This is a guest post by Rachael Costello, high school librarian. Her library orientation lesson for freshman is packed with options, engagement, and interactivity. Glogster provides the platform for delivery, but Rachael fills it with her ideas and productions. I wish all students had such a thorough introduction to their school library, thinking especially about [...]
Back to school is a good time to commit to searching out tools online that students can really use to make learning more effective. These are the top 12 free tools that I use with teachers and students and they can be found year round on my public netvibes page.
Many [...]
Stellarium was included as a session at the Galileo Teacher Training Workshop, organized by the European Space Agency in Amsterdam in June 2009. As part of the International Year of Astronomy, I thought this program should be explored.
Stellarium is an open source 3D planetarium program that works in real-time and has a database of over [...]
