2. For the history educators – this site is looking at “the man behind Hitler” Joesph Gobbels – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goebbels/ and some of the propaganda he produced – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goebbels/gallery/index.html

3. From History on the Net http://www.historyonthenet.com/Nazi_Germany/nazigermanymain.htm This site looks at Nazi Germany

4. Open Chemistry - http://openchemistry.co.uk/ this is an open chemistry site producing free resources availzable to all. Another good one for chemistry is http://periodictable.com/ and also http://www.periodicvideos.com/

5. Crime mapper - http://maps.police.uk/ this is a UK police tool that mashes data from various sources with maps to produce interesting results – searchable by area. This is a great tool for Humanities and information technology.

6. Commoncraft show – Cloud computing in plain english http://commoncraft.com/cloud-computing-video This is another BRILLIANT resource from Lee LeFever and the guys at Commoncraft. This is a very useful professional development resource and resource for teaching computing and computers.

7. Firefox turns 5 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ULDH90H530&feature=player_embedded This is a video celebrating 5 years of Mozilla’s firefox browser. The video is fun and raises some interesting questions from its unique perspective. This is another great resource for teaching computing and professional development.

8. Darwin, a naturalists voyage -http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/dossiers/dosdarwinE/darwin.html This science, biology and history themed site provides an interesting insight into the Journey of Charles Darwin. Click on the link and watch the animation and listen to the sound track.

9 And finally from a blog I subscribe to – Information is beautiful – http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/interesting-easy-beautiful-true/

This is a brilliant aid to the science teacher and the senior biologist. So lets see what this site has for us…

1. Homepage (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/) – this links through to a variety of pages, most with a genetics theme but also an interesting look at the ecology of salt lake.

2. Amazing cells (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/) – this is the portal page for animations, interactive activities, videos and alike – a couple of stand out pages are: Cell size and scale http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/(a brilliant interactive resources showing cell etc) and Inside a cell http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insideacell/(this interactive allows you to select cell compenets and have these explained to you)

They also produce resources for teachers – http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/ for cell biology.

3. The Genetics section is also very well resourced with sections on:

• Protien synthesis – http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/
• Heredity - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/
• Epigenetics – http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/
• Cloning – http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/

Plus a great resource page which indexes their easily accessable materials and lesson plans – http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/

4.Tap into the world of comics - http://www.slideshare.net/shend5/tap-into-the-world-of-comics this is a slideshare presentation on 21 uses for comics in the classroom and contains some great resources

5. Finally a quick one from the read write web  – what will the internet look like in 5 years time – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_web_in_five_years.php – This is from Google’s Eric Schmidt

1. Working on the food chain - http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/storybooks/foodchain.html this is a simple explanation of a food chain. A good resource suiting younger students – upper Junior & lower middle school.

2. Cell visualisation project – http://www.kenneth-eward.com/cvp/cvpindex.html This is a more senior site with resources for the cell. Good graphics. The home site has a number of other resources that you may find of benefit – http://www.kenneth-eward.com/index.html

3. Purpose games – http://www.purposegames.com/ this is a site that hosts educational and quiz games. Really its a portal that you should consider visiting.

4. 35 + educational games http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/10/35-educational-games-and-games.html Free technology for teachers is one of my favourite sites and this is an excellent collection of educational games.

5. Web 2 tools for schools – http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ This is an excellent wiki developed by a New Zealand Colleague Lenva. A great resources.

6. Starter sheets http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets Professional development  and teaching resources for commonweb 2 tools

1. National Atmospheric and oceanic admistration – http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/ This is a government site with some good visualisations and animations on weather etc. Good use of satellite images  – worth a visit

2. Science net links – http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html This interactive starts with a voice saying “please help me I have lost all my organs” – from there the students have to help him rebuild his digestive tract, nervous system and others. The base site http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/ is also worth visiting too..

3. Climate Challenge – http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/ This is a BBC science/climate game. Well worth looking at. Here is the lead line for it “A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office”

4. Connect2change – http://www.connect2climate.org/Mobile_Games.htm this is a site with a difference as it is games for mobile phones. The theme is climate change. Interesting.

5. Copenhagen Challenge – http://www.copenhagenchallenge.org/ Another climate change challenge game. This one is web based rather than mobile based. Here is the lead line from this Educational game “The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 – COP15, is being hosted by Denmark in Copenhagen in December this year. The Danish government’s goal for COP15 is to establish an ambitious global climate agreement which will apply to the period after 2012..”

6. V Gas – Energy Lifestyles and climate – http://alba.jrc.it/vgas/ This is a download and play game produced by the European Commission Joint Research Center.Also worth a visit is the Joint Research Center – http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm

7. Learning games for Kids - http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/ This is a site for the younger students hosting a variety of different games.

