New NASA video taken from the International Space Station

This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song "Walking in the Air," by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays. The sequences are as follows:

:01 -- Stars over southern United States                   1:33 -- United Kingdom to Baltic Sea

:08 -- US west coast to Canada                                      1:46 -- Moonset

:21 -- Central Europe to the Middle East                   1:55 -- Northern United States to Eastern Canada

:36 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean       2:12 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean

:54 -- Storms over Africa                                                 2:32 -- Comet Lovejoy

1:08 -- Central United States                                          2:53 -- Aurora Borealis over Hudson Bay

1:20 -- Midwest United States                                        3:06 -- United Kingdom to Central Europe

Online Google Conference

We are pleased to announce Education On Air, a free online edtech conference. This conference is convened by Google and features over 50 educators hosting 46 Hangouts of professional development. The Hangouts will be live streamed on Google+ on the page of each presenter. As you watch, you can submit questions & comments live to the educators. Visit the website today to review the sessions and add them to your calendar. Sign up for Google+ at no charge by visiting www.google.com/+ We hope you can participate! Regards, Tia Lendo, Google in Education team

Date and Time. Wednesday, May 2nd Start: 9AM PT / 11AM CT / 12PM ET End: 7PM PT / 9PM CT / 10PM ET Find a Hangout. Education On Air website Session Themes. Hot Topics in EdTech Instructional & Assessment Tools Google Apps Communicate, Connect, and Share Harnessing the Web Chromebooks for Education

We are pleased to announce Education On Air, a free online edtech conference. This conference is convened by Google and features over 50 educators hosting 46 Hangouts of professional development.
The Hangouts will be live streamed on Google+ on the page of each presenter. As you watch, you can submit questions & comments live to the educators.
Visit the website today to review the sessions and add them to your calendar. Sign up for Google+ at no charge by visiting www.google.com/+
We hope you can participate!

Regards,
Tia Lendo, Google in Education team

Date and Time.
Wednesday, May 2^nd
Start: 9AM PT / 11AM CT / 12PM ET
End: 7PM PT / 9PM CT / 10PM ET
Find a Hangout.
Education On Air website
Session Themes.
Hot Topics in EdTech
Instructional & Assessment Tools
Google Apps
Communicate, Connect, and Share
Harnessing the Web
Chromebooks for Education

Free Webinar - Make Clickers Work for You: Pedagogy for Student Engagement

Make Clickers Work for You: Pedagogy for Student Engagement; details 

Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Time: 4:00 -5:00 pm ET 

The webinar will be run by Patricia Loeblein who is one of the people who develops the interactive simulations at the Phet site at CU-Boulder.

It's free but you have to register.  

Google Earth environmental files

One link will allow you to download numerous files dealing with issues that have an environmental impact on our planet.  Some of the topics include:  damage done from damming rivers, CO² emissions, saving our Redwoods, defending the rivers of the Amazon, looking at the worst oil spills in history, disappearing forests, all the water in the world, bio-diversity and animals on the edge of existence.

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.

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:  Wendy, Mary Kay, Mrs. Paulsen and Mrs. Richau.  Samples of Google Blog web pages: Beth,  Jennifer,  Janet  and Joyce. 

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.