Thanks to Jennifer Carrier Dorman on Cliotech, I was informed about the Free offering of Animoto for educators. This is a welcome extension to what is a fantastic Web2.0 tool for learning.
What I really loved about Jennifer’s post, however, was that she went on to mention how you can set up groups of students [...]
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I recently had the good fortune to listen to one of Alan November’s podcasts featuring Sichuan native Yong Zhao, now a Michigan State University distinguished professor of educational psychology and technology. Yong Zhao was speaking about a game he was creating to make learning Putonghua a fun activity for kids.
I was very interested and did [...]
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Thanks to a post on a list by Stephen Loosley, I went to the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day site. I couldn’t help but think what a great inspiration to the curiosity of students looking at one of these pics on the EWB in the classroom each day might be.
If you have never been [...]
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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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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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I just wanted to put up a post with some starter ideas for some early years teachers I am working with in terms of introducing them to the EWB at the moment. Here are some ideas.
Firstly, the kids need to be on their toes, ready to be called up at any time. This classtools.net activity [...]
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I just read this post from Barbara Braxton on the Oz Teachers list. I remember sending this rather addictive link around myself last year.
Try http://flightsimx.archive.amnesia.com.au/ (but don’t get addicted) and create a league for the students. Have them investigate all the different designs for paper planes and experiment to see if one design [...]
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I came across a great post by Jason de Nys last week that is worth sharing, especially if you are one of those really organised teachers already working on planning for the new school year.
Jason mentioned two tools for classroom organisation:
Termites for creating seating plans
and Monkey, for creating productive groups
Here is what he had to [...]
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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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Have just been catching up on some podcasts and heard one posted some time ago by Wes Fryer which was a conference recording of a workshop at NCCE 2008 Podcast230: Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All by Karen Fasimpaur This was very, very useful for schools who are just getting into [...]
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