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Online non-fiction texts aimed at young students. Audio options (American accent). Great range of information on different animals.

Online non-fiction texts aimed at young students. Audio options (American accent). Great range of information on different animals.

A Digital Novel (2012) ... set in a technology saturated near future, Inanimate Alice tells the story of a girl called Alice, merging text with animation, videos, music and games to explore what it means to conduct your life online. Requires user action to drive the story forward.Uses text, images, music, sound effects, puzzles and games to illustrate and enhance the narrative. Each a self-contained story, the chapters become more complex as the narrative unfolds reflecting Alice's age and competency as she develops towards her calling as a game animator and designer. See the Teacher's Notes for information on using this title with students.

High concpet digital alphabet book by de Vicq de Cumpitch. Interactive, animated and very clever!

Nature Sound Map provides a neat way to explore the soundscape of the natural world. On the Nature Sound Map you will find placemarks containing recordings of nature. The recordings have been added to the project by professional sound recorders. Some of the recordings you will find feature the sounds of just one animal, the sounds of a jungle, sounds of a marsh, sounds of a storm, or sounds of oceans and rivers.

"The popularity and appeal of manga and anime only continues to grow and if they aren't already, your students are likely to soon be clamoring for titles. Determining what series are appropriate for your library can be a challenge. It is a particularly difficult task if you, like me, are not a regular reader yourself."

In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.

Publishing a children's book in Russia is not a straightforward matter, as Anna Starobinets found when her detective stories set among woodland animals were deemed to be far too beastly for children

Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, says science backs up the long-held belief that story is the most powerful means of communicating a message

Interactive account about the first day of the Gallipoli landing that is narrated whilst a 3D diorama and animation takes the reader/listener into the story setting. Presents both the Turkish and the Allied forces standpoints.Includes links to supporting information, including interviews with Turkish and Anzac returned servicemen, diary entries and photos.

Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!

A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

"Welcome to Ecoregions 2017 © Resolve. This new map offers a depiction of the 846 ecoregions that represent our living planet. Ecoregions are ecosystems of regional extent. These are color coded on this map to highlight their distribution and the biological diversity they represent. This new map is based on recent advances in biogeography - the science concerning the distribution of plants and animals. The original ecoregions map has been widely used since its introduction in 2001, underpinning the most recent analyses of the effects of global climate change on nature by ecologists to the distribution of the world's beetles to modern conservation planning. In the same vein, our updated ecoregions can now be used to chart progress towards achieving the visionary goal of Nature Needs Half, to protect half of all the land on Earth to save a living terrestrial biosphere."

"A simple video production technique can animate a wide range of student projects-and instill new energy in distance learning."

From Lakeside School Libary: A range of resources on the flipped classroom and library. Includes an infographic, video, and use of GoAnimate to animate libguides and links to other related websites.

"The latest playlist that I've created is titled Digital Mapping. The playlist currently contains 45 tutorial videos covering more than just Google Maps. In the playlist you'll find tutorials on things like NatGeo Mapmaker, Felt Maps, USGS map tools, making animated maps, and much more. Some highlights from the playlist are embedded below. "

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. Supporting resources available.

More than 7.8 million images you and your students can use in signs, projects, presentations, Web sites, worksheets, newsletters, posters and much more! As well as offering professional quality vector and raster images we also have JPG, PNG and GIF images in smaller sizes so that younger children do not need to resize them.

Want to engage reluctant readers? Appeal to a wider range of learning styles? Or simply want to try a new text? Graphic novels may be your answer! In this series of videos, John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs from Metaphrog give an introduction to the form, as well as explaining stylistic devices. John and Sandra also explain what is involved in adapting a story or poem into graphic novel format.

"By personifying, we often assume social roles and identities for objects and attribute intentions and emotions to them. This not only tells us a lot about our own cognitive states, it increases empathy and understanding. "

"The Drop Bear legend tells of a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the Koala that 'drops' on it's prey."