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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http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia
These guys are great. Another video from the Commoncraft Show.
I would have to say that these are some of the best professional development resources about. Simple, straight forwarded and fun.
Here is the blurb on the latest offering
“This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give [...]
Every now and then you come across a web site that can make a difference. This is one of them. This is a classic example of citizen journalism, but on a global stage.
The website is witness
The content is not, by its very nature, nice. The site does not take sides. But this does not diminish [...]
This is an excellent Youtube Video by Prof Stephen Heppell. Its an interesting commentry about learning, the role of the teacher and schools. Well worth a watch. This video sits well with my earlier post on 21st Century Educators.
Schools of the future
Stephen ahs also got his own youtube channel - again worth a visit for [...]
http://www.uctv.tv
University of California Television is a great resource for studennts and teachers alike. The site hosts streamed video video on demand and audio and video cast on a wide range of subjects.
Teacher’s Pet or Professional Education for Teachers is a great resource for staff. They have resources for most subject areas and curricula:
Biology/Life [...]
This is a great video.
The video starts by making a scary commentry on the state of education. Of the 55 industry sectors examined in their level of ict intensiveness education ranked 55th below Coal Mining. Steven Hebbell contributes to the video and the reflections.
Some of the comments are insightful and challenging like
“The death of education [...]
USHMM is the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
One of the latest resources they have is a video clip comprised of images of the SS who ran Auschwitz. The clip talks you through the life of the SS from their own images. These are striking and unique. You get a vision of people who happily [...]
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 [...]
http://digitalexplorer.co.uk/google-earth/
This is a useful site (Thanks Ewen) The site has resources for using Google Earth
Namely a manual (82 page PDF file) and a series of examples of virtual fieldwork using google earth
This is a very useful
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http://blogs.ushmm.org/WorldIsWitness/
This is a powerful blog - one worth visiting subscribing to and supporting.
If we look beyond the safety of our comfortable lives there is a frightening world out there. A world where violence, persecution, brutality, hunger, war and ignorance are commonplace. Sites like this and mediastorm give us insights into this world, they show a [...]
