Archive for February, 2008

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Journey of mankind - peopling the world

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
This is a good biology resource site. It is a time line of the Out of Africa Hypothesis, showing the waves of Human movement out of Africa and across the world.Its clear and concise and shows the key archaeological points on the map associated with the time frame.

The only annoying thing about it [...]

Historic Tale Construction Kit

http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php
This is a fun tool. This site allows you to create historic tale cartoons or comics. The images are set in medievil times, the text is archaic and the process simple

Its really neat and fun. Guaranteed to motivate and captivate students and to get the creative juices running as they write tales of [...]

Science and Maths Resources

There are some amazing resources available for maths and science on the web. Here are three sites that are really good. (Thanks Richard for the first two)
1. Illuminations

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=all
Science and maths activities organised by years and grades
2. Exploring Learning

http://www.explorelearning.com/
This site again has maths and Science and is structured by grades. Includes biology activities and [...]

DVolver - online animated cartoon tool

http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html
I have to say this is a GREAT tool , I spotted it reading a post from Larry [Excellent find].
Its simple, clean and quick (given you have a good connection) . The site allows you to make flash animations with backgrounds, different charactors, dialog bubbles, background music and multiple scenes. The process is [...]

Yenka and absorb Content

http://www.yenka.com/
Yenka is a plug in that enable the user to create, purchase and use content for Mathematics, Physics and technology. They have a limited free player that allows the user to create and manipulate 3D schapes, changing dimensions to get volumes, opening the shapes up etc. I see this being very useful and powerful on [...]

Evolution in 5 Minutes - video

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDDph8Oj2BU 
This is a good bit of CGI - as the name suggests it takes you through evolution in one vocal free music backed  five minute block. The start is  at the fish stage and it progresses through to roughly australopithocine in interesting jumps. The video is good, and does illustrate very nicely pockets of evolution [...]

Combat cyberbullying

 
http://mindoh.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/4-steps-to-combat-cyberbullying/ 
This is a good blog entry with good straight forward advice on 4 steps to combating cyberbullying.
The process they recommend is

stop communicating with bully
block the bully
print or save
tell

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HOWCAST

http://www.howcast.com/ 
Howcast is an online HOW TO website that hosts video HOWTO guides and wiki based guides. The range of topic they have is wide:

arts and media
business and finance
careers and education
first aid
environment
technology
and much much more

The videos are of various length and are not limited to 10 minutes.
A caution is the fact that they do have a [...]

Comparing Wikis

I use wikispaces, and to be fair, I have found them excellent. I have several wikis on the site and because they are for education they are Ad-free.
Now there is a tool out there that lets you compare wikis…..

http://www.wikimatrix.org/ 
The tool lets you match your needs to a wiki. Very useful.
There is a wizard that goes [...]

Sites of the day

This is a round up of some interesting websites for today
Body and Mind

http://www.bam.gov/
This is a site run by the CDC or centre for disease control - the site is a targeting pre teens and young teens and providing them with health information on a variety of topics.

diseases - http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/index.html
Food and nutrition - http://www.bam.gov/sub_foodnutrition/index.html
Physical exercise - [...]