Froguts

I'm returning to an old favourite here. Around the year 2000 I was working at SSVH, (The Swedish Institute for Distance Education) in Härnösand. One of the teachers found "Froguts", a web-based dissection simulator, where you could "dissect" a frog. If my memory serves me well, after discussion with the developers the  site was translated into Swedish so we could use it with our students.  We thought this was one of the best educational sites available, because it ...

• was directly relevant to the school curriculum, 
• made a somewhat specialised activity available to many more students, 
• greatly reduced the "yuk" factor, and thereby increased accessibility and learning
  
•  last but not least, prevented the killing of a large number of frogs! 

SSVH no longer exists and the Swedish version of Froguts probably sits inside an archive as a series of printed pages. :-(
However, Froguts is still very much with us. The quality, and the range of dissections available, continues to develop, and the annual subscription is affordable.  The reasons we thought it an excellent tool are still relevant today and perhaps the prevalence of computer games makes it even more relevant to  today's students/pupils. Take a look at Froguts home page and demo!

By the way,  here is another  favourite web site I have probably mentioned earlier. SSVH ceased to exist in 2001 but I can still link to several versions of its web page via the Way Back Machine, an incredible and wonderful archive of the internet. Here is an English version of SSVH's home page, back in 1999.  If you are feeling nostalgic, or doing research into how an organisation used the web earlier, then take a look at the Way Back Machine.