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Waller on the relationship between Google and public libraries In a research paper, Vivienne Waller from Swinburne has examined the relationship between Google and public libraries. It’s very well researched and written, and will provide anyone with plenty to think about. The challenge now is to get the right people to read it – especially the “everything’s there on the Web” crowd.
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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history This is a free multi-media web-resource/book designed as a dynamic enhancement for the traditional art history textbook. The authors decided to create a multi-media survey of art history web-book. They created audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and added text and still images.
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EyeWitness to History – history through the eyes of those who lived it This sie can help you to get a more personal perspective on history through this site. It is a site that would engage kids with first-hand accounts of historical events, photos, audio and more.
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History Timelines on the Web … The History Beat If you need a timeline then this might be a usefule site.
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History Games and Animations This site offers a list of resources to find tools that will help you teach your students about everything historical from ancient times to the present day.
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ANYDAY Today-in-History PAGE of SCOPE SYSTEMS. Put in any day in the year and find out what major events happened on it through this helpful tool. This could be a good way to begin a class – by finding out what happened on today’s date that is significant.
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Clickable Mummy Kids are very often interested in mummies and using this interactive site they can learn about the process of mummification.
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Calaméo – Publish and share documents Upload all major file formats and convert them into online publications. Can be used to: -Create digital books, e-zines, etc. -Students can become “published” authors -Alternative strategy for reports and presentations -Develop and share tutorials, study guides, etc. -Embed projects into a class site, blog or wiki -Connect with others that share your interests
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Interactivate: Activities Interactive games. Maths – 2 player, individual, class activites. Teacher or pupils can pick level and which types of questions are asked in quiz. Time limit to challenge pupils. Element of competition.
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Building Maker – Create 3D buildings online “Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth.”
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Flickriver – A new way to view Flickr photos and more… Offers one continuous stream. You can view thousands of photos without ever needing to hit ‘next’ and waiting for the next page to load!
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Visual Editors – The classroom for visual journalismThe non-profit that promotes visual journalism literacy in graphics, photo, video and design.
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100 Blogs Every New Teacher Should Read | Online Schools An article on relevant teaching blogs
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Thirty-Four Interesting Ways* to Use Search Engines in the Class Google docs resource. Lots of fabulous links to browse through when looking for ideas on information searching and using search engines.
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Online tools – maths online Powerful collection of online tools. A good online function plotter (graphing calculator) is here.
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Science Podcast Collection | Open Culture Many different science podcasts on Open Culture – the best free cultural and educational media on the web.
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Inclusive Science & Special Educational Needs Resources “A drawing resource for producing neat, accurate diagrams of experimental apparatus. Students who struggle to draw neat diagrams for assessments can be encouraged to use this resource to produce high quality results independently. Teachers may wish to use it to draw diagrams that can be used on worksheets.”
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The Steampunk Workshop | Technology and Romance – Sustainable Rebellion Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The site of Jake von Slatt. and it has some great posts and offers all sorts of interesting ideas and projects. Working in a school populated by teenage boys, it is a great site to get their attention. There are links to many things”steampunk”, from links to literature and reviews, projects, technical links , ephemera (that includes all manner of things that have caught the author’s attention) and even music.,
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Videoraptor – search, find and download free videos and music clips Videoraptor downloads videos directly from websites and it can also convert the files into the formats I need in order to be played on other music players, even on cellphones
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KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more! Another website that lets you download Youtube videos in high quality mp4 format besides flv.
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TubeLeecher.com ::: Download youtube videos directly to your computer TubeLeecher is a very simple website which lets you directly download youtube videos to your computer. You just have to copy paste the youtube video url in the download box and hit download.
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Valuable expertise on demand – rich business content and presentations | myBrainshark This is a useful way of hosting online presentations. Free to use, presentations such as powerpoints can be uploaded, narrated, saved, shared and embedded. Documents can be uploaded and narrated and photo albums can be made.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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