Educational Origami

 
http://next.yahoo.net/download/newsglobe/index.html 
What a neat tool -  take current headline news story from round the world published on Yahoo. Add one interactive globe, mash the two together and you have Yahoo News Globe. Spin the planet, select the stories by the red skyscrapers - the bigger the tower the more news stories, click on the tower to [...]

http://thedvshow.com/tips/ 
This is a good podcast site on …. as the banner says… Digital video. its got good suggestions and is well worth subscribing too.

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I read an interesting article in computerworld about an open source, web based document conversion tools, that converts MS Word documents in to Open document or HTML formats.
The end result is a usable tool. Its will convert ODT to web formats as well as converting MS Word. The tool can be downloaded and installed for [...]

Its fair to say that I was disappointed when I went to the Avid website to see if they had made any changes to Avid Free DV, only to discover they have discontinued it. This product had provided an alternative for the windows users to the Buggy and somewhat unstable Windows Movie maker.
However, checking my [...]

http://www.leafdigital.com/class/
One of my students found this (thanks Luke). Wewere looking at good website design and this uis a nice site that outlines the principles and basics of design and layout. The site hasn’t been updated for a while but the material is still relevant - here are some links
Lessons
Introduction
Content
Navigation
Writing
Graphic design 1
Graphic design 2
Usability
It covers the [...]

The Institute of enginnering and Technology IET has some resources available to teachers and school. These include a series of posters for science & electrict. The posters are for primary and secondary classes.
You can open a pdf version or email them to request A2 posters
http://www.theiet.org/education/teacherresources/posters/index.cfm

 Circuits poster (277 [...]

http://www.nevrocode.com/docs/
This is an interesting looking tool. You down load a small application to your desktop (400K) and then you have a word processor that you can use online or offline. It allows sharing and collaboration. The product is in ALPHA so it may have some bugs but, this has potential and is a [...]

This is the latest of the rubrics for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy - This one is for data analysing using tools like spreadsheets. The rubric is in PDF format at this URL:
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/data+analysis+rubric.pdf
comments and feedback are appreciated

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http://www.schoolscience.co.uk
School science is a website sponsored by the association of science education in the UK. The site is jam packed with links and resources that can be used at all levels of the school primary to Senior.
Organised into disciplines and then within these into subject areas this is a useful site.
Well worth a visit are:

e-source [...]

http://www.pixton.com/home
This is a good online comic development tool. This is a site that uses simple sketch and text. Nice tool

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