Posted on July 28th, 2008 by xpatasia
I read a recent post of Wes Fryer’s recently about the the transformative power of flash-based video cameras. It made me think about teacher uptake of technology on a much broader scale, especially with things like the Electronic Whiteboards becoming so popular in Hong Kong International Schools. (And with the underfunded local schools doing their [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by xpatasia
I have some workshops to run on Electronic Whitboards coming up next month so I thought it about time to get some slides together that look at some of the latest research. I particularly like the research of Sandy [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by xpatasia
Yesterday I read a couple of replies on email lists to a teacher keen to start blogging with a class.
The replies and advice were so good that I wanted to record them here.
The first bit of advice comes from Anne Mirtschin, a teacher from country Victoria who gave these pearls of wisdom:
1. Initially I would [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by xpatasia
This is my last post on this subject but I need to close off by saying that some folk have got back to me and told me about their trials with various wireless projectors and it seems that everyone in this part of the world has used them in Ad-hoc mode only.
One large school in [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2008 by xpatasia
With a lot of acknowledgement to Joe Dale and his wonderful blog for most ideas I have used here, particularly those gleaned from this article Joe wrote recently, I have tried to compile some ideas onto slides for a presentation that I must do on Monday. I need to also acknowledge Jess McCulloch who also [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by xpatasia
Another tough day trying to convince Projector sales people that what they say about their projectors on their website and other literature is in fact true.
I don’t know what it is like in other parts of the world. It astounds me how little people in “high tech Hong Kong” know about the technology products that [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by xpatasia
I have spent a lot of today looking at wireless projectors for a client. Some good learning which is worth posting here.
I have been both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised by what I have found.
On the positive side, I was warned that the screen refresh/data transfer rate meant that the projector might be very poor at [...]
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