Here are some interesting games and visualization sites that you can use.
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 [...]
What are the software tools that we need to teach our students? I believe we can not be limited to just a productivity suite, we need a range of tools that we can use to enhance our students learning and engage them in a variety of activities. Here is my list of tool categories and [...]
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Translated into Spanish – Claudia Uribe de Piedrahita, the Director of Eduteka has organised the translation in Spanish – http://www.eduteka.org/TaxonomiaBloomDigital.php
I feel incredibly honoured and I really hope this will be of assistance to teachers and learners. Further resources and material will be added as they become available.
I have uploaded the PDF version [...]
The Ed Tech Crew – aka Darrel and Tony have just produced their 100th podcast. These guys are doing really well and their work rate is amazing.
Like many episodes they do they have guests they are interviewing, but in this episode the list is quite substancial.
Here is the interview list – its worth downloading and [...]
…. is not that its microsoft or apple, is not that its Office 2007 or 2010. No, my problem is choice and certainty.
While the ministry has been quoted in interface magazine as saying ”The agreement covers almost 200,000 computers and provides schools with certainty for the next three years,” said Howard Baldwin, Acting Manager, e-Learning. [...]
The American Association of School Libraries has released there “Best of web awards” – http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aboutaasl/bestlist/bestwebsites.cfm
these are the best sites for teaching and learning (ITHO).
Here is there best 25 – http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aboutaasl/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm
Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning
The “Top 25″ Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, [...]
It seems that websites for mathematics are the theme of the week. Here are some more:
1. http://www.myalgebra.com/algebra_solver.aspx
2. http://illuminations.nctm.org/
3. http://www.tutorvista.com/
4. http://www.algebra.com/
5. http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/Algebra.html
6. http://mathforum.org/students/index.html
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This is a great find. This site provides over 75,000 images under a creative commons licience for education.
Here is what they say aboout themselves:
“WorldImages (http://worldimages.sjsu.edu)
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of [...]
If you haven’t caught up with them yet, the NZ Blog rankings are out. Open Parachute Blog has completed a ranking of the New Zealand Blogs.
Edorigami (thats this blog) is ranked in the top 100. So are a number of other learning educational bloggers like:
Derek’s Blog @ 29 – http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/
Allanah King @ 59 – http://allanahk.edublogs.org/
Greg [...]
This video was posted in the latest ICT PD newsletter. Its a 7 minute video that is worth watching.
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opXKmwg8VQM
As I watch it it raises a number of questions for me some serious.
How many of our children as still rote taught?
Could we take our children out on the field trips that we see here?
How many [...]
