Reflections on working as an Digital Learning Consultant in the Asian Region.
By Paul McMahon on Jun 28, 2009 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
You have to love long-haul flights for catching up on reading. I am flying from Hong Kong to Perth, Western Australia and, en-route I have been reading a paper that I saw referred to on a list I monitor which had an interesting discussion recently about whether it was possible to predict a long future [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jun 28, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons | 0 Comments
dougbelshaw.com/blog » Blog Archive » Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines
Over the past week I’ve been working on policies and documents relating to E-Learning and electronic resources at the Academy. The following are links to the Google Docs that were created with feedback from my Twitter network. They are very much still in [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jun 21, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons, Learning for a Flat World | 1 Comment
In the lead up to the conference, I have been meeting with quite a few vendors. Some of these have been learning platform vendors. These guys have the unenviable task of trying to sell their product to schools who are not really clear on what they want to use it for. Some schools for example [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jun 21, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons | 0 Comments
ICT games – Resource Topics – TES Connect
Great set of learning games. Many suitable for an IWB.
tags: resources, IWB, games, interactive
Staff ICT Skills Log Questions.rtf – Windows Live
A set of questions for surveying staff about ICT skills in a school.
tags: skills, checklist, audit, CPD, training
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
By Paul McMahon on Jun 7, 2009 in Appropriate Hardware for Education, Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
It seems like everywhere I look around me at the moment schools are evaluating some aspect of 1:1 computing. There are many reasons for this including the netbook revolution, Mr Rudd’s plan to put a computer on the desk of every Year 9-12 student in Australia and many more enlightened schools realising that standards for [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jun 7, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons | 0 Comments
iMovie 09
At a demonstration, I saw a number of features in iMovie 09 that I wished were in FCP and I wondered if there was a way to use iMovie 09 in conjunction with FCP, utilizing some of its features to supplement the FCP workflow, most importantly in the rough cut phase of editing, as [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jun 1, 2009 in Appropriate Hardware for Education, Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
I have just returned from this workshop advertised at the Centre for Information Technology in Education at Hong Kong University.The workshop was dedicated to taking us through the use of tools that could be used on mobile phones but were really very basic. You can see them here.
I was behaved and kept my mouth shut [...]
