Educational Origami

Are your senior classes objectives focused on exam results and qualifications? The answer is almost certainly yes, and with good reason too. This is the stepping stone to the world for them. However, often we hear this examination focus used as an excuse for limiting the level of ICT integration into the senior  curriculum.
The examination [...]

Its the fifth Anniversery of the war in Iraq and Reuters and MediaStorm have produced a 4-5 minute video compiled from the resources of journalists, with interviews of the war.
http://iraq.reuters.com/

This is compelling viewing and well supported by timelines, profiles, maps (see below) and resources (links to a wide range of sites).

Word of Caution - Some [...]

http://www.simsweatshop.com/
This is a great simulation and brilliant tool. The flash 9 based site hosts a simulation of a sports shoe making sweatshop. The successfull worker (I’m not one of them) will make atleast 3 shoes a day to earn his $6.05 wage. making 2 shoes 1/2’s his or her pay packet.

He (or she) must [...]

Amongst other things I am also an outdoor educator, and as an Outdoor educator I manage risks. In the outdoors I have to balance the risks and benefits of any activity I undertake with my students.  When undertaking an activity I have a clear goals and benefits to be derived from this.
Before undertaking an activity [...]

Coolcat Teacher just twittered about this and its well worth a look.
The site is  Atomic learning which has always been a great resource for ICT and professional development
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/google_docs/
The site has 51 tutorial clips on Google documents and google itself. These are short clips, but they cover the whole spectrum of how to use the [...]

We have all done this at some stage. Written a comment or two in haste, emailed these or posted them to a blog and realise afterwards that they were too:

blunt
rude
inappropriate
personal

There is a good article on the BBC (its old but appropriate) on this - email in haste, repent at leisure.
But techlearning has just posted a [...]

This is my response to Al Upton blogs closure order and Miguel response
http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/Al+Upton
http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2008/03/entry_6772.htm 
http://alupton.edublogs.org/
Miguel,
Like Derek I agree with you and your sentiments, I have watch this debacle from the sidelines, I don’t know Al, but what I have seen of his work shows care and understanding, consideration for safety and most of all, and most importantly [...]

This is a new rubric for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
This is a Primary school focused rubric looking at using a search engine to construct and modify a search. Advanced students may utilise simple boolean operators
I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions as I do not usually write Primary school level rubrics. Is it to hard ot [...]

here are two visual resources that are worth having a look at
1. Visible Body - http://www.visiblebody.com
This is cool site for biologist and scientists, but it does have one limitation - It is only available in Internet explorer . However its worth a visit and is free to sign up

2. Visual geography - http://www.visualgeography.com/

A nice easy [...]

I must say at the outset that I do not suffer from “one size fits all” syndrome nor am I afflicted with the dermal irritation of poor support. Unfortunately, I have seen too many people who suffer with these tragic and entirely preventable conditions.
 “One size fits all” is a model for ICT support that is [...]