Physics of Speech

http://phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_about/PHYSICS!/SPEECH_HELIUM/speech.html

This isn’t really about computers but if you did a lesson on signal processing and data acquisition, you might tie it into speech and this would be a good resource.

STARFIRE A Vision of Future Computing

http://asktog.com/starfire/

Created in 1992, the Starfire movie showed a day in the life of a knowledge worker in the far-off distant year, 2004. It is interesting to watch now to see how many things actually came true.

The NXT Classroom

http://nxtclassroom.com/

A promising Web site with NXT news and forums.

Visualizing the Internet

We were looking for ways to show students visually how the Internet works.

1. http://www.caida.org/publications/animations/active_monitoring/traceroute.mpg

Nice video showing technical details of how the Internet works.

2. http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/gtrace/

Free app to visualize traceroutes.

3. http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/routes.html

Info on tracing paths through the Internet

4. http://www.mapulator.com

This looks very cool but it doesn’t do the mapping part like it promises.

5 http://map.butterfat.net/emailroutemap/
For mapping e-mail routes. Isn’t very accurate!

6. http://kharkoma.homelinux.com/gmaps/gmaptc.html – same problem

NXT Constructopedia

http://www.legoengineering.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=132&Itemid=60

Lots of great basic info on how to build things with the NXT kits

Library of NXT programs

http://www.legoengineering.com/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/g

From the Lego people themselves comes a library of programs you can use for programming NXT robots.

Internet Safety for Kids

http://www.netsmartz.org/

Not really computer technology, but important to teach…

RobotC – best language for Mindstorms NXT

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/11/the-best-progra.html

One man’s opinion on what programming language is best.

Master Lego Mindstorms NXT builder

http://vishots.com/2007/11/14/jay-kinzie-lego-mindstorms-nxt-mcp/

Jay Kinzie is a master builder of Mindstorms NXT robots!!!! This video shows some of his work.