Archive for the ‘Curriculum Resources’ Category
Friday, April 28th, 2006
Here's yet another cool product from Google. It seems that they recently purchased SketchUp, an easy-to-use 3D modeling tool that I played with a bit a few months ago. The new product, Google SketchUp, is now free for personal use and integrated with Google Earth. Unfortunately for me, like Google ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
I posted a while ago about the Prelinger Archive, a wonderful collection of old public domain video. Thanks to Google Video and the National Archives, you can add a bookmark to NARA on Google Video to your collection of go-to resources. The first page has links to old NASA footage, ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
I don't know about you, but I don't usually picture -40°F and roving polar bears when think of the perfect classroom. But for Prof. Aaron Doering and the rest of the GoNorth! team, spending a few months in their arctic classroom is the perfect way to connect with millions of ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Attention Mac users... Run, do not walk to download the Google Earth beta that's now available for OS X.
That's a shot of my office. I think I can almost make out my car. This isn't just for the U.S. folks, you can see the world with this tool. (You should probably ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
These are some cool java applets that demonstrate: Oscillations and Waves, Acoustics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics and much more. LOTS of fun to play around with!read more | digg story
I guess I'm hearkening back to my science teaching days with two science-related posts in a row. The other reason I posted this was ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
I discovered Stellarium recently and suggest anyone teaching science add it to their toolbelt. From the project FAQ:
Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Cable Resources for Education, Douglas Levin, Cable in the Classroom
Cable in the Classroom is the cable industry's non-profit, educational foundation. It's been around for 15 years, but I don't think we have used many of the foundation's resources in my district. The foundation provides free cable programming for schools (with ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Every once in a while I run across a Web site or some technology tool that really wows me. I had one of those experiences after listening to David Rumsey's talk at the Where 2.0 Conference via IT Conversations today. Rumsey gave a fascinating talk about the history of cartography ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) is doing a guest stint at lessig blog while Lawrence Lessig is away. He's making a top ten list of things that will be free someday and puts a free curriculum on the list at #2.
I'm not sure why there would be just one free ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
I was driving home from work today listening to an IT Conversations podcast of Jimmy Wales's brief talk at O'Reilly's Emerging Tech Conference. Wales, who is the founder of Wikipedia and now head of the Wikimedia Foundation, was describing the growth of Wikipedia and highlighting the many versions that exist ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
We had a brief presentation by Neeru Paharia from the Creative Commons organization tonight. She had a video explaining the history of Creative Commons and went on to talk about some specific Web resources to help users find Creative Commons-licensed content. Her suggestions:Yahoo! Creative Commons Search for all manner of ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
I started installing Plone on a test server last week at work. If all goes well, the combination of Plone and some cataloging technology created by the folks at the Gateway for Education Materials (GEM) will form the foundation for the curriculum sharing tool that I've posted about recently. We're ...
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