Educational Origami

A non teaching friend of mine was making the not unusual series of comments about teaching in general and teachers in particular. He commented about the hours we work and the number of holidays we have. I suspect all of us have heard these comments.
As I drove into school yesterday morning at 7.30am I was [...]

I have uploaded onto teacher tube a series of resources for Visual Basic.Net 2008 Express addition. These video look at the basics of programming in this free  and functional environment. I will upload the workbook shortly.
Here are the Resources:
Visual Basic.Net Express 2008 download – http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/
Video 1 – introduction

2. Programming Task 1.

3. Programming Task 2.

4. Programming [...]

The American Association of School Libraries has released there “Best of web awards” – http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aboutaasl/bestlist/bestwebsites.cfm
these are the best sites for teaching and learning (ITHO).
Here is there best 25 – http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aboutaasl/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm
Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning
The “Top 25″ Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, [...]

1. The power of Nazi Propoganda – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204271104574290581271478134.html
This is a brilliant slideshow in the Wall Street Journal of the poster the Nazis used in their anti-semitism campaign and the strengthening of the Nazi Power base.
2. State of deception – http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/ – this is the source of the Nazi propoganda posters and much more – this [...]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html
This article in time magazine is looking at the “death of cursive handwriting”. Its an interesting article not because it sits an bemoans the fact that cursive handwriting is now an obsolete skill, rather its looks with some realism that things are changing.
I suspect that for most people reading a blog this is an obvious [...]

I have to say that Lee LeFever continues to impress. I regularly visit his site, the commoncraft show, and love it when I find a new video. This time the video was on insurance.
This is part of a set of four videos he has produced about  – Videos about MONEY in Plain English. These [...]

I had a fascinating conversation the other day with a colleague. She was talking about her previous school and her Principal. The Principal had a clear stated policy that all Principals and Senior Management were teaching Principals. So She and her Associate and Deputy Principals had regular scheduled classes. These classes were not the occassional [...]

1. Graphic Organisers – http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_go.html
This is an excellent resource for Graphic organisers prepared by Tracey Hall & Nicole Strangman – good examples and explanantions
Also useful is  – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/blooms%2C+learning+styles+and+thinking+organisers
2. The mathEbook – http://www.mathebook.net/
An online mathematics resource – nice.
3. APA Bibliographies? This harvard site explains the APA bibliography – a must for senior students
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=apa_exposed
4. Plagarism Checkers – [...]

I have updated and modified the Activity analysis tool for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
This tools analyses the taxonomic level of the learning activity, task or unit. The process is essentially similar to the Bloom’s Assessment Analysis Tool. This tool allows you to look at a simple overview of the activity or unit and provides a simple [...]

Thanks for the feedback and comments about the assessment tool for Bloom’s Digital taxonomy.
I have revised the tool and included an instruction sheet for the analysis. The tool is prepared under the creative commons share and share-alike licience. Here is the pdf file of the assessment sheet.
blooms-and-assessment-21 (PDF)

As usual comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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