Educational Origami

http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/training/tutorials50/Sketchup%20Video%20Tutorials.html
Excellent sketchup resources.
This site hosts about 40 videos about sketchup. if you are looking at using sketch up (and who wouldn’t) this is a great starting point.
http://aceonlineschools.com/25-awesome-virtual-learning-experiences-online/
25 Virtual learning experiences. This is an excellent post with a great list of online resources.
Free OCR
http://www.free-ocr.com/
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use [...]

From the start this site concerns me. Omegle is a chat site that carries the banner “Talk to strangers”. Essentially you go to the site, start a chat and are randomly connected to a stranger. The stranger is anonymous (as are you) and the conversation is unmoderated. If the conversation gets bad you disconnect. Anecdotally [...]

This is another tool I am developing. I would appreciate comments and feedback. What are the missing verbs which are misplaced?
This tool is an attempt to analyse the structure of examinations and tests and look at the balance between higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and lower order thinking skills (LOTS). Many examinations have a large [...]

Research has indicated that timely and effective feedback is second only to teaching of higher order thinking skills in its benefit to learning.
Today we had a presentation looking at Formative assessment (more on this) but one of the aspects of this presentation that I liked was a model for feedback. The model is ranked from [...]

I love, yes love, CMAP. Its a free mind mapping and presentation tool produced by the IHMC (the institute of Human and Machine Cognition).
This is a great mind mapping tool for the senior students. Its is straight to the point, simple, easy to use and simple. My senior students prefer this to the more colourful [...]

I have been working on a simple method of analysing teaching and learning technologies against Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. I have taken the verbs associated with each of the taxonomic levels and arranged them across a sheets and then added a column for the activity components.
The idea is that you take your activity and break it [...]

It seems that websites for mathematics are the theme of the week. Here are some more:

1. http://www.myalgebra.com/algebra_solver.aspx
2. http://illuminations.nctm.org/
3. http://www.tutorvista.com/
4. http://www.algebra.com/
5. http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/Algebra.html
6. http://mathforum.org/students/index.html

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I heard last night and read online that New Zealand is ranked 3rd in the world. That’s Third in the world for OBESITY. Its is a sad day, but unfortunately not an unexpected one. .
The Glory of the fattest nation on earth Goes to…. USA, in silver is Mexico and taking the bronze in third [...]

This is a voicethread tutorial using Voicethread. The slideshow goes through the steps of registering as a user and creating a voicethread using a basic free account. Voicethread is a great tool for multiple sensory learning styles as you can add images, voice and text.

The URL for this Voicethread Tutorial is http://voicethread.com/share/558435/

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These are the Mathematics resources that have come down the wire in the last couple of days.
1. Graph paper generator – http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ This site makes graph paper to your specifications using a PDF generator
2. More graph paper generators – http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/ This site like the last one allows you to dial up your requirements and print [...]