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 [...]
Accessing recreational sites during classes and while at work is an issue facing employers [3] and schools alike. The cost, in dollar terms, can be huge and in lost productivity, is significant. Various strategies are employed to manage this but these are often ineffective, draconian or dictatorial. How can we manage this issue better?
The digital [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of the ITGS course we have been looking at IT and Education. The students were investigating which technologies they would like to use for University in two categories of use.
The first use was the classic lecture style idea of taking notes and the second category or use was the broader perspective of including [...]
(with apologies for the tardiness)
Most of us have met them. If we teach in independent schools, higher decile schools or teach in more privilaged areas they are becoming increasingly common. Even the more short sighted of teachers can see them increasing as our future becomes increasingly electronic. Whether we call them Digital Natives (Marc [...]
I read Wesley Fryers Blog entry this morning and took the time to watch the video to. Other than the storyboard reading like an advertisement for Apples iPhone, its fascinating. I must echo Wesley’s comments on it being exciting and impressive.
Essentially ACU – Abilene Christian University – has issues students with iPhones as a standard [...]
Are your senior classes objectives focused on exam results and qualifications? The answer is almost certainly yes, and with good reason too. This is the stepping stone to the world for them. However, often we hear this examination focus used as an excuse for limiting the level of ICT integration into the senior curriculum.
The examination [...]
I must say at the outset that I do not suffer from “one size fits all” syndrome nor am I afflicted with the dermal irritation of poor support. Unfortunately, I have seen too many people who suffer with these tragic and entirely preventable conditions.
“One size fits all” is a model for ICT support that is [...]
As an educator and an advocate of technology, I believe one 0f the biggest stumbling blocks of the effective and appropriate integration of Information and Communication technologies into the classroom is access.
As teachers we must seize the moment as it arises. Computers in a lab are often unaccessible when the need arises, so computers in [...]
