This isn’t typically Web2.0. However, it is a good example of the fantastic range of teaching tools available on the internet.
This site provides an animated demonstration of a working heart. It includes graphs which show where the beating heart is at at each stage.
This looks like a site with amazing classroom potential. It is basically a fully interactive breakdown - bit by - of the human body. The detail is incredible and it is very usable for students.
Unfortunately as I don’t have IE I can’t access it. However, the tutorial looked amazing and I will have a look at it as soon as I get the opportunity. I have registered and watched the above You Tube video and you can certainly get a good feel for what it would be like. As always, I would love to hear from you if you have used this site.
This site teaches you about sharks through a game. You are given a virtual boat and a virtual crew, and your mission is to hunt sharks - real live sharks fitted with GPS devices. Players are given a virtual boat and virtual crew. Designed by National Geographic, you go on a shark hunting mission. When your boat comes across a shark you are alerted by email or text message and you gather as much information as possible about that shark. But the best part is you are hunting REAL sharks (actual sharks swimming around in the ocean) with tracking devices attached to them. I guess Dr Evil had it right when he asked for “sharks with frick’n laser beams attached to their heads”…
