New booktrailer: The Dark Divine by Bree Despain

If you are considering making booktrailers for your library site, here's a new one by Naomi Bates. (Note: the novel is more a high school read) This kind of thing can be done fairly easily in iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.

New booktrailer:  The Dark Divine by Bree Despain

http://naomibates.blogspot.com/2010/02/trailer-time-dark-devine-by-bree.html

Here's my little "tutorial" on how to do it, if you're interested.

http://gordonslearning.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-trailers.html

(Could be fun for students to make their own.)

GP

Chemistry links/labs/animations

Your teachers might appreciate some of the science links on this page

http://explore.ecb.org/surf/surf_report?subject=0

Links for other subjects:

http://explore.ecb.org/surf/surf_alpha

Google's Wonder Wheel: visual searching

I've just been playing with Google's Wonder Wheel:

"Google Wonder Wheel is a new great feature from Google which allows you to see relevant search results to your query in a unique semantically relevant and graphically designed way."

Here's how it works:

http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/google-wonder-wheel-step-by-step