By Paul McMahon on Aug 27, 2007 in Appropriate Hardware for Education | 0 Comments
There has been a lot of comment about how the new surface computing concept would be the best thing for education. I have referred people to the MS website to take a look but today Dan Everest of Yew Chung sent me this link http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid932579976/bclid932553050/bctid933742930 to a popular mechanics video of the surface. This [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 27, 2007 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
This is such a great story and a fantastic comment from a teenager about what should be happening and clearly isn’t.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/27/2015813.htm
It is really timely for all of us to consider how we discuss this sort of thing with kids. In my experience, few of these conversations are even taking place in schools.
By Paul McMahon on Aug 20, 2007 in Triathlon | 0 Comments
Not much balance on this blog. It is all Ed Tech so far and you know how they say that all work and no play makes Paul a very dull boy!
We have our 3rd series race on in Hong Kong this weekend. (We have to be careful to call it a training race as it [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 20, 2007 in Appropriate Hardware for Education | 2 Comments
From 8 years experience of setting up and coordinating a laptop program in a school to my privileged opportunity to visit schools using laptops in multiple countries, I can confidently say “no one has the storage and access of portable technology with children 100% right” I firmly believe that no one ever will. My own [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 16, 2007 in Appropriate Hardware for Education | 0 Comments
For me, as a teacher who is now trying to make money independently of a school, conference exhibiting is just a logical part of what I do to get the message out. I quite enjoy it and it beats cold calling!
In negotiation with conference organisers in the last few days, I have come to [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 11, 2007 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
I have just spent a few hours of my morning reading a great collection of up-to-date research about IWB usage. They are available from here. Like all research, you can find as many articles taking one position as you can articles taking the contrary position. IWB usage is no different.
The thing that does stand [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 7, 2007 in Appropriate Hardware for Education | 0 Comments
Was listening to Podcast for Teachers today where I heard about this device that sounds like an alternative to the ASUS Eee PC that I have blogged about some time ago.
If your school or district is looking for a cost effective, one-to-one, portable computing solution with laptop features, curriculum and assessment at a total [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 7, 2007 in Ideas for Great Lessons | 2 Comments
Well it seems like I have found the answer to embedding video on your edublog.
Download Video: Posted by mrallsop at TeacherTube.com.
By Paul McMahon on Aug 6, 2007 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
Head of Australia’s Telstra Sol Trujillo has updated attendees at a business luncheon on the figures surrounding communication and collaboration on the web:
“We are living in the Web 2.0 world – the world of the Cs – community, collaboration, conversation, collective intelligence, content creation and a change of scale,” Sol said.
Web 1.0’s ‘killer app’ was [...]
By Paul McMahon on Aug 6, 2007 in Appropriate Hardware for Education | 0 Comments
Replied to Rod Blitvich in Perth yesterday who sent this post:
Do you have any opinions regarding Interactive Whiteboards vs Interactive Projectors($3,500)?
Does an IWB have to stay in one place and an IP can move from room to room?
Do you still need the IWB software?
Any schools using them in 8-12 and if so [...]
