Educational Origami

http://www.scribus.net/
Scribus is one of the best FOSS (Free and open source software) products I have found. This is a powerful and flexible desktop publishing tools for Windows, mac and Linux operating systems.
There blurb sums it up:
“Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with [...]

The commoncraft show is a favourite of mine. Lee LeFever and his team do a brilliant job of producing simple and straight forward videos on a wide variety of topics.
two that I find useful are these:

Borrowing money in plain english – http://www.commoncraft.com/borrowing-money and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NWlYK9Ndcc
Saving money in plain english – http://www.commoncraft.com/saving-money and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqDsevMW7Ds

Excellent resources. Simple, easy [...]

This is a new rubric which examines collaboration using online word processing tools like Adobe’s Buzzword, Google Documents or Zoho Documents.
The two aspects examined here are the technical use of the tool and the collaborative aspect of sharing and co-operation.The rubric is at the Applying level of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/collaborative+editing+using+online+WP+rubric.pdf
As always I would appreciate comments [...]

This is an update on the collaboration rubric. This rubric look at three aspects of an electronic collaboration session. The first is preparation, then use of collaboration features and finally communication features.
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/collaboration+rubric.pdf
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy resources

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This is a collation of some resources I have recently found for science:
The Virtual cell http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm
Life on Earth – http://www.prenhall.com/divisions/esm/lifeonearth/public_html/toc.html
Cells Alive – http://www.cellsalive.com/

Howard Hugher Medical Institute – http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/

Howard Hugher Medical Institute – Virtual labs – http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
3D cell explorer – http://3dcellexplorer.com/
Global Educational Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology  – http://geoset.group.shef.ac.uk/

The Vega Science Trust Videos – http://www.vega.org.uk/
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and its been fun. Its great to see the kids again and meet the new ones.
One of the highlights for the week has been working with one of the senior classes whose opening standard in a Desktop Publishing task.
The lesson was split in to two sections  -  a general introductions to the principles of design [...]

Sometimes I wonder about the school system and on a fundemental level the message we are sending to our students. How often is the message we are sending “Do as I say not do as I do”
Why should students sit for 6 hours on chairs like this?
When this chair would not be acceptable for a [...]

My ITGS class is starting the year looking at the Area of impact – Politics & government. We want to look at how President Obama has used and continues to the power of the internet and technology. He has his own twitter accounts (well his own might be a slight exaggeration) – http://twitter.com/TheWhiteHouse. He uses [...]

I wonder if we under estimate the potential of social networks in education.
I was speaking to a collegue in the states today and he stunned me with the revelation that 1 in 9 marriage starts on social networks like facebook, myspace etc.
This was quite a revelation and one that has me thinking about the importance [...]