Tag: LEARN

This is a nifty find for teachers, and also just for use with your own kids at home. SolarBeat lets you view the solar system as a simple musical instrument. The planets revolve around the sun, each at its own speed and relative to the others. Once a planet crosses an imaginary line (which you can see in the screenshot above), it makes a short "ping" sound. A slider lets you control the ...

FlashcardExchange is a flashcard-sharing site that lets you create and study digital forms of everyone's favorite 3x5 cards. The directory already has a large list of subjects, from elementary math to high-level pharmacology. The flashcards are available to study for free via the website, and if you shell out $19.95 (one-time fee) for the full membership, you can print the flashcards and export ...

htmlPlayground is a helpful reference for web developers of any skill level. It provides an easy way to generate, test, and learn about HTML and CSS syntax. Simply select your reference (HTML tags, attributes, or CSS properties), and then select an item like "blockquote." htmlPlayground will then display a description of the item (to explain what it's used for), an example code snippet that is ...

Learning to speak a foreign language can be hard work, especially if you don't have someone around to practice speaking and listening with. Mango is a new online website that makes learning foreign languages a whole lot easier. When you begin a lesson, you will hear a brief conversation, and then you can flip forward and backward through a series of slides at your own pace. Mango does an ...

I took piano lessons for a couple years when I was a kid. I never became a virtuoso, but maybe if I had had Piano Hero I could have. It's an open source edutainer in the mold of Guitar Hero and the like, except with a piano instead of a guitar. It's a bit rough around the edges and definitely doesn't have the eye candy appeal of its console brethren, but if you want to improve your real piano ...

FriendsAbroad is the world's largest online community for people who are trying to learn new languages. It seems like a great social way to learn and meet people that speak the language or, like you, want to learn a different language. The social networking site is free but requires registration. Current contact methods through FriendsAbroad include email and live text chats through the web site. ...

Zimbio is a collaborative media portal site. Users create portal channels about key information they are interested in. These portals provide significant meaningful information on topics that people are knowledgeable and passionate about. Zimbio, like Wikipedia, is a form of a social information network that actually works to provide meaningful and useful information that people are passionate ...