Interactive Activities

There is much to say about the importance of interactive learning as Dale Carnegie once said "Learning is an active process. We learn by doing...Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. We want to teach children not just concepts but how to learn because learning is a lifelong process. As we go through life we continue to learn or not to learn through our experiences, mistakes, etc. (the choice is ours of course). So if you also believe the Chinese proverbs that says "I see, I forget, I hear, I remember, I do I understand you might be interested in the following activities that you can try with your kids or students.


Following the Great Wall of China: Interactive Map | EDSITEment

- build China's Great Wall, and learn about the great Chinese imperial dynasties.This detail map of China is the area from the inset (lower right) map of the whole of the Chinese mainland.Wall Segment (Route) Legend: legend image showing segment of wall When the user answers a quest

Xpedition Hall - the interactive “museum” that takes you on geography journeys. Here you’ll climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archeological dig, and even order sushi—plus games, animations, and more!

Art Project, powered by Google

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Glogster 
-Poster Yourself /Text, Images, Music and Video
-Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends.

Glogster EDU
-platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond.
-educators and students can create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.
-Sample work of a child using GlogsterEDU

 Voicethread
- Group conversations around images, documents and videos
-Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

Smilebox
- Create amazing greeting cards, scrapbooks, slideshows, birthday cards, and more using your photos, videos, and music with Smilebox. Email, blog or print.

Animoto
- Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy. 

Xtranormal 
- a web-site powered by Xtranormal's text-to-movie™ platform—a web-based application used to create short 3D animated movies from simple text-based movie-scripts. The characters in the movie speak the dialogue in the script, and react to performance triggers—icons that are dropped directly into the script, just like smileys in IM/chat. Movies can be shared through e-mail, blogs and online video sharing and social networking sites such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook.


Digimi 
Digimi is a free online service that enable you to create your own super cool animated avatar from a facial photo and then use it on social networks