Educational Origami

This site has just appear on my Radar. From the Archives it produces 2 issues a year, winter and summer versions. I like teh middle school and technology focus
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/index.html
This is the Current issue and the links below go to the individual papers: http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/winter2009/index.html

Video Games: Why Kids Play and What They Learn

Junior Seahawk Academy: Working [...]

IKEA produces a very good design tool that is free to use (its selling there products after all). This is a good tool for the Visual and Kineasthetic learners.
Its a 17MB download that allows you to design kitchens, workspaces and bedrooms. Essentially here is what you do:

design the room shape and size
Add furniture from selection
manipulate [...]

This is a useful and powerful learning resource for Multiple Intelligences. The test is brought to use by the Birmingham Grid for Learning
Here is the URL for the MI Test – http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm

The test’s text is in English, but is available in a variety of languages in the Audio version (see above). If you select the [...]

Watch this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoqiRRMQ0fs
Don’t stop it 1/2 way through. Watch it all. Do you recognise some of these beliefs? Do you hold some of them?
The video is by Don Tapscott of wikinomics fame and its very very good.

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10/20/30 is a rule for any presentation that was suggested this morning at a meeting. I quite like it though I can see some times when I would ignore it (He is talking about pitching a product to a venture capitalist  – if there are any left). The rule is proposed (see youtube video) by [...]

For those of us who ahve watched the Shift happens video, you will appreciate the quality and insight that has gone in to this production.
Well there is an updated version (2007 data) called “did you know?” Hosted and served out youtube at this URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

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I am currently exploring a Vista powered tablet. The product is small light weight and comfortable, great battery life and a generally nice feel to it. Thats the laptop  – generally nice
Vista however has not left a good first impression. I have struggled with this OS. The multiple prompts, the inconsistency of requests and the [...]

1. DOWNLOAD This is a great program that was blogged earlier by Richard of TEK fame (Correct me if I am wrong)- Shape Collage – Download it here. http://www.vincentcheung.ca/shapecollage/
Here is an example:

These are some pictures I have taken in the Kruger National Park
2. READ Earlier today I blogged about twitter. I received an interesting comment [...]

A colleague and friend asked me what value I saw in twitter.
I took a moment to think about it and my responce was simple, its part of my PLN – Personal Learning Network. This is for me an example of how a social technology has been adapted into a educational technology.
I don’t use twitter to [...]