| Water, as one of the most important sources for | | | | competition can also be hold at schools or |
| human's life, is facing a severer and severer situation. It | | | | communities. |
| is easy for us to find many tragedies resulting from the | | | | There are many technologies for the education on |
| water shortage and pollution, so actions need to be | | | | water saving and protecting. As long as teachers or |
| taken at once! One of the necessary actions is to | | | | disseminators use them properly, the techs must be |
| raise people's consciousness of saving and protecting | | | | able to work as a great assistant. Apart from the |
| water source. That is to say, we must strengthen the | | | | technologies, the teaching materials are the other |
| water saving education to which techs and resources | | | | critical part in water education. Check some authority |
| will be beneficial. The coming World Water Day on | | | | websites of water knowledge below. |
| March 22th, 2010 is a good chance to enhance this | | | | 1. |
| education. | | | | This plays as the authority site of UN-water, a |
| | | | mechanism in United Nations. The relating statistics, |
| Five techs for water saving education: | | | | activities and policies can be easily found here. |
| 1. Scribus - | | | | 2. |
| Scribus is the powerful free software that helps | | | | It is the theme website for the World Water Day 2010 |
| teachers or disseminators create great looking | | | | from which we can gain information about the latest |
| documents of all kinds easily. It is useful to make some | | | | situation of water resource and the events relating to |
| interesting and practical educational brochure of water | | | | water protection in the world. |
| saving and protecting. | | | | 3. |
| 2. Ren'Py - | | | | It is the site of Water.org, an American nonprofit |
| Ren'Py is a cross-platform engine that helps users to | | | | developmental aid organization. This site shows us |
| combine words, pictures, and sounds together to tell | | | | knowledge about water facts and what we can do to |
| stories with the computer. Its easy and efficient script | | | | offer the clean water. |
| language makes it possible for non-programmers to | | | | 4. |
| make visual novels. Teachers can make funny or | | | | Here visitors will see the knowledge about water in all |
| innovative visual stories about water to kids and | | | | rounds like the basic information about water, water |
| students. | | | | use, water pollution and ways to protect water. The |
| 3. Zoho Show - | | | | feature is that there are specialized materials for |
| It is an online presentation maker, or we can take it as | | | | education. |
| the alternative of PowerPoint. The big advantage is | | | | 5. |
| that users can embed the presentation to website by | | | | There are fun facts for kids about the Water Cycle. |
| copy and paste the code snippet Zoho provides, | | | | Photos, activity suggestions and some printable |
| which means teachers can create online water | | | | worksheets are offered to visitors. |
| slideshows free for students to view at any time. | | | | As reports show, many areas in the world are facing |
| 4. PowerPoint to DVD converter | | | | serious water shortage and pollution. Therefore, UN |
| Brochures are good for the publicity, while active | | | | has started World Water Week from September 5th |
| "brochure" may be more vivid. Students may like a | | | | to 11th and World Water Decade from 2005 to 2015, |
| brochure that displays like a movie better because it is | | | | besides of World Water Day. However, as residents |
| livelier. It is easy to make such a movie about water | | | | of this global village, we must take actions by |
| with PowerPoint and a PowerPoint to DVD converter. | | | | ourselves in daily life to protect precious water. At the |
| 5. Quiz creator | | | | same time the water education needs to be |
| Make a World Water Day quiz with multimedia, and | | | | strengthened to raise the public's sense of water |
| then let students or any other people take it. Thus, | | | | protecting and make more people, especially the |
| people can learn through interactive tests. Quiz | | | | young, know the importance and benefits of it. |