A set of Darwin bookmarks on my Diigo page.
I’m becoming increasingly fond of electronic bookmarking services like Delicious and Diigo. Diigo, in particular, has become my bookmarking tool of choice, because of their collaboration tools. You can highlight, add sticky notes, search, make lists, and create groups. Here’s a 4-minute video showing how the Diigo collaboration tools work.
But [...]
Do you know how to take a picture of whatever is happening on your computer screen (known as a “screenshot”) and then play around with it and fancy it up? If you do, find another entry on my blog to browse. If you don’t — read on!
Taking a screenshot (and then futzing with it) can [...]
Here’s an online utility that you might want to consider using for student projects – – online book creation sites. Sites like Lulu, XLibris, and Bookemon are free utilities that allow you to create a book, using your own assets (text and images). These sites are well designed, easy and intuitive to use.
In order to [...]
Where were you on July 20, 1969? I put that question to my friends and family last week and I got a wonderful collection of answers. A common element in all their stories was a small, scratchy (typically borrowed) black & white TV set, with a large group of people, crowded around to watch the [...]
I just returned from a participatory media workshop that I organized for a group of high school biology teachers at Washington University in St. Louis. They were there for the summer institute portion of a very special masters degree program called the Life Science for a Global Community, funded by the NSF. These 30 teachers [...]
Recently, a colleague asked me what ideas I might have for interesting student projects that would take advantage of these new, participatory media tools. I thought about it and started to make a list. I came up with about 30 ideas but some of them were a little weak…. so I whittled the list down [...]
Every once and awhile we see a new flurry of educational outrage over the idea of students using Wikipedia as a resource for their essays or projects. Each time the kerfuffle flares up, I’m amazed all over again that teachers have this reaction. If I understand the concerns correctly, they are 1) that Wikipedia is [...]
Here’s an interesting idea. Gardner Campbell (Baylor University) asked his new media studies students to tell a story in five frames (uploaded to a group on Flickr). The resulting student projects are really quite clever and intriguing.
What biology story could your students tell in five frames? Or ten? What could we learn about what they know (and how they [...]
Not only is it Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday this week, but 2009 also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. So it seems this is a fitting week to cull through some of the most useful and interesting online resources relating to Charles Darwin, the Voyage of the Beagle, [...]
Google seems to be the search engine of choice for most of us but I’m discovering that there are a lot of other things that Google can do, besides just search. Here are a few that I’ve figured out, what others do you know of?
Thing 1: Math Calculations. You can type most math operations directly [...]
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