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strangly not physic engine but so near... more online

may be to play on forces and natural responses .

Quest Atlantis (QA) is a learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-12, in educational tasks. Building on strategies from online role-playing games, QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae. A Quest is an engaging curricular task designed to be entertaining yet educational.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.

Playing with the NEW Diigo. Like ice cream...loved it before, gotta have it now.

As the world transitions to conducting work, business and play online, more and more communications that were formerly done offline in a formal way, are now quickly accomplished on the Internet. One excellent example is how the job hunting process is now almost exclusively online.

These interactive whiteboard games are a great way to review units of study in the classroom. All are based on popular TV shows and are fun and engaging for the whole class. Download the templates, customize them to your own needs, and you will be ready to play these great games on an interactive whiteboard or LCD projector.

Are your kids inquiring young scientists who are always curious about the world around them? If so, the following websites are just what you need. They contain some of the best science games for kids online. Each of them are fun to explore and play with, but they also have a sound educational base.

SoundNote is the best way to take notes on your iPad. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundNote will jump right to that point in the audio. Use SoundNote's powerful drawing tool for quick sketches. It's easy to edit them, too. Tap a drawing to select it, or tap twice to select an individual stroke. From there, you can drag it to wherever you want, or tap "Delete" to get rid of it. Use two fingers to zoom and scroll.

MyThreeWords.com is a sentence sharing game. Three words start a sentence off. Players are then able to enter three words at a time to continue the story. Any number of people can play at once. A fullstop, question mark or exclamation mark will end the story. All you need is a quick wit, fast fingers and some lightning fast connection! Are you any good?

Dive into Search and learn more about what happens behind the scenes of Google Search. Play with our Experiments Lab and get a better look at the technology behind Google.

Socrative is for interaction. You ask the questions. Your student responds with any laptop/handheld device. Try it for yourself by playing teacher on this device, and Student on a second computer/smartphone. Instructions: - Student: Open a second computer/smartphone and go to m.socrative.com - Student: Join the Room ###. - Teacher: ask a question out loud and press "Yes / No" button - Student: Respond Yes or No - Teacher: See the results on your screen You can run the Teacher Clicker from an Android phone, or any computer / smartphone by going to l.socrative.com.

"Google offers a ton of solutions for students, teachers, and classrooms. Some products are intentionally designed for classrooms, others just happen to work well for that setting as well as many others. The Google Apps For Education and Google Play for Education are two tools built for teachers and students that encompass a ton of different solutions for different types of work. The handy infographic below takes a look at some usage statistics on Google tools in the classroom along with a few tidbits about Apps for Education if you're not familiar with them. Keep reading to learn more."

VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list. The most popular activities are Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, and our vocabulary games, available to Premium Members. The most popular word lists are Sound Alikes, Compound Words, Hunger Games and SAT Words. This is a free app!

Bitnami offers a lot of useful applications that can be run from the cloud (with a subscription) or on a VirtualBox on your computer for free. I especially like this site because it has virtualized version of Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Moodle and Canvas, and Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal and Joomla that you can set up to play with before deciding on which to use.

Are you a gamer? Parent? Teacher? Then you would benefit from visiting this website and then liking them on Facebook! You'll have instant access to info regarding video games, learning differences, teaching, and more! Plus, app reviews, gaming guides, let's play videos, the list goes on! You'll only benefit from checking it out. Consider becoming a member to have even more personalized access to everything this passion project has to offer.

Visuwords Look up words, their meanings and association with other words or concepts. Tubechop Select and cut interesting parts of a Youtube video. Psykopaint Use this fun tool to introduce painting in your class. RESOURCES A biography study A sample lesson plan to explore biographies by means of role-plays.

Convert pdf to word An online tool to convert pdf files into word documents. Puush Capture screenshots, files and share them easily. Kodu Enhance creativity by allowing students to build, play and share their own games. RESOURCES Manybooks Download free ebooks for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders.