Hall-Dale School District | MSAD 16

Reaching for the Future

Muxicall

Muxicall: A collaborative music making site
Multiple users can be online, each with a different instrument.

Hold down the shift key as you move the cursor over the screen.

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Scale

Here is a great tool for giving your students a sense of scale...

From 10^-14 to 10^27 meters.

Just click on the time-line at the bottom of the screen to zero in on a specific size.

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Welcome to the Human Network Network

While this video was produced by Cisco, one of the largest networking equipment companies in the world, it illustrates the connectivity around the globe that is happening today.

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Visit Wired Science

Visit Wired Science for some cutting edge developments in science, technology and our environment.

Wired Science

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Free Audio Books Online at Librivox.org

LibriVox.org
“acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”

Check it out!

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Scratch here!

As a little extra feature, I added “Scratch” to the Middle School laptop image this year.
Scratch is a great little program developed by MIT for uses in K-12 education for teaching basic math, programming skills, & story-telling in a fun and interactive environment.
Utilizing a ‘visual programming’ environment, students can easily control on-screen objects (sprites) through simple drag & drop, snap-together programming blocks.
Students can construct simple movements of graphics using polar coordinates, degrees of rotation, etc. or they can construct complete projects combining art & graphics, storytelling, simulations or even games.

Just show ‘em a few basic commands, and the kids will experiment, discover, and share on their own!

To get Scratch loaded on your laptop stop by the IT room to have your machine re-imaged, or we can just install the program on your existing laptop image.

For further information about Scratch:

A basic ”Getting Started tutoriall for Scratch”
A gallery of student work
Other How-to information:
A forum for discussions about how to use Scratch.

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Collaborative Art

Here is a fun (and free) site provided by GE, which allows students to collaborate in creating art and graphics!

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Language Arts, & Foreign language podcasts

Are you familiar with all the language arts podcasts out there?

CoffeeBreak Spanish
French Pod class
French for Beginners
JapanesePod101
Learn French Daily Podcast
LearnItalianPodcast

oh, yes and for english there is:
Grammer Girl’s Quick and Dirty , tips for better writing

This is just a sampling. Check out these and many other titles!

Clue your students in on these resources for additional tutoring.

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Screencast tutorial on building maps in Google Earth and related apps

I just came across this podcast tutorial on how to make your own maps in Google earth
It covers issues like adding images, overlays, links; how to present information, etc.

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Where in the world is…

Here is a link to the Google Earth Community, a forum where individuals their intresting share links with Google Earth and Google Maps.

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Mindmapping/flowcharting with Gliffy

Here is a web2.0 company offering a flowcharting applcation which might also be used for mindmapping. A basic (free) account allows each user to create 5 public diagrams.

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What’s a meter?

Here is a quick info-graphic which depicts the definition of various metric weights and measures.
I particulary enjoyed the fact that the only 3 countries which do not use the metric system are: Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA.

weights and measures

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Librarything.com

A while back I came across this web2.0 site which I just love: www.librarything.com

While not strictly an “educational site”, it does bring the biblophile into the culture of books. Each user can define and tag their favorite books, compare lists and comments by other like-minded readers, and get recommendations. And it is free.

ps: This is a Portland, Maine based company!

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Free Audiobooks

While not really a podcast, this is a great resource for free audiobooks.
Everything from ‘classics’, to “creative-commons” (open-source) content.
Download and Enjoy!

http://librivox.org/

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