Check this out! I know some of you have seen the wonder wheel in Google Image Search. Well, it looks like this project from Google Labs is going to take the wheel to a new level, Google Image Swirl. This is kinda of neat because it groups the results and it uses pleasing animations.
Archive of posts filed under the Online Resources category.
Dynamic Periodic Table
Dynamic Periodic Table is a neat little resource, I know that the kids in our school do a some work in the elements. This site has some interactivity, including a temperature slider that will show what state of matter at the given temp.
More from Dr. Wesch on “Participatory Media”
Dr. Wesch just posted some thoughts about Participatory Media, a.k.a. Social Media, a subset of Web 2.0. Most interesting is his point about barriers to participatory media in the classroom by faculty and students, yes students. The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them to [...]
Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Dr. Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. If you haven’t heard of him, you should have, he and his students have created some powerful YouTube videos, The Machine is Us/ing Us, A Vision of Students Today, and Information R/evolution. These short videos shine a light on how we use [...]
Pop-Up Books
Alright, this is a little old-school, but I thought it was kinda cool! RobertSabuda.com has some neat tutorials on how to make pop-up pages. These look like cards here, but with enough practice, you could learn to make entire books.
Ed Tech PD
This page is a collection of resources specifically for design and development of technology related staff development.
One to One Computing
One to one computing is providing every teacher and student with a laptop computer. Apple 1 to 1 Learning Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks! – Wired News
Security
Security is important…. Default Password List Default Password Directory GeodSoft How-To: Common and Bad Passwords In Search of a Password – GovernmentSecurity.org SECURITY NOW! is a great PodCast about computer system security brought to you by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Kevin Mitnick @ Wikipedia.org Kevin Mitnick on Hacking’s Evolution – CNET News.com LabMistress.com – [...]
