An Expat Educator in Asia

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 [...]

Skim | Home
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Stop printing and start skimming.
tags: pdf, software, reader, opensource

ThinkQuest : Think.com, Oracle Education Foundation, Projects | Competition | Library
This now contains Think.com [...]

Asia EdNet – Discussion group: About the discussion group
The Asia EdNet discussion group covers any of the following and more:
* questions about classroom practices
* ideas on teaching about Asia
* sharing curriculum resources
* developing collaborative projects
* [...]

Lovely Charts | Free online diagramming application
Diagrams are made to communicate. Every single symbol available in Lovely Charts has been crafted with love, to enable you to create great looking diagrams that will impress, convince and seduce – even if you don’t have the slightest design skill.
Just take a look at our gallery to see [...]

Collaborative Learning Home – Collaborative Learning
Welcome to the Collaborative Learning wiki. This space was created for the Learning@School conference 2009.
We hope to investigate what Collaborative learning is within the context of Web 2.0 and provide you with an overview or starting point for where to start.
Here is an attempt to define what Collaborative learning is [...]

Qik | Share Live Video From Your Mobile Phone – Annotated
Qik enables you to share your moments live with your friends, family and the world—right from your mobile phone!
tags: mobile, streaming, web2.0, tools, video

Connect: Teacher – Teacher – Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Lots of curriculum resources for kids, teachers and parents. Good links [...]

Podcasting in five easy steps
Podcasting in education has huge potential, but I feel quite a few teachers are put off because they think it’s a complicated business and that you need to be really good at computers to make a podcast. This video will show you how anyone can start their own podcasts in five [...]

Six Interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom
A google presentation that can be added to.
tags: twitter, ideas, communication

10 Websites No Teacher Should Be Without | Teacher Tech Tips, bestwebsites teachertips teacherresources | Making Teachers Nerdy
Another great selection of online tools and sites that would be great for teachers.
tags: index, Resources, web2.0

TopTen for Young [...]

I know that this is right out of date for you in the Northern Hemisphere but some friends in the south have sent this through and I think is one of the best starters for the year I have come across.
Maybe you can bookmark this or copy the idea and save it somewhere for the [...]

The Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom Tutorial
A set of instructional pages written in an easy-to-understand language and complemented by graphics and Check Your Understanding sections. An ideal starting location for those grasping for understanding or searching for answers.
Multimedia Physics Studios
A large collection of GIF animations and QuickTime movies designed to demonstrate physics principles in a visual [...]