and it is
This tool allows you to upload an image to the site and select a frame or presentation method and then download or publish the result. The frames are nice and varied.

here is an example from me….

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Comics creation

 
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
This is a great and easy to use flash based resource. You can use this with students of any age.
The User Interface provides you with a set of charactors with different emotions

A simple toolbar of commands to manipulate your comic strip

and hay presto - you are an instant comic book author (of course quality is [...]

Buzzword - flash based, Online Word processor

http://www.buzzword.com
Buzzword - Flash 9.0 Based online Word Processor.

This is a very well featured and powerful word processor, with sharing features. This is a flash based tool (needs flash 9 plug in to work) The interface is clean and easy to navigate. It has a nice mix of menus and ribbons. (see the short [...]

Avoiding burnout

http://www.teachers.tv/video/23408
Stress Relief for Schools - Avoiding Burnout
This is a video by Teacher.TV on avoiding Teacher Burnout. It looks at a couple of teachers and their stress levels. It also has resource material on teacher burn out as well.
The Video features Prof Cooper from Lancaster University and occupational psychologist Emma Donaldson-Feilder to explore the physiology of [...]

Social Media Links

https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/index.cgi?social_media_resources
Would you like a ….

social networking tool
social bookmarking tool or tutorial
tagging tips hints and pages
Photosharing ideas, hints and materials

This is a good resource, up to date, relevant

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Starter Kits for Global Projects

International Education Washington
This is a site full of materials and resources for global projects and collaboration.
This is the link to the resource page for global projects - http://internationaledwa.org/starter_kit/default.htm Lots of starter kits for projects
The site also has a good set of other resources  - http://internationaledwa.org/resources.htm

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iEARN - Global project

http://www.iearn.org/
Time to collaborate GLOBALLY! iEARN stands for international Education and Resource Network. Its an organisation with 20K+member schools in 115 countries.

Global Projects like this help breakdown barriers, increasing tolerance, enhance the understanding of different cultures and religions, as well as being educationally sound in a increasingly international school currciulum, and classrooms with out borders.

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The Why Files?

http://whyfiles.org/
There banner line is the science behind the NEWS. This is a good solid site for science, current events etc.
Embyronic stem cells without the embryo - http://whyfiles.org/shorties/247stemcell_origin/
They also have a very useful archive of education pages and resources. To support teachers they have a teacher page.
Here are the teacher resources:
Miracle of winged migration
Dean’s Damage: What [...]

Two websites

These two are interesting and useful
Site 1. Discover Anatomy

http://insideout.rigb.org/insideout/anatomy/index.html 
This is a site that explores Anatomy. It has gamelets to play and is easy and graphical to navigate.
This is a neat little flash game where you have to move the joints (on the robot)to crush a can. Not as easy as you think.
Site 2. Chart [...]