Apr

19

Digital Narratives

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Ditigal Narrative has heaps of resources and links to other websites that explore digital storytelling and new media.

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Apr

19

Siftables – toy blocks that think!

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

“MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?”
http://www.ted.com

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Apr

19

Australian History rap

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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Ireland-based, American comedian Des Bishop’s Australian History rap, which includes key moments in the past 200 years of Australian history in three minutes. Performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2009.

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Apr

19

Vocab games

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Merriam-Webster Word Central has a number of fun vocab games, including Robo-Bee (”Will your language skills blossom or wilt? It’s up to you as you control the flight of the Robo-Bee through a garden of synonyms, antonyms, spelling, and usage puzzles!”), spelling game Alpha-Bot and others.

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Apr

19

Cool science sites

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Hunkin’s Experiments has some cool science acitivites aimed at primary school age students.
“Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin.”
My personal fave: How to [...]

Apr

19

Philosophy for Kids

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Philosophy for Children is a site that aims to promote deep thinking, reasoning and verbal skills by asking philosophical questions based on children’s books such as Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.

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Apr

19

PicLits

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

What is PicLits.com?
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of [...]

Apr

19

What is Shmoop?

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

“Shmoop is lovingly created by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities – primarily Stanford and U.C. Berkeley.   Many of us have taught at the college and high school levels”. There are some excellent resources for teaching literature and history here.

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Apr

19

Keeping it simple

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Effective writing is often characterised by simplicity and George Orwell’s rules for writing are as relevant as they were 50 years ago:
I think the following rules will cover most cases:
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
(ii) Never us [...]

Apr

19

Conversations in the digital age

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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Apr

19

Twouble with Twitter

April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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