I have long been a fan of Open source and for about three years I have been a user of Open Office, in fact our school has migrated from Microsoft Office and later Star Office to Open Office.
One of the problems that all of the productivity suites have is the level of complexity for the [...]
The BBC posted a video clip from one of their roving technology reports. The reporter Rory Cellan-Jones is visiting a school in Kigali, Rwanda. The school has 3000 pupils and the students all have OLPC’s .
The clip shows the students engaged in various actvities using their OLPC’s as the report wanders around. Its great to [...]
For the first term of this year my Year 12 students have been involved in the NetGen Education project as well as the usual curriculum activities.
The NetGen Project is the brain child of the flatclassroom project leaders Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis. These two teachers working together with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and grown [...]
THIS IS NOT A COMFORTABLE VIDEO
THIS IS NOT NICE. IT IS NOT PLEASANT OR FUN, BUT YOU SHOULD WATCH IT ANYWAY!
This is the latest video from Mediastorm. This video looks at the aftermath of the atrocities in Rwanda, particularly the effect it has had on the women who were brutalized.
http://www.mediastorm.org/0024.htm
Here is the introduction
“During the 1994 [...]
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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What if the earth’s population was reduced to just 100 people. http://www.miniature-earth.com
Here are some of th
This is a fascinating insight into the demographics of the world we live in by reducing it to 100 individuals. The Miniature earth site hosts a very captivating video that is worth watching (and downloading for a $5 donation). Alternatively [...]
Tool or technology:GIS or Geographical Information System. Google Earth – Downloaded and installed client, internet connection required
Curriculum area:
Humanities
Synopsis:
This starter sheet looks at the power of Google Earth. While it only looks at one aspect of the tool, the Global Awareness Layers, particularly the Crisis in Darfur, this tool has a range of other uses in [...]
This is an neat tool that allows you to submit news and incidents as they happen. The tool was used in Kenya during the elections and South Africa and was used to map the violence that unfolded there. It is now being used in the Congo to bring incidents and reports out from the areas [...]
Yesterday Bob and Freda Narev visited us.
They, as children, survived the ravages and deprivations of the concentration camps and the Nazi pogrom against the Jewish people of Europe and immigrated to New Zealand.
Bob and Freda are ordinary people, who came to us to tell an extraordinary message. A message that we can ignore, a message [...]
At uLearn I was asked to participate in the Edtalks interviews.
This is my EdTalk on a collaborative project between 4 schools in Auckland, Brisbane, Qatar and Vienna
http://edtalks.org/play.php?vid=149
The wiki and collaboration was fun project and its so rewarding.
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