AlternativeTo

Rating 3.00 out of 5

This interesting collection comes to me from my friend, Kathleen Todoruk. AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell them what application you want to replace and they give you suggestions on great alternatives! The “blog posts” are generated by you through suggestions, comments and votes.

The URL: [...]

Great Upper Canada Adventure

Rating 3.00 out of 5

Edmonton teacher, Alana Eaton, sent this web site that might be useful to teachers of Div. I Social Studies. It is an Upper Canada Pioneers web site called Great Upper Canada Adventure- an interactive game where students make choices and build their own homestead. Alana has used it with her [...]

A Different Place – gifted education

Rating 3.00 out of 5

Whitehall, PA, teacher, Charlie Gerancher, found A Different Place last week. This site offers high level differentiated content curriculum for high-ability and gifted students in the classroom. All of these activities are technology integrated.

The URL: http://adifferentplace.org/

Spezify – photo search engine

Rating 3.00 out of 5

My pal, Randy Lyseng, found Spezify – a new visual search engine that aggregates search results from multiples sources including Yahoo, Flickr photos, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, etc. and then arranges all these results in one large & interactive collage. You can navigate individual results on this collage in either [...]

JamsBio

Rating 3.00 out of 5

Bernadette in New Zealand sent a few interesting sites along the other day. I’ll scatter them throughout the rest of the school year. Today’s is called JamsBio – you can pick from more than 4 million songs to create a musical timeline of your life, and then add your [...]