I know that a great many educators in this region are looking at mobile devices including PDAs and even mobile phones as learning devices. I recently read this posting to a list which I felt compelled to copy here so that teachers are at least aware that such work is taking place and is possible.
Many [...]
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I responded to a post in the OZ-Teachers email list today on rolling out EWBs in a school in Australia.
Have just taken delivery of our first wireless (wacom) tablet & data projector (with more on the way) as we explore less expensive alternatives to putting interactivity into our classrooms. I am very excited about the [...]
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I must confess that the first time I used a document camera in a classroom, it was not the most useful device I have ever had access to. This is a combination of the fact that the one I had was very small and limited in its functionality and the subject I was teaching was [...]
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In trawling the web in search of Electronic Whiteboard sites, I am yet to find a well organised, subject specific site with lots of great ideas that I can link to in the one place. This is my feeble attempt to try to do so. I intend to try to put one of these posts [...]
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I am soon to do some workshops for a secondary school on effective use of their Activboards. I have been doing some trawling round for some resources and I have been amazed at the number and quality of resources out there. In terms of some great things to do with the Activstudio tools, I came [...]
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I guess that IWB is probably the most common acronym for the big touch screen boards making a huge
impact in classrooms around the world. The “I” is for interactive and the manufacturers are very keen to press this as being what these boards are. Observations of use in a lot of schools can sometimes reveal [...]
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In a lot of recent workshops that I have presented, I have referred to the wonderful Marzarno wiki on Classroom Instruction that Works. I like the way that it tries to reference the Web2.0 tools that might support the Instructional strategies mentioned. In all of the reading and discussing that I am doing about the [...]
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I have just read a conversation on the Oz Teachers List regarding the issues of connecting up a new laptop to the IWB/Projector combination in a classroom. As many readers of this list may experience the same issues at some point in the future, I have copied it below for you:
Will do, but won’t be [...]
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I have been meeting with and receiving workshop proposals from more and more teachers lately as a result of my organising this conference. What this has lead me to see is the stark difference between how schools view the use of 21st Century tools for learning. Some schools are right behind the use of Web2.0 tools [...]
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You know, it is no cliche when I say that I do as much learning in my workshops as the participants do themselves. Proabably the best example of this is the discussions we have about how these teachers in traditional Hong Kong schools make use of digital technologies in their lessons today. I have to [...]
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