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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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// 

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.

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]