Education
165 sites
Subcategories:
- Schools & Universities (15)
- Tutorials & How-To (71)
- Reference (78)
https://makemovies.co.uk/
Make Movies is a free educational resource by Stan Hayward that introduces animation and filmmaking to schools, covering lessons on creating characters, writing scripts, and both traditional and computer animation techniques. Sponsored by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, the site includes curriculum-aligned materials, an animation database, and links to related resources, making it a comprehensive starting point for young animators.
https://acreelman.blogspot.com/
Alastair Creelman's long-running blog explores the intersection of technology and education, covering e-learning, digital conferences, online tools, and reflections on the evolving digital landscape. Written from the perspective of an experienced education technologist, the blog offers thoughtful commentary on topics like social media, digital preservation, and learning technology trends.
https://cogdog.info/
Alan Levine, known online as CogDog, is a veteran web educator and consultant who has been building open web tools, storytelling projects, and digital learning resources since the early 1990s. His landing page showcases a career devoted to connected learning, open education, WordPress-based tools like SPLOT, and creative web storytelling experiments such as ds106 and 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story.
https://chemistryinthecity.neocities.org/content/entry2110
Chemistry in the City is a thoughtful personal blog covering science education, digital study skills, and the challenges of GCSE and A-level learning in the UK. The author reflects critically on pedagogy, teacher specialization, and independent study tools, making it a useful resource for students navigating post-secondary science education.
https://questioning.org/Feb2019/librarian.html
Jamie McKenzie's article-based resource makes a passionate case for preserving school librarians and teacher-librarian positions at a time of widespread nationwide cutbacks. Drawing on research data, case studies from districts across the country, and arguments about information literacy, it serves as both an advocacy piece and a practical guide for educators and library supporters.
https://mrdonn.org/powerpoints.html
Mr. Donn's site offers a large collection of free PowerPoint presentations covering ancient history, American history, world history, mythology, holidays, and geography, all designed for classroom use with kids in grades 5 and 6. Created by Lin Donn and illustrated by Phillip Martin, this educator resource includes presentations on topics ranging from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to the Civil War and Buddhism.
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/
No Web Without Women is an educational showcase highlighting the pivotal contributions of women in computer science and technology, featuring profiles of pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Hedy Lamarr, and Grace Hopper with historical images and clear explanations of each innovation. The site makes a compelling case for how foundational technologies like algorithms, wireless transmission, and compilers owe their existence to overlooked female inventors and scientists.
https://psych.hanover.edu/aps/teaching.html
Maintained by John H. Krantz at Hanover College, this American Psychological Society page compiles an extensive directory of teaching resources covering nearly every major subfield of psychology, from cognitive and forensic to evolutionary and health psychology. Instructors and students alike will find links to course materials, graduate program rankings, PowerPoint presentation databases, research methods guides, and interactive educational tools.
http://tekeli.li/onomastikon
Kate Monk's Onomastikon is a massive dictionary of names from cultures and historical periods spanning the entire globe, originally compiled to help role-players find authentic character names. Preserved and re-hosted by Roger after the original site went offline, it covers everything from Celtic and Saxon England to Melanesia, the Ancient World, and the Americas, with historical background notes alongside male, female, and family names.
https://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/publicat/jermann-papers/Kobbe
A 1997 academic paper from TECFA at the University of Geneva examining how pairs of subjects used multimodal communication tools in a text-based virtual environment called TecfaMOO to solve mystery games collaboratively. The research proposes a novel class of artificial MOO agents called 'observers' that compute interaction statistics to assist human or AI tutors in collaborative learning environments.