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 [...]
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If you are in the midst of summer reading have fun with it, the following sites were mentioned in the slideshare above.
Type in the name of the book and the author into What should I read next? and the site will make suggestions for your next book.
Type in the [...]
I took this picture from my patio in my garden and is one of my favorite photos, it was so nice of the butterfly to stay so still while eating, as if it knew it was on camera.
Did you know how important it is to keep an eye out for wildlife this summer? The National [...]
You are not supposed to get lost in a labyrinth. In a maze you can get physically lost, that is the point, but in a labyrinth there is a specific path to walk to the center and back again. The idea in walking a labyrinth is for personal meditation, to lose those things that are [...]
The art museums I have visited this year have wonderful online features.
These Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings were fabulous up close. You have until 2033 to see them at Mass Moca, but you can take a sneak peak online and see interactive timelapses of how they were created.
Online art activities and ideas can be found at [...]
Take a digital camera and record a color walk around your neighborhood and see what you can find along the way.
Check out this color walk by the artist Leah Pilken Kolidas (link).
Another example of a spring color walk.
Use animoto to create a short movie of your color pictures. Animoto provides a quick way to turn [...]
Leonardo Da Vinci was more than an artist, he was an inventor, an architect and still has a lot to teach us. For our summer brain fit challenge today we are going to spend sometime in his workshop for an online edventure and then go out and about and do some art projects outside.
First go [...]
Planning for NECC is taking more time than actually being there.
This wiki helps http://neccbasics.wikispaces.com/ by @peggyg, as does this blog post http://lifelonglearning20.edublogs.org/2009/06/23/86/
I created netvibes page to aggregate the flow of info and to allow virtual participants to keep on top of what is going on http://www.netvibes.com/thedigitalbackpack#NECC09
My Schedule so far at NECC includes (this is a reminder [...]
As we get towards the end of the year, so many teachers are acutely aware of how many chapters they have yet to cover. Although it might be a little late this year, screencasting, used regularly throughout the year can help with this time crunch.
I regularly attend the Saturday webinars hosted by classroom2.0 and always learn [...]
