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Art Project is a site that allows you to explore more than a thousand works of art and famous art museums world-wide right from your computer. The site is powered by Google, and uses Google’s Street View technology to navigate your way around the museums. You can zoom into the high resolution artwork to explore […]
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Similar Site Search is a search engine that helps you find sites that are similar to other websites. If there’s a website that you like but it’s not currently meeting you needs, type the URL to that website into the Similar Site Search search box. The results will be sites similar to the one you […]
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Many of us are familiar with Wordle, a site that allows you to create a word cloud from text that is typed or pasted into a text box. However, there are a few other sites that also allow you to create word clouds: ABC-Ya: ABC-Ya is a word cloud creator designed for elementary students. The […]
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Search-Cube is a search engine that offers a more visual display of results than the traditional list. After entering a search term in the search box, you’ll see the results displayed as images in a cube, with 16 results on each side of the cube. The results are images from the sites’ home pages. When […]
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Knoword is a game site for testing vocabulary. When playing Knoword, you are given the first letter of a word, its part of speech, and the definition of the word. If you type in the correct word (spelled correctly), you lose points. The words presented to me when I was playing the game were most […]
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RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us is a video that I heard about through an e-mail from Teddie Torney. As someone who can’t draw, I am amazed at the RSA Animate videos in general. Drive is an animated visual video of Daniel Pink talking about what motivates people. Drive has […]
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RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms is a video that was first introduced to me by Deyana Matt. I also received a link to this video from Pam Gruzynski, who found out about it from former student Steven Schmuldt. The video is a visual summary of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson (55:20), who […]
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Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education is a TED video that I believe every teacher should watch. Sugata Mitra is an education scientist who is famous for his “Hole in the Wall” experiment in which he placed a computer in a slum in New Delhi, India, then watched children teach themselves how to use the computer. […]
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Yummy Math is a site created by a middle school math coach with the intent of providing real-world math investigations for students. For example, there are math activities based on current movies, holidays, and even Lebron James! The activities/question are not only relevant for students, but also promote higher level thinking.
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Problem Based Learning: Explained is a video created by Common Craft for the Buck Institute of Education. If you are familiar with Common Craft videos, you know they do a nice job of making complex concepts easy to understand. Problem Based Learning: Explained is a short (Time: 3:50 video that explains the basic concepts of […]
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