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Roland Gesthuizen

Sign In - 3 views

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    Imagine exploring 13.7B years of history - from the Big Bang to modernity. Big history tells the complete story - with a goal of revealing common themes and patterns that help students better understand people, civilizations and our place in the universe. The Big History Project is a collaboration designed to bring big history to life for high school students.
Colleen Shabluk

Latin American Countries - 25 views

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    While geographic neighbors, the United States and Latin American countries experienced different political and economic development patterns, which has often contributed to a differing and uneven political relationship between the United States and Latin American nations
Martin Burrett

Autodesk 123D -- creature - 33 views

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    This is a 'must try' iPad app where you can design a 3D creature. Tap, drag and pinch your creation until it is just right and then 'paint' it with the patterns you want. It's a great resource to use alongside creative writing or science work. If you have access to a 3D printer you can even fabricate your design. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/123d-creature/id594014056. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Jac Londe

Google Correlate - 122 views

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    A new experimental learning tool. With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern.
Roland Gesthuizen

Online Music Creator - Aviary.com's Roc - 71 views

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    "Use Aviary's music creator to simulate dozens of musical instruments including piano, guitars and drums. Create music loops and patterns for use in Aviary's audio editor (Myna) or as ring tones."
Mark Gleeson

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs - 73 views

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    Create a large range of grid papers of different shapes and sizes. Useful for pattern algebra explorations.
Martin Burrett

SketchPad - 94 views

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    A useful online drawing tool for making interesting pictures and fabulous patterns. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
Randolph Hollingsworth

Classifying K-12 blended learning | Innosight Institute - 0 views

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    categorization scheme based on schools in existence (vs. theoretical models) - representing particular programs within a school and not a typology for whole-school design - also taxonomy that is useful in capturing basic patterns that are emerging out of today's schools
S Berrend

Magnets: Where Physics Meets High Fashion - 75 views

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    Fun jumping off place for combining worlds via a discussion of magnetic fingernail polish. Students could test and explore ways to get different patterns to develop in the polish.
Martin Burrett

Snowflake Workshop - 228 views

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    Make a virtual paper snowflake with this great wintry site. Draw your pattern with the virtual pencil and cut out with the cyber scissors. Great to about out as Christmas cards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas
Margaret Moore-Taylor

Reading Bear - 135 views

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    A well made site for teaching young learners phonics through interactive video presentations. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
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    Reading Bear, a project of WatchKnowLearn.org, is the first free program online to teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English, all using innovative rich media. We spent an enormous amount of time developing 50 presentations, covering even more phonics principles and illustrating over 1,200 vocabulary items. There is nothing else like it, free or otherwise.
Roland Gesthuizen

Always Late? Learn to Be On Time and to Stop Making Excuses for Being Late - 1 views

  • the first step is to make promptness a conscious priority. "Look at the costs of being late and the payoffs of being on time,"
  • Once you feel motivated to make a change, Morgenstern says the next step is to figure out why you're always late. The reason can usually be classified as either technical or psychological.
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    "For some people, being on time seems nearly impossible -- no matter how important the event. They're always running out the door in a frenzy, arriving everywhere at least 10 minutes late. If this sounds like you, have you ever wished you could break the pattern?"
Roland Gesthuizen

Story of Stuff (2007, OFFICIAL Version) - YouTube - 146 views

  • It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
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    From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
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    I created Stuff Survey and Film Discussion Questions for use in my classroom. Enjoy!
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    I showed this video to my 7th grade tech class; it led to a great discussion. I posted screen shots from the film on Voice Thread and asked the class to comment.
Stephanie Holt

Are we talking Aussie? - 14 views

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    Discussion of Australian tendencie to shorten words and add 'ie' 'o' and 'er' endings, giving demographic data an words known and used, and linking to research on formation patterns based on invented words.
Roland Gesthuizen

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did - Forbes - 108 views

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    "Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy. Target, for example, has figured out how to data-mine its way into your womb, to figure out whether you have a baby on the way long before you need to start buying diapers."
Ann Steckel

WLPPR - breathtaking satellite images of our own planet Earth - 87 views

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    "Every pattern on this page is, in fact, a satellite image of our own planet Earth. Which is breathtaking, but strangely unsurprising. Choose one as a wallpaper for your iPhone to always remember who you are and where you come from."
S Berrend

Population Pyramids of the Whole World from 1950 to 2100 - PopulationPyramid.net - 96 views

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    This site i creepy/wonderful as it shows population pyramids shifting form country to country. Very quick way to discover different 'shapes' for growth patterns.
Martin Burrett

Rangoli Symmetry - 41 views

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    Rangoli based symmetry exercise - An activity based on Rangoli Patterns to provide opportunities for illustrating reflective and rotational symmetry of order 4.
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