What the heck is a hippocampus?

You may have noticed the little Hippocampus logo up there on the header and the Hippocampus links in the column just to the right, or you may have clicked on a link in an earlier blog and found yourself transported to Hippocampus itself. But do you actually know what it is? Have you tied grabbing ahold of it and giving it a spin around the room yet?

Hippocampus is a free online educational resource for high school and college students and teachers. Its goal is to provide quality multi-media information to anyone who wants it. You can use the courses as is, pick out bits here and there, teach it in reverse – go ahead, whatever works for you, we won’t mind.

There are three biology courses up at Hippocampus, AP Bio 1 and 2 and Environmental Science. The course material is the heart of the site and it is very good, with plenty of lessons, assignments, assessments, and text and video presentations. But just lately the content around the courses has been upgraded too. There are tools to customize each subject, a new mini-site that makes it easier to browse through the topics, a better search engine, and links to cool sites like NOAA Learning Objects and the National Science Foundation. If you haven’t been over to Hippocampus recently, go check it out. They have made it better than it was. Better…stronger…faster. They have the technology, and now so can you.