This is a stunning video. Ksenya Simonova takes an inspiring and variety piece of music (Apocalytica – Inquistion Symphony) and combines this with a visual performance of drawing. It is very moving as she displays in a visual medium the emotions of the music.
She uses her fingers and sand.
This is stunning. An excellent example of [...]
Some more websites that have appeared on my desktop this week.
1. I posted about the great color mixing tool – http://colorschemedesigner.com/ in the last “On the wire” update.
I got a great comment from a blogger about another tool – this one is by adobe called kuler. – http://kuler.adobe.com/#
2. Image Composite Editor - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ice/ – This [...]
The internet has masses of resources that we can use for education. Increasing there are sites dedicated to educationally focused videos. Here are six that I come across:
1. Teachertube – http://www.teachertube.com/ This is a great sharing site for teacher developed content and some professional material.
2. Teacher TV – http://www.teacher.tv This is a brilliant British [...]
1. The power of Nazi Propoganda – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204271104574290581271478134.html
This is a brilliant slideshow in the Wall Street Journal of the poster the Nazis used in their anti-semitism campaign and the strengthening of the Nazi Power base.
2. State of deception – http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/ – this is the source of the Nazi propoganda posters and much more – this [...]
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html
This article in time magazine is looking at the “death of cursive handwriting”. Its an interesting article not because it sits an bemoans the fact that cursive handwriting is now an obsolete skill, rather its looks with some realism that things are changing.
I suspect that for most people reading a blog this is an obvious [...]
These are some of the more interesting websites I have some across this week.
1. Science World – URL http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Science resources from Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Astronomy
2. 12 essentials for technology integration – URL http://content.yudu.com/Library/A18dcc/TwelveEssentialsforT/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F59772%2FTwelve-Essentials-for-Technology-Integration
This is a very interesting article in the form of a e-book. Well laid out and excellent reading
3. Teaching with Smartboard -URL [...]
Here are some interesting websites for Science
1. Interactives – http://www.learner.org/interactives/ – this site has some useful pages on a variety of topics including Science, Mathematics, Languages and history. Nice and clean, good graphics
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2. The physics Classroom – http://www.physicsclassroom.com/ – This is a useful resource for Physic at high school level. The site contains multimedia resources [...]
Lexipedia – where words have meaning – this is another visual tool for learning. This one like, visuwords – http://www.visuwords.com/ – allows the user to put in a word and then have it defined, explained and have alternatives provided.
http://www.lexipedia.com
But Lexipedia has an extra trick up its metaphorical sleeve (or was that a virtual sleeve). This [...]
http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/
This is a clipart resource of about 3000 images designed for teaching languages. I found these image when I went to half baked softwares website to look for an update to Hot Potatoes.
Here is what they say about themselves…
“This library consists of about 3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching [...]
Educational Technology Clearinghouse
http://etc.usf.edu/
This is a interesting site that is worth a visit. It has a variety of resources and materials for a wide range of subjects These are further broken down into year levels:
Arts: Dance
Arts: Music
Arts: Theatre
Arts: Visual Art
Career & Technology
Foreign Language
Health
Language Arts
Mathematics
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies
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