Educational Origami

At uLearn I was asked to participate in the Edtalks interviews.
This is my EdTalk on a collaborative project between 4 schools in Auckland, Brisbane, Qatar and Vienna
http://edtalks.org/play.php?vid=149
The wiki and collaboration was fun project and its so rewarding.

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Techlearning has published a number of articles that I have written over the last year. They have taken the series of post I have written on Welcome to the 21st Century and published these as an eBook called Education for the 21st Century, in their 21st Century Connections site.

Gwen has done a great job putting [...]

Ian Jukes sent me this article and I must admit I groaned when I read it. Aside from the bias and in my opinion sensationalism added to the article to make for “better reading”, this article paints only half the picture.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080791/Dimming-How-brainpower-todays-14-year-olds-slipped-radically-just-generation.html
I can not refute the findings as I do not have the research to look [...]

This is a useful link to Waikato University for exemplars of APA referencing. Its neatly laid out, well thought through and very useful.
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/g_apaguide.shtml
Here are a couple as exemplars…
Books
Book - one author

REF LIST
IN TEXT

King, M.(2000). Wrestling with the angel: A life of Janet Frame. Auckland, New Zealand: Viking.
NB: Invert the author(s) name(s), and use initial(s) [...]

I know its been out for a while, but it never ceases to amaze me. This is a collaborative open source project. It produces a fully functional suite of productivity tools that are a match in many ways for professional suites, but best of all its free.
I have just started to update my copy from [...]

Wikipedia is amazing. It is with out a doubt the first stop of most students as they research any topic. Its huge, its peer created and peer moderated. Its also online, and this can pose a problem. This vast body of knowledge can only be accessed via the internet, and for those with our reliable [...]

This is another excellent briefing paper from Educause, this time on USTREAM.
A useful resources for students and staff alike.
Here are the important links:

7 things about ustream - pdf - http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7042.pdf
7 things about ustream - home page - http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/47506
7 things about series  - home page- http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495

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I have long been an advocate of Free and open source software (FOSS). There are an amazing array of tools and technologies available to use from a dedicated community of enthusiasts. I applaud these people as they have done much to enable my teaching.
But while I wholeheartedly applaud them, I must also lament the situation [...]

“The next big killer application for the Internet is going to be education. Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make email usage look like a rounding error in terms of the Internet capacity it is going to consume.”  John Chambers CEO Cisco Systems
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10537986
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Here are two websites that I have come across that are really quite useful.
Freesoftwaregenius - http://www.freewaregenius.com/

This site does reviews of free and open source software (FOSS). The reviews are good and detailed and there is a rich variety of tools reviewed. A good software source.
Fontstruct - http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Their motto Build, Share, Download fonts. This is a [...]