Useful sites (weekly)

Animated Explanations – Explanatory Animations Animated Explanations is a website “full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website”.    Yogile – Easy photo sharing! This is an easy to use photo sharing website. Looks like it could be very useful for the classroom. [...]

Steampunk revisited

I have always read science fiction so over the years that adds up to a lot of books. There have always been sub-genres to this very broad category. I have often been asked to explain the science fiction genre and its history to students. The sub-genre that has taken off in the last few years is Steampunk. I [...]

Sites for finding material for Reusing or Remixing

I working with a number of year 7 classes on different aspects of the research process. After we looked at search engines and hoax sites we got on to the topic of Creative Commons. I talked about Creative Commons after they started to discuss what they could legally copy and what they could not use. [...]

HistoryPin – creating digital history

Google Maps allows you to develop a feel for an area and its surroundings when you use their street view options but what if you are interested in the development of an area over time? We Are What We Do, a social action movement based in the UK (London), created Historypin in partnership with Google may just offer this [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

                Social media edge july2010 – Helene Blowers, posted with vodpod     I liked the above presentation, especially the E words. This weeks interesting links are: MyPaint MyPaint is a fast and easy graphics application for digital painters. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only [...]