Evolution Animation

Here's an excellent animation that shows the history of the Earth, and evolution in all it's glory. I'm a science teacher, so I love stuff like this.



It's produced by John Kyrk and his website is packed with even more great flash animations for teaching GCSE and A Level Biology. Including meiosis and mitosis, cell structure and photosynthesis. Thanks to Clay Burrells blog for the link to this site.

And while on the subject of Evolution, and not really enough to justify a post of it's own, here's some cool Darwin/Obama mashup images from Mikero.com

More on his site, and you can buy Tshirts too! Proceeds go to the National Centre for Science Education in the US.

Animoto

Thanks to Ewan at EduBlogs for linking to a great little resource called AniMoto. It creates professional-looking video slideshows from your photos. I am too tight to stump up for the full version yet, but I have been playing with the free version that lets you make short 15 second clips.

Here's my first video. It's taken some of my photos from my Flickr stream showing my ski holiday last year. It took about 5 mins to set up and about 5 mins for the whole thing to render. I like the finished result though.

It then gives you the code to embed it in your blog. I'm hoping this works and that below you can see the video.