Educational Origami

One of the things I really like about conferences is talk directly to the vendors. We use open text’s First Class and they had a very good presence at the trade show. First class is used by 4 of the top 10 school districts in the US. Some servers are really huge, I know of [...]

This session was a little on the edge. The three presenters (two real and one virtual via skype) were pushing the boundaries of their presentations – they had a wiki they shared, google documents and forms, presenting ucing google presenter and skyping into the presentation to video conference. The bandwidth and wireless was flaky [...]

Ian Jukes is a researcher and  presenter I have wantde to meet. His paper on Digitial Children is one I have read and enjoyed. It even warrants a page on my wiki. So I must admit I was looking forwarded to Ian session today….
….and I was not disappointed.
At about a million miles per hour, Ian [...]

Well day one went well. The open source lab was interesting – I attended a session using Blender a 3D image and animation tool. A good session, a little to big for really good learning but it was a good taster and one I will follow up on.

I continue to be impressed [...]

This is an interesting product – a 3D immersive mathematics game. Kids play in 1st person either individual or in teams. They have instructional modules followed by the games themselves.
Can be competitive between schools and districts. Neat

C-Map Notes

URL: http://www.tabuladigita.com/

Neat game interface, a fun approach to maths and adjustable into other subjects. Would be bandwdith intensive. [...]