amap is a great resource for instigating discussion. Follow the on-screen instructions to create an interactive mind map. Click on Reply to respond to a discussion (you’ll need to delete previous comments). Here’s an example designed for teaching How Science Works, but it is possible to use the software for the teaching of all topics Full Article…
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Newseum and Newsmap
Both Newseum and Newsmap let you display the latest news stories from across the world in an interactive visual way. Newseum gives you a world map where you can view the front pages from around 800 of that day’s newspapers (see screen shot below left). As you hover over the region the relevant newspaper front pages pop up. Newsmap Full Article…
Quick Quizzes
More from Dan Roberts… Quizlet is a free website where you can create your own quizzes to help with revision. You can either create your own resources from scratch, or you can browse the resources, already created and ordered by topic, and let other people do the hard work for you. To give you an idea Full Article…
The Ultimate Emergency Lesson
This is the lesson that will bale you out of trouble when you a) are doing emergency supply cover b) when you have an annoying gap at the end of a lesson c) it is Friday afternoon and you and your class are counting down to the time the bell goes d) it is just Full Article…
On line thesaurus
Wordnik is an online dictionary/thesaurus that’s a doddle to use. Just type in the word you want to find out more about and hit enter. Wordnik then finds definitions, examples and heaps of extra information about that word. That extra info includes photos from the web about that word, recent relevant Twitter posts and whether or Full Article…
Mux for converting video
www.mux.am Mux is an excellent video conversion/sharing site that lets you enter in the URL of a video clip (or its location on your hard drive) and specify what format you’d like to receive the video in (iPod, PSP, DivX, MPEG-4, and lots more). Give it a few minutes to work its magic, and Mux Full Article…
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