Entries from June 2009
Henry VIII Knighting New Knights of the Bath
June 28, 2009 · Comments Off
Categories: Instructional Technology
Tagged: second life, Renaissance Island, virtual worlds, Henry VIII, Henry VIII coronation, Knights of the Bath, knighting
Links for 2009-06-25 [delicious.com]
June 25, 2009 · Comments Off
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It’s a fascinating way to learn more about what the twitter universe thinks about almost anything.
Create and run ‘twerveys’ then tabulate the responses and automatically tweet the results. -
Refresh your memory on when you followed somebody
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Twitter Search
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JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.
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Fagan Finder’s goal is to help people find what they are looking for: search engines, reference, tools, and more
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Floria Beaumont’s place on Renaissance Island
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meeting place for booklovers
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The Easy Way to Share Your Files via Twitter and other Social Networks
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Social Mention Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant social media results (blog, microblog, etc.) based on your choice of search phrase.
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The following tips, tools, and resources can assist any teacher with the basics about social media and ways to share that information with students.
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A search engine powered by tweets
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recommends books based on what you’ve been reading
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LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links you’d like to have a second look at, but don’t have time for now.
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I mingle all your feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON and a widget
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Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, and Flickr
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Search3 was founded on the premise that three search engines are better than one: Google, Twitter, Bing
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Watch Free Videos Online, Funny Videos, TV Episodes, Movies and more
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Robin Good’s Collaborative Map
Categories: Bookmarks
Videos for MTH 110 6-24-09
June 24, 2009 · Comments Off
Categories: Education · Mathematics
Tagged: algebra, inequalities, linear equations, videos
Celebration of 500th Anniversary of Henry VIII’s Coronation on Renaissance Island
June 24, 2009 · Comments Off
Five hundred years ago today, Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon were jointly crowned at Westminster Abbey.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, Renaissance Island will enact the event on the weekend. The Parish is deep in the throes of cleaning the streets and polishing the Abbey! We hope that you will join us to take part in the pageantry, fun, food, and music, as the 16th century steps out of the history books to meet the 21st!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, June 27
11:30 am SLT (PDT) — Knighting
Location: Church
Two days before coronation at the Tower of London, 26 new Knights of the Bath, including proud fathers Thomas Boleyn and Thomas Parr, were made.
12:00 noon — Procession/Coronation/Banquet
Location: Lagswell Manor, Streets, Church
“The royal procession through the city the next day to Westminster followed a route hung with tapestries and cloth of gold. . . .” (1) The royals will process from Lagswell Manor through the streets to the “Abbey.” Scrumptious banquet to follow at the knot garden!
4:00 pm — Coronation Ball
Location: Lagswell Manor/Knot Garden
Minstrel Gabrielle Riel will spin her magic music. There will be much merriment and dancing!
5:00pm — Fireworks
Location: in the sky
Sunday, June 28
11:00am — Concert by Atheene Dodonpa
Location: Church
Mistress Dodonpa is a minstrel maiden — a musical storyteller who uses various instruments to accompany her soprano voice: recorders and pipes, symphonie, bowed psaltery, rebec, bells and medieval harp.
12:00 noon — Jousting Tournament
Location: Tilting area
Lord Merlin and Knights of the Bath will joust in a tourney with His Majesty bestowing tokens to the winners.
(1) Lucy Wooding. Henry VIII. London: Routledge, 2008. Available through libraries and bookstores everywhere!!
Categories: Instructional Technology
Tagged: second life, Renaissance Island, virtual worlds, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Katherine of Aragon
Resources for Following the 500th Anniversary of Henry VIII’s Coronation
June 23, 2009 · Comments Off
Book:
- Schwarz, Arthur L. Vivat Rex!: An Exhibition Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII. New York: Grolier Club, 2009.
Websites:
- Historic Royal Palaces
- Royal Collection > Henry VIII
- The Anne Boleyn Files
- The National Archives > Henry VIII
- TudorHistory.org
Social Media:
- Blog: The Tudor Tutor
- Blog: Tudor News
- Blog: TudorHistory.org
- Blog: TudorHistory.org Questions and Answers
- Facebook: Henry VIII 2009 Events
- Twitter: IamHenryVIII (HRP Press Office)
- Twitter: TheAnneBoleynFiles
- Twitter: TheHistoryPress
Videos:
- CNN: “Henry VIII 500 years ago“
- Reuters: “Henry VIII’s 500th anniversary“
- YouTube: “David Starkey — Henry VIII 2009 Exhibition“
- YouTube: “King Henry VIII – despot or cultural icon? – April 22 09“
- YouTube: “King Henry VIII — Two Compositions for Recorders 1540“
Categories: Education
Tagged: England, Henry VIII, history, humanities, Renaissance, Tudor
Online Resources for Studying Algebra
June 21, 2009 · Comments Off
Online Books:
Websites:
- algebasics
- Algebra.help
- Algebra Help
- Algebra Help
- Algebra Homework Help
- Free Math Help > Algebra Help
- HippoCampus (Click on “Algebra” link under Subjects.)
- Math.com > Algebra
- OnlineMathLearning.com > Algebra Help
- Purplemath
- S.O.S. Math > Algebra
Videos:
- InterAlgebra12’s Channel on YouTube
- khanacademy’s Algebra Playlist on YouTube
- MathTV’s Channel on YouTube
- videomathtutor’s Algebra Videos Playlist on YouTube
- yaymath’s Channel on YouTube
- yourteachermathhelp’s algebra videos on YouTube
You can find the updated list on my 4R x T Wetpaint wiki.
Categories: Education · Mathematics
Tagged: algebra, ebooks, math, tutorials, tutoring, videos
Links for 2009-06-19 [delicious.com]
June 19, 2009 · Comments Off
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Roomatic is a experiment to create a chatroom-like user interface on top of Twitter. It uses the Twitter Search JSON API (previously Summize) to poll for Twitter updates with the room's name in it. Posts from Roomatic are automatically marked with the room name.
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This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights.
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With ColoRotate, you can work with colors in 3D, in real time, and in a way that matches how our minds process color.
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ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available deep web search engine that uses advanced "federated search technology" to return high quality results by submitting your search query – in real-time – to other well respected search engines then collating, ranking and dropping duplicates of the results.
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Create your own printable magazine from any online content.
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Whonu.com was created mainly as the need for a tool that tapped into the power of multiple search engines was clearly desired.
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Search with many
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Each day millions of people repeat the same searches. Wouldn't it be good if we could harness all this communal effort?
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RSS Content, News Feeds, News Content, News Crawler and Web Crawler APIs
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Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
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automated encyclopedia that brings together the best information from around the web on over 200,000 topic
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Real-time … Social … Search — Find out what all the twitter is about
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FeedStitch gives you the power to pull data feeds from all over the web & stitch them into a single feed of awesome power & limitless internet usage potential.
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Mikogo is a free online desktop sharing tool full of features to assist you in conducting the perfect online meeting, Web presentation, or remote support session. Share any screen content or application in true color quality across the world with up to 10 participants simultaneously, while still sitting at your desk.
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LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 2000 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources.
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Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.
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by Paul Robeson Library
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Plagiarism – the definitive guide to prevention -
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University of Chicago Writing Program
Categories: Bookmarks
Video: “Twitter Search in Plain English”
June 19, 2009 · Comments Off
Video: “Twitter Search in Plain English“
Categories: Research · Web 2.0
Tagged: internet search, microblogging, Twitter
