Friday, January 28, 2011

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.

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