What are the software tools that we need to teach our students? I believe we can not be limited to just a productivity suite, we need a range of tools that we can use to enhance our students learning and engage them in a variety of activities. Here is my list of tool categories and [...]
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Translated into Spanish – Claudia Uribe de Piedrahita, the Director of Eduteka has organised the translation in Spanish – http://www.eduteka.org/TaxonomiaBloomDigital.php
I feel incredibly honoured and I really hope this will be of assistance to teachers and learners. Further resources and material will be added as they become available.
I have uploaded the PDF version [...]
A handful of the best is one of the presentations I ran at uLearn09. The basis of this presentation is a collection of open source, free or great proprietory tools that I use in my classroom.
While the “software for schools” deal does provide a basic productivity suite for computers in schools and an OS it [...]
So who is more social on social networks?
Males or females? My first guess would have been a degree of equality, but it appears that as a male I am in the minority of social networks. (Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/who-rules-the-social-web/)
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Lots of interesting stuff coming through at the moment. In this update we have Microsoft’s security essentials offering and much more.
1. Microsoft Security Essentials - http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ This is a security package from Microsoft. It covers viruses, trojans rootkits etc. Its free, but you do need to be running windows genuine advantage.
2. Apple Apps store – [...]
Wow, four days off visiting family. Its so nice to have some downtime, but boy was my RSS reader full. Here are some interesting sites and resources I have found “on the wire”.
1. Storybird – http://storybird.com/ This is a collaborative digital story creation tool. worth a visit.
2. Multitasking research. This is some interesting research out [...]
Every now and then I will get some one who will contact me and ask to do a review of their site or push their product. For the most part I delete these. But Donna from Meet me at the corner asked me to do a review of her site. She introduced herself as a [...]
It seems to have been a week for excellent resources appearing on my desktop. This post looks at four websites that focus on the periodic table (thanks to free stuff for teachers)
1. The periodic table of videos – http://www.periodicvideos.com/# this has appeared in my blog before but is worth a second (or even third visit). [...]
Some more websites that have appeared on my desktop this week.
1. I posted about the great color mixing tool – http://colorschemedesigner.com/ in the last “On the wire” update.
I got a great comment from a blogger about another tool – this one is by adobe called kuler. – http://kuler.adobe.com/#
2. Image Composite Editor - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ice/ – This [...]
This week has started out being a very busy one. Lots of web sites, lots of email and lots of fun…
Here are some of the key sites I have found:
1. Colour scheme designer – http://colorschemedesigner.com/ this is a great site. This is a web site I will be using with my students. The site allows [...]
