This is the latest in the series of starter sheets. This start sheet looks at the Word cloud generator called wordle – http://www.wordle.net
The starter sheet is available from: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
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http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/training/tutorials50/Sketchup%20Video%20Tutorials.html
Excellent sketchup resources.
This site hosts about 40 videos about sketchup. if you are looking at using sketch up (and who wouldn’t) this is a great starting point.
http://aceonlineschools.com/25-awesome-virtual-learning-experiences-online/
25 Virtual learning experiences. This is an excellent post with a great list of online resources.
Free OCR
http://www.free-ocr.com/
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use [...]
We are fortunate that our email system is actually a complete communication and collaboration package. At the flick of a switch (well actually the tick of a tick box) each and every students (or selected groups) can have a personal website that included podcasting, calendar, file sharing, blogs as well as traditional webpages.
But with such [...]
These are some of the more interesting websites I have some across this week.
1. Science World – URL http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Science resources from Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Astronomy
2. 12 essentials for technology integration – URL http://content.yudu.com/Library/A18dcc/TwelveEssentialsforT/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F59772%2FTwelve-Essentials-for-Technology-Integration
This is a very interesting article in the form of a e-book. Well laid out and excellent reading
3. Teaching with Smartboard -URL [...]
The Committed Sardine is the website and blog of Ian Jukes and the infosavvy group. They have just updated the website and blog and I have the privilage of being one of the contributing bloggers to this website.
There is a wealth of information and material coming out from this site and I would encourage you [...]
This is a nice and useful visual search tool that Google has added to its search engines results page. The tool allows you to visualise your search results and then select and extend from the original search.
First step – Load google and run a search. Then Select Show options
Then Select Wonder Wheel
Having done that [...]
The commoncraft show is a favourite of mine. Lee LeFever and his team do a brilliant job of producing simple and straight forward videos on a wide variety of topics.
two that I find useful are these:
Borrowing money in plain english – http://www.commoncraft.com/borrowing-money and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NWlYK9Ndcc
Saving money in plain english – http://www.commoncraft.com/saving-money and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqDsevMW7Ds
Excellent resources. Simple, easy [...]
www.search-cube.com
http://www.search-cube.com This is a visual and kinaesthetic search engine. The search results appear in the form of screen shots of the pages in a manipulatable cube. You use your mouse or cursor keys to orientate the cube and select the page you want to open. Hovering over an image will bring up a preview of [...]
Starter Sheets
Link:
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
Tool or technology:
Google Documents Forms
Curriculum area:
Information technology
Synopsis:
Students use Google forms to structure, collate and process data on the level of piracy of music and software within the student community.
Google forms are an extension of the Google documents product http;//docs.google.com
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Jamie from Digital Explorer left a comment on an earlier post that the resources available at Digital explorer for Google earth have been updated. Thanks for that. This is good materials and well worth using, they representa a considerable investment in time and resources.
The digital explorer website is well worth a visit and as I [...]
