I’ve never seen anyone play the theremin quite like this before - around 2.50mins she starts playing *Double Bass* lines on it - and such concentration - wow. from www.ted.com

Oh, and she’s on John Zorn’s label too :)

Know any Science teachers who want to borrow a cam?

via TheFischbowl

Nice - a full periodic table produced by 96 different printmakers, the elements rendered in every combination of woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, and collage. This one’s Tungsten (aka wolfram). Unfortunately they don’t all have that much scientific info attached to the images, but you can always get that here.

via Bionic Teaching

The Visible Body is a free virtual human anatomy website with detailed models of all human body systems. It requires an app to be installed to render the 3D views but it’s pretty awesome - this is a female skeleton showing urinary, respiratory and endocrine systems.

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This video’s been around for ages but it was always a favourite of mine, and though it’s a bit cheesey and out of date now (anyone for the Ping of Death?) it had a lasting impact on the way I understand the net - it’s still basically the way I visualise “packets” and “headers” :)

from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod
When I first saw it I was still based at Lime Grove (it was released in 1999 to help up-skill telecomm engineers) and the idea of using a web-clip that was more than 70MB long in the classroom was ludicrous: how times have changed.

more info on the film - http://www.mundi.net/maps/maps_024/

A good example of how mixed technologies can pretty the place up a bit. It’s a macro display system that responds to mobile txt input with movement and sound.

In each installation, participants send their thoughts and questions via SMS and voicemail. The responses are then projected and added to a dynamic spatialized audio composition.

I think the voices would drive me nuts after not a very long time - but hey ho, it’s not aimed at me. It’s an immersive, multi-lingual, 2D multi-user virtual environment for kids, no less, (or an IMLMUVEFK as we say in the business).

Google have put up a resource page here, to help teachers use their tools (Search, Maps, Earth, Images and News). It’s got lesson plans, classroom ideas and links to other Google sponsored projects such as digitalexplorer and the Google UK Carbon Footprint Project (or GUKCFP as we call it :). It’s aimed at Secondary Educators but there’s some nice stuff there and some pretty innovative links - the CarbonGame for instance is a live - pan european simulation, where European schools compete against each other in a carbon trading game.

via OUseful Info

One of the things about putting an output (rss) on your web-presence is that people can do helpful/interesting/surprising things with it. This is a trivial example, but Andy Powell at Eduserve wanted to make an easy way to subscribe to all the blogs nominated for the Edublog awards. A few technical glitches later he realised that he could plug it into Tony Hirst’s OPML Dashboard and produce a single page that lists the last 5 posts by all the candidates. Easy-peasy - and as he said, cool.

The results are in, and no surprise Dy/Dan won best new blog: you should read him, he’s on fire.

via eFoundations.com

Cool - I’ve no idea why/how, but this thingy-me-jig rates my blog as being high-school level reading. That’ll do me.