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The virtual schoolhouse. Ricci Street is an example.
Learn with interactivity
The standard anatomical database in computer-based medical education worldwide. Point, click, and identify more than 20,000 detailed anatomical structures within fully dissectible male and female bodies. This unique "dissection" application offers an interactive approach to discovering the human body.
Make interactive learning games
MAHEC -- North Carolina's Mountain Area Health Education Center (Mountain AHEC or MAHEC): Stumpers
What are Stumpers?
Stumpers are learning tools using television game show formats in which participants assume the roll of contestants in a game show. There is a game board to provide categories and "dollar" amounts are assigned to the trivia-type questions and answers. Stumpers are usually done as a presentation with the presenter as the game show host. During the answer phase of the round, the host can present additional information to the audience pertinent to the question's topic.
Right-click and save to your desktop. ...
Generic PowerPoint Template for making your own Stumper.
Instructions for the Generic PowerPoint Template, in Word format.
Stumper PowerPoint Introductions to edit:
Intro1 -- One
slide, photo background, animated text
by Frank Wartman, MAHEC Educational Technology
Intro2 --
Two slides, animated elements and text, Beethoven music
by Barbara Lovejoy, MAHEC Biomedical Designs
Game buzzers -- MAHEC uses the expensive Wireless Classroom Challenger from Enasco. You can also search at Google for Game Buzzers to find alternatives.
Book -- Digital Game-Based Learning by Marc Prensky
$$$ LearningWare $$$ -- GameShow, $695, free demo
Create your own classroom or self-directed gameshow style games, quizzes, tests and surveys using LearningWare's software templates, described below. All are Y3K compliant. Our mission is to make learning fun.
An interactive place for kids (and adults) to learn the way that they choose to learn. A place where they can build a foundation for their own education...and in the process, to fall in love with learning.
David Wiley's Reusability.org
At first, I was interested in the total automation of instruction and the construction of adaptive learning systems based on learning objects (like everyone else). Recently, I've become more interested in learning objects' ability to facilitate what must for lack of a better term be called "constructivist" learning experiences.
Information wants to be free; people want to learn.
Clark Aldrich
Training Directors' Forum,
June 2001
"You can't do scalability with classroom."
Forget classrooms for organization-wide training in big firms -- the kind
of initiative that CEOs cherish.
As soon as classroom becomes a significant part of any such program, the
initiative "drops off the CEO's radar screen," claimed Aldrich,
"because the ability to impact goes way down and the costs go way
up."
E-learning by itself is more scalable. After you create a self-paced
course, in theory any number of learners can take it. Even synchronous
courses -- those happening real-time
online -- can in theory scale up to include hundreds.
Helping parents to get involved in their children's education, as well as developing creative interactive projects for her students.
Virtual Learning Resource Center
A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews and assignments, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction. MERLOT is also a community of people who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences.
Can The Internet Contribute To The Science Education
Of Our Children?
Millions of dollars have been spent in connecting the Nation’s
classrooms to the Internet. However, much of the effort spent on Web-based
children’s software is ironically focused on restricting their access to
the Web. There are very few examples of Web sites that provide exciting
and interactive yet educationally relevant content. Most children’s
sites are focused instead on gaming and entertainment.
Welcome to Whyville!
A group of educators, scientists, artists and Internet experts have
recently brought up a Web-based science education site intended to support
both home and classroom-based learning by scientific inquiry. The site,
www.whyville.net, was established to support a weekly science education
article in the Los Angeles Times (see site for details). However, the
scope and objectives of the project include the support of high quality
science education in the real world.
