Smeedoo’s Blog

Free as in homeschool.

Go ask Alice.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity, programming | , | No Comments Yet

Stellarium – Bringing the stars alive

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | science | | No Comments Yet

Scratch – imagine, program, share

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity | , | No Comments Yet

Ideas worth sharing.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. The site has a hundreds of videos available for free that are enlightening as well as inspirational.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | creativity, videos | , , | No Comments Yet

Welcome to Smeedoo

This is site was created to showcase many of the great free educational resources available on the internet. While the primary audience for this site is homeschoolers, anyone interested in free educational tools will find this blog useful.

January 21, 2009 Posted by smeedoo | Uncategorized | | No Comments Yet