The number of websites that have come across my desk this week is quite outstanding. There are some great resources here that will suit many subjects and curriculum levels.
1. Working on the food chain – http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/storybooks/foodchain.html this is a simple explanation of a food chain. A good resource suiting younger students – upper Junior & [...]
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 – [...]
The BBC reported this week that Online advertising spending has exceeded Television advertising spending for the first time.
They included in this:
E-mail campaigns
classified adverts
display ads
search marketing
viral ad campaigns
The TV people are arguing that this is a poor comparision, but symantecs aside, this report is indicative of a major change in the world we live in. It [...]
So who is more social on social networks?
Males or females? My first guess would have been a degree of equality, but it appears that as a male I am in the minority of social networks. (Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/who-rules-the-social-web/)
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Twitter tends to be quite polarising. People either live and die by twitter or hate it. Many people have started a twitter account and never use it beyond the first forays and others dive in boots and all. For the latter, for the enthusiasts, twitter can become a key element of their social network or [...]
Here are some excellent resources that I have come across recently.
1. 12 essential sites for for free images – http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/12-essential-sites-for-great-free-photos-624818
This is a must for presenters. There are excellent images available across these sites. Visit, enjoy, use and acknowledge
2. Science books online – http://sciencebooksonline.info/
This is another useful resource. You may have to pick and choose, but [...]
This is a website that will generate TAGS for you from your text. Often you will writre a post or a wiki entry andnthen try an work out what are suitable tags for this page. This is a tool that will help you out.
This site is licience under creative commons for non commercial work. Nice!
“TagCrowd [...]
This is the latest installment in the Seven things you should know series, this one covering the increasingly popular trend of “Microblogging”
Microblogging, of course, includes that staple tool twitter. This paper looks at twitter and microblogging in general from an educational perspective.
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7051.pdf
If you need a how to sheet for twitter – use this starter sheet.
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This is the latest in the series of resources or briefing papers on Web 2.0 tools. In this case the Tool is voicethread. This is an excellent professional development resource:
The PDF version of this report is available here – http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7050.pdf
Educauses abstract for this tool is…
“VoiceThread is a media aggregator that allows people to post media [...]
Its been a while coming but I have put together a starter sheet, this time for twitter the microblogging tool.
The Starter Sheet is produced under creative commons and can be downloaded from the Edorigami wiki
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