Greetings all! Here’s an edition on Unit Conversion. Why? Because oddly enough I suspect that most of the English speaking world is in the same situation as we Canadians. Despite converting from Imperial measurement to the Metric system back in the 1970s, we still seem to be stuck mid-river in the conversion process. If you’re […] The post Web 2.0 Weekly: Unit Conversion Edition appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond.

Greetings folks! Back from summer holidays and prepping for the first day of school. As corny as it may seem, one of my favourite first week assignments has always been the old "what I did on my summer vacation". I’ve given that one in pretty much every grade and every class I’ve ever taught in […] The post Digital Storytelling Edition Part 1 appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond.

Greetings! Here’s part two of this edition on Digital Storytelling. Here I’ll introduce you to a few sites that focus on making interactivity part of the digital storytelling process. Interactive Digital Storytelling inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s great for teachers who would like to […] The post Digital Storytelling Edition Part 2 appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond.

Greetings! In part three I’ll be writing about a variety of web tools for storyboarding in conjunction with digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling: Storyboarding A great place to start if you’re exploring the use of storyboards in the classroom or as part of your writing process is StoryboardThat. This site offers a freemium subscription that affords the […] The post Digital Storytelling Part 3 - Storyboarding appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond.

Greetings! Here’s a brief collection of science infographics that address science in general way, and not necessarily in a good way as you’ll see below. The Scientific Method aside from being the basic building block of modern civilization is a fairly bad infographic. Whilst the layout is straightforward and easy to read, the graphic elements […] The post Fun with Science Infographics appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond.

Greetings! Here’s the fourth and final part of this Digital Storytelling edition of Web 2.0 Weekly. This time I’ll be looking at animation… Digital Storytelling: Animation Animation Chefs is a fun, innovative blog devoted to teaching you and your students how to create high quality animations. Their stated mission "is to give budding filmmakers, and […] The post Digital Storytelling - Part 4 Animation appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond.

Greetings all, welcome to week two of November 2014. Here are my additions to the Edtech Archive for… 20141114 - 20141120 australia, interactive, history, museum: Exploring the world at Port Macquarie  Explore three different places in and around the town and find out how people have investigated, recorded and responded to Port Macquarie’s landscapes, plants, animals and […] The post Addition to the Edtech Archive 12 appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond: The EdTech Archive.

Greetings, here are my additions to the Edtech Archive for the third week of November 2014 20141115 - 20141124 colour, reference, design, english, chinese, art, interactive Green Honey - a fascinating interactive discussion of the differences in the way Mandarin and English classify colour. Really thought provoking; brainbreaks, teaching, exercise, mindfulness, elementary:  Free brain breaks for your […] The post Addition to the Edtech Archive 13 appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond: The EdTech Archive.

Greetings all! Here are some of my recent additions to the Edtech Archive, a listing of over 7000 web resources. 20150130 - 20150204 learning, courses, elearning, email: Highbrow (below right) - receive mini- course components via email ACT, SAT, practice, testprep, testing, studying:  PrepFactory. - oodles and oodles of SAT and ACT preparation videos; genealogy, familytree, history, search, […] The post Addition to the EdTech Archive 22 appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond: The EdTech Archive.

Greetings! Here are some of the recent additions to my EdTech Archive, and continuously curated archive of over 7000 free educational web resources. 20150327 - 20150328 libraries, learning commons, literacy, video: Common Craft: Libraries in the Internet Age - an excellent animated video on how libraries have changed in the Internet Age. For those of you unfamiliar with […] The post Additions to the EdTech Archive 39 appeared first on Many Pebbles, One Pond: The EdTech Archive.