Educational Origami

Pivot is free product that I am using to introduce Animation and Multimedia to some of my students. Pivot is the creation of Peter Bone and is a simple, easy to use and fun product.

Pivot has a range of pre-made figures with different “Pivot” points on the limbs, so to animate you figure you simply [...]

http://www.tweetwheel.com/ 
If you use twitter you may find this site useful and interesting.
Essentially it draws a relationship circle between you and your friends. As you hover over a follower its shows you who else follows (or has a relationship) with that person. Clicking on the person will open their profile. Here is my Tweetwheel. Simply [...]

Most of us have used google images to find suitable images for product we are creating. Well here is a specialised search engine for images.

http://elzr.com/imagery
The search does work quite nicely and the interface is cleaner than google’s images interface, but it renders out the much the same data for the search. Its a choice [...]

http://www.googlelittrips.org/
This is an interesting approach to a virtual field trip. Using Google Earth, a browser and your internet connection you are able to take a literature trip on your favourite story (well from the selection they have available) .
This one is Homer’s Odyssey Submitted by Matthew Hart, Granada High School, Livermore, CA.
Here is what [...]

http://www.fontcubes.com/
This is a useful site for getting those fonts you need for students presentations, desktop publishing etc or just adding some variety to your own resources. Lots to choose from.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fedorigami.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F05%2F06%2Ffree-fonts%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Free+Fonts’;
addthis_pub = ”;

I read this article in the BBC’s Education section and it left me cold.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7371635.stm
Here is the opening lines….
“Teacher guilty of ‘incompetence‘
 
A teacher who failed to control disruptive pupils has been found guilty of professional incompetence.
Martin Reynish, who was held in “high esteem” by colleagues at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive at Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is [...]

 
Annapurna and Machhupachare
I took over 900 images during my time in Nepal and I think that I missed so much too. Here are some….
We started our Journey In Kathmandu…

Basantapur Dabali -The Markets in Old Kathmandu.

Basantapur Durbar -The Old Palace - 14th Century - Hanuman-dhoka Durbar Square.

Walking the streets of Tamil - crowded, vibrant, aromatic, noisy, [...]

I have been catching up on my reading from the Nepal Adventure. On the inside of the front cover of Interface is an advertisement for PLP or Powerful Learning Practice Network available for New Zealand Schools. PLP is the product of two brilliant ICT innovators and education leaders from the US, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will [...]

Juliette Major (Education Services, Catholic Education Office of Canberra and Goulburn) has written a brilliant rubric for use of Interactive Whiteboards by Teachers. The rubric covers four different areas:

control
interaction
integration
collaboration

In this rubric she has covered everything we would love to see in our use of Interactive whiteboards in the classroom.  An excellent effort and well worth [...]

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/46666
Educause has released their latest in the Seven Things you should know series. This installment looks at Ning. I like Ning, it was first brought to my attention by Sheryl with her excellent PLP sites - Powerful Learning Practice - for teacher education. A useful and flexible tool.
Here is [...]