Educational Origami

This is an update to a wiki page on Educational Origami on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Assessment
Higher order thinking skills like analysis, evaluation and creativity incorperate lower order thinking skills like remembering, understanding and applying. We aim to teach and facilitate higher order thinking skills in our teaching, knowing that these higher order skills [...]

The Wall street Journal has published an interesting article with a slide show and interactive resource on North Korea.
The article, dated 22 May 2009, has a broad perspective of recent events from North Korea and the interactive and slideshow elements look at the secretive nation from Google Earth Images.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124295017403345489.html#articleTabs=article

Source: Wall Street Journal
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This is the starter video to go with the starter sheets on the excellent web 2.0 tool voice thread.

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The Iranian Election debarcle continues as the world id shocked and appalled by the curruption of the electral system and the brutality of what is now essentially a dictatorship.
The new York Times has produced an excellent interactive timeline with media clips, photo shows and commentry of the elections. This is an excellent resource for [...]

This is a voicethread of the 2008 Trekking expidition to The Annapurna Region of Nepal. The Annapurna Is beautiful, awe inspiring and stunning.

In 2010, we are heading back to Nepal to the Khumbu Region. Like the 2008 Trek this is a community service trip and we will be working with schools and orphanages as well [...]

The specter of nuclear conflict seemed to have lessened for a while when the enmity between East and West receded. Now we are not haunted by MAD – Mutual assured destruction that prevailed with the immense arsenals of the super powers, rather by the threat of terrorist action.
With Hiroshima and Nagasaki fading into the depths [...]

I am involved in a change process at the moment. The change involves removing a software item and replacing it with a similar but different tool. The change has been signalled literally for years, but never actioned until now, so the people involved have never changed their use patterns to the new tool.They haven’t changed [...]

For those of us who teach principles of a graphical design, having our students understand about type face and families is important as it impacts on the two guiding principles of design:

Suitable for the purpose
Suitable for the audience

Oftebn students will ahve a favourite font that they will use and will stick with it like glue. [...]

Today, we had the pleasure of hosting the ACCE study tour group as they made their way around the world to the NECC conference in Washington DC, USA.
It is a pleasure to have groups like this visit, it presents us, the visitors and hosts, with the opportunity to examine your practices, procedures and facilities. To [...]