Educational Information Sources Online

I've designed two new blogs, as companions to my Web Tools Workshop and my Educational Uses of Weblogs Workshop. Here they are:

Web Tools

Presentation Blog 

I came across this really fun little site called Scrapblog. It allows you to post photos in a scrapbook type format. There are all kinds of neat backgrounds and decorative touches you can use.

The Museum Education Consortium of Western New York has collaborated with a number of local organizations to link to each org's websites and listings of educational programs. There are links to the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, Botanical Gardens, Theodore Roosevelt Inagural Site, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Naval & Military Museum and the Buffalo Science Center.

I've just recently started a new resource weblog where I will be posting various online resources and information about the humanities. I found that I was coming across many wonderful online collections and thought they deserved a home of their own. The new blog is called Humanities Web.

There is a new website in Buffalo, for local literary events and organizations. When you click on the link for each organization it gives the calendar of upcoming events. Just Buffalo Literary Center has open poetry readings every week. If you're a poet/writer, you can just show up, sign up to read, and read.

I found this Art Blog Aggregator by accident (often some of the best links I find). For those of you interested in contemporary art, galleries and news, this is a cool site :)

I was just looking up info on local activities and found out that Alan Zweibel, who has written the children's book "Our Tree Named Steve", is scheduled to read at the Albright Knox Art Gallery on Friday, May 27th at 5pm. It's part of the Gusto at the Gallery series that's been going on all year long. This is a free series and is kid friendly.

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art has compiled a nice variety of links for art resources online.

I forgot to mention this neat page I found at the National Gallery's site.

Collage Machine
Kids can make their own collages online using different shapes and colors, etc.

If you've ever played with the poetry magnet game in real life, you are going to LOVE this virtual version of it. Suitable for students to use to compose their own poems. You'll like it too :)