What it is: Thanks to a tip from Jan, an iLearn Technology reader, I learned about the History for Music Lover’s YouTube channel yesterday. Oh. My. Goodness. Instant love. Seriously, if I had learned history this way, I would have rocked it! As it turns out, I actually met @amyburvall, the genius history teacher behind History for Music Lover’s at ISTE 10 in Denver and didn’t make the connection (feeling like a jerk for not figuring that out!). I starred in a video with one of the stars of the MansaMusa video “Magnus” the fashion police guy at ISTE. Small…
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What it is: Virtual Volcano is a Discovery Channel interactive where students learn about and test out volcanoes. First students get information about plate boundaries, active volcanoes around the world, and tectonic plates. They see all of this information on a 3-D rotating globe. Next students can learn about the different types of volcanoes, they will discover the three most common categories and read about each categories profile and its association with types of magma. Then students can take a journey inside the volcano. Here they will learn about the vents and how the volcano works. After students have learned…