I have long been a fan of Google Earth, its a brilliant tool that has a number of uses in the classroom.
For those of use who have had a play with this tool you will have encountered the Layers tab. This tab allows the user to overlay a variety of layers on the base map. [...]
Every now and then you come across a web site that can make a difference. This is one of them. This is a classic example of citizen journalism, but on a global stage.
The website is witness
The content is not, by its very nature, nice. The site does not take sides. But this does not diminish [...]
http://blogs.ushmm.org/WorldIsWitness/
This is a powerful blog - one worth visiting subscribing to and supporting.
If we look beyond the safety of our comfortable lives there is a frightening world out there. A world where violence, persecution, brutality, hunger, war and ignorance are commonplace. Sites like this and mediastorm give us insights into this world, they show a [...]
Its the fifth Anniversery of the war in Iraq and Reuters and MediaStorm have produced a 4-5 minute video compiled from the resources of journalists, with interviews of the war.
http://iraq.reuters.com/
This is compelling viewing and well supported by timelines, profiles, maps (see below) and resources (links to a wide range of sites).
Word of Caution - Some [...]
http://www.simsweatshop.com/
This is a great simulation and brilliant tool. The flash 9 based site hosts a simulation of a sports shoe making sweatshop. The successfull worker (I’m not one of them) will make atleast 3 shoes a day to earn his $6.05 wage. making 2 shoes 1/2’s his or her pay packet.
He (or she) must [...]
We have all done this at some stage. Written a comment or two in haste, emailed these or posted them to a blog and realise afterwards that they were too:
blunt
rude
inappropriate
personal
There is a good article on the BBC (its old but appropriate) on this - email in haste, repent at leisure.
But techlearning has just posted a [...]
This is my response to Al Upton blogs closure order and Miguel response
http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/Al+Upton
http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2008/03/entry_6772.htm
http://alupton.edublogs.org/
Miguel,
Like Derek I agree with you and your sentiments, I have watch this debacle from the sidelines, I don’t know Al, but what I have seen of his work shows care and understanding, consideration for safety and most of all, and most importantly [...]
Heart device a shocker
Does this raise serious issues? Researchers can hack pacemakers and other medical devices.
“It didn’t take much to hack into the heart monitoring device and get it to administer a 137-volt shock: an oscilloscope, a PC, a wireless radio with a couple of antennas and some free software.”
This is worth Reading and a [...]
