I am cleaning out my office today as today (it’s my last official day working at TCNJ in my current position!) As I’m going through some yet-to-be-filed paperwork and found some interesting sites that may be of use to you in your schools.
- Virtual Museum Canada: A really first-rate site that I first heard about at this year’s New Media Consortium conference. The site is sponsored by the Canadian Heritage foundation and boasts an impressive display of online exhibits and resources for teachers, including sample lesson plans and curriculum guides.
- Toonboom.com: Toonboom creates desktop software packages that help you to create professional quality 2D animations. Their higher end software is quite sophisticated, but they have a great tool for kids called ‘Flip Boom‘ that looks very impressive. The software allows you to compose, draw, animate and publish your movies into a variety of formats (including Flash SWF which can easily be incorporated into your blogs). The software is not free, but they do offer a generous “try before you buy” download option.
Finally, here’s a pretty mind blowing video from Youtube that details a paper that was co-written by researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft. They are using geographically tagged photographs to create 3D “walkthroughs” of various locations around the world. Pretty amazing stuff!
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August 24th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Good luck, Profe! You rock!
August 24th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
All the best for your new adventure in life. Yes I will still be constantly referring to your blog. Back at school with all the teachers today so much to do! Off to Petra, Jodan next month so will try a few video suggestions then.
Cheers,
Trish
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Hey there. I was happy to find my way back to our class blog today. The Lower School site is up and running. It makes communicating alot faster for me, it will be a great archive of who we are and what we do, and, some teachers are beginning to comment. But, Marc still seems to be my #1 comment guy. Check it out and let me know if you want me to subscribe you. I think you know the address:)