One of the top 10 on Digg right now is an excellent interactive model of the human heart. It’s amazing how sophisticated these free simulation applets are becoming. A great tool for biology teachers. It could be used as part of a large-group demonstration or students can explore hands-on individually or in small groups. This [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project just released a report on how American adults use the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. They tell us that 36% of adults use it. Perhaps the report’s most surprising finding is that Wikipedia users tend to be a well-educated group overall, with 50% having college degrees or better. The report [...]
The motto of Carmun is “students of the world unite!” This is not the kind of motto that is going to set teachers’ minds at ease as they click their way through the site. Too bad. The idea behind Carmun is a very noble one: offer students with similar academic interests a place to share [...]
A post over at Crucial Thought pointed out this neat site for creating simple comic strips. In my district, from time to time teachers complain that there is no PC software comparable to Comic Life on the Mac. This seemed like what we needed, so I decided to explore. What better way to spend a [...]
The tremendous comment thread on the next generation of teachers at Weblogg-ed got me to thinking about the value of experience in integrating technology in the classroom. I said it there and I’ll say again it here: more and more, I identify the most tech-savvy teachers by the technologies they reject and the reasons they [...]
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