Educational Origami

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ 
This is part of the PBS Public Broadcasting Service in the US.
I have blogged before about this site but this is another powerful and educationally useful feature.  On the Online News Hour page are links to a wide range of news categories or topics.

Key for us as educators are:

Art & Entertainment
Business & Economy
Education
Media
Religion
Social issues
Environment, Science [...]

http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
This is a WOW resource to find and use. This is a the directory and repository for resources from the US governments agencies. I have copied and pasted below the subject map. This is a site to use and use and use and use……..

Arts & Music

 
 
Artists (87)

 
 
Music

 
 
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Blues, Gospel, Folk (13)

 
 
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Jazz (13)

 
 
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Sheet Music (10)

 
 
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Other Music [...]

http://www.nga.gov
 http://www.nga.gov/onlinetours/index.shtm
This is an fabulous site for the Art departments and faculties, their teachers and students.
They have a huge array of online tours available. They are arranged by:

collection tours with PDF study guides and materials
Artist
Artworks
Themes
Architecture Tours
Virtual exhibitions using Quicktime VR

This is a great resource and facility to use.

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I blogged earlier about KidPub, I felt that this was an excellent tool for encouraging students to publish their works and encouraging literacy. I also had a good response from the owner/facilitator of the site - Perry 
Well they are at it again !  with a slightly older focused site called Teen Author. This is again [...]

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/brushster.htm
This is a nice little shockwave applet that the National Gallery of the Arts has on their kids pages.
The tool is amazingly flexible and very enjoyable to use. It is certainly a cheaper alternative to commercial painting products, but is obviously a little limited.
The toolbar is visual

An even the artistically challenged can make something [...]

ELI have a series of publications they produce the “seven things you should know”. They pick an emerging or existing technology and review it from an educational aspect. These are very useful resources for teacher professional development, student materials and resources etc.
The latest release is “ 7 things you should know about citizen journalism“. Click [...]

This is a follow on posted from the previous, looking specifically at some of the downloadable resources on these mathematics sites. There are some very good resources available for use.
Subtangent 
This resource section contains:

stationary
starters and puzzles
worksheets for

geometry
statistics and probability
number

other resources including a count down timer

Subtangent also makes available the source files for the games on the [...]

A Collegue of mine posted these in one of the conferences at school and they are worth sharing. Thanks Rod

Games to keep tables sharp –www.multiplication.com
Maths games for interest – www.subtangent.com

Maths investigations (Cambridge university) - www.nrich.maths.org

Online maths tutoring service that records pupil’s progress against their age –www.whizz.com

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http://graffiticreator.net/

This is an interesting generator for Graffiti style text . The User Interface is pretty simple and easy to use.

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