The kids have just finished watching the final episode of the Brilliant BBC series Africa, hosted and narrated by David Attenborough. As we watch the last part of the last episode, Attenborough made a point about the importance of the wild places and the need for these to sustain the planet. The series was predictably [...]
The BBC website hosts a series of brilliant gems that are very useful to teachers. While many of us will be familiar with the news page which is accessable via the web or using apps on our phones, there is a whole lot more that’s worth exploring and using. Here are some of my favourites… [...]
This is a very useful site with a great list of different iPad applications sorted by subject areas and then these are broken down in to different categories. The applications are both free and paid subscription/purchase. For Example – Language Arts apps has sub categories for literacy reading practice hand writing spelling grammar graphical organisers [...]
I have been enjoying this summer break and having a little technology downtime. However the kids have been playing quite extensively on the iPads as the weather has not always been conducive to swimming and playing around outside. We have a wide selection of games on the iPad for the “kids” enjoyment and a couple [...]
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 [...]
Today I had the opportunity to wander around downtown Singapore, and one of the locations I visited was the Art Science museum, down in marina bay. The place is engaging and eye catching because of its shape. The main part of the museum isn’t up in the rounded construction, but is underground. As I was [...]
In this update of on the wire we will look at the IAEA, some Biology, ITGS & Mathematics resources and more 1. IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency – http://www.iaea.org/ This is an interesting site at the best of times, but in light of the tragedy unfolding in Fukushima this site provides unbiased and accurate information. [...]
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 update we have a range of sites that are well worth visiting. Stuff for science, Mathematics, IWB’s, Global Project and video resources. 1. Body Browser – http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ This is an iteresting site, that used HTML 5 and WebGL to allow the visitor to manipulate and explore a human body. Other than the limitation [...]
