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 looking [...]
This is a stunning video. Ksenya Simonova takes an inspiring and variety piece of music (Apocalytica – Inquistion Symphony) and combines this with a visual performance of drawing. It is very moving as she displays in a visual medium the emotions of the music.
She uses her fingers and sand.
This is stunning. An excellent example of [...]
In this weeks catch from the net we have Mathematics and data sources, infographic maps, web 2.0 tools and more.
1. The Maths Apprentice – http://www.mathapprentice.com/Activity/explore.html – this is a fun primary and middle years site for mathematics. Directed at the younger audience. Worth considering using with an IWB.
2. Kids online – me and mymaths – [...]
Every now and then I will get some one who will contact me and ask to do a review of their site or push their product. For the most part I delete these. But Donna from Meet me at the corner asked me to do a review of her site. She introduced herself as a [...]
The guys at Commoncraft have released another video in their excellent series on Money
This one is the Stock market in plain english
The others are:
Borrowing Money
Insurance
Investing Money
Saving Money (Compound Interest)
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This link was sent to me the other day. It is a powerful video looking at the impact of social media. It reminds me a lot of the classics (Strange to use this term with youtube) like Prof Michael Wesch “the machine is using us” and the much copied and emulated “did you know” by [...]
The internet has masses of resources that we can use for education. Increasing there are sites dedicated to educationally focused videos. Here are six that I come across:
1. Teachertube – http://www.teachertube.com/ This is a great sharing site for teacher developed content and some professional material.
2. Teacher TV – http://www.teacher.tv This is a brilliant British [...]
I have uploaded onto teacher tube a series of resources for Visual Basic.Net 2008 Express addition. These video look at the basics of programming in this free and functional environment. I will upload the workbook shortly.
Here are the Resources:
Visual Basic.Net Express 2008 download – http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/
Video 1 – introduction
2. Programming Task 1.
3. Programming Task 2.
4. Programming [...]
I have to say that Lee LeFever continues to impress. I regularly visit his site, the commoncraft show, and love it when I find a new video. This time the video was on insurance.
This is part of a set of four videos he has produced about – Videos about MONEY in Plain English. These [...]
Kelli sent me an email asking if she could use the Bloom’s Digital taxonomy chart in a video clip. It’s really nice to have people request permission even when the chart and infact Bloom’s DT is produced under creative commons share and share alike.
Its great to see teachers experimenting and playing, something most teachers do [...]
