A Google A Day is a great resource to help teachers improve students online research and search capabilities. Google has been promoting their educational resources that help students improve their information literacy skills and search capabilities.
Archive for the ‘May 3, 2012’ Category
A Google A Day
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012TinkerCad
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
A web based 3D design tool that allows you to save your creations and print them out on 3D printers.
Google Apps For Education
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012Learn how you can take advantage of the possibilites Google Apps for Education can provide.
TED-ED
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Knowledge Mine Game (Biology)
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
A recent additon to the SpongeLab site. Teaches secondary students biology concepts through gaming. Containing over 3,500 questions in such topics as biochemistry, human anatomy, genetics, ecology, zoology, science history, evolution and more, it’s got some scope.
Blossoms
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
MIT’s K12 Video Project
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
A pilot program by MIT to have students create videos and share them explaining scientific principles that can be used by teachers and students. Their goal is to develop and host an open platform for crowd-curated content relevant to K12 STEM education.
Google Drive
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Collusion
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Disconnect makes tools for controlling your online data. Collusion is a tool that allows you to see who else is collecting your information when you visit specific web sites.
ANewSpring
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
One additional entry into the online educational content management systems currently available.
Easy Generator
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
EasyGenerator is a tool which promises easy development of online instructional resources through collaborative efforts of educators.
Everloop
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
The site is essentially a social network for children between the ages of 6 and 13. One of may type resources that are being developed for that demographic.
Panwapa
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
http://www.panwapa.com/panwapasplash.php
An early learning web site focusing on children ages 4-7 with a focus of making them responsible global citizens. (Created by the educational experts behind Sesame Street.)
View Pure
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
A web based tool for modifying YouTube video players. It strips out the advertisements, and links to other YouTube videos.
Stencyl
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Free software for developing mobile applications and games. It is Flash based, and incorporates construction tools similar to MIT’s Scratch.