Sunday, May 26, 2013
Crash Course: Entertaining and Educational
Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel started by Hank and John Green. Crash Course was one of the 100 initial channels of YouTube's $100 million dollar original channel initiative. Having finished earlier courses on biology, world history, ecology, and English literature, Hank Green now teaches chemistry, and John Green teaches United States history. Crash Course can be used as an anticipatory set of videos for direct instruction or viewed at home as part of a flipped classroom model. Crash Course offers a variety of subjects and is adding content all the time. The Crash Course YouTube channel has gained over 490 thousand subscribers and 24 million video views. If you are a classroom teacher or just someone looking to brush up on a subject Crash Course videos are a great starting point to furthering your education.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Google Education Free Apps Galore!!
Google education is a one stop shop offering over 100 free educational apps for the classroom or home school student. Google educations offers applications in subjects that range from Astronomy to Zoology. As a high school teacher I am truly amazed by the sheer volume of quality of free content Google education offers. In my opinion Google is redefining education with the release of these free use applications. I cannot wait to see what they offer next. Oh yea, did I mention that new free applications are being added all the time! Link to Google Education
3D solar system is a simulation application, which gives you the approximate location of the planets in the solar system at different time, and a good deal of information on each object.
The most comprehensive World Atlas on the internet. Easily navigate to any time and place in history. The World History TimeMap contains over 660 history maps and 1,000 pages of high quality supporting narrative, wrapped up in a unique interface that creates a framework for world history.
Pixton is an award winning tool that gives students a fun, new way to express themselves in the colorful graphical format of comics.
Some of my favorite apps on this site include:
3D solar system is a simulation application, which gives you the approximate location of the planets in the solar system at different time, and a good deal of information on each object.
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