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Biology Animation Site

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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Science Game - Immune attack

I found this site from Ewen Del.icio.us post on his blog. Its a game produced by the Federation of American Scientists. This is a good resource for teachers of science, biology and health. The game is played witha 3d simulation where you control a robot within the body.

Here is their blurb…
“The Federation of American Scientists [...]

Teaching resources

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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SmartBoard Resources

This was twittered this recently by Helen Otway. Smart Board Resources in the classroom.
This is quite a neat site the page lists a series of smartboard resources for various subject areas. Its worth a visit and a forage through the selection. The resources range across the school spectrum from K to 13 and cover the [...]

Great Post - Science resources

Just picked this up from twitter. Its an excellent post by James Linzel called a few things for educators.
He’s gone through and looked at some excellent resources for science teachers and for IT too. Here is teh URL of his post - http://www.utechtips.com/?p=702
here are some of the key links, but please read his post [...]

Commoncraft Show - Podcasting in Plain English

http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting
Yeeha - another great resource from Lee and the crew at Commoncraft. This is a excellent resource and well worth using with students and staff alike.
Good effort.

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Teacher TV - Antarctica Videos

Teacher TV has released a series of videos on antarctica. The videos for  Primary and  Secondary school students look at Geography and science teachers visiting Antarctic and the future of Antarctica itself.
These are professionally produced resources and well worth looking at.

Geo Teachers in the Freezer - http://www.teachers.tv/video/25270 
Sci Teachers in the Freezer - http://www.teachers.tv/video/25266
The future in [...]

Learning Object Collections

This is a neat little find. this is a directory of learning object repositories. It covers a variety of learning areas and ages. Well worth having a look and a forage… Its hosted by The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Here are the links:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_collections.html  - Collections
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_global.html - Global Studies
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_other.html - Other Learning Objects

Some very useful links [...]

Two Visual Resources

here are two visual resources that are worth having a look at
1. Visible Body - http://www.visiblebody.com
This is cool site for biologist and scientists, but it does have one limitation - It is only available in Internet explorer . However its worth a visit and is free to sign up

2. Visual geography - http://www.visualgeography.com/

A nice easy [...]

New commoncraft Video - Twitter

 
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter 
Lee at commoncraft has done another video  -this one is Twitter in plain english.
Keep it up. Its great to have these great resources available for education

http://twitter.com// 

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