This is an interesting interactive article hosted on the BBC website. The article asks two pieces of information from you, the first is the country you are in and the second your pre-tax monthly wage. It then calculates your wage against your own countries average wage and the global average wage. Its fascinating The URL [...]
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 [...]
In this on the wire update I am looking at a couple of brilliant resources for video. 1. Mediastorm – African Air – http://mediastorm.com/publication/african-air This is a seven minute mini documentary that looks at africa in its diversity from the air. the air part of this mostly from a powered paraglider. Its stunning and the [...]
In this update we have some interestingr esources for science and the environment, humanities, the arts, ipads and the flat classroom. 1. The story of Bottled Water – http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/ This is a great video that examines bottled water. The story, which is animated and real video talks about the history of bottled water and the [...]
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 [...]
In this update of on the wire we have a number of useful sites for you viewing pleasure – these include sites for science, the environment, videos, chemistry, health & biology, mathematics and humanities 1. ChemEd DL – Chemistry Education Digital Library – http://www.chemeddl.org/ This is a digital repository for chemistry education resources. This is [...]
In this one the wire update I have found some great tools and tool sites to look at 1. Directory of e-learning tools – http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/instructional.html – This list comes from the scenter for learning and performance technologies – Well structured, detailed and very useful. 2. Encyclo-MEDIA http://www.encyclomedia.com/ This is a free online reference encyclopedia for [...]
Wow, the last two weeks have been frantic and the first thing that suffers is blogging. Here is my collection and finds for the week (oophs 2 weeks) 1. NetNewsWire – http://netnewswireapp.com/mac/ The announcement by blog lines that they are closing down, has forced me to move from using bloglines as an aggregator. So a [...]
This is a general update of the material I have found on the wire this week. There stuff for art, history and social studies, ITGS and computer studies as well as economics and social studies 1. An essential guide to digital photography – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/essential-guide-digital-photography-pdf/ – This is a useful resource from the Make use of [...]
Here are some more interesting sites that might well be worth looking at. Science, Humanities, productivity tools and online video editing 1. Microsoft 2010 Posters – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2010/06/21/free-classroom-posters-for-office-2010.aspx This is from the Microsoft UK education site. There are free posters for the key applications in MS Office 2010 . Here is the URL of the World [...]
