Useful sites (weekly)

Wind with Miller v3.0 The Danish Wind Industry Association has a good website for students to explore and learn about wind energy. Crash Course in Wind Energy The Danish Wind Industry Association has a good website ( Crash Course in Wind Energy) for students to explore and learn about wind energy. A Crash Course in Wind Energy [...]

EyePlorer – beta visual search engine

I have been looking at other visual search engine alternatives to SearchMe. Beta visual search engine EyePlorer is a reference search engine that takes your initial keyword search term and displays related terms in a color wheel of information based around that term. When you hover over the different areas of the color wheel or click on a [...]

Visual storytelling – 2 examples

I really like the fact that we have so many wonderful visually rich stories, in the form of the picture books and graphic novels/comics, available to us nowadays. Our students have always liked reading them (eg. the Asterix and Tintin stories in the past were some of the most read items in our library) but now [...]

Navify – Searching Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube

My colleague Tania found this tool via the Free technology for teachers blog. I had seen Nibipedia, but Navify was a new tool for me to look at. It is a mash-up of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. We all know that many of our students use Wikipedia,which may be developing into the world’s most extensive encyclopedias, as people continue to build on [...]

The Human clock and calendar

                      I have been trying to think interesting themes that students could be given for their photographs. I had seen a few references to the HumanClock.com and the HumanCalendar so I though I would have a look.  The February example of the calendar is above. [...]