Khan Academy - Online Teaching/Learning Videos

While attempting to help my son study for a Chemistry exam, I came across a YouTube video that helped us learn how to balance equations.  This short video taught me (I've never had chemistry), and my sons a great way to balance equations.

The creator started his online tutorial videos as The Khan Academy, with the hopes of better educating the world and helping teachers use technology to assist their students and become more of a facilitator of learning.  It is now being promoted by Bill Gates because of the outstanding work that is being done.

khanacademy.org

Gaming in Education Video

Thing #15 - Aviary

 

This is an incredible site that provides a host of production tools for both graphic creation and editing and audio.  It's everything the modern artist needs and IT'S FREE!

Aviary has created an education site that provides private teacher and student accounts. This is in the testing phase and they are looking for teachers to try it out and give honest feedback.

Please go to www.aviaryeducation.com to check it out.

Thing #14 - Flickr

I searched Flickr with the tag word "geography" using only the pictures that are allowed to be copied and found the one below.

Credit to: Roo Reynolds

Thing #13 - Image Generator

I am embedding a VoiceThread that I created for my WOW! project during the CISD WOW! 2010 Summer Academy.  To create this I used ToonDoo to create the cartoon.  I wanted to read the words so that students that might have difficulty reading could know what the point of the comic was.  So I saved my ToonDoo as a picture and then uploaded the ToonDoo into VoiceThread and read the comic.

I created this Toondoo to show how the tool could be used.  This comic was designed to demonstrate how physical features affect culture and the way people live.

ToonDoo Link

VoiceThread Link

 

Thing #12 - Mashups

I have to be honest and say that Flickr makes me very nervous. I've had too many circumstances where VERY inappropriate pictures have come up. I would rather set up a Picassa account and have chosen pictures for my students to view.

I do like the Mappr application that allows you to map the pictures. This would be a great tool to use in my history class. Or maybe show where all of my students are from.

Thing #11 - DimDim

I am interested in learning more about DimDim. It almost seems like this would work better for my class than even Skype. This seems like a great tool not only for using for students but actually using for teacher collaboration, meetings, etc...

Check out: www.dimdim.com