Another late entry, school, playoffs, bowling are slowing me down :-) This was for Jan 10th.
Flash animations are one of the most useful things we can find on the web, in my humble opinion.
I am talking for science but I am sure it can apply to other subjects (math, social studies). For teaching chemistry, animations are very instructional since it can model what is happening at the particle level. The animations can be used to show the process of solvation or bond formation. It can help in visualizing what effects temperature changes have on particle motion. Students can see an animation and come up with relationships before discussion on a topic is begun.
An easy way I ran across to finding flash animations is the following:
Go to Google.com to do a search (may work on other search engines, have not tried it though)
Enter : filetype:swf (swf is extension for published flash animations) the leave a blank space
then enter what you looking for in quotes and click Search
For example: filetype:swf "bonding" (will bring up flash animations dealing with bonding)
You can then save the links for use later or right click.
So go out there and try it out :-)
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