Fractal Science Kit

http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/

The Fractal Science Kit is a program to explore a mathematical object called a fractal. The term fractal was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 in his book Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension. In 1979, while studying the Julia set, Mandelbrot discovered what is now called the Mandelbrot set and inspired a generation of mathematicians and computer programmers in the study of fractals and fractal geometry.

It does cost $49.95 but it looks good!

New Datalogging NXT-G Block

http://nxtasy.org/2008/06/16/new-datalogging-nxt-g-block/

A simple to use data logging block. It was difficult to do data logging with the current NXT-G blocks. This is very helpful.

New Datalogging NXT-G Block

http://nxtasy.org/2008/06/16/new-datalogging-nxt-g-block/

A simple to use datalogging block. Nothing fancy - it create a file on your NXT (a BINARY file, meaning it saves ALOT of space compared to regular File Access Block) and writes up to 4 inputs. Each “record” is prefixed with a 1 byte “header” that tells the local machine later how many bytes each input took in the file. The ‘Upload’ button is used to load and decode the datalog file into a regular comma-delimited file you can open in e.g. Microsoft Excel.

Jeroo

http://www.jeroo.org

Jeroo is an effective, award winning, classroom-tested tool that helps novices learn fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming, including

* Instantiating and using objects
* Writing methods to extend behavior
* Selecting and using fundamental control structures

Jeroo engages students with

* Story telling
* Animated execution
* Simultaneous code highlighting

Also, some lessons:

http://www.meskauskas.us/howard/jeroo/java/index.htm

How to Use Jeroo for Java in your Pre AP CS classroom

Lego Mindstorms NXT books

http://www.booksnbots.com/

The ultimate online repository for unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT books. Written by David J. Perdue.

Microsoft’s Popfly

http://www.popfly.com/

Now you can create a game without writing any code. Try it out, and have fun!

LEGO Mindstorms NXT: A Brief Introduction & Tutorial Part 2

http://mindstorms.video-sponge.com/view/132084-lego-mindstorms-nxt-a-brief-introduction.html

A very nice video of using NXT-G. It is about 9 minutes.

Game Maker Forums

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?s=fa5fb7c816f2c0ad8c90cc382546abd9&show forum=28

Game Maker has lots of very active forums!

Basic acoustics and Signal Processing for musicians and computer scientists

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2003/article271.shtml

From this excellent article:

This article intends to be educational. It hopes to provide the reader with a basic knowledge of sound and sound processing. Of course music is one of our concerns but all in all, it is just some noise among other less pleasant sounds.
First the physical concepts of sound are presented together with the way the human ear interprets them. Next, signals will be looked at, i.e. what sound becomes when it is recorded especially with modern digital devices like samplers or computers.
Last, up to date compressions techniques like mp3 or Ogg vorbis will be presented.
The topics discussed in this paper should be understandable by a large audience. The author tried hard to use “normal terminology” and particularly terminology known to musicians. A few mathematical formulas pop up here and there within images, but do not matter here (phew! what a relief…).

Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media.

http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/

It might a be a good experience for students to learn how to caption a video.