From USA Today:
"The In Your Arms video, which has received nearly 4 million views on YouTube since Grannis posted it in November, required creating 2,460 frames, each of which took between five minutes and three hours to fill in with jelly beans. The entire video took 22 months to make."
Great inspiration for an animation project, no?
"Sprout Labs apps stimulate a lifelong passion for learning by catering to everyone's individual learning style.
Different parts of the brain are used by different learning styles. Visual learners prefer images and pictures, aural learners prefer sound and music, verbal learners prefer speech and text, and physical learners prefer touch based learning."
This is an excellent resource for Math teachers in all grade levels and topic areas. Mathalicious helps engage students in the study of math because it uses problems that are related and relevant to students lives. There are some really great ideas in here, along with sample lesson plans, teaching worksheets, and step by step guides. For a great overview of Mathalicious, click the link and watch the short video.
From Education Week:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/sarameads_policy_notebook/2011/05/karim_kai_ani_founder_mathalicious.html
"Mathalicious builds high-quality, standards-based math lessons designed to transform how students learn math, and how teachers teach it."
"Mathalicious is rewriting middle school math around real-world topics that students care about, from sports to music to technology. By contextualizing math for their students and making math real, teachers can cover more material in less time, and with better results."