Monthly Archives: April 2007

Some sites you just have to go to in order to believe they’re for real. This particular site tries to play Pi, that wonder 3.14… number that never ends and helps explain how circles work. Well, if you wondered what it … Continue reading →

At first I wondered if this site was for real. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (roughly the equivalent of Public Safety Canada) actually has a website for kids. This very kid friendly site struck me as a bizarre idea at … Continue reading →

This potential gem came to me in the morning mail. Old Magazine Articles features, well, old magazine articles. The site has articles from old magazines about all sorts of historical topics ranging from art to World War II. The focus … Continue reading →

If you’re working through a Bible class, or even doing something on world religions, there is probably no better web site to access the Bible than Bible Gateway. It boasts dozens of languages and translations, and is fully searchable. (I … Continue reading →

This site is geared to elementary kids (K-6) and their math development. The exercises are fairly simply. You’ll have to decide if any of them fit the level of your students. Among the different grade levels there are many dozens of … Continue reading →

There are synomyns, two different words with the same meaning. Antonyms are words that means the opposite of each other. Contronyms, however, are words that are their own opposite. For example, an alarm can go off, meaning it’s on. Or … Continue reading →

Hunting for cool typing games for a colleague, I found this site yesterday: Free Typing Games. This site has a lot of games. I tried a couple yesterday and found them fairly challenging. My current favorite is a Space Invaders … Continue reading →

The Museum of Retro Technology is a really cool little site. It’s one of those neat little areas of the Net that shows you the world that was, or actually the world as people hoped it might be. The site … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing with wikis lately. They’re a wonderful tool for putting things up on the Internet while not really knowing how to make a webpage. They’re a nice collaborative tool that allows a group to collectively build a website. … Continue reading →

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, allows you to take some of the important headings off of one site and display them on another. This can be handy if you have an RSS feed from a newspaper and you put that … Continue reading →