I have been featuring VoiceThread a lot recently in my workshops with English Teachers in Local Hong Kong schools. The teachers are really very enthused about it as there are very few tools as easy to use and to see the educational benefit from at a glance. I have just been informed that “VoiceThread [...]
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There seem to be a lot of this sort of video being created and put out on the net today. What I really like about this one is that it looks at College kids so it might have some resonance for K-12 educators who still think that they are preparing the kids well for the [...]
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Last night Chris Betcher skyped me and invited me to join him and some teachers in Singapore and the US that were trialling some conferencing software called Wiziq http://www.wiziq.com/ This software had a lot of the tools that are common to this type of application. There are a number of examples of these on the [...]
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Firstly a big thank you to Timothy Lower, Ed Edquist, and Dr Andy Page Smith for allowing us to use a room at Hong Kong Academy for the 4th Seminar. This was a well-attended event with around 25 teachers and leaders present who clearly relished the opportunity to network with like-minded educators and share common [...]
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I really don’t know much about how to use Technorati to increase exposure but, like most things on the web, I am sure it is easy! Here goes:
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Have been doing a bit of reading and thinking about the IB Diploma that so many Hong Kong International Schools in particular are picking up as their main form of certification for University entrance and the growing number of schools here picking up on 1:1 Technology use programs. I was wondering if the IB Diploma [...]
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