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The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, August 25, 2011, In : Course Resources 

This site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table.

Comics include Uncle $crooge, Metal Men, Metamorpho, Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman, and many more.

Clicking on an element in the periodic table displayed on the homepage takes visitors to a list and images of comic book references.

After looking at these, visitors can obtain more information about the element by using the provided link to Web Elements.

Visit the Comic Book Periodic Table at http://www...
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Succeeding with Science

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, In : STEM 
Image of Succeeding with Science Logo

The Succeeding with Science website, created by Sellafield Nuclear Power Station, contains many different interactive activities and downloadable resources.

There are resources here for different age groups...

  • 4 - 7;
  • 7 - 11;
  • 11 -14;
  • 14 - 16; and
  • 16+

...as well as a section for teachers.

The resources cover a range of different topics such as...

  • electricity;
  • states of matter;
  • carbon footprints; and
  • radioactivity.

There’s also information about the Sellafi...


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eSkeletons

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, January 13, 2011, In : Biology 

eSkeletons has been produced by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

eSkeletons features interactive models of mammal skeletons...

  • select a model from the menu on the home page;
  • click on any bone in the model to view it in detail
    • users can choose from a menu of viewing angles;
    • in many cases eSkeletons offers a short video display of the bone you've selected from the menu.

eSkeletons also gives learners the option to compare bones across mod...


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Conway's Game of Life!

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, July 19, 2010, In : Biology 

I think I must be getting behind the times because I'd not heard of John Conway's Game of Life!

However I came across sixfoottallrabbit's implementation of John Conway's Game of Life using the HTML 5 canvas element.

The Game of Life is a cellular automation!

"What does that mean?"

It means that it consists of a grid of cells which can be in one of a finite number of states. Given any state, there are rules that govern what the next state of the grid will be.

We are looking at l...


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Open Heart

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, June 20, 2010, In : Medicine 

With Open Heart, learners can perform, among other things, heart surgery, and learn a lot about how the heart works in the process.

Open Heart has lots of interactive components to help teach about the structure and function of the heart. Learners can...

  • put together the pieces of the heart,
  • make it pump by correctly identifying the blood-flow pathway,
  • diagnose patients, and
  • performing bypass surgery (virtually, that is).

In each section there is clear readable, easy-to-understan...


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Biology Resources

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, In : Biology 

It must be obvious to established eMagazine readers that I have a Science/Maths background as I am constantly flagging resources for both. This month is no exception.

John L. Giannini's website has a collection of...

  • Movies
  • Annimations
  • An explorable cell and
  • Some useful links.
Take a closer look yourself at http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/index.htm.

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Turning the Pages

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, In : Historic Documents 

The Royal Society's gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - provides high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. They hope that these interactive resources will give users a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within their collections. They will be adding more items soon, but for now the list includes...

  • William Stukeley's Life of Newton
  • Thomas Paine's iron brid...

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John Dalziel
Liverpool

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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