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Newspaper Map – translate newspapers across the world

Newspaper Map allows you to search for newspapers around the world and view their websites. You can click on the map or enter a city or country to see the selection of newspapers available.

For foreign language newspapers – you can choose to translate the news website, via google tranlate.

If you’re studying other countries, this would be a great site to find out what’s making news in their part of the world

http://newspapermap.com

Tags: geography, language, news, newspaper

22.Aug.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

How Big Really!

Dimensions – is a BBC website that takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are, to give you a better perspective on scale or magnitude.

The site has 9 subject areas -

War on Terror
Space
Depths
Ancient Worlds
Environmental Disasters
Festival & Spectacles
The Industrial Age
WW2 – Battle of Britain
Cities in History

Each subject contains current and historical events to choose.

http://howbigreally.com/

Tags: BBC, disaster, geography, Math, Science, world data

29.Sep.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Create Interactive Videos

Youtube has the ability to create interactive videos, where the viewer is presented with a number of options to choose from inside the video. Clicking on a selection will then load a video and more options can be presented to the viewer to choose from. The viewer can choose what path to take.

In a classroom situation interactive videos can be used to present a project, a video quiz, adventure story, explaining concepts indepth, demonstrating math equations/explanations, video dictionary, map quests etc…. there are endless uses in the classroom.

To find out how to create interactive videos on Youtube, click on the links below and read how to add annotations to your videos.

http://www.youtube.com/t/creators_corner

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=3Den&answer=92710

Here are a couple of examples of interactive videos..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEei0I3kMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhByBf0zU9k

Tags: geography, interactive, Math, presentation, Science, video

23.Sep.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Go-Gas: Road Trip Fuel Cost Estimator

Go-Gas is a neat little google maps app, that calculates the cost of a road trip to any destination/s, you select. You can select the fuel economy of your vehicle, current cost of fuel and your preferred currency.

This could be useful for in geography projects, eg the living costs of a country. – in math projects – eg plan a trip with $100 including food and accommodation – how far can you go! or in environmental projects – plan alternative transport using less energy.

http://go-gas.com/

Tags: environment, geography, Math, travel

21.Sep.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

ARKive -Images of Life on Earth

ARKive has thousands of wildlife videos, images and fact files can be used in a wide range of science, ICT and literacy projects. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage your class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art & design projects. All photos, video clips and authenticated fact files are free and easy to use in your classroom activities and presentations.

Each topic has it’s own classroom resources and handouts all available for free download.

Tags: animals, biodiversity, biology, earth, geography, Google earth, Images, Science, video, wildlife

23.Aug.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

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