Educational Origami

MojoPac - http://www.mojopac.com
This is a interesting concept. Mojopac allows you to pack your applications onto your external hard drive, ipod etc and plug it in anywhere. The list of tested applications is quite extensive.
From one perspective this is a cool application, allowing anytime anywhere learning. take your tools and files with you and have your [...]

Another video from Kansas State University’s Digital Ethnology Class. These are the same people who brought us the brilliant “the machine is us/ing“. This one is called “Information R/evolution” It is as they say a “conversation starter”.
Here is what they say about this latest offering
“This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, [...]

Earlier this month I blogged on mashups - particularly about Intel’s Mash maker.
Mash ups are going to be amazing and will provide us with customizable data access at the click of a button. I got a comment from Alex who pointed me a his site which also produces mash up and tools for us to [...]

Computer studies is the cover all phrase for several subjects I teach. I am teaching the IB ITGS syllabus and I also teach a mixture of unit standards for my NCEA students.
The ITGS or Information technology in a global society course looks at the technology and the impacts of the technologies on a global society. [...]

This is an unusual one, sent to me as an email. It is an excellent flash animation, called “Animator vs Animation“, which is just for fun. It was good enough that I decided to follow it through to its source. The source happens to be an eighteen year old young man named Alan Becker, currently doing [...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/ 
This is another set of excellent resource material put together by the BBC. These are specifically for science .
The site is organised into groups

animals
prehistoric life
human body and mind
space
hot topics

They also have games and quizzes online as well as a picture gallery
Here is an interesting one
Explore your memory

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This is a series of videos looking at cyberbullying.
http://www.digizen.org/
It is supported by a 24 page  teachers guide (teachers_guide.pdf)
The main video takes the perspective of the student being bullied (still fighting it)
The other videos are interviews with:

the mother (I knew something was wrong)
the bully (he cant take a joke )
the friend (laugh and youre part of [...]

 
Here is a short list of some of the adcouncil cyber safety resources on youtube
Cyberbullying Kitchen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaWNYXpBis 
Online exploitation places - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfsVT5WpPSc
Online exploitation acyronms - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ii031A7DuI
Online exploitation exchange - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcw8n8CuSK8 
Cyberbullying talentshow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w
Think before you post 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBz-hxjSLU 
Think before you post 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4_Hrwh2XI 

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http://fno.org/nov07/nativism.html
This is a very interesting and well structured rebuttal of Marc Prensky’s Digitial Natives and Digital Immigrants. Whether you agree with this or not, this is something that you should read.
Also go to the Alliance for Childhood website and download the Fool’s Gold report.

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http://www.brainhoney.com/ 
This is a flash powered site that presents a variety of learning resources and structured lessons
Often the slideshows include embedded media that makes the material both more captivating and useful.
Like all sites like this it is essential to sift and sort though the lessons, but the material I have previewed is of a high standard.

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