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Open Source Shakespeare

This is a useful resource for shakespearean plays. The website is open source shakespeare – http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

The current play list is:
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Merchant [...]

Another Info Sheet resource – wikispaces

I have created another information sheet in the series I am working on for tools for teachers. This one is looking at one of my favourites wikispaces.
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/wikispaces.pdf
Thanks for those people who have made suggestions – I am going to look at the first three and add in some classroom activities.
The first three can be found [...]

Seven stupid mistakes teachers make with technology

This is a blog that was recommended – the blue skunk blog  -  by Doug Johnson This is a very good post and a couple of part of it really struck me. Doug talks about Pedagogy and teaching. Here is the quote
“Believing that one’s teaching style need not change to take full advantage of technology.process [...]

I’m working on some resources

I am developing some resources for web 2.0 tools. These are nice simple straight forward documents for teachers to glance at and say – yes I could use that and its not so frightening after all
the limitations I have placed on them are:

must be one page
must have pictures
process must be straight forward
must be simple to [...]

Nominated for Edublogs best wiki

Wow, Educational Origami – my wiki has been nominated for the Edublogs best wiki award.

The company is brilliant – Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis’s Flatclassroom project, just to name one!
have a browse and vote – http://edublogawards.com/2008/best-educational-wiki-2008/

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We want answers..

but all I have is questions!
What an interesting article – “Downing Street petition demands reversal of catastrophic decline in school science exam standards” The Royal Society of Chemistry has taken a big swipe at the English education system. Here is one of the comment that I think are quite telling
“Science examination standards at UK schools [...]