EMPATHY

Spot the fake smile

What is your Empathy Quotient?

Mind in the Eyes test

DESIGN

Museum of Modern Art - Architecture and Design

Designer Karim Rashid - note the Karimanifesto (I love this website!)

Victoria and Albert Museum

National Design Museum

STORY

Six-word Stories

StoryCorps - listen to stories, record your own

The Center for Digital Storytelling

Poem-a-Day Podcast

SYMPHONY

The Universe Within

Listen to a snippet of Mozart's Symphony No. 35

PLAY

Invention at Play

Humor Scale

Watch this and see if you don't start laughing

John Cleese visits a Laughter Club in Bombay

Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of Laughter Yoga introduces a group of doctors & nurses in Minnesota USA to Laughter Yoga.

Yahoo! Games

MEANING

Spiritual Transcendence Scale

Index of Core Spiritual Experience

The Worldwide Labyrinth Locator

Research

Database research skills tutorial

ERIC

WorldCat

Google Scholar

Resources for major paper

A variety of "capping papers" from UofA that may be helpful as examples

Creating your thesis with Microsoft Word

Surveys and Questionnaires

Designing Surveys and Questionnaires tutorial

Survey Monkey - free tool for creating online surveys/questionnaires

Presentation skills

Really Bad PowerPoint

Presentation tips from Garr Reynolds

Beyond Bullets

APA Style

The official APA page

APA essentials

VIRL has 2 copies of the most recent APA manual

Some of our favourite sites

Edutopia

School Re-design Network at Stanford University

Transforming Education

Blogging, Wikis, Podcasting and other Technology Tools for Teaching

Blogging tools at Blogger (easiest) and Edublogs (more options)

Start a wiki at Wikia or PBWiki

Excellent online animated tutorial on using Audacity to create podcasts

Host your podcast/audio at Ourmedia using SpinXpress

Share your PowerPoint slides with SlideShare

watch your students work and peer edit with Google Docs

Capture animated lessons (like technology or tablet lessons) with Jing

Host video for your blog at YouTube or GoogleVideo

Spice up your math lessons with OSSLETS

Jan also shared Animoto

Alissa is going to try out Campfire

Lots of cool stuff happening through the Institute for the Future of the Book

Record interviews and conversations on the phone with a cordless/wireless phone recording controller.