An Expat Educator in Asia

Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – chalk animation on Vimeo
This is a really simple but incredibly effective animation.
tags: animation, chalk

Google Earth Lessons
A free Resource for Teachers who use Google Earth. Providing everything from lesson ideas to complete lesson plans for both single computer classrooms to full computer labs.
tags: googleearth, geography, lessons, education, Google, google_earth, tutorial, [...]

Fliggo – Create Your Own Video Site
Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos.
tags: socialnetworking, blogging, video

Alternatives to Windows, Mac, Linux and online applications | AlternativeTo.net
AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on [...]

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.
tags: research, [...]

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.
tags: research, [...]

Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer / FrontPage
A comprehensive listing of presentatons Wes Fryer has shared is included in the right sidebar of this website, and are also listed on www.wesfryer.com/teaching. Links, podcasts, and resources from my most recent presentations and workshops are here. All materials, unless otherwise indicated, are licensed under a Creative Commons [...]

In this brief interview, Paul McMahon talks to Jane Harris of Chinese International School in Hong Kong about the World Scratch Day event coming up on May 16th and also about collaboration with other Hong Kong International Schools to spread the word about open-ended projects supported by Web2.0 technologies.
Links for this episode:
Chinese International School of [...]

12 Best Google Keywords for Finding Classroom Resources | Making Teachers Nerdy
I would recommend printing off this list before you begin searching as a quick reference. Goodness, even I have the list close to my computer as I get stumped on playing the Google word game from time to time.
tags: google, search, [...]

Free Private Microblogging For Education 2.0 – Edmodo
Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component which allows teachers to post any privately shared item to a public timeline and RSS feed. [...]

I just read this post on a newsgroup and thought that I might share it in the interests that someone gets something from it. Apparently it was posted as a list of “alternatives to PowerPoint. Not sure I would agree that they are all “slide presentation applications” but I could see how many of them [...]

100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle [Humor] | Inspiration
This would be a great site for kids working in a graphics program!
tags: photography, photos, inspiration, graphics

Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to [...]