Educational Origami

Yesterday we had the bus tour of San Antonio, the 7th largest city in the US.
San Antonio is steeped in history. The tour started with the Missions. Spanish missionaries in the 17th C convert the local indians to chistianity, while avoiding being spitted by the local apaches and co. To do this they set up [...]

NECC here we come!
Well, inspite of legendary stories to the contary; security, customs and immigration at the international side of LAX was very good. Weht quickly and efficiently cleared customs and immigration, with no trauma, no fuss and also no officiousness from staff.
Domestic, however, was different. It was quick and efficient as [...]

In one of my last blogs I looked at alternative tools to those supplied to schools.
In The Mirosoft deal, which provides state and integrated schools with Microsoft software, is the sharepoint client. Schools have to buy the sharepoint server or connect to a provider using sharepoint to be able to use this.
I was not aware [...]

The Otago Daily Times reports on Saturday 21st June that “School opts for free Software”
The school has decided to stop using the ministry’s SMS (School Management Software) and it hope to be the first school “to exclusively use free ‘GNU/Linux’ software on school managment and classroom computers”
But the best thing about this statement is this. [...]

ancient greece – http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page/
Medieval studies -[ http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ ]
Center for History and new media -[ http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php ]
Digital History – [ http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ ]
The History Lab – [ http://hlab.tielab.org/
Timelines -[ http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineexplain.htm ]
Ancient Egypt timeline – [ http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineegyptian.htm
BBC history - Byte size - [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/ ]
BBC HIstory site -[ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml ]
National archives – [ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/ ]
Academic Info – [...]

Yesterday I had the privilage of attending and presenting at the Waimarino Cluster Conference, held at Bethlehem College in Tauranga. Overall I found the experience to be a positive one.
The evening before we had a very pleasant meal out with Richard, Sharon, Rocky, Allanah and Jamin. Having time to network with other enthusiasts is [...]

This is a interesting collection of readings about technology and education. The papers are written by vendor but make for interesting viewing
http://www.campustechnology.com/mcv/resources/whitepapers/
The papers are technically focused but this is a useful resource for support staff, technicians network admin etc.
Worth a visit. Here are some examples
Smart Campuses: Appealing to the Millennial Learner
by SMART Technologies
How two [...]

Educause has released there monthly briefing paper on a technology. This time the timely and informative paper is looking at SECOND LIFE.
The paper is a download in PDF format – Click here.
You need to see the others to they are brilliant resources for teaching and Learning. Click Here

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http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/02/13-photographs-that-changed-the-world/
This is an amazing blog post and one that is as interesting from the comments as it is from the content.
This is a post about some of the all time great photos. Every one has there opinion, but this is a pretty good collection. With each image is a explanation, these to are insightfull and [...]

One of my favourite presentations is “A handful of the best” and I am presenting this workshop on Friday at the Waimarino Cluster conference.
The presentation is looking at a handful of cost efficient tools that you can easily integrate into the classroom to enhance learning.
Its my favourite because there are some many tools that you [...]