Discovery Digital Textbooks

Supplement your traditional textbooks with Discovery Digital Textbooks. Discovery Education is offering educators throughout America a free trial to use its Techbook™ service through the end of June. I looked into it and they have some really good stuff for Science and Social Studies. Give it a whirl, it's well done and free for now!

Click here to check it out...

McGraw-Hill - Grammar Wonderland App - Elelementary and Primary Grades

"Students can fly, swim, feed, and toss their way to grammar mastery. Characters can be led through many adventures as they practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more; a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce different grammar concepts to enhance reading, writing, and parts of speech."

Grammar Wonderland is available in two versions: k-2 and 3-6

Click here for Elementary App

Click here for Primary App

Hey cool! Now I can print a new liver!

Scientists use 3D printing to produce stem cells. Designer organs right around the corner? Read about it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21328109

Doceri - The iPad Whiteboard Tool

The best iPad interactive whiteboard out there. Check it out at: http://doceri.com

Art - Be your own Jackson Pollack

http://www.jacksonpollock.org

 

Your mind and immortality in an Avatar by 2045

What do you think? (click on the image)

700 Free Online Courses From Top Universities

Open Culture has hundreds of free online courses in just about any subject area, from history to physics, languages, literature, music and on and on. Don't miss this valuable resource. Just go to: www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

My new favorite Physics site!

http://www.physicscentral.com

Students at Minnehaha Academy go "old school" with tech

Students got to play around with some early tech machines. They were really into it! I like the contrast with the iPads...

And let's not forget the BBC's History section!

The BBC does it best at bbc.co.uk/history/ancient

The Ancient Web: Not just for the Greeks and Romans!

 

The Ancient Web delivers a wealth of material about the ancient world from Forums, Videos, Images, Maps and on and on. And hundreds of ancient cultures are profiled including those from the Near and far East, Europe, Africa, South and North America and even Oceania. Check it out at ancientweb.org

Guitar Community - Can't say enough good stuff!

 

Being an avid amateur musician this site just blew me away! It has lessons, tablature, grooves, the basics. You have to see it to believe it. Fantastic resource for guitar players of all levels. Go to: www.wholenote.com

Massive Ancient History Resource!

History of The Ancient World is a "website that offers readers the chance to learn to experience what is new in history. They provide the most comprehensive coverage of news, book reviews, articles, games, movies, pop culture and more." Videos, Articles, Travel, Media, Films and on and on. Check it out at: historyoftheancientworld.com

LearnersTV is full of video lectures on hundreds of topics!

Video lectures on Science, History, Language, Economics and even Dentistry! Check it out at learnerstv.com

Khan Academy on 60 Minutes!

After a nice summer break I'm back with more education and more technology. Check out this amazing segment on Khan Academy. There is more to it than just some tutorial videos. Much much more!

Teaching History Website

Hey you historians! Check out this cool resource with all kinds of videos, teaching material, primary resources and more! Go to teachinghistory.org

Explore a "Digital School" and see how it works

YouTube Documentaries

YouTube has an extensive section devoted to documentaries. You can even browse by section.

Go to youtubedocumentaries.com

9 of the coolest TED for education videos!

Go here to check them out: http://memeburn.com/2012/04/9-of-the-coolest-educational-videos-from-ted-ed/

1000's of Streaming Documentary Films

Many categories. History, Science, Nature, Society, Performing Arts, Mystery, Economics, Health, Conspiracy, Environment, Religion, Politics and News, Music, Business and Philosophy. Go to: http://fulldocumentary.com/default.asp?action=all

TED Talks has an Education Site!

Created with educators in mind, go to http://education.ted.com/lessons

Penvue: An Interactive Whiteboard in a Pen!

Flex Books Replace Textbooks? Digital Science and Math Books Resource

Looking for collaborative, open-source textbooks in Science and Math that follow standards? Look no further than CK-12 Flexbooks. Watch this short video that demos the creation of a flexbook...



Website here: http://www.ck12.org/flexbook

A Deceptively Simple Concept For Keeping An Online Private Journal

I signed up right away and started journaling. I think it's a great way to get people who may not write to do so...

Go to ohlife.com

Apple Education's Most Popular Apps

It may not look pretty but Apple has put together one page with all their "popular" education apps. You can find it by clicking right here.

A Collection of Papers From "The World's Largest Study Group"

Find, read, print and download tons of quality
documents, exam and textbook solutions and
cheat-sheets for anything you study or teach.
Members can upload and share tons ofdocuments.
A veritable treasure trove of academic documents
just waiting or you to dive into them!

Go to wepapers.com

Fantastic database morphs countries according to data!

Oil reserves, alcohol consumption, population, armed forces spending and on and on. See countries relative sizes based on the data...

show.mappingworlds.com

What if Mozart had a Mac?

Shared with me by Debbie Helland

Watch What If Mozart Had A Mac? on PBS. See more from pbs.

Truly "The Motherlode" of High School Math Sites

Links to tons of Algebra, Geometry, Graphing Tools, Number Sense, Probability and Statistics and more equations explained. Thanks to Emily for sharing this with me. It's quite extensive!

Go to:

classrooms.tacoma.k12.wa.us/stadium/eschlytter/index.php?section=links

Search the web through time lines. How cool is that!
Go to: historyworld.net/timesearch