Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Paul McMahon
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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Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Paul McMahon
[slideshare id=294420&doc=web-2-for-english11-1204762641989421-3&w=425]I guess it is timely given that I have the Web 2.0 workshop in the morning to have such a huge number of great blog and wiki links come my way recently. The biggest collection has been referred on my Jeff Utecht’s thinking stick blog post When blogs are just what your school does. [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Paul McMahon
Wow! What a post! Every so often you read a blog post from someone that is a fantastic illustration of why you take the time to blog and what a great sharing resource a blog can be. The blog that I have just finished reading called Pulling In Digital Content To Build Mathematics Lessons from [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Paul McMahon
It amazes me that there is so much out there to learn. Just when you think that you are just getting organised and that it is starting to make sense to you and you are living a nice, connected life, something comes along to shake you out of your complacency. I had one of those [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by Paul McMahon
Well I have to do a workshop on smartboards next week which I am trying to tailor to make as beneficial for the school as possible. Part of this is linking to the great world of resources out on the internet. It is a bit hard to really pick what the staff will need as [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Paul McMahon
Am about to start a series of workshops for teachers in local Hong Kong schools wanting to get involved in podcasting. Am going to be using Softease’s Podium Product to ensure that we can achieve the most in a single morning session.
Two things I am on the lookout for here:
Firstly, any local HK teachers [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Paul McMahon
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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Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Paul McMahon
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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Posted on September 8th, 2007 by Paul McMahon
Adrian Bruce is a Primary Teacher in NSW who has been very innovative with ICT in his teaching. He has a great deal of resources for teachers on his website http://www.adrianbruce.com
Recently he did some podcasting by getting the kids to do all of the work. The results are on Podomatic here.
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Posted on August 7th, 2007 by Paul McMahon
Well it seems like I have found the answer to embedding video on your edublog.
Download Video: Posted by mrallsop at TeacherTube.com.
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