The “Google Art Project” Is Amazing! The Google Art Project puts some of the most important art museums, and their collections, online with amazing features, including being able to create your own art collection. I’ve embedded a very short video from the site that shows what it can do ...
The Best Sites For Learning About China With Chinese New Year almost upon us (see The Best Resources For Chinese New Year), I thought it might be useful to pull together a few good accessible links that students could use to learn about China. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and ...
“Misspelt and misleading road signs” Misspelt and misleading road signs is a BBC slideshow. I’m adding it to The Best Collections Of Funny Signs (For Use In English Classes).
“Q & A” Features On Egypt Protests I think one of the more useful features different news organizations are creating on the Egypt protests are simple “Q & A” pages. Here are a listing of the best of them, and I’ll be adding them all to The Best Sites For Learning About The Protests In ...
Interview Of The Month: Anthony Cody As regular readers know, each month I interview people in the education world about whom I want to learn more. You can see read those past interviews here. Anthony Cody is a teacher and coach for novice teachers in Oakland, California. He writes the ...
“Birth Year Inflation” Interactive “Birth Year Inflation” is a neat interactive from BillShrink that lets you type in the year of your birth (or any year), see what a number of items cost then, and compares it to their cost now. Though they don’t look as slick as BillShrink’s, two ...
“10 Incredible Interactive YouTube Videos” 10 Incredible Interactive YouTube Videos is an impressive collection of “Choose Your Own Adventure” videos from Mashable. Since they’re all hosted at YouTube, and since only a few of them are really geared to any reading, they’re school use is ...