For the last year, Harry and I have been working on the ipad applications book for high schools. The Book is called Apps for learning, and is published as part of the 21st Century Fluency series with my Colleagues Harry Dickens, Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes. This book has been a huge amount of fun [...]
Well the last couple of week have been rather hectic and I have been slack on the blogging. So here are some of the highlights that have come down on the wire. 1. Nagasaki Archive http://en_nagasaki.mapping.jp/p/nagasaki-archive.html This is a GIS site that shows images, map etc immediately before and after the atomic bomb in Nagasaki [...]
Here are some interesting sites and materials I have found as I have been exploring with the new Mac. 1. To do list – http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html – this is a neat bit of free and open source software (FOSS) that allows you to maintain and manage a powerful to do list. Great tool at a nice [...]
A little something for everyone here. 1. Making stopmotion movies – http://stopmotionmovies.yolasite.com/ I use stopmotion and claymation movies as learning tools in video creation. I use this simple technique to teach frame rate, camera angles, focus, perspective, transitions and rendering. Linked with this is a pdf resopurce from Microsoft Education on Digital Storytelling in the [...]
1. PBS Shakespeare – http://www.pbs.org/teachers/activitypacks/reading/shakespeare/ This is one of a huge range of interesting and varied resources produced by the PBS. A great starting point is the page on K-12 teacher resources – http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ This is even better if you can access the PBS tv shows 2. For the history educators – this site is [...]
Here are a selection on websites I have stumbled across from various blogs and searches. Clickable Mummy: http://www.akhet.co.uk/clikmumm.htm Interested in mummies an interactive site they can learn about the process of mummification. Source: http://www.freetech4teachers.com 50 States: http://www.50states.com/ Learning geography can be a little more interactive with this site that lists tons of facts about each [...]
1. The power of Nazi Propoganda – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204271104574290581271478134.html This is a brilliant slideshow in the Wall Street Journal of the poster the Nazis used in their anti-semitism campaign and the strengthening of the Nazi Power base. 2. State of deception – http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/ – this is the source of the Nazi propoganda posters and much more [...]
1. Graphic Organisers – http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_go.html This is an excellent resource for Graphic organisers prepared by Tracey Hall & Nicole Strangman – good examples and explanantions Also useful is – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/blooms%2C+learning+styles+and+thinking+organisers 2. The mathEbook – http://www.mathebook.net/ An online mathematics resource – nice. 3. APA Bibliographies? This harvard site explains the APA bibliography – a must for [...]
This is one for the computer geeks among us (thanks Nick for the site). This is a very interesting website looking at the history of Windows operatings systems, Unix OSes and Computer languages. The site is written by Eric Levenez with an english translation page. What is brilliant is the timeline diagrams of these three [...]
Just read an article on the BBC site on Stonehenge. Worth a read and it has a good animation of the history of the Stone rings in under 1.30. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7322134.stm Here are some further links and resources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/moonraking/landscape_stonehenge.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3047469.stm http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
