Educational Origami

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3234354.ece 
This is an interesting read, and one that I am continuing to reflect on. Its looking at the gender gap and the different learning styles for boys and girls.
Its well worth a read
“In the co-educational classroom so many of the choices we make are to the advantage of girls, but disadvantage boys,” he said. “The [...]

 
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/march-of-democracy.html\
This is a great resource. Its flash based, and straight forwardf. This is what they say about themselves.
“where has democracy dominated and where has it retreated? This map gives us a visual ballet of democracy’s march across history as the most popular form of government. From the first ancient republics to the rise of self-governing [...]

Many Schools in the first world find themselves replacing textbooks as newer, more up to date versions are written. This often presents them with a problem of what to do with the old ones.
Unfortunately these are often thrown out, or at best recycled.
However, all over the globe there are schools crying out for these texts, [...]

This is a site that Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach brought to my attention
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/pillars.htm
What do we need for Successful integration of ICT? I have to say that I agree with each and every point made here. We must lead by example, have champions, have easy to access and understand support, Teachers must drive the changes and feel [...]

Here are a couple of interesting resources for geographers and anyone interested in maps.

http://www.planiglobe.com/omc_set.html 
This is a site that allows you to create your own digital vector map. useful and flexible

 http://www.davidrumsey.com/
This is an amazing collection of maps there are over 17,400 maps online. The main focus is rare 18th and 19th century North American and South [...]

http://www.opensourcetext.org/index.htm 
This is an interesting project to watch. Califormia spends $400 million on Textbooks and would like to reduce that cost by having a collaborative appraoch to writing/authoring textbooks. They are starting with a World History Text.
What a great idea, they think they can make a 40-60% saving on this.
Perhaps to the wording of the project [...]

Here are a couple of useful tools, articles and sites for educational gaming
http://sploder.com/  - online flash game creation
http://www.axeuk.com/quest/  - Text based game tool
http://www.yoyogames.com/make - gamemaker
http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604915 - an excellent article on tech learning by Larry

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http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Default
This site has a huge range of webcasts from the University of Oxford. There are a huge range of webcasts that are available here. These cases can be downloaded as MP4 format files.
The topics are interesting and varied often with social contexts. These are more suited to the senior students.
The site is searchable by [...]

http://education.jlab.org/ 
This is a science resource website. Created by the Jefferson Lab this site has materials on chemistry - particularly the periodic table, atoms (general chemistry stuff) also some other material on electromagents etc
The site has

Teacher Materials and Resources
Games and puzzles
Student focused materials and resources

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http://www.visiblebody.com/Start 
This is a great site for the science, physical education and health.
This is a visual anatomy site - 3D very cool - best in internet explorer.
Here is what they say about themselves:
Features:

Complete, fully interactive, 3D human body model
Detailed models of all body systems
Dynamic search capability
Easy-to-use, 3D controls

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