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The phET site has brilliantly constructed, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena and is designed by the PhET (Physics Education Technology) project at the University of Colorado. These simulations are aimed at helping the learners with the understanding of some difficult science concepts. The simulations can [...]
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The school year has begun and today we had the year 7 and year 12 students back with us. The rest will join us for classes tomorrow. All the student computers have been re-imaged and they will get them back over the next few days. The Year 7 and year 10 students will be receiving [...]
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Another visualisation tool is Debategraph,which is an online global debate map. A wiki debate visualization tool that lets you: present the strongest case on any debate that matters to you; openly engage the opposing arguments; create and reshape debates, make new points, rate and filter the arguments; monitor the evolution of debates via RSS feeds; [...]
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GenoPal – Color Schemes A simple tool that allows you transfer the Color Mood from picture to graphics. Global Voices Online ”Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online attempting to shine light on places and people other media often ignore” DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed DailyLit lets you read entire books [...]
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I have been doing a lot of reading in the holidays. It is nice to read widely and without feeling guilty about work for school that I could be doing. I have also been working on updating some tools I created for the crime fiction genre and I have been trying out some of the [...]
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