Google's Body Browser has been billed as Google Earth for the Human Body. It is a great site that allows you to view human body parts and systems in 3-D, zoom in on specific parts, and a double click displays the label for the part clicked. The site does have a search feature so you can "search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL".
You must use Google Chrome to view the site.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Delicious is Closing - Transfer your Bookmarks
News that Delicious, the social bookmarking service, is closing due to Yahoo's scale back has been widely posted on the internet. Although not yet announced publicly, Yahoo announced internally yesterday that Delicious is closing.
If you have bookmarks in Delicious that you want to preserve you will want to transfer them to another social bookmarking site. I, personally, like Diigo due to the fact that it has an education component and its ease of use. Check out the instructions to Transfer your Bookmarks from Delicious to Diigo in Five Minutes . The first step requires that you create a Diigo account if you do not already have one.
If you have bookmarks in Delicious that you want to preserve you will want to transfer them to another social bookmarking site. I, personally, like Diigo due to the fact that it has an education component and its ease of use. Check out the instructions to Transfer your Bookmarks from Delicious to Diigo in Five Minutes . The first step requires that you create a Diigo account if you do not already have one.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Make Your Own Cartoons!!
Would you like to create your own cartoons for your online classes?
Makebeliefscomix.com is just one of the many sites where you can create your own original cartoons. This site provides the background, characters, word bubbles, etc., and all you have to do is choose what you want and insert your own words. You can also translate the English version of your comic strip into six different languages.
This site also has a teacher resources area which lists suggestions for using comic strips in the classroom. This is a very user-friendly site and within minutes you can create your own comic strip!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Social Media Blog
Do you want to use Twitter or Facebook in your classroom? Do you have questions about how to use a social media or if it would even be effective?
Dr. Rey Junco's blog, Social Media in Higher Education, provides useful information about this ever changing topic. Dr. Junco is an Associate Professor at Lock Haven University, who conducts social media studies and has published two books on this subject. This is a great blog worth following!
Dr. Rey Junco's blog, Social Media in Higher Education, provides useful information about this ever changing topic. Dr. Junco is an Associate Professor at Lock Haven University, who conducts social media studies and has published two books on this subject. This is a great blog worth following!
Twenty Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web
Twenty Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web is a free online book that will answer a multitude of web related questions that you may have always wondered about. The first six pages are mostly background information about the web.
Page seven discusses why it is important to use an up-to-date browser, and the following pages provide information about plugins and how they can be helpful, cookies and what they do, etc., etc.
The book can be saved as a .pdf and or printed.
Page seven discusses why it is important to use an up-to-date browser, and the following pages provide information about plugins and how they can be helpful, cookies and what they do, etc., etc.
The book can be saved as a .pdf and or printed.
Friday, December 3, 2010
There is an app for that
From Education Tech news July 2010, here is a top ten list for teacher's favorite web and phone apps. Mostly classroom oriented, but they are still ideas worth sharing, and underline the fact that the use of apps is absolutely exploding.
And in that vein, I have just found that Khan is available on the iPhone! Yup, all you science and math teachers, who are (or should be) fans of Khan Academy, the apps are broken down by subject (calculus, chemistry, algebra). Just like the website www.khanacademy.org the app material consists of short videos, very focused and well paced on specific academic topics.
RS
And in that vein, I have just found that Khan is available on the iPhone! Yup, all you science and math teachers, who are (or should be) fans of Khan Academy, the apps are broken down by subject (calculus, chemistry, algebra). Just like the website www.khanacademy.org the app material consists of short videos, very focused and well paced on specific academic topics.
RS
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Speeches for all Classes!
Have you ever wanted your students to watch a powerful movie clip or have them watch or just listen to a historically significant speech? Is there such a repository?
The answer is YES!! The American Rhetoric repository houses literally hundreds of speeches from politics, movies, etc. The site even has a link for the top 100 speeches of all time. In my Public Speaking classes I like to have my students listen to speeches from this site and then discuss the speech in a discussion forum. BUT, you don't have to teach Public Speaking to use this site. This repository is so vast that surely there is a speech that relates to your field of study.
Go ahead! Give it a try! You might even want to get wild and use voicethread for the discussion forum.
The answer is YES!! The American Rhetoric repository houses literally hundreds of speeches from politics, movies, etc. The site even has a link for the top 100 speeches of all time. In my Public Speaking classes I like to have my students listen to speeches from this site and then discuss the speech in a discussion forum. BUT, you don't have to teach Public Speaking to use this site. This repository is so vast that surely there is a speech that relates to your field of study.
Go ahead! Give it a try! You might even want to get wild and use voicethread for the discussion forum.
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