FreeRice is a not-for-profit website that invites visitors to play vocabuary games. In exchange for each correct answer the site donates 20 grains of rice to a U.N. food program. Rice is paid for for by advertizing that appears in a small banner at the bottom of the screen. I’ve checked this out and it appears to be legit (and addictive; did you know that “previse” means to foresee?).
Remote Access: Whose Tools? Theirs.Article about how the students in two classes that were trying to digitally connect circumvented tech that was getting in the way and made their own connections. It illustrates the disconnect between The Way Things Are Done?in education and the world the students actually live in. It’s worth thinking about.
I’m a big fan of Google Earth and not just because it’s cool in itself but because of all the resources that extend it’s functionality. The Google Earth blog contains a wealth of resources for getting more out of Google Earth. For example I recently came across this entry that describes how to get an animation showing the progress of continental drift over the last 650 million years or so. Other recent posts include a map of glaciers showing which ones are advancing and which ones are melting and a map of the flood in Florence in 1966 (important for Art History students!).
Created by the Missouri Botanical Garden, MBGnet is an outstanding resource for information related to the various ecosystems.
…can be found by clicking this link. It is exactly what it sounds like. One of my favorite images is this picture of the Earth at night; the city lights show patterns of population distribution.
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