Educational Origami

I have just updated the Voicethread starter sheet and reposted it to the wiki
The Starter sheets are available at this URL – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets

Voicethread – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+voicethread.pdf
Delicious – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/delicious+v2.pdf
Google Maps – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+googlemaps.pdf
Wikispaces – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/wikispaces+v2.pdf
Google Advanced Search – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/Starter+sheet+-+Adv+Google+search.pdf
Boolean Searches – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/boolean.pdf
Buzzword – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+Buzzword.pdf
Animoto – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+animoto.pdf
Mixbook – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+mixbook.pdf
Mindmeister – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+mindmeister.pdf
Google Forms – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/starter+sheet+-+google+forms.pdf
Google Earth – starter sheet – [...]

This is a neat addition to sky for windows (I know mac has had it for a while). The New skype 4.1 beta has screen sharing.

You can download the beta from here – http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/beta/
and the release notes are available in PDF format from here – http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2009/05/27/Skype%20Release%20Notes.pdf

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I am developing some resources for web 2.0 tools. These are nice simple straight forward documents for teachers to glance at and say – yes I could use that and its not so frightening after all
the limitations I have placed on them are:

must be one page
must have pictures
process must be straight forward
must be simple to [...]

Most of us have used google images to find suitable images for product we are creating. Well here is a specialised search engine for images.

http://elzr.com/imagery
The search does work quite nicely and the interface is cleaner than google’s images interface, but it renders out the much the same data for the search. Its a choice [...]

 
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter 
Lee at commoncraft has done another video  -this one is Twitter in plain english.
Keep it up. Its great to have these great resources available for education

http://twitter.com// 

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http://americanhistory.si.edu/explorer/index.cfm
This is a neat interactive timeline for US. The closer you zoom in and out more detail you get on the line itself. As you click on the starts a windows comes up with the event and details about it. Often this will include a image or media.

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http://www.citycreator.com
The city creator comes in three flavours ranging from modern to snow land or medievil

Blankton
Snoland
Medieville

Having selected your time or age you then set about constructing a city.
You construct Roads, buildings and add roofs. place people and objects

you can add backgrounds as well

Generally its good fun but could be very useful for creating comics or narrating [...]

 
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=54499 
This is a flash based interactive tour of the universe. Its got nice images and a good level of interactivity. The music becomes annoying after a few minutes but its easy to switch off.

The site allows you to manipulate the virtual objects – in this case the sun – and look from different perspectives zooms [...]

http://www.terraclues.com 
Here is another eternal Beta.
I found this link on WVSKPhillips Domain’s Blog and it links very nicely with another post from today – Place spotting – this is a clue based geography game that also use Google maps in the mash up.
You either use an existing game or create one, set up the clues and [...]

http://www.popfly.com/
This is a new beta tool using Silverlight from Microsoft to create Mash ups.
You have to sign in – so make an account, but this site promise to let you make mash ups with out using a line of code. This has great potential for education. It will be interesting to see how the beta [...]