Fun Websites

Here are some fun websites that have information and educational stuff on them. Play around with them and enjoy!

Multimedia and Interactive Websites

American Presidency
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5a_frame.html

Artists’ Toolkit
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/

Bio Medical Lab – the Walker
http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html

Cells Alive!
http://www.cellsalive.com

Coolmath
http://coolmath.com

Create-A-Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Discovery Games
http://dsc.discovery.com/games/games.html

Educational Web Adventures
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/adventure.php

Smithsonian Education
http://smithsonianeducation.org/students/

DNA from the Beginning
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

World Wildlife Fund Fun Stuff
http://www.worldwildlife.org/fun

British History: Battlefield Academy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_gms_bfacademy.shtml

Visualisation

San Francisco Crimespotting
http://sanfrancisco.crimespotting.org/

Worldmapper
http://www.worldmapper.org/

Gesture-based computing
(this one is a little farther on the horizon and the technology is not built into your own computers right now, so you'll have to simply look at some of the possibilities)

Aukland Museum: The Hybridiser
http://vimeo.com/6580702

Mgestyk
http://www.mgestyk.com/videos.html

mt Multitouch Table
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCpzZk0JNOw

From Emerging Technologies class at WOU, Prof. Mary Bucy.