Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Historical imaginary now available in Google Earth

Thousands of historical images taken by aircraft have now become part of Google Earth's historical image collection.  Once you have loaded Google Earth, select Historical Images under the View Menu. (To update to the latest Google Earth version goto http://www.google.com/earth/index.html.)

Travel to your selected destination.  If there are historical images of that area, a clock will appear in the menu.  Clicking on the clock will give you a timeline; the hash marks indicate the year that images are available.  Clicking on the clock again will bring you back to present day.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

State Street staff; Google Web page PD, Monday March 12, 2012

At 10:30, Larry and I will begin the first of two sessions to show you how to develop and maintain a Google web page.  As you probably know, we are moving from iWeb pages to Google.  Google is free and will allow you access from any computer that is connected to the Internet.  There are two types of Google web pages.  Larry will show people how to develop a web presence using Google sites and I will do the same with Google’s Blogger.

If you have a chance, look over the tutorials for each type of page; Google Sites and Google’s Blogger. Check out the look and feel of the two types of pages.  Samples of Google Site pages:  WendyMary KayMrs. Paulsen and Mrs. Richau.  Samples of Google Blog web pages: Beth,  Jennifer,  Janet  and Joyce

Monday, March 5, 2012

Science teachers...when was the last time that you visited PhET?

PhET is one of the most popular free interactive simulation sites for science and math. The University of Colorado constantly updates and adds new sims.  They can be run online or downloaded to your computer.  (You can actually download the entire site to your Mac or PC.)  Each sim comes with a teacher's guide.  Recently updated sims include; basic states of matter, particles moving through a cell membrane and molarity.