"SHOW® is an online informational tool launched in May 2008 by Mapping Worlds. The website offers users a new way to look at the world by resizing countries on the map according to a series of global issues.
SHOW® covers a wide scope of subjects based on datasets provided by the most authoritative sources in their fields. New subjects are periodically added, please feel free to send us your suggestions.
SHOW® allows people to easily download datasets, maps and animations. These can be shared across the Internet through websites, blogs and email.
SHOW® is an independent project, liaising users with data publishers, online press & media, and implicated world organisations across the globe."
JigZone is an online Jigsaw Puzzle where you choose the level of difficulty from a simple 6 piece cut to a challenging 247 piece cut.Embed jigsaw puzzles into your own web pages and blogs
web app for brainstorming on line. Would work great with a whiteboard.
What is it?
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Why use bubbl.us?
Because you can:
* Create colorful mind maps online
* Share and work with friends
* Embed your mind map in your blog or website
* Email and print your mind map
* Save your mind map as an image
And it's FREE!
Speechable™ is a free photo service that lets you easily upload and add speech bubbles to your photos and share them with friends via email or on Facebook®, MySpace®, Orkut, blogs, and message boards.
Using the Hohli Online Charts Builder you can create bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, Venn diagrams, scatter plots, and radar charts. To use create your chart first select the type and size of display that you desire. Then fill in the corresponding form with the information that you want displayed. Your chart will be generated as you enter information so that you can see how each piece of information influences the chart. When you're satisfied with your chart just click on it to save it to your computer or to grab the embed code to use on your blog or website.
These are maps of individual countries with separate images of drawing pins. The vector maps include France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland and the UK and more. With these templates you can insert the "pins" into places of interest and then label them as you wish. These can be used in PowerPoint slides, in web pages and blogs, or anywhere else where they may be helpful. At the moment we have maps of most European countries, also we have free editable PowerPoint maps of North America and now editable world maps.
With The GREENS, we get kids thinking about the world and their place in it. The GREENS project is upbeat and optimistic. We encourage kids to make informed choices and meaningful changes. Through the animated episodic adventures, a blog, kids' mail, and regular updates, we explore green living, sustainability, ecology, environmental care, and social equity. We nudge kids to research, to challenge, to discover, and to take action whereever and whenever they can. Green Business named us as one of the "Ten Best Environmental Sites on the Web."
The internet is awash with fantastic images. The problem is finding images that are not breaching someone's copyright, which is often the case. For student projects is also good practice to have them attribute the source of their images.
Here's a few ways of getting images that let you find ones you are actually allowed to use.
Interactive technology in the classroom
My name is Danny Nicholson and I am a freelance educational consultant. My main specialty is the use of Interactive Whiteboards, but I am interested in lots of different bits of tech that are now being used in schools.
Popular note-taking application Evernote can capture a wide array of inputs, such as voice notes, web clippings, images, and photos you take with a regular digital camera or a cameraphone. Once you've got a free Evernote account, you can email a cameraphone picture to a supplied address to save the contents of that photo to your Evernote notebook. (Your phone will need email capabilities for this to work. Go to the settings area of your Evernote account to get the email address, and save it to your phone's address book.) Evernote recognizes text in photos - even handwriting.