These sites are bookmarked on my delicious site – http://delicious.com/achurches

Here is my weekly catch from the net.

1. Alternative to – http://alternativeto.net/desktop this website is present you with alternative application to common or popular software and web based tools. This is an excellent tool for those of us with limited budgets.

2.Science visualisations – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/visualizations/all/1# This is a wired science sumamtion of the best visualisation videos of 2009. This is an excellent resource for science teachers and can add variety into your teaching program. This opbviously appeals to the visual learner

3. How are maps made up from aerial and satellite images – http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/topographic-maps-created-aerial-and-satellite-photographs-78979.html – this is an article I found recently which explained how topo maps use images. very interesting and useful for the humanities students and particulalry the geographers.

4. What browser – http://www.whatbrowser.org/ this is a useful resource site for IT classes and also for explaining about a web browser. This site looks at trhe web btrowser youa re using and provides you with some insights into it. For those who are interested it also links to a time line for web browsers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers#Graphical_Timeline

5. e-Glossary http://www.glencoe.com/apps/eGlossary612/grade.php this site produced by McGraw-Hill provides a useful and age specific glossary of mathematical terms. A useful learning aid for teachers and students alike.

Hope these are useful – As always I ave posted these to my Del.icio.us account - http://delicious.com/achurches

1. Microsoft Security Essentials -  http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ This is a security package from Microsoft. It covers viruses, trojans rootkits etc. Its free, but you do need to be running windows genuine advantage.

2. Apple Apps store – http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090928/apples-apps-flying-off-the-virtual-shelves-6-6-million-downloads-per-day/ This is an interesting article and for the collectors of statisitics its a good article. Current rate of downloads from the apple store 6.6 million per day. That is 275000 downloads per hour or approximately 4600 downloads per minute or 74 downloads a second.

3. Get body smart - http://www.getbodysmart.com/index.htm this is a good site for health, science and physical education. This is an online tool for anatomy

4. How Teens use Media – http://www.threebillion.com/?p=528 this is a nielson report on teenagers and their use of media. The report is hosted on scribd and if you are a member you can download this.

5. Khan Academy’s Science channel on You tube – http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy – this is a series of videos from the Khan Academy hosted on youtube. Well worth a visit and seeing the various resources they have uploaded and shared – Well done guys!

1. The periodic table of videos - http://www.periodicvideos.com/# this has appeared in my blog before but is worth a second (or even third visit). This site has video clips for each of the elements (the clips are hosted on youtube). Produced by the University of Nottingham this is an excellent resources (bandwidth permitting)

2. The periodic table of comicbooks - http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html this is a little different. Select your element and you ahve a choice of comic books to examine relating to the atom in question. Different but worth a visit. Produced by the University of Kentucky.

3. The Elements - http://periodictable.com/ this sight has a cool mouse over that loads interesting facts and images as you hover over the members of the periodic table. Click on the link and it brings up a page of data.

4. Periodic table tetris - http://www.echalk.co.uk/tasters/taster4/taster.html this is fun play tetris and correctly position the element in the periodic table. Good for engaging kids in learning.

I don’t want to enter into a debate about the pros and cons of Zoo. Unfortunately, they are in many cases the last bastion of some species and without them (the zoos) where would we be.

Here is the URL of the Photostream – http://www.flickr.com/photos/67064663@N00/sets/72157622107540590/

I have been playing with a new tool I came across called fotosketcher. This tool will convert into pencil style images your pictures. Here is a before and after example. http://www.fotosketcher.com (sorry its PC only)

1. 12 essential sites for for free images – http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/12-essential-sites-for-great-free-photos-624818

This is a must for presenters. There are excellent images available across these sites. Visit, enjoy, use and acknowledge

2. Science books online - http://sciencebooksonline.info/

This is another useful resource. You may have to pick and choose, but that is the same with anything.

3. Resources for Autograph - http://www.tsm-resources.com/autograph.html

The math teachers love autograph and for good reason too. This site has  selection of resources.

4. The Flash card machine - http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

This is a web based flash card generator – great for the read write learner who likes flash cards as a revision tool or the teacher helping their students prepare for assessment.

5. Snagfilms – http://www.snagfilms.com/films/

Watch documentries online – this is an interesting site with a wide selection of videos available to view.

The topics are based on what ever is topical at the moment and you can look at previous podcasts by selecting the month and year.

Also on Scientific American at the moment is an interesting article on Increasing creativity - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=an-easy-way-to-increase-c# This is well worth a read too.