Educational Origami

Learning@school ‘09 was a fun conference. I was unfortunately only able to make 2 of the 3 days, but that aside, the experience was a good one.
One thing that did come through was the importance of F2F. I have been collaborating with a number of people in the virtual environment for a while and many [...]

Having rushed from one of my passions to another, this week has been hectic. The week started for me on School camp. I am a huge fan of Education outside the classroom. I do not believe that the outcomes, learning and experiences students gain on outdoor education experiences can ever be measured. I believe they [...]

Tony’s session on Digital pedagogies started with an interesting entry using People Bingo.
He drew up a 3 x 3 grid on a slide with 9 questions. These included:

do you have a 2nd life avatar (yes)
do you have a video of yourself on youtube
do you have a blog etc…

This is a very interesting icebreaker and also [...]

1. Mash ups
here are two sites on mash ups that useful. The first tells you about teh different tools that are available and the second is a stunning example called healthnet
ZDnet a round up of 8 mash-up tools  – http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=63
healthnet – google maps and news, with WHO data and user inforamtion  – http://www.healthmap.org/en
2. Timeline of [...]

A friend in the UK emailed this article to me in disbelief.
New Zealand gets INSANE copyright law
This from Computerworld in the US of A – the choicest quotes
“A law was recently passed in New Zealand that has created what many consider to be the world’s harshest copyright enforcement law. This insanity, found in [...]

I have just completed an elluminate session with educators from around the world.
For me the timing was great – 12.30pm but the attending teachers were from a number of countries including Isreal where it was 1.30 am. I have to admire the dedication that I saw from teachers around the globe, who gave up their [...]

If you have seen the information hydrant you will know what I mean

Well I would ahve to recommend that you look at the rest of the Photostream on flickr. Here are a couple…..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/
Outstanding. What brilliant work.

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Computerworld has reported that a recent study has shown that 10year olds are more engaged and have more fun learning maths while using computers.
Here is one extract from the article
“Calder’s research showed students understood some concepts more easily, and they encountered some concepts they would not have normally without access to the computer, for example [...]

Here are some interesting websites for Science
1. Interactives – http://www.learner.org/interactives/ – this site has some useful pages on a variety of topics including Science, Mathematics, Languages and history. Nice and clean, good graphics
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2. The physics Classroom – http://www.physicsclassroom.com/ – This is a useful resource for Physic at high school level. The site contains multimedia resources [...]

At learning at schools 09, in Rotorua, I am presenting two papers one on Learning styles and learning tool and a second on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
The First paper on learning styles and learning tools is looking at VARK and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. I have had resources on the Edorigami wiki for VARK for a while, [...]