Useful sites (weekly)

Vanilla – Free Forum Hosting With Vanilla Forums you will have a simple, powerful discussion forum for your community up and running within minutes. Pacific trash vortex animation showing drift of ocean pollution | Greenpeace International  quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more Watch You Tube, BBC, etc. videos without ads, [...]

More on E-books – 10 options

Today I have been looking at more e-books. The sites I looked at were mostly offering text downloads and many offered free options. This is not a complete or definitive list but they are the ones I like, were easy to access and I especially liked those that could add something extra eg annotating and commentating and some offer more [...]

Audio book options

Audio books are becoming more important/useful in many ways. It does not have to be sight-impaired students that benefit from audio books. We have students who have trouble with reading for a variety of reasons but who are perfectly capable of understanding and assimilating the spoken word. Many students enjoy listening to a book being read or [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

Google Web Elements Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website.  Twitter Q&A, Neil Gaiman on “… Painstakingly compiled by @RJFerret, non-italicized copy by @neilhimself (Neil Gaiman), questions in italics, in order of answering, May 18th, 2010. 5 tips to improve your presentations | Stratepedia Blog  Gapminder: Unveiling the [...]

Bring on the Learning Revolution – Sir Ken Robinson (TED)

TED recently released this video of Sir Ken Robinson’s talk from TED in Feb 2010. His latest talk Bring on the Learning Revolution is a follow-up to his very popular TED Talk Schools Kill Creativity given in 2006.   more about “Bring on the Learning Revolution – Si…“, posted with vodpod   I have listened to teachers in my [...]