This is a great interactive graphic that takes information about what a person (In the US) does each day. The graphics is activity vs age and time with a wide breakdown of age, race, and employment based groups. This is very cool!
Click on the section on the graph to have a detailed breakdown of the [...]
I have uploaded onto teacher tube a series of resources for Visual Basic.Net 2008 Express addition. These video look at the basics of programming in this free and functional environment. I will upload the workbook shortly.
Here are the Resources:
Visual Basic.Net Express 2008 download – http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/
Video 1 – introduction
2. Programming Task 1.
3. Programming Task 2.
4. Programming [...]
For those of us who teach principles of a graphical design, having our students understand about type face and families is important as it impacts on the two guiding principles of design:
Suitable for the purpose
Suitable for the audience
Oftebn students will ahve a favourite font that they will use and will stick with it like glue. [...]
Here is a collection of websites that have come to my attention this week:
1. Emathematics
URL: http://www.emathematics.net/index.php
2. Video – the altas of early printing – http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/press-animation.html
This is a video that examines the origins of the printing press
3. Video production resources including a very good storyboarding tool. http://kidsvid.altec.org/index.html
4. Science (and other subjects) Video resource Library
http://www.neok12.com/
5. Generation Yes [...]
This is a very good resource site for Google earth.
The site is called GELESSONS – http://www.gelessons.com/lessons/
with excellent links to videos, courses, resources etc. Well worth a visit
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Google Earth is a great entry level GIS tool (GIS geographical Information system)
The basic download (which is available from http://earth.google.com) will allow the user:
to navigate the globe
switch easily between map and satelite views
manipulate layers which overlay infrastructure, roads, etc or areas of social significence
and more (See the tutorial)
But there is far more tham this [...]
For the first term of this year my Year 12 students have been involved in the NetGen Education project as well as the usual curriculum activities.
The NetGen Project is the brain child of the flatclassroom project leaders Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis. These two teachers working together with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and grown [...]
This is an interesting post from Mashable that describes the web in numbers.
http://mashable.com/2009/04/17/web-in-numbers-social-media/
Here are some goodies
Youtube March 09 (1)
100 million monthly viewers in the US.
6.3 billion videos viewed
100 million to 200 million users in less than 8 months.(2)
from February 2008 to February 2009. (3)(6)
2,721% growth in Italy
999% in Spain
607% in Belgium
518% in France
499% in [...]
Lee LeFever has produced another excellent video resource. This one is the World Wide Web in Plain English. Another paperworks production and an excellent resource for teachers and students alike
Available here at the common craft show
http://www.commoncraft.com/world-wide-web
or here on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZoMbBzqxyc
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This is an interesting one. President Obama has been forwarded in using Social video sharing sites like Youtube to connect with youth. This worked well for him durung the elections and he is continuing to use it.
The latest venture in to youtube-land is town hall style meetings at the white house’s youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjJm_Hzc6Yg&feature=channel
The White House [...]
