This is a really neat find.
http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html
The site contains resources and animations for Both Mac and PC using flash and links through to other useful sites.
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This session was a little on the edge. The three presenters (two real and one virtual via skype) were pushing the boundaries of their presentations - they had a wiki they shared, google documents and forms, presenting ucing google presenter and skyping into the presentation to video conference. The bandwidth and wireless was flaky [...]
This is an interesting product - a 3D immersive mathematics game. Kids play in 1st person either individual or in teams. They have instructional modules followed by the games themselves.
Can be competitive between schools and districts. Neat
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URL: http://www.tabuladigita.com/
Neat game interface, a fun approach to maths and adjustable into other subjects. Would be bandwdith intensive. [...]
In one of my last blogs I looked at alternative tools to those supplied to schools.
In The Mirosoft deal, which provides state and integrated schools with Microsoft software, is the sharepoint client. Schools have to buy the sharepoint server or connect to a provider using sharepoint to be able to use this.
I was not aware [...]
The Otago Daily Times reports on Saturday 21st June that “School opts for free Software”
The school has decided to stop using the ministry’s SMS (School Management Software) and it hope to be the first school “to exclusively use free ‘GNU/Linux’ software on school managment and classroom computers”
But the best thing about this statement is this. [...]
ancient greece - http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page/
Medieval studies -[ http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ ]
Center for History and new media -[ http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php ]
Digital History - [ http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ ]
The History Lab - [ http://hlab.tielab.org/
Timelines -[ http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineexplain.htm ]
Ancient Egypt timeline - [ http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineegyptian.htm
BBC history - Byte size - [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/ ]
BBC HIstory site -[ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml ]
National archives - [ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/ ]
Academic Info - [...]
This is a interesting collection of readings about technology and education. The papers are written by vendor but make for interesting viewing
http://www.campustechnology.com/mcv/resources/whitepapers/
The papers are technically focused but this is a useful resource for support staff, technicians network admin etc.
Worth a visit. Here are some examples
Smart Campuses: Appealing to the Millennial Learner
by SMART Technologies
How two [...]
Educause has released there monthly briefing paper on a technology. This time the timely and informative paper is looking at SECOND LIFE.
The paper is a download in PDF format - Click here.
You need to see the others to they are brilliant resources for teaching and Learning. Click Here
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One of my favourite presentations is “A handful of the best” and I am presenting this workshop on Friday at the Waimarino Cluster conference.
The presentation is looking at a handful of cost efficient tools that you can easily integrate into the classroom to enhance learning.
Its my favourite because there are some many tools that you [...]
This is an excellent collection of tools that have been categorised under three headings - Visual Learners, Auditory Learners and Kinestheic learners. This is a modified VARK format.
http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/
Its an excellent post and one I will be using to update my own resource materials on VARK.
The thing that excites me the most is that not [...]
