Useful sites (weekly)

Scootle – Home Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, [...]

Sepia Town

I really like Sepia Town. This wonderful site  that enables you to view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the world. “Sepia Town lets people experience the past through a large and growing collection of user-submitted, mapped historical images.” Although it is still early days, there are  over 500 images currently on the site, and are intersted [...]

Earth view – new imagery from Google maps

Google has just released Earth view – new imagery for Google Maps. The new view, available to all those that have installed Google Earth browser plugin, enables you to view Google Earth 3D imagery and more in Google Maps. To use Earth View in Google Maps simply click the “Earth” button next to the map, statellite, et buttons in the [...]

Trailers and e-books

I love my illustrated books. Some of my old picture books have such beautiful illustrations. There is now new approach to the classic Alice in Wonderland story… and with a difference, the classic illustrations have been brought to life for the iPad. This app makes the story interactive. This particular form is not meant to be read sitting still. It can be shaken and turned. [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

BuddyPress.org – WordPress Social Network Software This is social networking in a box. You can build a social network for your company, school, sports team or community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. It is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site [...]