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  by  vanhookc  Cleopatra – Map: Cleopatra’s Alexandria – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine This month’s National Geographic cover story is all about Cleopatra. NGM.com also had some nice resources to support the print article. Cleopatra’s Alexandria is an interactive map recreating what Alexandria may have looked like during Cleopatra’s reign.  Dialogue New Literacies 2011: How to [...]

From the highest mountain to the deepest ocean and across the deserts – Google Earth

 I really liked this great (and long) infographic. It was published by Our Amazing Planet . This large infographic features the highest and lowest places above sea level. It shows the heights at which airliners fly to the depths of the deepest parts of the ocean (Mariana Trench). It was discussed on the Google Earth Blog in a post ”The Tallest Mountain [...]

Pottermore – The Harry Potter story continues

The new movie is out soon and many of my students are eagerly awaiting the final movie installment. Now J.K. Rowling has announced that there will be more to the Harry Potter story.  There will be an on-line interactive way to connect to experience the phenomenon that is Harry Potter. Once J. K. Rowling said [...]

Creating Character Profiles

After reading about this type of activity a few years ago I finally got to introduce it to a class. Yesterday an English class of year 7 boys worked on this task that required them to consider the characters in their novels. This approach worked very well as an English class activity.  It  focussed our Year 7 boys on the characters [...]

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  by  ransomtech  Books, artifactually and anecdotally speaking … – Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog @Lorcan Dempsey “it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements of print books are coming more to the fore, albeit in different ways. As the use of ebooks grows this is not really surprising, as this change creates niche opportunities for experiences focused [...]