Archive for April, 2009

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One down – 7 to go.

Well the first workshop of the week has gone well. It wasn’t huge but that made for much better interactions and I suspect better learning.
The first workshop was in Rotorua and was an introduction to robotics using the Lego NXT robots and mindstorms software.This was a full hands on play session, we had food provided [...]

Great Visual Tool

This is a great visual search engine with the added bonus of being able to compile the notes into a notepad for further reference.
The site is eyeplorer http://www.eyeplorer.com/eyePlorer/

You start by entering your keyword into the keyword field – then start the search.

The search returns and as you hover over the keywords you can drag the [...]

On Prensky, Juke, Small and our kids

Next week I am doing a presentation to the staff of a school. In the presentation I am going to discuss the world we are in, the effect it has had on our students and how this matches to the excellent professional learning stratergies the school has in place.
I recieved last night an email from [...]

Open White house

This is an interesting one. President Obama has been forwarded in using Social video sharing sites like Youtube to connect with youth. This worked well for him durung the elections and he is continuing to use it.
The latest venture in to youtube-land is town hall style meetings at the white house’s youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjJm_Hzc6Yg&feature=channel
The White House [...]

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy update

The last version of Bloom’s Digital taxonomy I posted had an error in the pdf file which stopped at page 61. I have rerendered the original manuscript and this one reads right through
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/bloom%27s+Digital+taxonomy+v3.01.pdf

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Twitter comics

I do like twitter, while I don’t use it to keep the interested world up to date with my every movement, its a very powerful communication tool with my Personal learning network. I have used twitter to resolve many problems and helped others the same way.So I like twitter and it works, but that does [...]