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The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Here are the most useful websites on the Internet that will make you smarter, increase productivity and help you learn new skills. These incredibly useful websites solve at least one problem really well. And they all have cool URLs that are easy to memorize thus saving you a trip to Google. Also see: The Best Android Apps Also see: The Best Mac Apps and Utilities seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.webmakerapp.com — an offline playground for building web projects in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. See: The Most Useful Tools for Programmers. Welcome to The Ancient Web - The Ancient World's Great Civilizations.

Your Free Online School: Courses, Video Lectures, Documentaries, Images, Books and more. Www.futurelab.org.uk/sites/default/files/Computer_games_and_learning. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth.

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. Funny Fake Facebook Walls - The Wall Machine. Solar System Scope.

My Home Page. Digital Photography Tutorials. Learn how to take and edit digital photographs using visual tutorials that emphasize concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens.

Digital Photography Tutorials

This is a complete listing of all tutorials on this site; click the drop-down links in the top menu to see particular topics. Photography is going through an exciting transition period as many film photographers are beginning to explore the new capabilities of digital cameras. While the fundamentals have remained similar, other aspects are markedly different. This is a great time to get involved with digital photography. These tutorials are rarely influenced by changes in image editing software and camera equipment — due to their unique concept-based approach.

View in other languages: Português Русский Deutsch Français Italiano. Lost Type Co-op. EmbedPlus - Video editing, chopping, looping, annotations, slow motion, and chapters tool for YouTube embeds and WordPress video plugins.

Activities. Subtract Racing - Primary School Games - take away and subtraction game. Web 2.0 Tools for Math Educators. By Laura Turner This is a continuing series on Web2.0 and other web-based tools for educators.

Web 2.0 Tools for Math Educators

This information is specific to math educators, but there is some crossover into science. Math educators will find a large number of useable interactive companion web sites for the teaching of math concepts and skills. 3Dvinci 3D design is a great motivational and instructional tool. It exercises both left-brain and right-brain skills, and appeals to students of all abilities. Algebasics This site contains a variety of interactive Algebra help/ problems/activities. Your Inner Fish: Teaching Tools.

Teaching Tools In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth.

Your Inner Fish: Teaching Tools

Home. Issuu - You Publish. Search, Collect, and Share. Glogster and Gloster.edu as an alternative to PowerPoint. Glogster and Gloster.edu as an alternative to PowerPoint Using this web service is a great way for teachers to engage with their students in the writing and creative process.

Glogster and Gloster.edu as an alternative to PowerPoint

The idea behind a ‘Glog’ is that the web page becomes an interactive workspace where anyone can freely create. The ‘wall’ or workspace is an easy to design space where students and teachers can import graphics, text, audio and video clips to express themselves. Virtual Cell Animation Collection. iPads in Education - Exploring the use of iPads and Tablet computers in education. Diagram software. iLearn Technology. So what is the deal with learning styles? « Life in the Renaissance.

Learning styles…This concept is common knowledge to any teacher who has spent any amount of time in the classroom.

So what is the deal with learning styles? « Life in the Renaissance

Visual Fractions - A Fraction Tutorial. Think you’re a Digital Immigrant? Get Over It! “What you ought to be learning at school is that you don't need to be taught in order to learn.”Peter Kent, reminds us of this quote from Seymour Papert as he confronts educators afflicted with what he calls Learned Helplessness.

Think you’re a Digital Immigrant? Get Over It!

Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders. Kern Type, the kerning game. The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. Click here to view or download a PDF of this report.

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

Coordinated by: The Media Education Lab,Temple UniversityThe Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property,American University Washington College of LawThe Center for Media & Social Impact,American University With funding from: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham. Think Different. Wikiversity. Webexhibits. YouTube Converter - ClipConverter.cc. The 10 iPad Book Apps: Using the iPad for Reading Books at School. Written by: Bright Hub Education Writer • edited by: Elizabeth Stannard Gromisch • updated: 11/29/2012 The iPad is finding its way into more and more classrooms because of the growing number of educational apps that can be used with students.

The 10 iPad Book Apps: Using the iPad for Reading Books at School

Some of the best ones are the new breed of iPad book apps. These apps make it great to use an iPad for reading books in class. Effective Teachers. 23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021. We Are Teachers. Welcome to ccMixter. History of Slavery, Pictures, Information. Science of NFL Football. Concepts in Biochemistry - Interactive Animations. Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web. Create online photo albums. Project WET - Worldwide Water Education. EekoWorld. The creative internet (106 things) Area Tool. StudyJams.

Take This Lollipop. Encyclopedia of Earth. Untitled. We will be using this graphic as a template for a 3d logo, tracing it, then discarding the 2d image.

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(Click thru to get the larger sized version, for you to follow along with) If you haven't already done so, open blender and select one of the orthogonal view angles by pressing NUM7 (top), NUM3 (side), or NUM1. (front). At the bottom of the 3D viewport on the left, there are some menus, click View -> Background Image A small window will appear containing just one button marked use background image; click this button. Noob note: The image is only displayed in orthogonal view.

Once a background is selected you'll have a dialog like this one. The is a toggle button that turns display of the image on or off. Button. Image selection is controlled on the row labeled. Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom. This handful of resources provide about 100 different ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting.

This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. Get Schooled. Since our founding as a stand-alone non-profit in 2010, we have aimed to use the media and messengers of popular culture to inspire and engage students in an effort to improve high school graduation rates and empower more students to go to and succeed in college.

Get Schooled is a national non-profit founded on the belief that students themselves have the power to improve their future if given the right information and motivation. We leverage the key influences in teens’ lives to directly engage them on their path through high school and into college. 5 Free Online Encyclopedias Suitable For Kids. To revise the information to the level of a child’s knowledge requires effort on the part of the teacher or the parent. So, right here, let’s introduce ourselves to five free online encyclopedias which have simplified explanations of deeper topics. The five online encyclopedias also help the parent or the teacher to free the kids to do their own browsing and research.

Wouldn’t it be great if your kids could complete their homework without your handholding? Simple English Wikipedia. Soundcities by Stanza. The Global soundmaps project. Sounds from around the world in an online database of soundmaps. The sounds and noise of cities. Hundreds of city sounds recorded from around the world on soundmaps. The website also has series on onlin. YOUR TASTE ON MIXTAPES. STEM Planet. Psychedelic Art. Korean surrealist artist Jung Yeon Min’s works are visually stunning, and made us curious to dig into what kind of psyche it takes to produce such artistic beauty.

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WolfQuest. Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtual sky. Web 2.0 Tools for Kids. Pearltrees videos. Help.