On the Wire – Google Earth, SERC, cloud canavs and more

In this update of on the wire resources we have materials for google earth in the classroom, visualisation, graphics and DTP,  SERC and more 1. How to teach with Google Earth – http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/google_earth/how.html – This is a useful resource for using Google earth in schools. Published by the Science Education resource Center at Carleton  College [...]

On the Wire – the story of films and more

This update of on the wire looks at a variety of websites that can be used across the currciulum. 1. The Story of Movies – http://www.storyofmovies.org/ this is a website sponsored by IBM and provides a broad prospective to the history of films. The site features a teachers lounge for professional development. A stunning resource [...]

Scribus

http://www.scribus.net/ Scribus is one of the best FOSS (Free and open source software) products I have found. This is a powerful and flexible desktop publishing tools for Windows, mac and Linux operating systems. There blurb sums it up: “Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and [...]