Websites I Tagged Recently (weekly)
By Paul McMahon on Apr 26, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons
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Publications – Joan Ganz Cooney Center
The Center has a deep commitment towards dissemination of useful and timely research and policy reports. Working closely with Cooney Center Fellows, national advisors, media scholars and practitioners, the Center will be publishing a regular series of papers examining key issues in the field of digital media and learning.
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Active History – Games, quizzes, online revision, lessons and worksheets for the history classroom.
Great site for all history curriculum materials and resources
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Rethinking Schools – Just For Fun – Map Quiz
Another great interactive mapping activity.
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View the presentations - Presentations - eLearning Innovation Expo
This has links to presentations by some very clever people. The one I have seen is the 21 Tools presentation which is brilliant.
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Great site for interactive activities on geography. Would be great on an IWB
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Mad Libs Official Website » Fun Stuff
I just learned that Mad Libs, the classic creative word game, can be played online. The game that I played was Mad Libs for President. In the game I selected adjectives, nouns, and verbs from randomly generated lists. Had I not liked any of the words in the lists, I had the option of typing in my own word choices. When the Mad Lib was completed I could have printed the end result.
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Online image / photo editor pixlr free
web-based photo editing that looks very clean and easy to use whilst bringing in a lot of the power of some offline apps. Would be worth a try and great on the IWB.
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All Interactive Whiteboard Resources
All of the Teacher LED interactives for the IWB in one place. Mostly maths but many other subjects as well.
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Media Converter – the fastest free online audio and video converter
This looks like a great fast, easy way to convert media online to a format that you can use offline in a classroom. Even comes with a Firefox extension for ease of use.
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CREATE A TALKING FACE: PhotoFace has just added the ability to record audio. You can upload your own photo or choose from a variety on PhotoFace. Then, you can “age” it, make the person heavier or lighter, make a number of other edits,and then make it talk. Once you’re done you can email the link to a friend or teacher for inclusion in an online journal or blog.
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Hunkin’s Experiments (over 200 home experiments)
Welcome to Hunkin’s Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin
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This is a great science site for kids. It shows how to make a series of science toys from simple objects. Each “toy” has lots of photos to show how it works and there are PDFs with diagrams showing the stages. Great resource
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
