Rating 3.00 out of 5 My long-time pal and colleague, Des King, is entering retirement this week after a long and successful teaching career. I want to wish him all the best and to send him off with his own recommendation as the final posting of the year. “A palindrome reads the same backwards as [...]
Rating 3.00 out of 5 Connections was a favorite television show for me, so I was delighted to hear from my pal, Bill Lomax about Burke’s latest project – The Knowledge Web. The Institute exists to encourage innovative uses of educational technology and its site offers several video, blog and pod/webcast resources. – The URL: [...]
Rating 3.00 out of 5 Kelowna teacher, Sharon Affeld, told me about the Harvey Mudd College Math Department’s site called Mudd Math Fun Facts.This archive is designed as a resource for enriching your math courses and nurturing your interest and talent in mathematics! Each Math Fun Fact is a math puzzle or short article that [...]
Rating 3.00 out of 5 Edmonton teacher, Mark Sheridan, told me about this awesome resource the other day. This tool from Pilot helps you turn your handwriting into a font for use on your computer. Just download the planning sheet, fill it out and digitize it with a scanner, a camera or your webcam. The [...]
Rating 4.00 out of 5 List member, Fred Moody, told me about The World At Night (TWAN) — a program to produce and present a collection of stunning photographs and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks against the celestial attractions. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above symbols of all nations and regions, attesting [...]
