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Archive for November, 2007

links for 2007-11-30

Friday, November 30th, 2007

iSURFFers -StUdents Ready For the Future: GHESchool Tour Videos
School Tour Video
(tags: technologyprojects elementary_school videos DigitalStorytelling)

Welcome to RAINFOREST maths by Jenny Eather
(tags: education interactive math resources SJEDS-math)

Adventures in Educational Blogging: Creating Comics Online
(tags: comics review)

Goofy Smart Kids - Social Studies Games
(tags: Build-a-Bear geography)

Make Children’s Books Come Alive With Technology
(tags: literacy technologyprojects)

Planning a Family Technology Night
Planning a [...]

links for 2007-11-29

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Free Wordpress Themes - Kate’s Theme Viewer
(tags: wordpress themes free)

Google Maps User Guide - My Maps
(tags: googlemaps instructional)

The Geography Zone
(tags: geography global_education global_awareness games maps Reference)

Why is U.S. in another world? — chicagotribune.com
(tags: global_awareness articles)

Sketchcast.com
(tags: sketch collaboration tools)

City Creator
(tags: simulation)

Create your own Myths or Legends
(tags: digital_storytelling web_based)

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What can’t [...]

Geography Illiteracy & Global Awareness

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

It is no secret that the US is lagging (severely) behind in Geography skills. Our own Global Studies Program at San Jose Episcopal Day School is looking to improve global awareness among our students.
I was made aware of a Chicago tribune article called “Why is U.S. in another world?” today by “My Wonderful World [...]

links for 2007-11-28

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Edublogs - education blogs » Get free education blogs at Edublogs
(tags: blogging education tools)

links for 2007-11-27

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: iPods boost learning
(tags: ipod education)

Lesson Plan Archive
(tags: lesson_plans resources education teaching)

Home
(tags: socialnetworking animation tweens virtualworlds)

» Free: Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 Mobile Learning
(tags: download free camtasia screencasting)

What’s Your Trip : User Generated, Video : Travel Channel
(tags: travel video)

Places in the World I want to See

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I love traveling. It is like an addiction to leave where I live and go somewhere different. There are so many places in the world that I have not seen. There is never enough time nor the money to see them all.
There is a bestselling book called “1000 places to see before you die”. I [...]

links for 2007-11-26

Monday, November 26th, 2007

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena you’ve never seen
(tags: geography photography travel world)

OurStory.com - Capture your stories, save them permanently.
Make your timeline about anything # Collaborate with family and friends.Share it with whomever you want .Add your timeline to MySpace or your blog
(tags: DigitalStorytelling web2.0 collaboration timeline)

skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard
(tags: collaboration whiteboard presentation)

links for 2007-11-25

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Create and Share Floorplans Online with Floorplanner.com
(tags: design floorplan tools mapping)

Alice.org
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a [...]

links for 2007-11-24

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Free Online Calendar - Families, Schools, Church and more
(tags: calendar tools management)

Video — Animals, Travel, Kids — National Geographic
(tags: videos education documentaries nationalgeographic kids geography)

My Travel Map
(tags: googlemaps mashup travel)

Fly Pen by Leapfrog | Langwitches
(tags: langwitches Flypen products)

Germany for Kids
(tags: Germany culture global_education)

About Becta - Becta response to the evaluation of the Primary Schools Whiteboard [...]

Fly Pen by Leapfrog

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I have braved the crowds today and purchased a Fly pen by Leapfrog. I am planning on field testing the device in several grade level classrooms and with individual students. I am curious to find out if such a device can make a difference for struggling students and be a great tool of digitizing student [...]