Corn Maze in Google Maps

Try the new Corn Maze in Google Maps

Have a look at the Google Earth corn maze in Edmonton. 

This is a really nice idea on how to show learners how to navigate in Google Maps.

Brilliant!!

Did you know The 2013 version

Did you know The 2013 version

AWESOME, have a look!!

Facebook for teachers

Facebook for teachers

This is another Facebook for teachers.

This goes more in depth and shows you how to change piracy settings, 

keeping you safe, responsibility etc

Very good!

Facebook manual for teachers

Facebook manual for teachers

Here is a very good introduction for teachers on how to use 

Facebook in the classroom!

The file is 3.5 MB big

Why parents hate Facebook

Why parents hate Facebook

There are some very interesting stats here.

Have a good read!!

Did You Know 3.0 (Officially updated for 2012)

Did You Know 3.0 (Officially updated for 2012)

I prefer the sound from the previous clips, but this is the new updated version!!

Very good!!

21st Century learning

21st Century learning

This is a very good, thought provocing video.

Have a watch, it is only just under 3 minutes long!!

Bloom's Taxonomy poster

Very cool!!

Bloom's Taxonomy poster

Bloom's Taxonomy poster

This is really cool!

Right click and open, then save and print!!

Geogebra

Geogebra 

Geogebra  is a fabulous tool for any math teachers and students! 

The ability to dynamically look at mathematical concepts for free 

makes it one of the most useful web 2.0 tools for teaching and 

learning mathematics. 

There are also loads of materials and worksheets which are being 

shared on geogebratube.org.

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students 

can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia 

projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting.

Very nice

Animated Science Lessons for Children

Animated Science Lessons for Children

The Children's University of Manchester has great collections of 

animated lessons covering seven science subjects for students of 

early elementary/ primary school age. The lessons cover The Body 

and Medicine, Energy and Environment, Earth and Beyond, Teeth

 and Eating, Micro-organisms, The Brain, and Exercise.

FontViewer

FontViewer

FontViewer is a small donloaded program that is installed on your computer.

You can arrange and view a large number of fonts which are installed on your 

computer, applying their various styles to text of your choice.

Font Viewer renders all installed font families in a scrollable grid view, 

and allows you to change the size, color, background-color and displayed text, 

all at the touch of a button.

Very cool!!

Your PC’s Font Viewer

Your PC’s Font Viewer

Sometimes when you are deciding which font to use takes a little longer than I’d like.  

A free web tool I found today will make that a whole lot easier.  

‘Your PC’s Font Viewer!!’  magically reads all the fonts installed on your 

computer as soon as you go to the website. 

This is really cool!!

Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a great selection of 

hands-on activities that teachers can use offline in their classrooms. 

There are activities for twelve topics that go from preschool to High School.

You can do a search for an activity by selecting the grade level and then the topic.

Some of the activities even have a step by step guide to making it.

Have a look at building a wind turbine as an example

AWESOME!!

The Story of Physics

The Story of Physics

This is a great animation about the history of physics.

It is only just under 4 minutes long.

Definitely worth a watch!!

McGraw Hill Mathematics eGlossary

McGraw Hill Mathematics eGlossary

This is really cool!!

The McGraw Hill Mathematics eGlossary provides written and 

verbal definitions and explanations of mathematics terms. 

The glossary is divided by grade level. 

Select your grade level then the first letter of the term for which you need an explanation. 

The explanation is offered in text form as well as verbal (click the speaker icon to listen). 

The eGlossary is also available in other languages including Spanish, Russian, and Chinese. 

21st Century Teaching

21st Century Teaching

Maths 24

Maths 24

Maths24 is a competitive, arithmetical card game aimed predominantly 

at primary and high school pupils.  Very easy to play!!

Give it a go!!

Quizlet

Quizlet

Quizlet is a website where users can create, share, and study flashcards. 

Users can make a study set on the internet and then study them on a 

computer or using the free Quizlet iOS app. The app is compatible 

with iPhone and iPod touch. Teachers can also make a study sets for 

their classes. Quizlet also offers pre-made flashcard sets for popular 

vocabulary books, SAT vocabulary, and more. Flashcards can also 

include images to aid in studying. Once the study set is open you can 

view the terms in list mode or in flashcard mode. 

Thinglink

Thinglink 

Thinglink is a free website that allows you to upload images and then 

make them interactive.  Comments can be added, video links can be 

added, and this can be either collaboratively or purely for viewing sake.

The images can then be embedded on your class website.

GrammarBase

GrammarBase

With GrammarBase.com’s spelling checker, you will get a more 

comprehensive scan of your writing. Contextual spelling is 

examined to ensure the right words are used in your document. 

This prevents mistakes that other spelling checkers overlook,

 so you get the very best final product with your writing.

Very nice!!

Google Docs for Teachers

Google Docs for Teachers

The 40 page guide is designed to help teachers who have never used 

Google Documents.  This is an awesome book!!

This is a 29MB file

Jellynote

Jellynote

Jellynote.com is the new social platform about music creation and performance: 

create and share music scores and covers! Jellynote is built by musicians who 

face that problem and want to share solution to the community. It also brings a 

new experience to play and learn music. As you are playing a song, Jellynote 

will listen to you and will give you a direct feedback in real time. 

This will make music learning easier.

You can find sheet music, tabs, scores & covers. 

Interactive scores that you can play back and practice with.

This is very cool!!!

Fontpro

Fontpro

Font Pro - is a free fonts database with awesome typeface testing tool. 

It provides more than 20,000 free fonts and web fonts. Font Pro has 

made the process of searching fonts, previewing fonts, collecting fonts, 

to discovering new font combinations super easy and awesome. 

You can start a new project with a blank canvas, and get some pretty
detail options in minutes. Once you have done with your typeface project,
download the html, css, and all web fonts you use for your project
in at the push of button.

WOW!!

Picozu

Picozu

Picozu Editor is an online drawing and photo retouching application 

based on HTML5 and CSS3. The app provides you with an easy yet 

complex way to edit your photos, draw using various brushes, filters, layers 

and explore various editing tools such as color fill, magic eraser and more.

You do not even need to register, you can import and then save your 

photos without registering.

This is really awesome!!

Parts of speech Poster

Parts of speech Poster

Punctuation Poster

Punctuation Poster

Division Poster

Division Poster

Fraction Poster

Fraction Poster

The History of the Internet in Education

The History of the Internet in Education

A day of the Internet

A day of the Internet

Wow, this is really unbelievable!!

A Crash Course on Creativity

A Crash Course on Creativity

Whether we are struggling to generate fresh ideas or staring at problems with
no solutions in sight, the spark of creative genius often seems out of reach.
In this audio lecture fromStanford Social Innovation Review’s Nonprofit Management

Institute, Stanford Professor Tina Seelig discusses how we can unlock our creative
genius through a set of tools and conditions we each have in our control—our
“innovation engine.” Based on real-world examples and a dozen years of experience
teaching courses on creativity and entrepreneurship in the Stanford School of
Engineering, Seelig challenges traditional assumptions about creativity to show us
how we can seek out the right resources and environment to fuel our innovation engines.
She contends that just as the scientific method demystifies the process of discovery,
there is a formal process for unlocking the pathway to innovation.

Well worth a listen!!!
It is 1 hour and 5 minutes long

Click below to download.  (This is a 60 MB file1)

Movie Maker Manual

Movie Maker Manual

Here is a handy little 12 page manual on how to use Movie Maker.