Educational Origami

Animoto is a video creation technology that takes stills images, text and music and creates short length (30 seconds – free) of full length ( > 30 Seconds at a subscription) It is simple straight forward and easy to use.
This starter sheet looks at this adaptable and easy to use tool. The “In the Classroom” [...]

This is a starter sheet looking at Adobe’s Flash based online word processing tool – Buzzword.
http://www.buzzword.com
The starter sheet looks at the basics of the product plus it looks at the collaborative aspect as a tool for group work in students working on science experiments.

The starter sheet is available in PDF format here – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets

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I have had another article published in Tech Learnings 21st Century connection website
This one look at pedagogy and assessment in the 21st Century. It covers thinking skills, collaboration, the place of knowledge and content, assessment, real world tasks, rich tasks open and transparent assessment.
Here is the URL – http://www.21centuryconnections.com/node/653

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Here is another resource for the advanced search starter sheet – this one is looking at boolean searches.

Click here for the PDF version of this resource. – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets

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This is the latest of the starter sheets – this one focuses on using the Google Advanced search to refine a search. The focus is humanities/social studies in the “In the Classroom” exemplar.
Click here to link to the PDF
Here are the images shots of the file.

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I am fortunate that my school is connected to the national research network. KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network – http://www.karen.net.nz/home/ has become available to schools to connect to, and we were one of the first schools to connect to it. This is forming the start of NEN the national Education Network. Its [...]

I have been revising the “info sheets” that I have been working on. I have just rewritten the voicethread info sheet and I thought about what I wanted to achieve with these.
My objectives were to develop an understanding of these web 2 tool and to give teachers an idea on how they could be used.
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This is an update with a worked example of the use of a wikispace in a classroom situation. The information sheet like the others covers a basic outline of a wiki and some alternatives to the method identified detail and the second page covers an example in the classroom.
Wikispaces Information Sheet
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This is a nice little generator for “Google Font” logos

Pretty neat really – http://googlefont.com/

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Thanks for every one who provided feedback on the resources. I have reworked the googlemaps resource and written a rubic (targeted at Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Applying level).
Here is the resource: Google maps and streetview
Here is the rubric: Google maps rubric
I would appreciated any comments and suggestions.

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