This Site offers a wealth of information regarding the abacus including its history, several articles, how it is used and many illustrations. One of these articles is on how an abacus beat a calculator in doing several calculations in a very important duel between a Japanese Postal worker and an American accountant, Wow! The Site also offers links to different examples of abaci from different countries and cultures. I give this site an excellent rating because I offers a wealth of information and I found some of its articles interesting, particularly the one comparing the abacus to the calculator. It’s very complete in the subject of the Abacus.

This Site is the most complete web-ressource I was able to find. It contains everything from Historical information to several interesting facts and patterns found in Pascal’s triangles. The site explains how the triangles are constructed, how a “Hockey stick Pattern” is found in the triangle, it also explains Fibonnacci’s sequence, triangular numbers, triangular numbers and more… I give this site an excellent rating because it covers very interesting fact about Pascal’s triangle, each leading to additional research

This Site is very complete and provides only but useful information about the Enigma Machine. The site is very well organized and displays several images that are relevant to the subject of the Enigma Machine. A contents Tab to the left of the Page shows a contents table which allows for easy navigation through the sections of the article since it is considerably long. The website also contains several links that further expand the subject and make it very easy for someone who is doing research on the subject to get more information. I give this site an excellent rating because Wikipedia is always the place to go to find useful information for free. This site had everything that someone needs to know about the Enigma machine.

Learning through training an eslave (a robot). The process of programming is thought off as the process of training an eslave to solve the problem. The explorer is playing the role of a teacher and a creator.

Zon is a multiplayer, online learning environment designed to teach Chinese language and culture through gameplay. As a web-based site, Zon provides real-time, on-demand connection to interactive learning activities and authentic cultural information. Zon players are motivated not only by their intrinsic desire to learn more about Chinese language and culture, but also the ability to interact with engaging story-driven plot lines, interesting characters, and fellow players. Zon is built on the premise that learning is interactive. The game provides the opportunity for players to learn from non-player characters (NPCs), responsive game agents, and other players. Throughout each scene, players can engage with various elements of the environment, but they can also speak with other players in that scene or elsewhere in Zon. This allows for players to learn from both the designed game elements and other players. In this way, Zon is designed to provide social and environmental scaffolds to support player learning.

Rubric developed for evaluation of student performance with on-line discussion activities. This is used for grading this part of student's requirements for participation in discussion board.

Database with millions of creative commons licensed media files. A great place to search for images for a presentation.

Google provides a microsite just for teachers that includes links to important content and tools.

This training course is intended to be used to train others who will teach students through hands-on activities, digital video production, and the use of their skills to create works that demonstrate mastery of subject matter across the curriculum.

This is a language learning community on the web that focuses on English and Chinese (Mandarin). Through Pyngo, Chinese language students can connect with native speakers (students from universities in China such as Beijing Normal University and Beijing Language Institute) at any time and practice what they have learned in classrooms.

The third in a series of five videos about transposons this video is six minutes long and describes the unusual retrotransposons that maintain the ends of the Drosophila chromosomes in place of the normal telomeres.

This is the second video in a five part series. This video is almost ten minutes long and describes the main classes of transposable elements and how they move and multiply in genomes. There is also a discussion of the beneficial and harmful effects of transposons and their evolution.

Transposons 1 is the first part of a five-part series and is actually a six minute YouTube video that describes DNA replication, the telomere problem, and how telomerase fixes this problem at the ends of the chromosomes. There is nothing about transposons in this video.

This is a 3'43" YouTube video that explains meiosis, independent assortment and three mechanisms selfish genes can use to increase in frequency. it was made by graduate students at Leiden University in The Netherlands that call themselves Genesinconflict.

First prototype of video game created with Flash. Math Basketball helps students learn factors and multiplication tables through repetition.

The Play2Train environment is currently under the purview of the Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program (IBAPP)and the Institute of Rural Health at Idaho State University. The Play2Train Open Content Alliance (POCA), which is evolving from the Play2Train activities, represents collaborative efforts to build a permanent self-sustaining archive of open source virtual worlds, including their content and applications, to support public domain emergency preparedness training and exercises. The virtual content is implemented in the Second Life ™ platform. The powerful user content generation system of Second Life ™ has allowed us to build a sizeable set of virtual environments for emergency preparedness exercises in a fairly short time. We will consider competing platforms as their functionalities begin to match those currently supported by the chosen platform. We hope that this resource will significantly lower the barrier for accessing such virtual environments for emergency preparedness training.

This video clip describes growing efforts at Idaho State University, Institute of Rural Health, for constructing an emergency preparedness training environment using Linden Lab's Secondlife.

cool site on ascii art

This site was great for showing how to make homemade instruments either as a teacher looking for instruction or students needing information on how to. Very easy to understand with good visuals

Gives definitions and models of information literacy.