Educational Origami

 
The Rasterbator is a free tool that allows you to rasterise images and output them as a PDF file.
Take one image (any size), select size, select colour (B/w, Single colour or multicolour) press button output one PDF file. Watch the video, download the software and play

 Link
Source:- http://www.photo-freeware.net/rasterbator.php
Video: - http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=706773153e7ef375fc68 

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This is another video tutorial I have made for my students (and some staff). This one is a basic guide to using Ganttproject - an open source project management tool .
I like this tool, its simple and clean, effective and suitable for the school use with out the complexity of MS Project. The program will [...]

Link: Laptop program to writing improvements
This is an interesting article. Maine has a laptop program, they have put 30,000+ laptops to middle years students.
They have now started to compare anecdotal and  assessments based results from before and after the program and have found that writing (its important to note that this is a hand written [...]

These are a couple of training videos I have developed on Audacity the open source sound editor available on SourceForge  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
Audacity - The Workspace pt 1
Audacity - encoding to MP3 pt2 

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I have started to upload some of my training videos to TeacherTube.
The first set is a pair of videos on comic life for windows  - this is plasq latest release and is a great product
Here are the URLS
Comic Life for windows pt 1
Comic Life for windows pt 2

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http://www.findsounds.com
This a search engine for sounds and sound effects. A useful tool for podcasts, vodcast, animation, stopmotion, video, games and beyond.
Another one from Ewen.

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Animation and claymation are tools I use all the time when teaching students about film, lighting and camera angles and video concepts.
Until now I have used movie maker as a tool to develop my clips. but it has limitations with the frame rate (you can only dial it down to image duration of 0.125 sec [...]

 http://www.globalschoolnet.org/
Do you want a project that reaches beyond the boundries of your clasroom or school? Well this maybe the answer. This organisation has over 90,000 educators in 194 countries collaborating on projects. They ahve a huge variety of materials and activities to be involved in. Do you feel like on online expedition?
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsnexpeditions/OEresources.cfm 
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This is an interesting article from the BBC. - School’s warned off Microsoft Deal
“Becta’s advice to schools considering moving to Microsoft’s School Agreement subscription licensing model is that they should not do so.
It reminds schools they are legally obliged to have licensed software, but suggests they use instead what is known as “perpetual licensing”.
This [...]

THE DIGITAL DISCONNECT -THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN INTERNETSAVVY STUDENTS AND THEIR SCHOOLS
This is a report commissioned by the Pew Internet project. The project releases regular reports on the internet and American Life.
This particular report looks at the impact of internet “savvy” students on their schools. It details some of the key areas and comments from [...]