Not really e-learning but thought I’d share this anyway – a great idea for really understanding how old trees are as well as getting some sense of history. You could hype it up a bit by getting the birds in the tree tweeting to each other about what they could see at any point in Full Article…
Awesome Reactions !
Although this is not ‘Web 2.0’ crelated, I thought you might enjoy the video! Post by Veerendra Chandrappa.
Mindomo
Building and rebuilding concept maps and sharing them with others is a great reflective activity. The Mindomo application can facilitate this habit of reflective thinking, while it can play a social role by discussing and building shared maps. From my experience, concept maps in science, mainly with abstract concepts, centre attention on a few important Full Article…
Simulations
Click to Run I believe that the use of animations and simulations, like those from PhET, enables the manipulation of parameters and variables in different combinations, and facilitates the questioning of some issues, the systematic study of the causal relationship between variables, the formulation of alternative hypotheses and basis for conclusions. The exploration of a Full Article…
Drawdio
Father Christmas brought me a great new toy and I spent most of last weekend playing with Gethin, Ffion, Gweno and Bronwyn (diolch plant!) and the DRAWDIO ‘pen’. Drawdio is another amazing bit of kit from Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum from MIT Lifelong Kindergarten, the same stable as Makey Makey which we featured in Full Article…
Movies with Moovly
Moovly is another neat way of making fun animations, presentations and posters. Record what you want to say then use the ready made clip arts to illustrate. You can upload your own pictures too. Use it to record explanations of theories or concepts in physics, to describe chemical processes or to tell some science history Full Article…