Thank you for your great participation on the Maps101 activity at Wednesday's staff meeting. We hope that you were able to find something on Maps101 that will be useful to you in your classroom. (Or failing that, something reallly cool.)
Just as a reminder, here are a few of the cool features of Maps101:
Search Feature - If you are looking for maps or support material on any topic, from water pollution to Poland to watermellon seed spitting, type it in the search box at the top of the page and prepare to be amazed.
Country statistics - dozens of different catagories, from population to HIV death rates, to electricity consumption.
Animated Maps - interactive maps on many, many topics, including: medieval trade routes, women's voting rights, or state capitals
Cool Games - Crossword puzzles, mapping games, trivia and much more
A Field Trip Permission Slip Generator - Highly, highly cool!
Play around with this website and you will get inspired.
Podcasts are basically radio shows that are broadcast over the internet instead of on the airwaves. Because it has become relatively cheap and easy to produce radio content on a home computer, hundreds or even thousands of special interest shows are available for download through a website or on iTunes.
If you own an iPod, you already know what iTunes is - a way of buying, organizing and downloading music for your mp3 player. It is also a way of downloading podcasts. You do NOT have to have an iPod to download and use iTunes.
Click here to download it.
One easy way to find interesting podcasts is to search through the iTunes Store.
Here are some podcasts that I have found useful:
Jumping Monkeys - a show about parenting in the digital age
Hmmmm... Krulwich on Science - interesting science stories from NPR
This I Believe - short audio essays by various Americans about what is most important to them
StoryCorps - short audio memoirs by average Americans with interesting stories to tell about their lives
Play around with podcasts for awhile and see if you find something that floats your boat.
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